William Sharp (writer) Quotes

William Sharp was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona Macleod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. He was also an editor of the poetry of Ossian, Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Eugene Lee-Hamilton. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. September 1855 – 12. December 1905
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Famous William Sharp (writer) Quotes

“Across the silent stream
Where the dream-shadows go,
From the dim blue Hill of Dream
I have heard the west wind blow.”

William Sharp (writer)

From the Hills of Dream, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Love is a beautiful dream.”

William Sharp (writer)

Cor Cordium, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“How beautiful they are,
The lordly ones
Who dwell in the hills,
In the hollow hills.”

William Sharp (writer)

Faery song from play The Immortal Hour.

“I hear the little children of the wind
Crying solitary in lonely places.”

William Sharp (writer)

Little Children of the Wind, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Down beyond the haven the tide comes with a shout.”

William Sharp (writer)

An old Tale of Three, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Ah, the strange, sweet, lonely delight
Of the Valleys of Dream.”

William Sharp (writer)

Dream Fantasy, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.”

William Sharp (writer)

Longing, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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