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.
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.
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.