15 James Gates Percival Quotes

James Gates Percival quotes

1. Hail to the land whereon we tread, Our fondest boast! The sepulchres of mighty dead, The truest hearts that ever bled, Who sleep on glory's brightest bed, A fearless host: No slave is here:-our unchained feet, Walk freely as the waves that beat Our coast.

2. On thy fair bosom, silver lake, The wild swan spreads his snowy sail, And round his breast the ripples break As down he bears before the gale.

3. The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air.

1. Roses bloom, and then they wither; Cheeks are bright, then fade and die; Shapes of light are wafted hither, Then, like visions, hurry by.

2. The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!

3. Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail, Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay; Though darken'd in this poor life by a veil Of suffering, dying matter, we shall play In truth's eternal sunbeams; on the way To heaven's high capitol our cars shall roll; The temple of the Power whom all obey, That is the mark we tend to, for the soul Can take no lower flight, and seek no meaner goal.

4. Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts.

5. How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

6. Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

7. There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.

8. In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, On its leaves a mystic language bears.

9. I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

10. There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.

11. The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety and pleasure.

12. Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.