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American Sculptor, Poet and Lawyer now remembered as the centre of a circle of literary, theatrical, and social celebrities and for his Cleopatra, 1819-1895

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“On the broken stem of dreams
Only disappointments grow.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The rain keeps constantly raining,
And the sky is cold and gray,
And the wind in the trees keeps complaining
That summer has passed away; --”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“When, full of warm and eager love,
I clasp you in my fond embrace,
You gently push me back and say,
"Take care, my dear, you'll spoil my lace."”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“But the gray and the cold are haunted
By a beauty akin to pain, --
By a sense of a something wanted,
That never will come again.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“I dream of the purple glory
Of the roseate mountain-height
And the sweet-to-remember story
Of a distant and clear delight.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Hate me an hour, and then turn round
And love me truly, just one minute.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Give me the old enthusiasms back,
Give me the ardent longings that I lack, --
The glorious dreams that fooled me in my youth,
The sweet mirage that lured me on its track. . . .”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Those black eyes I once so praised
Now are hard and sharp and cold;
Where's the love that through them blazed?
Where's the tenderness of old?”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,
Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Do I hate you? No! Not hate?
Hate's a word far too intense,
Too alive, to speak a state
Of supreme indifference.”

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