“Vanquished in life, his death
By beauty made amends:
The passing of his breath
Won his defeated ends.”
By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross (1895)
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English poet 1867–1902Related quotes

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 66.

Örn Úlfar
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland

“There was silence deep as death,
And the boldest held his breath,
For a time.”
Battle of the Baltic (1805), st. 2 http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=3042&poem=17248; a poem about the Battle of Copenhagen
Evolution (1895; 1909)
Context: Thus life by life and love by love
We passed through the cycles strange,
And breath by breath and death by death
We followed the chain of change.
Till there came a time in the law of life
When o’er the nursing sod,
The shadows broke and soul awoke
In a strange, dim dream of God.
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Three, Free Will, p. 106

[Baqir Sharīf al-Qurashi, The life of Imam Muhammad al-Jawad, Wonderful Maxims and Arts, 2005]

“Many a bard's untimely death
Lends unto his verses breath”
"To a Poet Who Died Young" in Second April (1921), p. 52
Context: Many a bard's untimely death
Lends unto his verses breath;
Here's a song was never sung:
Growing old is dying young.