Quote #21
A thousand forms and passions glow Upon the world-wide canvas. So With larger scope our art we ply; And if the crown be harder won, Diviner rays around it run, With strains of fuller harmony.
More from Francis Turner Palgrave
- Shakespeare's stage must hold the glass to every age.
- Our hope is less to last through Art than deeper searching of the heart, than broader range of uttered truth.
- The monument outlasting bronze was promised well by bards of old.
- They bring back light on their faces; But they cannot bring back to me What the lilies say to the roses, Or the songs of the butterflies be.
- I may not enter the garden, Though I know the road thereto; And morn by morn to the gateway I see the children go.
- There is a garden where lilies And roses are side by side; And all day between them in silence The silken butterflies glide.
- Kiss and cling to them, kiss and leave them, Bright and beguiling:- Bright and beguiling, as She who glances Along the shore and the meadow…
- The Sun whispers, O remember! You have but thirty days to run, O sweet September!