Richard Watson Gilder

Richard Watson Gilder (February 8, 1844 – November 19, 1909) was an American poet and editor.

Quotes

• From all the misty morning air, there comes a summer sound,
  A murmur as of waters from skies, and trees, and ground. The birds they sing upon the wing, the pigeons bill and coo.
  • "A Midsummer Song", in Lyrics and Other Poems (1885).

• Not from the whole wide world I chose thee,
  Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea!
  The wide, wide world could not inclose thee,
  For thou art the whole wide world to me.
  • Song (1894).

• Through love to light! Oh wonderful the way
  That leads from darkness to the perfect day!
  • After-song (1894), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• I am a woman—therefore I may not
  Call to him, cry to him,
  Fly to him,
  Bid him delay not.
  • A Woman's Thought, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• O white and midnight sky, O starry bath,
  Wash me in thy pure, heavenly crystal flood:
  Cleanse me, ye stars, from earthly soil and scath—
  Let not one taint remain in spirit or blood!
  • The Celestial Passion, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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