"I Wonder"
Poems and Ballads (1866-89), The Triumph of Time
Context: The loves and hours of the life of a man,
They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.
Hours that rejoice and regret for a span,
Born with a man's breath, mortal as he;
Loves that are lost ere they come to birth,
Weeds of the wave, without fruit upon earth.
I lose what I long for, save what I can,
My love, my love, and no love for me!
“Nothing is so beautiful as Spring—
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush”
" Spring http://www.bartleby.com/122/9.html", stanza 1
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
Context: Nothing is so beautiful as Spring—
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
“Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 1011.
If I Can't
Song lyrics, Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003)
Quotes:, Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1909)
