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Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Communication, Dialect, Care

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers”

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It is only your habitual late riser who takes in the full flavor of Nature at those rare intervals when he gets up to go afishing. He brings virginal emotions and unsatiated eyes to the sparkling freshness of earth and stream and sky.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Morning, Eye, Sky

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”

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Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Book, Age, Half

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed
The white of their leaves, the amber grain
Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now
Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Rain, Wind, Rivers

Thomas Bailey ALDRICH (1859). “The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems”, p.24

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Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Eye, Gay, Laughing

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Poems”

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My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Father, Banking, Able

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1872). “The Story of a Bad Boy”, p.11

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I like not lady-slippers, Nor yet the sweet-pea blossoms, Nor yet the flaky roses, Red or white as snow; I like the chaliced lilies, The heavy Eastern lilies, The gorgeous tiger-lilies, That in our garden grow.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Sweet, Garden, White

Thomas Bailey ALDRICH (1859). “The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems”, p.28

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So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Suicide, Thinking, New Orleans

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (2005). “The Story of a Bad Boy”, p.55, 1st World Publishing

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It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at). There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty. Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever - unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Humorous, Thinking, Men

Letter to Professor E.S. Morse, Science, Volume 15, 1890.

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I beg you come tonight and dine A welcome waits you and sound wine The Roederer chilly to a charm As Juno's breasts the claret warm.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Wine, Waiting, Sound

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Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

New York, Men, Doors

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers. A sea turn, and other matters”

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Hebe's here, May is here!
The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Air, Hoarding, May

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1882). “The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Dream, Twilight, Sleep

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thank You, Sweet, Done

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Laughing, Optimism, Joy

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH (1877). “FLOWER AND THORN”

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Up from the dark the moon begins to creep; and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from the deep a drowned body rises solemnly.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Dark, Moon, Water

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Men, Age, Century

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Sleep, Mystery, Probing

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH (1877). “FLOWER AND THORN”

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With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Memorial Day, Land, Remembrance

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Sunset, Fire, Clouds

'Miracles'

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Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Sleep, Delicate, Turns

thomas bailey aldrich (1875). “cloth of gold and other poems”, p.114

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Born: November 11, 1836
Died: March 19, 1907
Occupation: Poet
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