
“Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.”
Reported in Julia B. Hoitt, Excellent Quotations for Home and School (1890), p. 115.
II. 1. lines 49-52
The Bard (1757)
“Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.”
Reported in Julia B. Hoitt, Excellent Quotations for Home and School (1890), p. 115.
“The harlot's cry from street to street
Shall weave old England's winding sheet.”
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 115
“Life's warp of Heaven and woof of Hell.”
Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 75.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)
“Weave the wind. I have no ghosts,
An old man in a draughty house
Under a windy knob.”
"Gerontion"
Poems (1920)
"Written at Mauve Garden: Pine Wind Terrace" (tr. Y. N. Chang and Lewis C. Walmsley), in Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, eds. Wu-chi Liu and Irving Yucheng Lo (1975), p. 477; also in The Luminous Landscape: Chinese Art and Poetry, ed. Richard Lewis (1981), p. 57.
Essay on the Principle of Population (1798; rev. through 1826)
“The winds gives me
Enough fallen leaves
To make a fire”
Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf : Zen Poems of Ryokan (1993)
“A Lady that was drown'd at Sea, and had a wave for her Winding sheet.”
Bayes, Act IV, sc, i
The Rehearsal (1671)