Thomas Buchanan Read Quotes

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

Thomas Buchanan Read

We bring roses, beautiful fresh roses,
Dewy as the morning and colored like the dawn.

Thomas Buchanan Read

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.

Thomas Buchanan Read

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

Thomas Buchanan Read

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.

Thomas Buchanan Read

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.

Thomas Buchanan Read

My soul today
Is far away
Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.

Thomas Buchanan Read

Thomas Buchanan Read

Thomas Buchanan Read

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Born: March 12, 1822

Died: May 11, 1872 (aged 50)

Bio: Thomas Buchanan Read was an American poet and portrait painter.

Known for:

Sheridan's ride (1864)
The new pastoral (1855)
The female poets of America (1848)
The wagoner of the Alleghanies (1862)

Thomas Buchanan Read on Wikipedia

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