Frasi di Bryan Procter

Barry Cornwall, pseudonimo di Bryan Waller Procter , è stato un poeta inglese.

✵ 21. Novembre 1787 – 5. Ottobre 1874
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Bryan Procter: Frasi in inglese

“Touch us gently, Time!
Let us glide adown thy stream
Gently,—as we sometimes glide
Through a quiet dream.”

Touch us gently, Time, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare "Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face", George Crabbe, Tales of the Hall, Book xvii., The Widow.

“The sea! the sea! the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!”

The Sea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“I never was on the dull, tame shore,
But I loved the great sea more and more.”

The Sea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).