Thomas Buchanan Read

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

Poems (1847)

Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co.

• O Night! most beautiful and rare!
  Thou givest the heavens their holiest hue,
  And through the azure fields of air
  Bringest down the gentle dew.
  • A Hymn to the Night
  • Variants: 'givest' for 'giv'st', Bring'st for 'Bringest'

Poems (1853)

Philadelphia: A. Hart, late Carey and Hart

• 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, st. 1

The New Pastoral (1855)

Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, successors to A. Hart

• We bring roses, beautiful fresh roses,
  Dewy as the morning and colored like the dawn.
  • Bk. vii (p. 71)

Poems (1866)

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.

• 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

A Summer Story, Sheridan's Ride, and Other Poems (1865)

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.

• The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar,
  Telling the battle was on once more,
  And Sheridan twenty miles away.
  • Sheridan’s Ride
  • Variant: 'terrible rumble, grumble and roar'

• I hate the sin, but I love the sinner.
  • What a Word May Do

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Thomas Buchanan Read on Wikipedia