Mcdonald Clarke Quotes

1798–1842

McDonald Clarke (1798–1842) was a poet of some fame in New York in the early part of the 19th century.

Tis vain for present fame to wish--Our persons first must be forgotten;For poets are like stinking fish--They never shine until they're rotten.

The Elixir of Moonshine (1820).

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Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-Shop appears, As the red waves of wretchedness swell, How it burns on the edge of tempestuous years The horrible Light-House of Hell!

Mcdonald Clarke
— The Rum Hole.

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Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far,Was pinned with a single star.

Mcdonald Clarke
— Death in Disguise (Boston edition, 1833), line 227. A number of variants are reported:
— While twilight's curtain gathering farIs pinned with a single diamond star.
— Now twilight lets her curtain down,And pins it with a star.
— Compare: "And drew my midnight curtain with fingers bloody red", Thomas Hood, Dream of Eugene Aram; "The moon is a silver pinhead vast, That holds the heavens tent-hangings fast", William R. Alger, "The Use of the Moon", Poetry of the Orient (1865), p. 178.

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