Barry Cornwall Quotes

"There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love."
- Barry Cornwall
(Related: Love, Moon, Name, Wind)

"Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!"
- Barry Cornwall
(Related: Quiet)

"The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord."
- Barry Cornwall
(Related: Earth, Tongue, Woman)

"So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!"
- Barry Cornwall
(Related: Sleep)

"Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments."
- Barry Cornwall
(Related: Grief, Pity)

"I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more."
- Barry Cornwall
(Related: Sea)

"Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them."
- Barry Cornwall

"Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors."
- Barry Cornwall
(Related: Echo)

"All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim."
- Barry Cornwall
(Related: Friends)

"Death is the tyrant of the imagination."
- Barry Cornwall
(Related: Death, Imagination)

"O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!"
- Barry Cornwall
(Related: Art, Life, Beauty, Dream)