Poets. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Poets


The busy shuttle comes and goes Across the rhymes, and deftly weaves A tissue out of autumn leaves, With here a thistle, there a rose. T. B. Aldrich.—Cloth of Gold, Proem.	1
Poets are never young, in one sense. Their delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience. Holmes.—The Professor at the Breakfast Table, Chap. X.	2
Sing! there shall silence grow in earth and heaven, A silence of deep awe and wondering; For, listening gladly, bend the angels, even To hear a mortal angel sing. Lowell.—The Poet.	3
The Poet in his art Must imitate the whole, and say the smallest part. William Wetmore Story.—The Unexpressed.	4
The Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years. Bayard Taylor.—The Poet’s Journal, Third Evening.	5