John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1795 – 1828) was a short-lived American lawyer, editor and poet.

Quotes

 * Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.
 * Lament for Long Tom, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * At the piping of all hands, When the judgment-signal's spread— When the islands and the lands And the seas give up their dead, And the South and North shall come; When the sinner is dismayed, And the just man is afraid, Then Heaven be thy aid, Poor Tom.
 * Lament for Long Tom, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * Far beneath the tainted foam That frets above our peaceful home, We dream in joy and wake in love Nor know the rage that yells above.
 * The Deep, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). See also Harriet Beecher Stowe, When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean.


 * I saw two clouds at morning, Tinged with the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on, And mingled into one. I thought that morning cloud was blest, It moved so sweetly to the West.
 * Epithalamium, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).