Winthrop Mackworth Praed Quotes

Winthrop Mackworth Praed —typically written as W. Mackworth Praed—was an English politician and poet. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. July 1802 – 15. July 1839
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Famous Winthrop Mackworth Praed Quotes

“She was our queen, our rose, our star;
And then she danced—O Heaven, her dancing!”

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"The Belle of the Ball" in The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (published 1860) p. 139.

“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.”

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"Twenty-eight and Twenty-nine" in The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (published 1860) p. 212.

“I remember, I remember
How my childhood fleeted by,—
The mirth of its December
And the warmth of its July.”

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"I remember, I remember" in The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (published 1860) p. 248. Compare: " I remember, I remember / The house where I was born", Thomas Hood, I remember, I remember.

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