Farewell! if ever fondest Prayer (1808).
“My bark is wafted to the strand
By breath Divine;
And on the helm there rests a hand
Other than mine.”
Henry Alford (1810–1871) English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 280.
Matthew Lewis (writer) (1775–1818) English novelist and dramatist
"The Orphan's Prayer", line 29; cited from Titus Strong (ed.) The Common Reader (Greenfield, Mass.: Denio & Phelps, 1819) p. 174.
“One should herd the entire intelligentsia into a mine and then blow it sky-high.”
Heinrich Müller (1900–1945) German police official and head of the Gestapo
Quoted in The Third Reich: A New History (2001) - Page 191
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
The Castle-builder.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Robert Hughes (1938–2012) Australian critic, historian, writer
Things I Didn't Know (2006)
“The air is full of farewells to the dying,
And mournings for the dead.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Resignation
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) American romantic poet and journalist
A Walk At Sunset http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page33, st. 2 (1821)
“I read his awful name, emblazon'd high
With golden letters on th' illumin'd sky.”
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) English author
Poems (1773), "An Address to the Deity", p. 128.
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer
Theodric : A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825), To the Rainbow
Context: p>Can all that optics teach, unfold
Thy form to please me so,
As when I dreamt of gems and gold
Hid in thy radiant bow?When Science from Creation's face
Enchantment's veil withdraws,
What lovely visions yield their place
To cold material laws! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams,
But words of the Most High,
Have told why first thy robe of beams
Was woven in the sky.</p
