Richard Le Gallienne Quotes

“Dear Sister, You dream like mad, you love like tinder, you aspire like a star-struck moth - for what? That you may hive little lyrics, and sell to a publisher for thirty pieces of silver.”

Richard Le Gallienne

Opening Lines from Epistle Dedicatory, to his sister, Sissie Le Gallienne English Poems Copland & Day 1895 kindle ebook.

“Yea, howso we dream,
Or how bravely we do;
The end is the same,
Be we traitor or true:
And after the bloom
And the passion is past
Death comes at last.”

Richard Le Gallienne

An old Man’s Song.

“Time’s horses gallop down the lessening hill.”

Richard Le Gallienne

Time flies.

“Art was a palace once, things great and fair,
And strong and holy, found a temple there:”

Richard Le Gallienne

To the Reader English Poems Copland & Day 1895 kindle ebook.

“There’s too much beauty upon this earth
For lonely men to bear.”

Richard Le Gallienne

A Ballad of too much Beauty.