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  • Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.

    Fate   Sea   Rude  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.199
  • Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?

    Song   Spring   Sky  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1891). “Poetical Works”
  • Worth, courage, honor, these indeed Your sustenance and birthright are.

  • The imagination never dies.

    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”
  • Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.

    Mother   Art   War  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”
  • A poet must sing for his own people.

    People   Poet  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1903). “Victorian Poets: Revised and Extended by a Supplementary Chapter, to the Fiftieth Year of the Period Under Review”
  • The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.

    Acceptance   Men   Tasks  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”
  • War! war! war! Heaven aid the right! God move the hero's arm in the fearful fight! God send the women sleep in the long, long night, When the breasts on whose strength they leaned shall heave no more.

    War   Hero   Moving  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.111
  • Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

    Fashion   Art   Judging  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”
  • Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.

    Art   Soul   Faults  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”
  • Is there a rarer being, Is there a fairer sphere Where the strong are not unseeing, And the harvests are not sere; Where, ere the seasons dwindle They yield their due return; Where the lamps of knowledge kindle While the flames of youth still burn?

    Strong   Future   Yield  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900). “An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century”, Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, [190-]
  • Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

    Song   Joy   Singing  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”
  • Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

    Luck   Born   Right Time  
  • The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows fall.

    Summer   Song   Fall  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1869). “Alice of Monmouth: An Idyl of the Great War : with Other Poems”, p.47
  • A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”
  • Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

    Art   Excellence   Chiefs  
    EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1875). “VICTORIAN POETS”, p.156
  • O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life! O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true!

    Sweet   Spring   Dawn  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1869). “The Blameless Prince: And Other Poems”, p.164
  • Do your heart and head keep pace? When does hoary Love expire, When do frosts put out the fire? Can its embers burn below All that chill December snow?

    Heart   Fire   Snow  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.238
  • Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring; Some of their music, though my fights be wild, To Earth I bring; Then let me soar and sing!

    Fighting   Clouds   Wings  
  • Give us a man of God's own mould Born to marshall his fellow-men; One whose fame is not bought and sold At the stroke of a politician's pen. Give us the man of thousands ten, Fit to do as well as to plan; Give us a rallying-cry, and then Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man.

  • No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de la Muscavado, Senor Grandissimo Bastinado! His was the rental of half Havana And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana, Rich as he was, could hardly hold A candle to light the mines of gold Our Cuban owned.

    Light   Gold   Hoboken  
  • Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.

    Hands   Looks   Mould  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900). “An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century”, Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, [190-]
  • Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

    Men   Egotism   Amity  
  • Music waves eternal wands,-- Enchantress of the souls of mortals!

    Music   Soul   Wave  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1869). “The Blameless Prince: And Other Poems”, p.122
  • No clouds are in the morning sky, The vapors hug the stream, Who says that life and love can die In all this northern gleam? At every turn the maples burn, The quail is whistling free, The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs Are dropping for you and me. Ho! hillyho! heigh O! Hillyho! In the clear October morning.

  • Lo, as I gaze, the statured man, Built up from you large hand appears: A type that nature wills to plan But once in all a people's years.

    Men   Hands   Years  
  • Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.

    Special   Use   Tongue  
  • Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.

    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”
  • But every human path leads on to God; He holds a myriad finer threads than gold, And strong as holy wishes, drawing us With delicate tension upward to Himself.

    Strong   Drawing   Wish  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.45
  • Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale Is wild within me! what may quell That sullen tempest? I must sail Whither, O whither, who can tell!

    Blow   Wind   May  
    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.80
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