Frank Dempster Sherman

Frank Dempster Sherman (May 6, 1860 – September 19, 1916), sometimes writing as Felix Carmen, was an American poet and academic.

Quotes

And in the evening, everywhere
Along the roadside, up and down,
I see the golden torches flare
Like lighted street-lamps in the town.

• For him delicious flavors dwell
  In books as in old Muscatel.
  • "The Book-Collector", in The Century, vol. 31, no. 1 (November 1885) p. 160. Also in Madrigals and Catches (New York: White, Stokes, & Allen, 1887) p. 52

• And in the evening, everywhere
     Along the roadside, up and down,
  I see the golden torches flare
     Like lighted street-lamps in the town.
  • "Golden-Rod", st. 2, in The Independent, vol. 42, no. 2,181 (September 18, 1890) p. 28. Also in Poems (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1917) p. 148

• Song like a rose should be;
    Each rhyme a petal sweet;
  For fragrance, melody,
    That when her lips repeat
      The words, her heart may know
      What secret makes them so:—
          Love, only Love!
  • "Song". Lyrics for a Lute, 3rd ed. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1891) p. 73

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Frank Dempster Sherman on Wikipedia