Bayard Taylor

Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825 – December 19, 1878) was a U.S. poet and writer.

Sourced

• 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).

• The hollows are heavy and dank
  With the steam of the Goldenrods.
  • The Guests of Night; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 326.

• Knowledge alone is the being of Nature,
  Giving a soul to her manifold features,
  Lighting through paths of the primitive darkness,
  The footsteps of Truth and the vision of Song.
  • Taylor, Kilimandjaro, Stanza 2. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.

External links

• Works by Bayard Taylor at Project Gutenberg