Thee Quotes - Page 39

• Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.

  Victor Hugo

  Hate, Ignorance, Blood

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.760, Wordsworth Editions

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• Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sweet, Heart, Autumn

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.13

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• Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.

  Thomas Hood

  Sweet, Morning, Father

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.299, Delphi Classics

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• Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sweet, Song, Eye

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• O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christmas, Stars, Lying

  Phillips Brooks, “O Little Town Of Bethlehem”

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• Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.

  Robert Burns

  Grieving, Squad, May

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• Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.

  Robert Burns

  Song, Sweet, Rivers

  'Afton Water' (1792)

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• To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.

  William Shenstone

  Art, Humble, Cards

  William Shenstone, David Mallet (1822). “The Poems of William Shenstone ...”, p.154

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• If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.

  John Dryden

  Winning, Thinking, Lovely

  John Dryden (1767). “The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations ...”, p.219

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• Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh. / For without Thee I dare not die.

  John Keble

  Night, Abiding, Dare

  John Keble (1866). “The Christian Year ... [By John Keble.] Hundredth Edition”, p.5, Ccel

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• Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye From thee takes timely warning. Nor trusts the gorgeous sky.

  John Keble

  Morning, Eye, Pride

  John Keble (1874). “The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the Year”, p.189

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• Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.

  Charles Kingsley

  Hymns, Long, Singing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writer" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 456, 1895.

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• Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Song, Heart

  George Herbert, Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1855). “The Poetical Works of G. H. With a Memoir of the Author, and Notes, by ... R. A. Willmott”, p.65

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• Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.

  George Herbert

  Lying

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.347

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• Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
  When once it is within thee; but before
  Mayst rule it, as thou list: and pour the shame,
  Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor.
  It is most just to throw that on the ground,
  Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.

  George Herbert

  Glasses, Lists, Shame

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.4

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• Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.

  William Cowper

  Giving, Contentment, Rich

  William Cowper (1854). “Poetical works of William Cowper (with selections from the works of Robert Lloyd [and others]) ed. by R. Bell”, p.58

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• England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

  William Cowper

  Country, Mind, May

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham, William Hayley (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence”, p.369

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• How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

  William Cowper

  Eden, Evil, Tree

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• Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Sky, Spirit

  Alexander Pope (1715). “The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-comical Poem : in Five Canto's”, p.3

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• O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

  John Milton

  Loss, Sight, Enemy

  1671 Samson Agonistes, l.67-79.

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• Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!

  John Milton

  Light, Essence, Heaven

  John Milton, Sarah Siddons (1822). “The Story of Our First Parents: Selected from Milton's Paradise Lost: for the Use of Young Persons”, p.43

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• Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.

  John Milton

  Song, Sweet, Bird

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• If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

  John Milton

  Men, Weakness, Wickedness

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.125

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• Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

  John Heywood

  Pleasure

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.32

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• Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.

  John Keats

  Night, Voice, Bird

  "Ode to a Nightingale" l. 61 (1820)

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