Top 15 Charles Godfrey Leland Quotes
#1. If all the world must see the world
As the world the world hath seen,
Then it were better for the world
That the world have never been.
Charles Godfrey Leland
#2. Time fleeth on,
Youth soon is gone,
Naught earthly may abide;
Life seemeth fast,
But may not last
It runs as runs the time.
Charles Godfrey Leland
#3. Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for me to go! Northward o'er the icy rocks, Northward o'er the sea, My daughter comes with sunny locks: This land's too warm for me!
Charles Godfrey Leland
#4. To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.
Charles Godfrey Leland
#9. But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day, The swallow felt the deepest grief, And longed to give her Lord relief, And chirped when any near would come. Hugswala swala swal honom! Meaning, as they who tell it deem, Oh, cool, oh, cool and comfort Him!
Charles Godfrey Leland
#10. It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.
Charles Godfrey Leland
#12. What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst,
A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst,
Tho' oft it prooves, in happie Hour,
The first swete Dropp of our long Showre.
Charles Godfrey Leland
#13. Love leads to present rapture,-then to pain;
But all through Love in time is healed again.
Charles Godfrey Leland
#14. The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.
Charles Godfrey Leland
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