Anne Brontë book Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), A Prayer (1844)
No. 7
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)
Anne Brontë book Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), A Prayer (1844)
“O glory of commanding! O vain thirst
Of that same empty nothing we call fame!”
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Stanzas 94–95 (tr. Richard Fanshawe); the Old Man of Restelo.
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto IV
Context: But an old man of venerable look
(Standing upon the shore amongst the crowds)
His eyes fixed upon us (on ship-board), shook
His head three times, overcast with sorrow's clouds:
And (straining his voice more, than well could brook
His aged lungs: it rattled in our shrouds)
Out of a science, practice did attest,
Let fly these words from an oraculous breast:O glory of commanding! O vain thirst
Of that same empty nothing we call fame!
“She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer,
Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!”
George Meredith (1828–1909) British novelist and poet of the Victorian era
Love in the Valley http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/love_valley.htm, st. 2 (1883).
Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal
<p>Ô toi, le plus savant et le plus beau des Anges,<br>Dieu trahi par le sort et privé de louanges,</p><p>Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!</p><p>Ô Prince de l'exil, à qui l'on a fait tort<br>Et qui, vaincu, toujours te redresses plus fort,</p><p>Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!</p><p>Toi qui sais tout, grand roi des choses souterraines,<br>Guérisseur familier des angoisses humaines,</p><p>Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!</p><p>Toi qui, même aux lépreux, aux parias maudits,<br>Enseignes par l'amour le goût du Paradis,</p><p>Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère! <br class="br">"Les Litanies de Satan" [Litanies of Satan] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Litanies_de_Satan <br class="br">Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)
“He had got a hurt
O' the inside, of a deadlier sort.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto III, line 309
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“Twas a little one-eyed, blinking sort o' place.”
Thomas Hardy book Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Phase the First: The Maiden, ch. I
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
“Think where man's glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
The Municipal Gallery Revisited http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1659/, st. 7 <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939) <br class="br">Variant: Think where man's glory most begins and ends. And say my glory was I had such friends. <br class="br">Context: You that would judge me, do not judge alone<br>This book or that, come to this hallowed place<br>Where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon;<br>Ireland's history in their lineaments trace;<br>Think where man's glory most begins and ends<br>And say my glory was I had such friends.
Mary Butts (1890–1937) Novelist
The Water Lily, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).