“Autumn wind rises, white clouds fly.
Grass and trees wither; geese go south.”
Emperor Wu of Han (-156–-87 BC) emperor Wu-Ti
The Autumn Wind 127 BC (translated by Arthur Waley), Dictionary of Quotations, Chambers: Edinburgh, U.K, 2005, p. 930
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The Jewish Cemetery at Newport, st. 2 (1858).
“Autumn wind rises, white clouds fly.
Grass and trees wither; geese go south.”
Emperor Wu of Han (-156–-87 BC) emperor Wu-Ti
The Autumn Wind 127 BC (translated by Arthur Waley), Dictionary of Quotations, Chambers: Edinburgh, U.K, 2005, p. 930
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Celia Thaxter (1835–1894) American writer
"Rockweeds" in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 21 (March 1868), p. 269.
Context: The barren island dreams in flowers, while blow
The south winds, drawing haze o'er sea and land;
Yet the great heart of ocean, throbbing slow,
Makes the frail blossoms vibrate where they stand;And hints of heavier pulses soon to shake
Its mighty breast when summer is no more,
And devastating waves sweep on and break,
And clasp with girdle white the iron shore.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
According to the Lady's Book of Flowers, 1842 , this is the centaury
Source: The London Literary Gazette, 1824
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet
Unity, § III
The Golden Hynde and Other Poems (1914)
Context: Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind,
One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea,
One in many, O broken and blind,
One as the waves are at one with the sea!
Ay! when life seems scattered apart,
Darkens, ends as a tale that is told,
One, we are one, O heart of my heart,
One, still one, while the world grows old.
Harold Monro (1879–1932) British poet
"Living", line 36, from Alida Monro (ed.) Collected Poems (London: Duckworth, [1933] 1970) p. 13.
Xuân Quỳnh (1942–1988) poet
"Sóng" (29-12-1967)
“Winds and waters keep
A hush more dead than any sleep.”
William Allingham (1824–1889) Irish man of letters and poet
Ruined Chapel; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).