“The ivyed oaks dark shadow falls
Oft picking up with wondering gaze
Some little thing of other days
Saved from the wreck of time.”
The Shepherd's Calendar: "July" (second version) http://www.photoaspects.com/chesil/clare/july2.html
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English poet 1793–1864Related quotes
Swamp Thing (1983–1987)
“Natural heart’s ivy, Patience masks
Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.”
" Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray http://www.bartleby.com/122/46.html", lines 6-7
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“It is easier to pick it up fallen than not to let it fall. Let it fall and you will pick it up.”
Es más fácil levantar la caída que no dejarla caer. Déjala caer y la levantarás.
Voces (1943)
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)
“Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r
The moping owl does to the moon complain.”
St. 3
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
1850s, Autobiographical Sketch Written for Jesse W. Fell (1859)
Context: There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond "readin', writin', and cipherin' " to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all. I have not been to school since. The little advance I now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.
“Love means saying you’re sorry every day for some little thing or other.”
The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: In that film Love Story, there’s a line, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you’re sorry every day for some little thing or other.