95 Quotes by Bayard Taylor

Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.

The stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom." When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.

The glories of the possible are ours.

Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.

We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.