Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) United States poet, novelist and travel writer
"Gabriel" in The Century : A Popular Quarterly, Volume 18 (1874), p. 617.
The warning, not yet the sign, of woe!
That men arise
And look about them with wakened eyes,
Behold on their garments the dust and slime,
Refrain, forbear,
Accept the weight of a nobler care
And take reproach from the fallen time!
"Gabriel" in The Century : A Popular Quarterly, Volume 18 (1874), p. 617.
Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) United States poet, novelist and travel writer
"Gabriel" in The Century : A Popular Quarterly, Volume 18 (1874), p. 617.
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Grown Old in Love
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)
William Morris book A Dream of John Ball
Source: A Dream of John Ball (1886), Ch. 4: The Voice of John Ball
Context: Forsooth, brothers, fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell: fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death: and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them, and the life that is in it, that shall live on and on for ever, and each one of you part of it, while many a man's life upon the earth from the earth shall wane.
Therefore, I bid you not dwell in hell but in heaven, or while ye must, upon earth, which is a part of heaven, and forsooth no foul part.
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government (1921) <!-- p. 23 -->
“Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.”
William Jones (1746–1794) Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India
Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) Compare: "Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix", Translation of lines quoted by Edward Coke.
“If it rains, let it rain, if the wind blows, let it blow.”
Ikkyu (1394–1481) Japanese Buddhist monk
As quoted in The Essence of Zen : Zen Buddhism for Every Day and Every Moment (2002) by Mark Levon Byrne, p. 28.
Context: From the world of passions returning to the world of passions:
There is a moment's pause.
If it rains, let it rain, if the wind blows, let it blow.