William Story
William Story
William Wetmore Storywas an American sculptor, art critic, poet, and editor...
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth12 February 1819
eager fond full gently push spoil warm
When, full of warm and eager love,I clasp you in my fond embrace,You gently push me back and say,"Take care, my dear, you'll spoil my lace.
eager fond full gently push spoil warm
When, full of warm and eager love, I clasp you in my fond embrace, You gently push me back and say, "Take care, my dear, you'll spoil my lace.
grand large looks petty
What looks like swindling with a petty sum,Is on a grand and speculative scaleHonest enough, so it be large enough.
grand honest large looks petty scale
What looks like swindling with a petty sum, Is on a grand and speculative scale Honest enough, so it be large enough.
black eyes hard love sharp tenderness
Those black eyes I once so praisedNow are hard and sharp and cold;Where's the love that through them blazed?Where's the tenderness of old?
black eyes hard love praised sharp tenderness
Those black eyes I once so praised Now are hard and sharp and cold; Where's the love that through them blazed? Where's the tenderness of old?
far hate speak state supreme word
Do I hate you? No! Not hate? Hate's a word far too intense, Too alive, to speak a state Of supreme indifference.
We live as much in all that we have lostAs what we own.
lost
We live as much in all that we have lost As what we own.
battle died fell hymn sing
I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the Battle of Life,The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife.
american-sculptor expression noble silent work
Of every noble work the silent part is best, Of all expression that which can not be expressed.
annals calls history success thy whom won
Speak, History! Who are life's victors? Unroll thy long annals and say:Are they those whom the world calls the victors, who won the success of a day?
annals calls success thy whom won
Speak, History! Who are life's victors? Unroll thy long annals and say: Are they those whom the world calls the victors, who won the success of a day?
fear
Ah, yes! Success, I fear, has come too late!