Epes Sargent



Epes Sargent (September 27, 1813 – December 30, 1880) was an American poet and playwright of the Knickerbocker group.

Quotes

 * A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep! Like an eagle caged I pine On this dull unchanging shore: Oh give me the flashing brine, The spray and the tempest's roar!
 * A Life on the Ocean Wave, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * The cold blast at the casement beats; The window-panes are white; The snow whirls through the empty streets; It is a dreary night!
 * The Heart's Summer, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * When the night-wind bewaileth the fall of the year, And sweeps from the forest the leaves that are sere; I wake from my slumber and list to the roar And it saith to my spirit, "No more, never more!"
 * When the Night-wind bewaileth, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).