Bryan Procter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Bryan Procter

#Blue #Sea #Silence
The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
-- Bryan Procter

#Ocean #Blue #Sea
Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,-as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!
-- Bryan Procter

#Dream #Time #Quiet
Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.
-- Bryan Procter

#Mother #Wall #Wine
The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies.
-- Bryan Procter

#Lying #Ocean #Blue
Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.
-- Bryan Procter

#Dream #Winning #Ems
Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.
-- Bryan Procter

#Fall #Night #Shadow
I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep.
-- Bryan Procter

#Wise #Sleep #Simple
Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
-- Bryan Procter

#Heart #Half #Heard
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
-- Bryan Procter

#Sleep #Calm #Feds
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
-- Bryan Procter

#Earth #Noise #Tongue
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
-- Bryan Procter

#Death #Tyrants #Imagination
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
-- Bryan Procter

#Sea #Dull #Environment
Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments.
-- Bryan Procter

#Grief #Band #Speak
Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
-- Bryan Procter

#Summer #Night #Light
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
-- Bryan Procter

#Beauty #Dream #Art
All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.
-- Bryan Procter

#Waiting #Literature #Rooms

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