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• In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.

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  Soil, Afar, Emotion

  Bayard Taylor (1855). “The Lands of the Saracen: Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain”, p.84

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• Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

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  Sea, Voyages, Comfort

  Bayard Taylor (1870). “Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.25

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• Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth
  Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,--
  Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,--
  Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.

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  Blue, Color, Tree

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.33

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• The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one,
  In the slow process of the doubtful years.

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  Years, Poet, Process

  Bayard Taylor (1863). “The Poet's Journal”, p.122

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• The stream from Wisdom's well,
  Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

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  Wisdom, Streams, Wells

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.130

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• True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

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  Sublime, Realization, World

  Bayard Taylor (1864). “The Lands of the Saracen, Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.120

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• I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.

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  Jerusalem, Emotion, Assuming

  Bayard Taylor (1862). “Prose Writings of Bayard Taylor ...”, p.85

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• The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.

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  Heart, Fire, Blood

  Bayard Taylor (1865). “The Poems of Bayard Taylor”, p.13, Boston : Ticknor and Fields

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• So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.

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  Home, Perfect, Mountain

  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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• I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.

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  Country, Eye, Land

  Bayard Taylor, Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.140

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• The clouds are scudding across the moon,
  A misty light is on the sea;
  The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune,
  And the foam is flying free.

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  Moon, Clouds, Light

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.366

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• Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.

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  Rain, Sap, Earth

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.243

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• Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

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  Beautiful, Flower, Scotland

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.69

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Love is better than Fame.

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  Love, Love Is, Fame

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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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• 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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• The knowledge of my sin
  Is half-repentance.

  Bayard Taylor

  Half, Sin, Repentance

  Bayard Taylor (1873). “Lars: A Pastoral of Norway”, p.93

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• Life lives only in success.

  Bayard Taylor

  Success

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.116

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• There may come a day
  Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth,
  And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!

  Bayard Taylor

  Success, Art, Desire

  Bayard Taylor (1867). “The Picture of St. John”, p.220

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