Richard Le Gallienne

Richard Thomas Le Gallienne (1866–1947) was an English man of letters, closely associated with the literary world of London in the 1890s; after that he resided in the USA, without altering his period style. The American actress Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991) was his daughter, by his second marriage.

Quotes

• Dear Sister, You dream like mad, you love like tinder, you aspire like a star-struck moth - for what? That you may hive little lyrics, and sell to a publisher for thirty pieces of silver.
  • Opening Lines from Epistle Dedicatory, to his sister, Sissie Le Gallienne English Poems Copland & Day 1895 kindle ebook.

• Art was a palace once, things great and fair,
  And strong and holy , found a temple there:
  • To the Reader English Poems Copland & Day 1895 kindle ebook.

• Yea, howso we dream,
  Or how bravely we do;
  The end is the same,
  Be we traitor or true:
  And after the bloom
  And the passion is past
  Death comes at last.
  • An old Man’s Song.

• Time’s horses gallop down the lessening hill.
  • Time flies.

• There’s too much beauty upon this earth
  For lonely men to bear.
  • A Ballad of too much Beauty.

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