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• Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.

  Bayard Taylor

  Heart, Solitude, Toil

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.28

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• 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.

  Bayard Taylor

  Wisdom, Doors, Dying

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.130

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• In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.

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  Soil, Afar, Emotion

  Bayard Taylor (1855). “The Lands of the Saracen: Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain”, p.84

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• Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

  Bayard Taylor

  Sea, Voyages, Comfort

  Bayard Taylor (1870). “Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.25

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

  Bayard Taylor

  Wisdom, Streams, Wells

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.130

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• True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

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  Sublime, Realization, World

  Bayard Taylor (1864). “The Lands of the Saracen, Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.120

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• Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth
  Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,--
  Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,--
  Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.

  Bayard Taylor

  Blue, Color, Tree

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.33

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• The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one,
  In the slow process of the doubtful years.

  Bayard Taylor

  Years, Poet, Process

  Bayard Taylor (1863). “The Poet's Journal”, p.122

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• The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.

  Bayard Taylor

  Heart, Fire, Blood

  Bayard Taylor (1865). “The Poems of Bayard Taylor”, p.13, Boston : Ticknor and Fields

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• Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.

  Bayard Taylor

  Past, Mind, Mountain

  Bayard Taylor (1869). “Views Afoot; Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.53

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• An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.

  Bayard Taylor

  Long, Childhood, Desire

  Bayard Taylor, Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.1

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• As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.

  Bayard Taylor

  Ascent, Olives, Deities

  Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.67, The Floating Press

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• I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.

  Bayard Taylor

  Jerusalem, Emotion, Assuming

  Bayard Taylor (1862). “Prose Writings of Bayard Taylor ...”, p.85

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• I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.

  Bayard Taylor

  Country, Eye, Land

  Bayard Taylor, Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.140

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• The clouds are scudding across the moon,
  A misty light is on the sea;
  The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune,
  And the foam is flying free.

  Bayard Taylor

  Moon, Clouds, Light

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.366

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• The loving are the daring.

  Bayard Taylor

  Love, Engagement, Daring

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.246

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

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  Rain, Sap, Earth

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.243

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• Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

  Bayard Taylor

  Beautiful, Flower, Scotland

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.69

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• The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

  Bayard Taylor

  Perfection, Unattainable, Aim

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• The source of each accordant strain
  Lies deeper than the Poet's brain.
  First from the people's heart must spring
  The passions which he learns to sing;
  They are the wind, the harp is he,
  To voice their fitful melody,--
  The language of their varying fate,
  Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,--
  The talisman which holds inwrought
  The touchstone of the listener's thought;
  That penetrates each vain disguise,
  And brings his secret to his eyes.

  Bayard Taylor

  Lying, Hate, Spring

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.111

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• Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of spring. Still, still that lovely ghost appears, Too fair, too pure, to bid depart; No riper love of later years Can steal its beauty from the heart.

  Bayard Taylor

  Love, Summer, Spring

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.43

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• Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!

  Bayard Taylor

  Cities, Two, Baltimore

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• The knowledge of my sin
  Is half-repentance.

  Bayard Taylor

  Half, Sin, Repentance

  Bayard Taylor (1873). “Lars: A Pastoral of Norway”, p.93

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• There may come a day
  Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth,
  And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!

  Bayard Taylor

  Success, Art, Desire

  Bayard Taylor (1867). “The Picture of St. John”, p.220

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• Life lives only in success.

  Bayard Taylor

  Success

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.116

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