22 quotes found
Poet · Canadian
Canadian poet
“The glad indomitable sea,The strong white sun.”
“The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.”
“There paused to shut the doorA fellow called the Wind,With mystery before,And reticence behind.”
“The first need of being is endurance to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.”
“Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.”
“THERE is something in the autumn that is native to my blood Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.”
“On the shining yards of heavenSee a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beautyAre the masters of the world.”
“Whether it be to failure or success the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.”
“I took a day to search for God And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge through woods untamed Just where one scarlet lily flamed I saw His foot print in the sod.”
“There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed but you may note this fact that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.”
“There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but you may note this fact that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.”
“THERE is something in the autumn that is native to my blood— Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.”
“There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but... in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.”
“Here's to the day when it is MayAnd care as light as a feather,When your little shoes and my big bootsGo tramping over the heather.”
“Here’s to the dayThat wondrous May,A-roaming through the heather,When her little shoesAnd my big boots Were out on the hills together.And here’s to the night Of our delight, That held the stars in ...”
