“But when shall spring visit the mouldering urn?
Oh when shall it dawn on the night of the grave?”
James Beattie (1735–1803) Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher
The Hermit
“The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend
As a man and a woman that plight
Their troth in the warm spring night.”
"Spring", p. 61. Compare: "Oh, East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet", Rudyard Kipling.
Along the Trail (1898)
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Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) English poet and professor
Interview, The Paris Review No. 80, Spring 2000 http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/730/the-art-of-poetry-no-80-geoffrey-hill
“Her love was entire as a child’s, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring.”
Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd
Source: Far From The Madding Crowd
Chris Patten book East and West
Chris Patten, East and West: The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future, Pan Books, second edition, 1999, page 19.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest
The Divine Milieu, p. 128
The Divine Milieu (1960)
“In the mountains a night of rain,
And above the trees a hundred springs.”
Wang Wei (699–759) a Tang dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman
As quoted in Lin Yutang's My Country and My People (1936), p. 247
Rudyard Kipling The Ballad of East and West
The Ballad of East and West (1889).
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Context: Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, border, nor breed, nor birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Emerald Ring — a Superstition from The London Literary Gazette (28th December 1822) Fragments in Rhyme XI
The Improvisatrice (1824)