Alexander Smith: Likeness

Alexander Smith was Scottish poet and essayist. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

Alexander Smith: 28 quotes2 likes

“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)

“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).

“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.

“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)