More quotes by Hezekiah Butterworth
Imagination makes poems; devotion makes hymns. There can be poetry without emotion, but a hymn never.
Reads again the words puissant, "All men are created free,"
Claims again for man his birthright, claims the world's equality.
One taper lights a thousand,
Yet shines as it has shone;
And the humblest light may kindle
A brighter than its own.
Between a man of peace and war.
The war's red flames,
Charging Tarleton, proud Cornwallis, navies moving on the James.
I healed the wound, and each morning
It sang its old sweet strain,
But the bird with the broken pinion
Never soars so high again.
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