“While the arm is strong to strike and heave,
Let soul and arm give shape that will abide…”

The Legend of Jubal (1869)

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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880

Lis Wiehl (1961) American legal scholar

Source: Heart of Ice A Triple Threat Novel with April Henry (Thomas Nelson), p. 118

“Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

27 <br class="br"> The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915)

“Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,
Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.”

A.E. Housman book A Shropshire Lad

No. 48, st. 1.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“Arms! arms! my friends, with speed my arms supply,
'Tis our last hour, and summons us to die;
My arms!—in vain you hold me,—let me go—
Give, give me back this moment to the foe.
'Tis well—we will not tamely perish all,
But die revenged, and triumph in our fall.”

Christopher Pitt (1699–1748) English poet

Book II, line 899
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

“For serving thee an arm to arms addressed;
for singing thee a soul the Muses raise.”

Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet

Pera servir-vos, braço às armas feito,
Pera cantar-vos, mente às Musas dada.
Stanza 155, line 1–2 (tr. Richard Francis Burton)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto X