Bayard Taylor
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Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825 – December 19, 1878) was a U.S. poet and writer.
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- Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.- Bedouin Song, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- They sang of love, and not of fame;
Forgot was Britain's glory;
Each heart recalled a different name,
But all sang Annie Lawrie.- The Song of the Camp, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- The bravest are the tenderest,—
The loving are the daring.- The Song of the Camp, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Shelved round us lie
The mummied authors.- The Poet's Journal, Third Evening, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).