I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
- Bryan Procter
Loved, Never, More, Tame
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
- Bryan Procter
Sleep, Buy, Fed, Oft
Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.
- Bryan Procter
More, Instruments, Speaks, Sweetly
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
- Bryan Procter
Love, Woman, Which, Sweetest
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
- Bryan Procter
Beauty, Art, Thee, Thou
Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!
- Bryan Procter
Sometimes, Through, Thy, Gently
Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.
- Bryan Procter
Echo, Even, Speaks, Radiant
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.
- Bryan Procter
Love, Beneath, Grows, Wind
All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.
- Bryan Procter
Silent, Wait, Servants, Season
Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
- Bryan Procter
Within, Hoard, Half, Hearts
Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
- Bryan Procter
Nature, Light, She, Oh
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
- Bryan Procter
Death, Imagination, Tyrant
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