172 Quotes About English-poet

As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.

The lessons of prudence have charms, And slighted, may lead to distress; But the man whom benevolence warms Is an angel who lives but to bless.

I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.

And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.