The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10 Quotes

“  Love reckons hours for months, and days for years;   And every little absence is an age.”
― John R. (John Raymond) Howard, The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10: Poetical Quotations

“Poetry is music in words, and music is poetry in sound"; and, in so far as melodious form and harmonious thought express and arouse emotion,”
― John Raymond Howard, The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10: Poetical Quotations

“                          And I must bear   What is ordained with patience, being aware   Necessity doth front the universe   With an invincible gesture. Prometheus Bound. E.B. BROWNING.”
― John Raymond Howard, The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10: Poetical Quotations

“  Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced   That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction,—   That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour   Serves but to brighten all our future days. Barbarossa, Act v. Sc. 3. J. BROWN.”
― John Raymond Howard, The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10: Poetical Quotations