Thomas Buchanan Read



Thomas Buchanan Read (March 12, 1822 – May 11, 1872), American poet, was a portrait-painter, and lived much abroad. He wrote a prose romance, The Pilgrims of the Great St. Bernard, and several books of poetry, including The New Pastoral, The House by the Sea, Sylvia, and A Summer Story.

Quotes

 * Within the sober realm of leafless trees, The russet year inhaled the dreamy air; Like some tanned reaper, in his hour of ease,  When all the fields are lying brown and bare.
 * The closing Scene. Sc. i.


 * My soul to-day Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.
 * Drifting.


 * With dreamful eyes My spirit lies Under the walls of Paradise.
 * Drifting.


 * Yon deep bark goes Where Traffic blows From lands of sun to lands of snows;— Yon happier one,  Its course is run From lands of snow to lands of sun.
 * Drifting.


 * We bring roses, beautiful fresh roses, Dewy as the morning and colored like the dawn.
 * The new pastoral Book.


 * O Night! most beautiful and rare! Thou givest the heavens their holiest hue, And through the azure fields of air  Bring’st down the gentle dew.
 * Night.


 * The terrible rumble, grumble and roar Telling the battle was on once more— And Sheridan twenty miles away!
 * Sheridan’s Ride.