Lewis Morris (poet) Quotes

Sir Lewis Morris was a Welsh academic and politician. He was also a popular poet of the Anglo-Welsh school. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. January 1833 – 12. November 1907
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Famous Lewis Morris (poet) Quotes

“The world still needs
Its champion as of old, and finds him still.”

The Epic of Hades (1877), "Herakles".

“The wind that sighs before the dawn
Chases the gloom of night,
The curtains of the East are drawn,
And suddenly—'t is light.”

Le Vent de l'Esprit, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The love of the Right, tho' cast down, the hate of victorious Ill,
All are sparks from the central fire of a boundless beneficent will.”

A new Orphic Hymn, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The passionate love of Right, the burning hate of Wrong.”

The Diamond Jubilee, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The victories of Right
Are born of strife.
There were no Day were there no Night,
Nor, without dying, Life.”

The Ode of Evil, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Lewis Morris (poet) Quotes

“Toil is the law of life and its best fruit.”

The Ode of perfect Years, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Rest springs from strife and dissonant chords beget
Divinest harmonies.”

Love's Suicide, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Love for Love
And Blood for Blood—the simple golden rule
Taught by the elder gods.”

Book I: Tartarus. "Clytemnestra", line125; p. 62.
The Epic of Hades (1877)

“What power was this—chance, will you say? But chance, what else can it mean
Than the hidden Cause of things by human reason unseen?”

"Evensong", line 25, in Songs of Two Worlds: Third series (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1875), p. 23.

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