Epes Sargent

Epes Sargent (circa 1870)

Epes Sargent (September 27, 1813 – December 30, 1880) was an American poet and playwright of the Knickerbocker group.

Quotes

• A life on the ocean wave!
  A home on the rolling deep,
  Where the scattered waters rave,
  And the winds their revels keep!
  Like an eagle caged I pine
  On this dull unchanging shore:
  Oh give me the flashing brine,
  The spray and the tempest's roar!
  • A Life on the Ocean Wave, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• The cold blast at the casement beats;
  The window-panes are white;
  The snow whirls through the empty streets;
  It is a dreary night!
  • The Heart's Summer, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• When the night-wind bewaileth the fall of the year,
  And sweeps from the forest the leaves that are sere;
  I wake from my slumber and list to the roar
  And it saith to my spirit, "No more, never more!"
  • When the Night-wind bewaileth, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).