Henry Timrod Quotes

• There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned

  Henry Timrod

  Lying, Mourning, Defeated

  Henry Timrod (1873). “The Poems of Henry Timrod”, p.210

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• Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

  Henry Timrod

  Lonely, Dark, Lamps

  Henry Timrod (1873). “The Poems of Henry Timrod”, p.131

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• Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

  Henry Timrod

  Dream, Heart, Secret

  Henry Timrod (2007). “The Collected Poems of Henry Timrod: A Variorum Edition”, p.38, University of Georgia Press

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• Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!There is no holier spot of groundThan where defeated valor lies,By mourning beauty crowned!

  Henry Timrod

  Lying, Humble, Sleep

  Henry Timrod, “Ode:Sung On The. Occasion Of Decorating The Graves Of The Confederate Dead”

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• Spring is a true reconstructionist.

  Henry Timrod

  Spring, May

  Henry Timrod (1873). “The Poems of Henry Timrod”, p.49

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• Ah me! why may not love and life be one?

  Henry Timrod

  Love, Sexy, May

  Henry Timrod (2007). “The Collected Poems of Henry Timrod: A Variorum Edition”, p.79, University of Georgia Press

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• Y en las dunas yacen agazapados mil cañones, invisibles, junto a la riada, como tigres agazapados en alguna jungla de Oriente, que esperan y vigilan la sangre. Mientras tanto, por las calles que aún resuenan con el comercio, caminan hombres graves y reflexivos, cuyas manos empuñarán un día la espada del patriota con la misma ligereza que la pluma.

  Henry Timrod

  Lying, Men, Gun

  Henry Timrod, “Charleston”

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