Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylorwas an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth11 January 1825
CityKennett Square, PA
CountryUnited States of America
running ocean space
We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
pain sea wind
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
rain lap sap
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.
cannons pens
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
song perfect higher
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
wisdom riches wealth
By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
dream fate sky
Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.
heart solitude cover-ups
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
heart men experience
He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own.
doors house experience
To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.
rain rocks flames
The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet, And all the streams with vernal-scented reed Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
fool annoying wells
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
peace offspring
Peace the offspring is of Power.
children spring dark
With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!