Top 4 Barry Cornwall Quotes

English poet (1787-1874)

Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall) (November 21, 1787 – October 5, 1874) was an English poet, and father of Adelaide Anne Procter.

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Birth Name: Bryan Waller Procter

Alternative Names: Bryan Walter Procter • Bryan Procter

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Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream
Gently,—as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream.

I never was on the dull, tame shore,
But I loved the great sea more and more.

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 wheresoe’er I go.

The sea! the sea! the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!