“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.
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Bryan Procter 4
English poet 1787–1874Related quotes

"Advice to a Lady in Autumn", published in A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. I. (1763), printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley

“Time has touched me gently in his race,
And left no odious furrows in my face.”
Book xvii, "The Widow". Compare: "Touch us gently, Time", Bryan W. Procter, Touch us gently, Time; "Time has laid his hand / Upon my heart, gently", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend, iv.
Tales of the Hall (1819)
"The Landscape near an Aerodrome"
Poems (1933)

“I dream of silent verses where the rhyme
Glides noiseless as an oar.”
From At the British Museum Collected Poems, 1929

“So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides
The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.”
The Loves of the Triangles, line 178.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)