Robert Williams Buchanan Quotes

• The earth is rocking, the skies are riven-- Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven.

  Robert Williams Buchanan

  Fashion, Passion, Sky

  Robert Williams Buchanan (1865). “Undertones”, p.211

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• Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, The singer, upward-springing, Is grander than his singing, And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought. This, at least, you teach me, In a revelation: That gods still snatch, as worthy death, the soul in its aspiration.

  Robert Williams Buchanan

  Dark, Self, Joy

  Robert Williams Buchanan (1865). “Undertones”, p.11

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• I wander forth this chill December dawn: John Frost and all his elves are out, I see, As busy as the elfin world can be, Clothing a world asleep with fleecy lawn.

  Robert Williams Buchanan

  Dawn, Frost, World

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• All that is beautiful shall abide, All that is base shall die.

  Robert Williams Buchanan

  Beauty, Beautiful, Dies

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• Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought.

  Robert Williams Buchanan

  Beauty, Found, Worthy

  Robert Williams Buchanan (1865). “Undertones”, p.11

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