Occupation: Poet Birth: March 14, 1844 Death: January 30, 1881
A breath of our inspiration Is the life of each generation; A wondrous thing of our dreaming Unearthly, impossible seeming — The soldier, the….
A breath of our inspiration / Is the life of each generation..
O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, / And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow..
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams..
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems..
We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our mirth; And o'erthrew them wi….
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-f….
But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's hear….
For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth..