James Gates Percival Professions : PoetBorn : September 15, 1795Died : May 2, 1856 Browse All Authors Top 16 quotes by James Gates Percival Thought can wing its way James Gates Percival lightningwingsway Roses bloom, and then they wither; James Gates Percival visionlightrose The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years! James Gates Percival voicedarkyears In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, James Gates Percival gardenlandflower Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail, James Gates Percival cargoalplay O rose! the sweetest blossom, James Gates Percival floweryellowspring Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, James Gates Percival peacefulheartsweet Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts. James Gates Percival flowerheartsweet Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves. James Gates Percival shadefarewellnight The recollection of one upward hour James Gates Percival cheerdarknessyears There is nothing but death James Gates Percival constancyaffectionbreaths How awful is that hour when con, science stings. James Gates Percival consciencehoursawful I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate. James Gates Percival foolmeanfather There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away. James Gates Percival stealingnever-forgetmoments The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. James Gates Percival poetryairworld Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. James Gates Percival memorial-daygreenpyramids Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poetAll Authors
