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“I love thee, I love but thee,
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old”

"Bedouin Song" (1853), in The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor (1907), p. 69.
Source: The Poems of Bayard Taylor
Context: I love thee, I love but thee,
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold!
Context: From the Desert I come to thee
On a stallion shod with fire;
And the winds are left behind
In the speed of my desire.
Under thy window I stand,
And the midnight hears my cry:
I love thee, I love but thee,
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold!

“The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.”

Bayard Taylor

“Yes, let the Angel blow!
A peal from the parted heaven,
The first of seven!—
The warning, not yet the sign, of woe!
That men arise
And look about them with wakened eyes,
Behold on their garments the dust and slime,
Refrain, forbear,
Accept the weight of a nobler care
And take reproach from the fallen time!”

Bayard Taylor

"Gabriel" in The Century : A Popular Quarterly, Volume 18 (1874), p. 617.

“They sang of love, and not of fame;
Forgot was Britain's glory;
Each heart recalled a different name,
But all sang Annie Lawrie.”

Bayard Taylor

"The Song of the Camp" (1856), in The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor (1907), p. 86.

“Sleep, soldiers! still in honored rest
Your truth and valor wearing:
The bravest are the tenderest,—
The loving are the daring.”

Bayard Taylor

"The Song of the Camp" (1856), in The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor (1907), p. 86.

“No visitors shall yonder valley find.
Except the spirits of the rain and wind:
Here you must bide, my friends, with me entombed
In this dim crypt, where shelved around us lie
The mummied authors.”

Bayard Taylor

"Third Evening".
The Poet's Journal (1863)

Bayard Taylor Quotes

“If she but smile, the crystal calm shall break
In music, sweeter than it ever gave”

Bayard Taylor

"The Return of the Goddess" (1850), later published as the Preface to The Poet's Journal (1863); also in The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor (1907), p. 103.
Context: If she but smile, the crystal calm shall break
In music, sweeter than it ever gave,
As when a breeze breathes o'er some sleeping lake,
And laughs in every wave.

“Yes, let the Angel blow!
A peal from the parted heaven,
The first of seven!”

Bayard Taylor

The warning, not yet the sign, of woe!
That men arise
And look about them with wakened eyes,
Behold on their garments the dust and slime,
Refrain, forbear,
Accept the weight of a nobler care
And take reproach from the fallen time!
"Gabriel" in The Century : A Popular Quarterly, Volume 18 (1874), p. 617.

“The hollows are heavy and dank
With the steam of the Goldenrods.”

Bayard Taylor

"The Guests of Night" (1871), st. 2, in The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor (1907), p. 314.

“Knowledge alone is the being of Nature,
Giving a soul to her manifold features,
Lighting through paths of the primitive darkness,
The footsteps of Truth and the vision of Song.”

Bayard Taylor

Kilimandjaro (1852), Stanza 2; later published in The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor (1907), p. 73.

“Thunder-spasms the waking be
Into Life from Apathy:
Life, not Death, is in the gale, —
Let the coming Doom prevail!”

Bayard Taylor

First Evening, "A Symbol".
The Poet's Journal (1863)

“Peace the offspring is of Power.”

Bayard Taylor

"A Thousand Years" (September 20, 1862), stanza 12; in The Poems (1866), p. 411.