Ridgely Torrence Quotes

• Girl, when he gives you kisses twain, use one, and let the other stay; And hoard it, for moons die, red fades, and you may need a kiss—some day.

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  Girl, Kissing, Moon

  Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

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• I saw them kissing in the shade and knew the sum of all my lore: God gave them Youth, God gave them Love, and even God can give no more.

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  Kissing, Giving, Shade

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• Though man or angel judge my life and read it like an open scroll, And weigh my heart, I have judge more just than any—my own soul.

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  Heart, Angel, Men

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• But work a year and sleep an hour, and sleep a night and sing a day, And take a little wine and love, and when you feel religious—pray.

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  Wise, Religious, Wine

  Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

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• Whether my days are cooled with calm or filled with fever's ardent taint, I have the same blue sky as God, I have the same God as the saint.

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  God, Blue, Sky

  Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

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• A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish person,—when?

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  Strong, Men, Years

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• Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance: 'tis He, not I, who shall complain. Meal may be scarce and cakes be burnt, yet I weep not nor even scold: The sun is food enough for me, 't is large, and has not yet grown cold.

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  Gratitude, Sky, Cake

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• Tell Youth to play with Wine and Love and never bear away the scars! I may as well tilt up the sky and yet try not to spill the stars.

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  Stars, Wine, Sky

  Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

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• At first, she loved nought else but flowers,
  And then-she only loved the rose;
  And then-herself alone; and then-
  She knew not what, but now-she knows.

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  Life, Flower, Rose

  Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

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• The Song of Love, the Song of Hate, the Songs of Praise and of Thanksgiving; I've learned them all, but there remains one called the Melody of Living.

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  Song, Hate, I've Learned

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• Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.

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  Money, Men, Thinking

  Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

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