"Taliesin 1952"
Song at the Year's Turning (1955)
Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603) Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until 1603
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury (1588)
Context: I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm.
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
No. 1, "Walking With God"
Olney Hymns (1779)
“Splendid if I overcome
My earthy passion,
But if I succeed not,
Still I have known happiness!”
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
Arthur Kenney (1776–1855) Irish dean
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 446.
Jack Osbourne (1985) Son of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne
MTV.com Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery
“It is long since I have known the sweets of leisure and repose; since I have known in fine, that indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing, and being nothing.”
Olim nescio quid sit otium quid quies, quid denique illud iners quidem, iucundum tamen nihil agere nihil esse.
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
Letter 9, 1.
Letters, Book VIII
Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American poet
Source: The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems (1913), The Crowning Hour, II
Context: p>If this is a dream, then perhaps our dreaming
Can touch life's height to a finer fire:
Who knows but the heavens and all their seeming
Were made by the heart's desire?One thing shines clear in the heart's sweet reason,
One lightning over the chasm runs —
That to turn from love is the world's one treason
That darkens all the suns.</p
