Poems
A source page for quotes linked to Richard Henry Stoddard.
“A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?”
“There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life.”
“There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.”
“We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.”
“Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.”
“We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.”