
Poemː God
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 283.
Song; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Poemː God
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 283.
St. 8
Song: Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley/17889 (1821)
“And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?”
X, 31
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Context: Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?
Music, from The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 - With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan (1855).
“Oh! world of sweet phantoms, how precious thou art!
The past is perpetual youth to the heart.”
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom
Canto IV, stanza 39 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
The face bent over him like silver night
In long-remembered summers; that calm light
Of days which shine in firmaments of thought,
That past unchangeable, from change still wrought.
The Legend of Jubal (1869)
The Golden Violet - title poem - introduction
The Golden Violet (1827)