“Since then, at an uncertain hour,
That agony returns:
And till my ghastly tale is told,
This heart within me burns.”
Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834Related quotes
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Never Seek to Tell
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)
“Not till the hours of light return
All we have built do we discern.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
"Morality" (1852), lines 7-12
Context: With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day and wish’t were done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built do we discern.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
" The Presence of Love http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Presence_Love.html" (1807), lines 1-4.
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer
Stanza 4 <br class="br"> Ye Mariners of England http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Campbell/ye%20mariners_of_england.htm (1800)
“Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.”
Nostrum est<br/>quod vivis, cinis et manes et fabula fies.<br/>vive memor leti, fugit hora.
Persius (34–62) ancient latin poet
Nostrum est
quod vivis, cinis et manes et fabula fies.
vive memor leti, fugit hora.
Satire V, line 151.
The Satires
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(27th September 1823) Extracts from my Pocket Book. Song
The London Literary Gazette, 1823
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
