“This world has suns, but they are overcast;
This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;
Life still expects, and empty falls at last;
Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.”
"Hope"
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English poet 1793–1864Related quotes

“Sun is the reason
And the world it will bloom
‘Cause sun lights the sky
And the sun lights the moon”
Sun C79
Song lyrics, Buddha and the Chocolate Box (1974)

Quoted in "2009 Australia's second warmest year ever, according to Bureau of Meteorology figures" http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/australias-second-warmest-year-ever-according-to-bureau-of-meteorology-figures/story-e6frf7jo-1225816322149 in the Herald Sun, January 5, 2010.
2010
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart

The Forgotten One from The Keepsake, 1831 [Probably refers to Letitia’s little sister, Elizabeth]
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
BBC Radio 4 website 20 December 2010 http://web.archive.org/web/20100327045801/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/people/presenters/brian-hanrahan/

Source: The Rubaiyat (1120)

“The honors of this world, what are they
But puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?”
Act IV, scene iv.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)