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• Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.

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  Charm, Verses, Wooing

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• Love's humility is love's true pride.

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  Humility, Pride, True Humility

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.75

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• When May, with cowslip-braided locks,
  Walks through the land in green attire.
  And burns in meadow-grass the phlox
  His torch of purple fire:
  And when the punctual May arrives,
  With cowslip-garland on her brow,
  We know what once she gave our lives,
  And cannot give us now!

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  Fire, Land, Purple

  Bayard Taylor (1883). “The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor”

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• Labor, you know, is prayer.

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  Prayer, Labor, Knows

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• London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

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  Atmosphere, World, London

  Bayard Taylor (1869). “Views Afoot; Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.306

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• Eccentricity is developed monomania.

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  Eccentricity

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• The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.

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  Eye, Dark, Differences

  Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.64, The Floating Press

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• Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.

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  War, Hands, Mountain

  bayard taylor “views a-foot”

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• We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?

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  Running, Ocean, Space

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• I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Hands

  Bayard Taylor (1855). “The Lands of the Saracen: Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain”, p.154

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• Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.

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  Song, Perfect, Higher

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.162

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• Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.

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  Cities, Foundation, World

  Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.106, The Floating Press

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• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

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  Athlete, Race, Apollo

  Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.128, The Floating Press

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• The hollows are heavy and dank
  With the steam of the Goldenrods.

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  Steam, Heavy, Dank

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.152

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• The glories of the possible are ours.

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  Future, Glory

  Bayard Taylor (1867). “The Picture of St. John”, p.106

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• The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks
  A scarlet rain; the yellow violet
  Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox
  Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet,
  And all the streams with vernal-scented reed
  Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.

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  Rain, Rocks, Flames

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• From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.

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  Wind, Fire, Desire

  Bayard Taylor (1857). “Poems of the Orient”, p.86

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• Departed suns their trails of splendor drew
  Across departed summers: whispers came
  From voices, long ago resolved again
  Into the primeval Silence, and we twain,
  Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same,
  As in a spectral mirror wandered there.

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  Summer, Mirrors, Self

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• I know I am--that simplest bliss
  The millions of my brothers miss.
  I know the fortune to be born,
  Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.

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  Brother, Missing, Bliss

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• But still I dream that somewhere there must be
  The spirit of a child that waits for me.

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  Dream, Children, Childhood

  Bayard Taylor (1863). “The Poet's Journal”, p.80

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• Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.

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  Hope, Past, Night

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.9

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• And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds,
  Is one with Prayer.

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  Prayer, Deeds, Virtuous

  Bayard Taylor (1856). “Poems”

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• Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.

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  Taken, Character, Giving

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