Charles Warren Stoddard
Charles Warren Stoddard (7 August 1843 – 23 April 1909) was an American author and editor best known for his travel books about Polynesian life.
Quotes
[edit]Poetry
[edit]One Life
[edit]- UPON the woven leaf,
Upon the veined flower,
I find my life portrayed in bief–
My life from hour to hour.
A frail leaf fit to die;
The faithful air of heaven by,
While no wind roughly blew.
All day for my delight,
From dark to dark my own;
One butterfly delaying flight,
That left me not alone.
A humming-bird to float
Upon a breath; a bee
To blow a long complaining note,
Invited were of me.
External links
[edit]
Categories:
- 1843 births
- 1909 deaths
- Academics from the United States
- Novelists from the United States
- Poets from the United States
- Memoirists from the United States
- 20th-century poets from the United States
- People from San Francisco
- People from New York (state)
- LGBT people
- Journalists from the United States
- Editors from the United States
- Travel writers
- Catholics from the United States