Epes Sargent

thumb|Epes Sargent (circa 1870) Epes Sargent (September 27, 1813 – December 30, 1880) was an American poet and playwright of the Knickerbocker group. Quotes A life on the ocean wave!A home on the rolling deep,Where the scattered waters rave,And the winds their revels keep!Like an eagle caged I pineOn this dull unchanging shore:Oh give me the flashing brine,The spray and the tempest's roar! A Life on the Ocean Wave, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night! The Heart's Summer, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). When the night-wind bewaileth the fall of the year,And sweeps from the forest the leaves that are sere;I wake from my slumber and list to the roarAnd it saith to my spirit, "No more, never more!" When the Night-wind bewaileth, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). External links Epes Sargent (poet) Category:Playwrights from the United States Category:19th-century poets from the United States Category:1880 deaths Category:Poets from Massachusetts