Edmund Clarence Stedman Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Song, Joy, Singing

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

• The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Song, Poet, Endeavor

  EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1875). “VICTORIAN POETS”, p.300

• The weary August days are long;
  The locusts sing a plaintive song,
  The cattle miss their master's call
  When they see the sunset shadows fall.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Summer, Song, Fall

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1869). “Alice of Monmouth: An Idyl of the Great War : with Other Poems”, p.47

• Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Song, Spring, Sky

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1891). “Poetical Works”

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