William Sharp
William Sharp
William Sharpwas a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona Macleod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. He was also an editor of the poetry of Ossian, Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Eugene Lee-Hamilton...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 September 1855
lonely valleys
Ah, the strange, sweet, lonely delightOf the Valleys of Dream.
existing follow land route water
The route pretty much exists. It's a combination of land and water routes. The land routes, for the most part, follow existing roads.
delight lonely valleys
Ah, the strange, sweet, lonely delight Of the Valleys of Dream.
beautiful blade clad clothed ecstasy forest
There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance.
women sea apples
In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman.
white flames joy
The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.
carpe-diem years slides
The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.
lonely loneliness heart
My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
sea silence waste
The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.
wind giving mountain
A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.
winter giving secret
Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and "the dead months" will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.