John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Book II, ode xiv
Translations, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)
“Ah, Postumus! they fleet away,
Our years, nor piety one hour
Can win from wrinkles and decay,
And Death's indomitable power.”
Book II, ode xiv, line 1 (trans. John Conington)
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
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“in this short life
that only lasts ah hour
how much-how little-is
within our power.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American poet
Source: The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems (1913), The Crowning Hour, III
Context: p>As we go star-stilled in the mystic garden,
All the prose of this life run there to rhyme,
How eagerly then will the poor heart pardon
All of these hurts of Time!Ah, yes, in that hour of our souls dream-driven,
In that high, white hour, O my wild sea-bride,
The tears and the years will be all forgiven, …
And all be justified.</p
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Golden Violet - The Eastern King
The Golden Violet (1827)
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) British poet
Disaster; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare:
Oh, ever thus, from childhood’s hour,
I ’ve seen my fondest hopes decay;
I never loved a tree or flower
But ’t was the first to fade away.
- Thomas Moore, The Fire Worshippers, p. 26.
Boris Berman (1948) Russian/American musician
Prokofiev’s piano sonatas : a guide for the listener and the performer (2008), Conclusion
Luis de Góngora (1561–1627) Spanish Baroque lyric poet
Mal te perdonarán a ti las horas;
las horas que limando están los días,
los días que royendo están los años.
"De la brevedad engañosa de la vida", line 12, cited from J. M. Cohen (ed.) The Penguin Book of Spanish Verse (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962) p. 278. Translation from the same source.
“Zeal to do all that is in one's power is, in truth, a proof of piety.”
Julian (emperor) (331–363) Roman Emperor, philosopher and writer
As quoted in The Works of the Emperor Julian (1923) by Wilmer Cave France Wright, p. 311; also in The Paganism Reader (2004) edited by Chas S. Clifton, Graham Harvey, p. 26
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