“And they are gone: ay, ages long ago
These lovers fled away into the storm.”
John Keats The Eve of St. Agnes
Stanza 42
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes
“though every friend be fled,
Lo! Envy waits, that lover of the dead.”
On the Death of the Earl of Cadogan.
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Lo! Envy waits, that lover of the dead." by Thomas Tickell?
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English poet and man of letters 1685–1740Related quotes
Stanza 9
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
“The living will envy the dead.”
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The attribution of this widely quoted remark about nuclear war to Khrushchev is disputed in Respectfully Quoted : A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) http://www.bartleby.com/73/1257.html. <br class="br">In Russia this quote is usually attributed to the translation of Treasure Island by Nikolay Chukovsky: "А те из вас, кто останется в живых, позавидуют мертвым!" ("Those of you who will be still alive will envy the dead", originally: "Them that die'll be the lucky ones"). http://www.chitaem-vmeste.ru/pages/material.php?article=89& <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">No instance of this statement, allegedly in reference to nuclear war, has been found in Khrushchev's writings or documented remarks, as indicated in Respectfully Quoted : A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) http://www.bartleby.com/73/1257.html. Herman Kahn used "the survivors [will] envy the dead" in his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War.
“Lo — a black line of birds in wavering thread
Bore him the greetings of the deathless dead!”
Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) American poet
The Cranes of Ibicus http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-cranes-of-ibicus/
“One day, when spring has gone and youth has fled,
The Maiden and the flowers will both be dead.”
Cao Xueqin book Dream of the Red Chamber
Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760), Chapter 27
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
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The Vow of the Peacock (1835)