
Variant: Thou art coming to a King,
large petitions with thee bring,
for His grace and pow'r are such
none can ever ask too much.
To Night (1821), st. 5
Variant: Thou art coming to a King,
large petitions with thee bring,
for His grace and pow'r are such
none can ever ask too much.
“Is life a boon?
If so it must befall
That death when e're he call
Must call too soon.”
The Yeomen of the Guard (1888)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 308.
Sermon in a Churchyard, st. 8 (1825)
(10th April 1824) Love in Absence
The London Literary Gazette, 1824
“O death, why art thou so long in coming?”
Attributed last words
Source: Frederic Rowland (1900). The Last Words (Real and Traditional) of Distinguished Men and Women. Troy, New York: C. A. Brewster & Co.
“I know not, I ask not, if guilt 's in that heart,
I but know that I love thee whatever thou art.”
Come, rest in this Bosom.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Tablet to ‘Him Who Will Be Made Manifest’