18 Quotes by William Dunbar

I was in New Orleans during the first of those two. More than half of the town was stripped of its covering, many houses thrown down in town and country,

Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.

Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.

Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.

London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.

Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor Mortis conturbat me.* * Fear of Death troubles me.

Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent’s violent requiem.