“None of all the magic hosts,
None remain but a few ghosts
Of timorous heart, to linger on
Weeping for lost Babylon.”
"Babylon"
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)
Context: Robin, and Red Riding Hood
Take together to the wood,
And Sir Galahad lies hid
In a cave with Captain Kidd.
None of all the magic hosts,
None remain but a few ghosts
Of timorous heart, to linger on
Weeping for lost Babylon.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Robert Graves 117
English poet and novelist 1895–1985Related quotes
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
Variant: Love all, trust a few.
Source: All's Well That Ends Well
“All men do the best they can. But none meet life honestly and few heroically.”
As quoted in Infidels and Heretics : An Agnostic's Anthology (1929) edited by Clarence Darrow and Wallace Rice, p. 206
“But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be;
Within that circle none durst walk but he.”
The Tempest, Prologue.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
1963, UN speech
Context: The task of building the peace lies with the leaders of every nation, large and small. For the great powers have no monopoly on conflict or ambition. The cold war is not the only expression of tension in this world — and the nuclear race is not the only arms race. Even little wars are dangerous in a nuclear world. The long labor of peace is an undertaking for every nation — and in this effort none of us can remain unaligned. To this goal none can be uncommitted.
E. Payne, trans., vol. 2, p. 230
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)
"The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)