John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Quotes

John Gardiner Calkins Brainard was an American lawyer, editor and poet.

✵ 1795 – 1828
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Famous John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Quotes

“Far beneath the tainted foam
That frets above our peaceful home,
We dream in joy and wake in love
Nor know the rage that yells above.”

The Deep, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). See also Harriet Beecher Stowe, When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean.

“Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.”

Lament for Long Tom, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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