Fitz-Greene Halleck famous quotes

03-24-2025

The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the heart.
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck

#Flower #Heart #Feelings
Come to the bridal-chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath! Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke!
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck

#Death #Mother #Blessed
Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death.
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck

#Death #Wind #Voice
And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck

#Death #Dream #Art
Beauty,--the fading rainbow's pride.
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck

#Beauty #Pride #Rainbow
What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck

#Kissing #Men #Vow
I sorrow that all fair things must decay.
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck

#Sorrow #Decay
And Burns--though brief the race he ran, Though rough and dark the paths he trod, Lived--died--in form and soul a man, The image of his God.
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck

#Dark #Men #Race
This bank-note world.
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck

#Money #World #Notes
There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck

#Twilight #Passion #Heart
It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of plums.
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck

#Pudding #Plums #Rich
Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck

#Death #Green #Better Days
None knew thee but to love thee.
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck

#Love #Thee
They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty. - Fitz
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck

#Country #Kings #Kindness
I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck

#Beautiful #Believe #Luxury
Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck

#Fire #Land #Patriotism

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