Francis Turner Palgrave Quotes

A thousand forms and passions glow Upon the world-wide canvas. So With larger scope our art we ply; And if the crown be harder won, Diviner rays around it run, With strains of fuller harmony.

Our hope is less to last through Art than deeper searching of the heart, than broader range of uttered truth.

I see the lost Love in beauty Go gliding over the main: I feel the ancient sweetness, The worm and the wormwood again.

I may not enter the garden, Though I know the road thereto; And morn by morn to the gateway I see the children go.

In the hollow Silver voices ripple and cry Follow, O follow!

This little Collection differs, it is believed, from others in the attempt made to include in it all the best original lyrical pieces and songs in our language, by writers not living, and none besides the best. The Editor will regard as his fittest readers those who love poetry so well, that he can offer them nothing not already known and valued.

There is a garden where lilies And roses are side by side; And all day between them in silence The silken butterflies glide.

When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely.

Follow, O follow!—and we follow

In the season of white wild roses We two went hand in hand: But now in the ruddy autumn Together already we stand.

Kiss and cling to them, kiss and leave them, Bright and beguiling:— Bright and beguiling, as She who glances Along the shore and the meadows along, And sings for heart's delight, and dances Crowned with apples, and ruddy, and strong:— Can we see thee, and not remember Thy sun-brown cheek and hair sun-golden, O sweet September?

The Sun whispers, O remember! You have but thirty days to run, O sweet September!

The azure lake is argent now Beneath the pale moonshine: I seek a sign of hope in heaven: Fair Polestar! thou are mine. A thousand other beacons blaze; I follow thee alone...

The monument outlasting bronze was promised well by bards of old.

Time's corrosive dewdrop eats The giant warrior to a crust Of earth in earth and rust in rust.