John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1795 – 1828) was a short-lived American lawyer, editor and poet.

I saw two clouds at morning,
Tinged with the rising sun,
And in the dawn they floated on,
And mingled into one.
I thought that morning cloud was blest,
It moved so sweetly to the West.

Quotes

• Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.
  • Lament for Long Tom, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• At the piping of all hands,
  When the judgment-signal's spread—
  When the islands and the lands
  And the seas give up their dead,
  And the South and North shall come;
  When the sinner is dismayed,
  And the just man is afraid,
  Then Heaven be thy aid,
  Poor Tom.
  • Lament for Long Tom, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Far beneath the tainted foam
  That frets above our peaceful home,
  We dream in joy and wake in love
  Nor know the rage that yells above.
  • The Deep, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). See also Harriet Beecher Stowe, When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean.

• I saw two clouds at morning,
  Tinged with the rising sun,
  And in the dawn they floated on,
  And mingled into one.
  I thought that morning cloud was blest,
  It moved so sweetly to the West.
  • Epithalamium, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

External links

• Occasional Pieces of Poetry by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
• The literary remains of J.G.C. Brainard: with a sketch of his life
• The poems of John G. C. Brainard. A new and authentic collection, with an original memoir of his life