Thomas Dunn English Quotes

June 29, 1819 – April 1, 1902

Thomas Dunn English (June 29 1819 – April 1 1902) was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who represented the state's 6th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1891 to 1895. He was also a published author and songwriter, who had a bitter ongoing feud with Edgar Allan Poe.

That was a day of delight and wonder.While lying the shade of the maple trees under—He felt the soft breeze at its frolicksome play;He smelled the sweet odor of newly mown hay.

Under the Trees, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 494.

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That was a day of delight and wonder. While lying the shade of the maple trees under He felt the soft breeze at its frolicksome play; He smelled the sweet odor of newly mown hay.

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— Thomas Dunn English, Under the Trees.

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Don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,And trembled with fear at your frown!

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— Ben Bolt, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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Your eyes were filled with love, Kate Vane;Ah, would that we were young again!

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— Kate Vane, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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O that a soldier so glorious, ever victorious in fight, Passed from a daylight of honor into the terrible night; Fell as the mighty archangel, ere the earth glowed in space, fell Fell from the patriot's heaven down to the loyalist's hell!

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— Thomas Dunn English, Arnold at Stillwater.

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