William Braithwaite Quotes

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Sandy Star and Willie Gee,
Count 'em two, you make 'em three:
Pluck the man and boy apart
And you'll see into my heart.

William Braithwaite
I must go on with Time, and leave him there
In Autumn's house where dreams will soon grow thin.
When Time shall close the door unto the house
And opens that of Winter's soon to be,
And dreams go moving through the ruined boughs—
He who went in comes out a Memory.
From his deep sleep no sound may e'er arouse,—
The moaning rain, nor wind-embattled sea.

William Braithwaite
Two women on the lone wet strand
(The wind's out with a will to roam)
The waves wage war on rocks and sand,
(And a ship is long due home!)

William Braithwaite
Heart free, hand free,
Blue above, brown under,
All the world to me
Is a place of wonder.

William Braithwaite
Just where that star above Shines with a cold, dispassionate smile — If in the flesh I'd travel there, How many, many a mile!

William Braithwaite
I kissed a kiss in youth
Upon a dead man's brow;
And that was long ago—
And I'm a grown man now.

William Braithwaite
Poetry is one of the realities that persist. The façade and the dome of the palace and temple, the monuments of heroes and saints, crumble before the ruining breath of time, while the Psalms last.

William Braithwaite
Quiet has a hidden sound
Best upon a hillside street,
When the sunlight on the ground
Is luminous with heat.

William Braithwaite
His thoughts were a loose skein of threads,
And tangled emotions, vague and dim;
And sacrificing what he loved
He lost the dearest part of him

William Braithwaite