William Barnes Quotes

• We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.

  William Barnes

  Pride, Journey, Feet

  William Barnes (1869). “Poems of Rural Life in Common English”, p.132

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• The beautiful in nature is the unmarred result of God's first creative or forming will,and ..the beautiful in art is the result of an unmistaken working of man in accordance with the beautiful in nature.

  William Barnes

  Beautiful, Art, Men

  William Barnes (1950). “Selected poems”

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• Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll, There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road, An' her love, voe the jay o' my soul.

  William Barnes

  Wife, Soul, Storm

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