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William Barnes Quotes

The beautiful in nature is the unmarred result of God's first creative or forming will,and ..the beautiful in art is the result of an unmistaken working of man in accordance with the beautiful in nature.

The beautiful in nature is the unmarred result of God's first creative or forming will,and ..the beautiful in art is the result of an unmistaken working of man in accordance with the beautiful in nature.

William Barnes
Beautiful, Art, Men
William Barnes (1950). “Selected poems”

We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.

William Barnes
Pride, Journey, Feet
William Barnes (1869). “Poems of Rural Life in Common English”, p.132

Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll, There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road, An' her love, voe the jay o' my soul.

William Barnes
Wife, Soul, Storm

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