10 Quotes by Ebenezer Elliott

What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling.

Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands, O’er every hill that under heaven expands.

Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs’d Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.

Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend.

The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more.

Things of today? Deeds which are harvest for Eternity!

Tis toil’s reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur’d thrush.

If’t were not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live.

The streams, rejoiced that winter’s work is done, Talk of to-morrow’s cowslips as they run.