Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll, There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road, An' her …

- William Barnes

We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.

- William Barnes

The beautiful in nature is the unmarred result of God's first creative or forming will,and ..the beautiful in art is the result of an unmistaken work…

- William Barnes