Henry Timrod famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Ah me! why may not love and life be one?
-- Henry Timrod

#Love #May #Life Is
Spring is a true reconstructionist.
-- Henry Timrod

#Spring
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.
-- Henry Timrod

#Dream #Heart #Secret
There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned
-- Henry Timrod

#Lying #Mourning #Defeated
Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.
-- Henry Timrod

#Lonely #Dark #Lamps
And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through streets still echoing with trade,Walk grave and thoughtful men,Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's bladeAs lightly as the pen.
-- Henry Timrod

#Lying #Gun #Thoughtful
Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!There is no holier spot of groundThan where defeated valor lies,By mourning beauty crowned!
-- Henry Timrod

#Lying #Humble #Sleep

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.
I love you,â€ I said, causing his face to contort in pain. â€œIâ€™m not a man so I do not have a heart that loves as a human does. Iâ€™m an immortal god that dwells with supreme power because I hold the keys to Death. But you are my existence. I am yours.â€ Hot tears streamed down my face as I stared into the face of someone who comprehended an emotion much stronger than my weak, feeble words of love.
I'd walked too close to heaven and gotten a glimpse. The hell I'd lived before her no longer appealed to me.
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of manâ€™s inhumanity to man.
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
Life is like an analogy.
The Lord is my Rock. He has always been there, always present at good times and bad; and to me when I feel His presence, my life is full.
Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

Henry Timrod famous quotes

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