Gleam Quotes - Page 4

• 0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Beautiful, Dream, Years

  'America the Beautiful' (1893)

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• I keep some portion of my early gleam;
  Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river,
  It lights my life, a far illusive dream,
  Moves as I move, and leads me on forever.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Dream, Moving, Light

  "Twoscore and Ten". "A Home Idyl And Other Poems". Book by John Townsend Trowbridge, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1881.

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• But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Age, Rust, Deeds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.102

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• No clouds are in the morning sky,
  The vapors hug the stream,
  Who says that life and love can die
  In all this northern gleam?
  At every turn the maples burn,
  The quail is whistling free,
  The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs
  Are dropping for you and me.
  Ho! hillyho! heigh O!
  Hillyho!
  In the clear October morning.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Morning, Life And Love, Sky

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• The beauty that men seek is half a dream-- Where'er we wander, yet it lies afar; It touches with its wand a setting star, It stirs the ripple of an ebbing stream. And though we run beyond the dawning gleam, Or kneel to worship at an altar bright, We may not know the soul of its delight, Or more than marvel at its palest beam.

  Kenneth Rand

  Beauty, Running, Dream

  Kenneth Rand (1914). “The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...”

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• Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will tear them down with impatient hands; and hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.

  Conrad Aiken

  Fall, Rain, Dust

  Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

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• I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.

  James Branch Cabell

  Loyalty, Attitude, Heart

  James Branch Cabell (1948). “The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her”, Amereon Limited

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• Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Spiritual, Twilight, Feelings

  "Hyperion" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1853.

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• It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Eye, Long, Turns

  "Howard Hodgkin: the Later, Greater Hodgkin". Interview with Karen Wright, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 05, 2008.

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• In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.

  Alfred Austin

  Faces, Vain, Aspect

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issue through the burnished horn, What man soe'er beholds them on his bed, These work with virtue and of truth are born.

  Homer

  Dream, Fate, Men

  Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.67, Delphi Classics

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• Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.

  Matthew Arnold

  Weed, Light, Wind

  'The Forsaken Merman' (1849) l. 35

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• Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sleep, Soul, Slumber

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1831). “The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats”, p.467

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• Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Radiance, Caught, Higher

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.1

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• A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Heart, Character

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.81

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• My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me. Every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms? "Tempest o'er tempest roll'd" - still the "darkness" is majestic.

  John Constable

  Art, Sunshine, Darkness

  Letter to C.R. Leslie (1834), "John Constable's Correspondence," ed. R.B. Beckett, vol. 3, p. 122, 1962-1970.

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• Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream,
  Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd;
  The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam
  Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode.

  James Gates Percival

  Sweet, Heart, Peaceful

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• Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Beautiful, Stars, Destiny

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• What various scenes, and O! what scenes of Woe,
  Are witness'd by that red and struggling beam!
  The fever'd patient, from his pallet low,
  Through crowded hospitals beholds it stream;
  The ruined maiden trembles at its gleam,
  The debtor wakes to thought of gyve and jail,
  The love-lorn wretch starts from tormenting dream;
  The wakeful mother, by the glimmering pale,
  Trims her sick infant's couch, and soothes his feeble wail.

  Walter Scott

  Mother, Dream, Morning

  Walter Scott (2017). “Scott's Lady of the Lake”, p.152, Litres

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• All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Memories, Flower, Mean

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.90, Penguin

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• Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay.

  Curt Siodmak

  Beauty, Beautiful, Jumping

  "Fictional character: Paul Holland". "I Walked with a Zombie", www.imdb.com. 1943.

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• Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only in a culture of clarification, which is now becoming harder and harder to detect with the naked eye.

  James Thurber

  Powerful, Eye, Brain

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• Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.

  William Morris

  Memories, Flower, Moving

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• A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new.

  William Watson

  Dream, Lips, Common

  Sir William Watson, John Alfred Spender (1905). “The Poems of William Watson”

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• Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.

  Don Marquis

  Dream, Strong, Stars

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