Winthrop Mackworth Praed Quotes

• Still and pale
  Thou movest in thy silver veil,
  Queen of the night! the filmy shroud
  Of many a mild, transparent cloud
  Hides, yet adorns thee.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Queens, Moon, Night

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1859). “The poetical works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.10

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• And oh! I shall find how, day by day, All thoughts and things look older; How the laugh of pleasure grows less gay, And the heart of friendship colder.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Heart, Gay, Laughing

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1852). “Lillian: And Other Poems”, p.214

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• Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Years, Weather, Joy

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1852). “Lillian: And Other Poems”, p.64

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• Hail, blest Confusion! here are met
  All tongues, and times, and faces;
  The Lancers flirt with Juliet,
  The Brahmin talks of races.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Flirting, Race, Confusion

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1859). “The poetical works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.209

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• The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow; And the lean Levite went to sleep, And dreamed of tasting pork to-morrow.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Sleep, Sorrow, Saving

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1857). “The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.133

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• I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.

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  Song, Thinking, Long

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1854). “The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.264

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• I remember, I remember how my childhood fleeted by. The mirth of its December, and the warmth of its July.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  July, Childhood, Mirth

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1852). “Lillian: And Other Poems”, p.248

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• Apollo has peeped through the shutter,
  And awaken'd the witty and fair;
  The boarding-school belle's in a flutter,
  The twopenny post's in despair;
  The breath of the morning is flinging
  A magic on blossom and spray,
  And cockneys and sparrows are singing
  In chorus on Valentine's day.

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  Witty, Morning, Valentine

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• I think while zealots fast and frown,
  And fight for two or seven,
  That there are fifty roads to town,
  And rather more to Heaven.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Fighting, Thinking, Two

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1854). “The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.266

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• Twelve years ago I made a mock
  Of filthy trades and traffics;
  I considered what they meant by stock;
  I wrote delightful sapphics;
  I knew the streets of Rome and Troy,
  I supped with fates and Fairies--
  Twelve years ago I was a boy,
  A happy boy at Drury's.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Education, Fate, Boys

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• Of science and logic he chatters,
  As fine and as fast as he can;
  Though I am no judge of such matters,
  I'm sure he's a talented man.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Science, Men, Judging

  'The Talented Man'

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• Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below
  Man can receive, or Providence bestow.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Women, Men, Providence

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1886). “Poems”

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