Bryan Procter quotes

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream! (Bryan Procter)
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. View quote
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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. View quote
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The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! View quote
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Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne. View quote
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O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! View quote
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Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments. View quote
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All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim. View quote
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Half of the ills we hoard within our hearts Are ills because we hoard them. View quote
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Death is the tyrant of the imagination. View quote
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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! (Bryan Procter)
There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love. View quote
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The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord. View quote
Bryan Procter