Bryan Procter Quotes

Bryan Waller Procter was an English poet who served as a Commissioner in Lunacy.

✵ 21. November 1787 – 5. October 1874
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Famous Bryan Procter Quotes

“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 ’m on the sea! I ’m on the sea!
I am where I would ever be,
With the blue above and the blue below,
And silence wheresoe’er I go.”

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).

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