Thomas Kibble Hervey Quotes

“A Hebrew knelt in the dying light,
His eye was dim and cold,
The hairs on his brow were silver-white,
And his blood was thin and old.”

“Like ships, that sailed for sunny isles,
But never came to shore.”

“He stood beside a cottage lone
And listened to a lute,
One summer’s eve, when the breeze was gone,
And the nightingale was mute.”

“A love that took an early root,
And had an early doom.”

“The tomb of him who would have made
The world too glad and free.”

“Gayly we glide in the gaze of the world
With streamers afloat and with canvas unfurled,
All gladness and glory to wandering eyes,
Yet chartered by sorrow and freighted with sighs.”