Thomas Hood (1799–1845) British writer
Home at last; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:
And as the last slow sudden drops are shed
From sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,
So singly flagged the pulses of each heart.”
Nuptial Sleep.
The House of Life (1870—1881)
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Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, st. 1. <br class="br"> Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)
“And they are gone: ay, ages long ago
These lovers fled away into the storm.”
John Keats The Eve of St. Agnes
Stanza 42
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes
“While memory lasts and pulses beat,
The thought of Dido shall be sweet.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IV, p. 124
“Why do men hug words to their hearts after the living truth has long since fled from them?”
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) English theologian
Preface, p. 18, sentence 5.
The Christian Agnostic (1965)
