“The little cares that fretted me,
I lost them yesterday
Among the fields above the sea,
Among the winds at play.”
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English poet, author 1806–1861Related quotes
Come ne l'alto mar legno talora,
Che da duo venti sia percosso e vinto,
Ch'ora uno inanzi l'ha mandato, ed ora
Un altro al primo termine respinto,
E l'han girato da poppa e da prora.
Canto XXI, stanza 53 (tr. D. R. Slavitt)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
"Sonnet II" in Scribner's Monthly Vol. IX (November 1874 - April 1875), p. 359.
“I understand the world solely as a field for cultural competition among the peoples.”
Quoted in Peyo Yavorov, Complete Works, vol. 2 (Sofia, 1977), p. 13
“Gone, lost, scattered to the four winds. It still surprises me
how little now remains”
"A Speech at the Lost-and-Found"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Could Have (1972)
Context: Gone, lost, scattered to the four winds. It still surprises me
how little now remains, one first person sing., temporarily
declined in human form, just now making such a fuss
about a blue umbrella left yesterday on a bus.
All the Diamonds in the World, Track 1
Salt, Sun and Time (1974)
“A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.”
On Dreams
"Carric-thura", p. 147
The Poems of Ossian
“All ceased and I abandoned myself, Leaving my cares forgotten among the lilies.”
I abandoned and forgot myself, laying my face on my Beloved; all things ceased; I went out from myself, leaving my cares forgotten among the lilies.
Variant translation by Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez (1991)
Dark Night of the Soul
Context: I remained, lost in oblivion; My face I reclined on the Beloved.
All ceased and I abandoned myself, Leaving my cares forgotten among the lilies.