Robert Southwell: Turning

Robert Southwell was English Jesuit. Explore interesting quotes on turning.
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“Times go by turns and chances change by course,
From foul to fair, from better hap to worse.”

Robert Southwell

Source: Times Go by Turns, Line 5; p. 47.

Change , Chance , Time

“Time wears all his locks before,
Take thy hold upon his forehead;
When he flies he turns no more,
And behind his scalp is naked.
Works adjourn'd have many stays,
Long demurs breed new delays.”

Robert Southwell

"Loss in Delay", line 13; p. 60.

Time

“The saddest birds a season find to sing,
The roughest storm a calm may soon allay;
Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,
That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall.”

Robert Southwell

Source: Times Go by Turns, Line 15; p. 47.

Men , God , Fear , Hope

“In Aman's pomp poor Mardocheus wept,
Yet God did turn his fate upon his foe;
The Lazar pined while Dives' feast was kept,
Yet he to heaven, to hell did Dives go.
We trample grass and prize the flowers of May,
Yet grass is green when flowers do fade away.”

Robert Southwell

"Scorn not the Least", line 19; p. 54.

God , Fate , Flowers , Hell