Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes about Life

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How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

Life, Fall, Leafs

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

Though I be shut in darkness, and become insentient dust blown idly here and there, I count oblivion a scant price to pay for having once had held against my lip life's brimming cup of hydromel and rue--for having once known woman's holy love and a child's kiss, and for a little space been boon companion to the Day and Night, Fed on the odors of the summer dawn, and folded in the beauty of the stars. Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, and serve the potter as he turns his wheel, I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Life, Summer, Stars

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”