English Romantic Poet

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    “Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    “The thing to remember about fathers is, they’re men.
    A girl has to keep it in mind:
    They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues.
    Scratch any father, you find
    Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors,
    Believing change is a threat—
    Like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle
    It took such months to get.”
    —Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978)

    “Like a poet hidden
    In the light of thought,
    Singing hymns unbidden,
    Till the world is wrought
    To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not:”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)