“Ever let the Fancy roam,
Pleasure never is at home.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
Actually the opening lines of Keats's "Fancy" (1820).
Misattributed
To a Skylark, st. 2 (1825).
“Ever let the Fancy roam,
Pleasure never is at home.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
Actually the opening lines of Keats's "Fancy" (1820).
Misattributed
“Ever let the Fancy roam,
Pleasure never is at home.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
"Fancy", l. 1
Poems (1820)
Marvin Gaye (1939–1984) American singer-songwriter and musician
Wherever I Lay My Hat, co-written with Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield.
Song lyrics, That Stubborn Kinda Fellow (1962)
“Room to roam, but only one home
For all the world to win.”
George MacDonald book Phantastes
Phantastes (1858)
Context: Thou goest thine, and I go mine —
Many ways we wend;
Many days, and many ways,
Ending in one end.
Many a wrong, and its curing song;
Many a road, and many an inn;
Room to roam, but only one home
For all the world to win.
Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian
Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 23
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
The Dream of Home.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit..”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
Context: The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven,
The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
“Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first, best country ever is, at home.”
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 73.
“Sadly I roam,
Still longing for de old plantation,
And for de old folks at home.”
Stephen Foster (1826–1864) American songwriter
Old Folks at Home