“Calm on the bosom of thy God,
Fair spirit, rest thee now!”
Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) English poet
The Siege of Valencia (1823), scene ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Reconsecrated (15 May 1850), l. 1-4.
Ballads for the Times (1851)
“Calm on the bosom of thy God,
Fair spirit, rest thee now!”
Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) English poet
The Siege of Valencia (1823), scene ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
A Night in May
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
James Macpherson (1736–1796) Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician
"The Songs of Selma"
The Poems of Ossian
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), XI : The Practical Problem
Context: My conduct must be the best proof, the moral proof, of my supreme desire; and if I do not end by convincing myself, within the bounds of the ultimate and irremediable uncertainty of the truth of what I hope for, it is because my conduct is not sufficiently pure. Virtue, therefore, is not based upon dogma, but dogma upon virtue, and it is not faith that creates martyrs but martyrs who create faith. There is no security or repose — so far as security and repose are obtainable in this life, so essentially insecure and unreposeful — save in conduct that is passionately good.
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
Though Patton commissioned this prayer and ordered 250,000 copies of it printed with his signature, it was actually composed by Chief Chaplain James H. O'Neill http://www.pattonhq.com/prayer.html Review of the News (6 October 1971) <br class="br">Misattributed
Phillips Brooks (1835–1893) American clergyman and author
O little Town of Bethlehem (1868), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Context: p>O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by;Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee to-night.</p