William Sharp (writer)
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William Sharp (12 September 1855 – 12 December 1905) was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. He was also an editor of the poetry of Ossian, Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Swinburne and Eugene Lee-Hamilton.
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- Across the silent stream
Where the dream-shadows go,
From the dim blue Hill of Dream
I have heard the west wind blow.- From the Hills of Dream, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Love is a beautiful dream.
- Cor Cordium, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Ah, the strange, sweet, lonely delight
Of the Valleys of Dream.- Dream Fantasy, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Down beyond the haven the tide comes with a shout.
- An old Tale of Three, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- The desire of love, Joy:
The desire of life, Peace:
The desire of the soul, Heaven:
The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.- Desire, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.
- Longing, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- I hear the little children of the wind
Crying solitary in lonely places.- Little Children of the Wind, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
