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Barry Cornwall
English
Poet
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Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
Barry Cornwall,
English
Poet
#Smile
#Light
#Night
#Summer
There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love.
Barry Cornwall,
English
Poet
#Love
#Name
#Wind
#Moon
Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!
Barry Cornwall,
English
Poet
#Quiet
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
Barry Cornwall,
English
Poet
#Earth
#Woman
#Tongue
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
Barry Cornwall,
English
Poet
#Sleep
Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.
Barry Cornwall,
English
Poet
#Pity
#Grief
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
Barry Cornwall,
English
Poet
#Sea
Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
Barry Cornwall,
English
Poet
Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.
Barry Cornwall,
English
Poet
#Echo
All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.
Barry Cornwall,
English
Poet
#Friends
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
Barry Cornwall,
English
Poet
#Death
#Imagination
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
Barry Cornwall,
English
Poet
#Life
#Art
#Beauty
#Dream