Barry Cornwall Quotes

Within the midnight of her hair, Half-hidden in its deepest deeps. - Barry Cornwall

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream! - Barry Cornwall

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

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord. - Barry Cornwall

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! - Barry Cornwall

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments. - Barry Cornwall

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne. - Barry Cornwall

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! - Barry Cornwall

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. - Barry Cornwall

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