Thomas Love Peacock Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• Time, the foe of man's dominion,
  Wheels around in ceaseless flight,
  Scattering from his hoary pinion
  Shades of everlasting night.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Time, Night, Men

  Thomas Love Peacock (1812). “The Genius of the Thames, Palmyra, and Other Poems”, p.97

• The present is our own; but while we speak,
  We cease from its possession, and resign
  The stage we tread on, to another race,
  As vain, and gay, and mortal as ourselves.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Time, Gay, Race

  Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”

• Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
  Must yield at length to Time.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Time, Men, Yield

  Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”

• Time is lord of thee:
  Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Time, Names, Wealth

  Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”

• But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Time, Kindness, Flower

  'Love and Age' (1860)

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