Francis Turner Palgrave quotes

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

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.

Francis Turner Palgrave

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

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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...

Francis Turner Palgrave

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

Francis Turner Palgrave

Earth all one tomb lies round me, Domed with an iron sky: And God Himself in His power, God cannot save me! I cry.

Francis Turner Palgrave

Sleep puts out silent fingers, And leads me back to the roar Of the dead salt sea that vomits Wrecks of the past ashore.

Francis Turner Palgrave

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.

Francis Turner Palgrave

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

Francis Turner Palgrave

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

Francis Turner Palgrave

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

Follow, O follow!-and we follow.

Francis Turner Palgrave

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

Francis Turner Palgrave

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

Francis Turner Palgrave

With the cry I wake;-and around me The mother and child at her feet Breathe peace in even whispers; And the night falls heavy and sweet.

Francis Turner Palgrave

Let the children play And sit like flowers upon thy grave And crown with flowers,-that hardly have A briefer blooming-tide than they.

Francis Turner Palgrave

They bring back light on their faces; But they cannot bring back to me What the lilies say to the roses, Or the songs of the butterflies be.

Francis Turner Palgrave

Shakespeare's stage must hold the glass to every age.

Francis Turner Palgrave

Kiss and cling to them, kiss and leave them, Bright and beguiling:.

Francis Turner Palgrave

A thousand forms and passions glow Upon the world-wide canvas.

Francis Turner Palgrave

Can we see thee, and not remember
Thy sun-brown cheek and hair sun-golden,
O sweet September? (Francis Turner Palgrave)

Francis Turner Palgrave

Occupation: English Poet
Born: September 28, 1824
Died: October 24, 1897
Quotes count: 21
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