Bryan Procter Professions : Poet Born : November 21, 1787 Died : October 5, 1874 Browse All Authors Top 33 quotes by Bryan Procter The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Bryan Procter marine ocean beach Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne. Bryan Procter smile summer night I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go. Bryan Procter silence sea blue A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow. Bryan Procter stars jewels night Gamaun is a dainty steed, Bryan Procter horse strong father Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company. Bryan Procter wall wine mother Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em. Bryan Procter ems dream winning Shadows fall on even the brightest hours. Bryan Procter shadow night fall I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep. Bryan Procter simple wise sleep How silent are the winds! Bryan Procter silent wind The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow. Bryan Procter joy long years Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Bryan Procter guitar music sweet Enter upon thy paths, O year! Bryan Procter fate hate years Up and down! Up and down! Bryan Procter air home spring In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, Bryan Procter sunshine night fall Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's thought severe? Methinks such things should not die and dissipate, when a hair can live for centuries, and a brick of Egypt will last three thousand years. I am content to believe that the mind of man survives, somehow or other, his clay. Bryan Procter dream sweet believe Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly. Bryan Procter endurance sorrow light Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse. Bryan Procter despair strikes brain Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain. Bryan Procter pain pride giving O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! Bryan Procter dream beauty art Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
