“Here's the lily, here the rose
Her full chalice shall disclose;
Here's narcissus wet with dew,
Windflower and the violet blue.
Wear the garland I have made;
Crowned with it, put pride away;
For the wreath that blooms must fade;
Thou thyself must fade some day, Rhodocleia.”
"The Garland", from Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches.
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Maurice Baring 2
English writer 1874–1945Related quotes

“The garlands fade, the vows are worn away;
So dies her love, and so my hopes decay.”
Autumn, line 70.
Pastorals (1709)

“Tis the last rose of Summer,
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone.”
The Last Rose of Summer, st. 1.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

“So here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think wilt thou let it
Slip useless away.”
Today http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/416.html (1840).
1840s

The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)

Assim como a bonina, que cortada
Antes do tempo foi, cândida e bela,
Sendo das mãos lascivas maltratada
Da menina que a trouxe na capela,
O cheiro traz perdido e a cor murchada:
Tal está morta a pálida donzela,
Secas do rosto as rosas, e perdida
A branca e viva cor, co'a doce vida.
Stanza 134 (tr. William Julius Mickle)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto III

“At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 361.