Alexander Smith: Likeness

Alexander Smith was Scottish poet and essayist. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“Some books are drenchèd sands
On which a great soul’s wealth lies all in heaps,
Like a wrecked argosy.”

Alexander Smith

Scene 2.
A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)

Books , Soul , Wealth

“The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.”

Alexander Smith

Dreamthorp: Essays written in the Country (1863).

World , Soul

“The soul of man is like the rolling world,
One half in day, the other dipt in night;
The one has music and the flying cloud,
The other, silence and the wakeful stars.”

Alexander Smith

Horton.

World , Music , Soul , Star

“Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire.”

Alexander Smith

Scene 2.
A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)

“We twain have met like the ships upon the sea,
Who hold an hour’s converse, so short, so sweet;
One little hour! And then, away they speed
On lonely paths, through mist and cloud and foam,
To meet no more.”

Alexander Smith

Part iv.
A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)

Speed , Sea