Thomas Buchanan Read Quotes

• My soul to-day Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.

  Thomas Buchanan Read

  Soul, Sailing, Far Away

  Thomas Buchanan Read (1860). “Poems by Thomas Buchanan Read”, p.409

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• Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another.

  Thomas Buchanan Read

  Flower, Blue, Violet

  Thomas Buchanan Read (1847). “Poems”, p.54

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• All in their lifetime carve their own soul's statue.

  Thomas Buchanan Read

  Soul, Action, Lifetime

  Thomas Buchanan Read (1868). “Lyric poems. Sylvia; or, the last shepherd. Miscellaneous. Airs from Alpland”, p.208

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• I hate the sin, but I love the sinner.

  Thomas Buchanan Read

  Hate, Sin, I Hate

  Thomas Buchanan Read (1874). “The wagoner of the Alleghanies”, p.401

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• Under his spurning feet, the road
  Like an arrowly alpine river flowed
  And the landscape sped away behind
  Like an ocean flying before the wind.

  Thomas Buchanan Read

  Ocean, Wind, Rivers

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• The heavens are full of floating mysteries.

  Thomas Buchanan Read

  Heaven, Floating, Mystery

  Thomas Buchanan Read (1855). “Poems by Thomas Buchanan Read”, p.246

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