Quotes by Poets - Page 43

There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: Hail to the morning! Come down to me my beautiful unknown.
Jessica Powers
The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I thank You God for this most amazing day for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.
E.E. Cummings
I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills.
Giacomo Leopardi
Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
Kahlil Gibran
Do not say "It is morning " and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore
Clay lies still but blood's a rover Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up lad: when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.
A.E. Housman
Always begin anew with the day just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
George E. Woodberry
Let us then be up and doing with a heart for any fate.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Now the frosty stars are gone: I have watched them one by one Fading on the shores of Dawn. Round and full the glorious sun Walks with level step the spray Through his vestibule of Day.
Bayard Taylor
Out of the scabbard of the night By God's hand drawn Flashes his shining sword of light And lo the dawn!
Frank Dempster Sherman
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
James Russell Lowell
Beware of desp'rate steps the darkest day lived till tomorrow will have pass'd away.
William Cowper
The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.
William Shakespeare
We sail at sunrise daily "outward bound."
Helen Hunt Jackson
Have hope. Though clouds environs now And gladness hides her face in scorn Put thou the shadow from thy brow- No night but hath its morn.
J. C. F. von Schiller
If your morals make you dreary depend on it they are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination - what's right and what's wrong what's good and what's bad.
Robert Frost
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars.
William Blake
Only that which does not teach which does not cry out which does not condescend which does not explain is irresistible.
William Butler Yeats
A truth that's told with bad intent - beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!
George Croly
The flea though he kill none he does all the harm he can.
John Donne
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin with a grin.
Ogden Nash
January grey is here Like a sexton by her grave February bears the bier March with grief doth howl and rave And April weeps - but O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
That orbed maiden with white fire laden Whom mortals call the moon.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Oh to be in England Now that April's there.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then if ever come perfect days Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune And over it softly her warm ear lays.
James Russell Lowell
Among the changing months May stands confest The sweetest and in fairest colors dressed.
James Thomson
Ah take the Cash and let the Credit go Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
Omar Khayyám
No shade no shine no butterflies no bees No fruits no flowers no leaves no birds November!
Thomas Hood
Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.
Thomas Tusser
As full of spirit as the month of May.
William Shakespeare
The ides of March are come.
William Shakespeare
October turned my maple's leaves to gold The most are gone now here and there one lingers Soon these will slip from out the twig's weak hold Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.
T. B. Aldrich
Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.
Robert Frost
Penny wise pound foolish.
Henry Burton
Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare
Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What the country really needs is a good five-cent nickle.
Franklin P. Adams
If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.
Maurice Baring
Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.
Ogden Nash
Let us be of good cheer however remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
James Russell Lowell
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
William Shakespeare
The worst is not sSo long as we can say "This is the worst."
William Shakespeare
The mind is its own place and in itself Can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.
John Milton
We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.
Charles Baudelaire
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The dreadful dead of dark midnight.
William Shakespeare
Tis mightiest in the mightiest it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown His sceptre shows the force of temporal power The attribute to awe and majesty Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings But mercy is above this sceptred sway It is enthroned in the hearts of kings It is an attribute to God himself And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
William Shakespeare
Tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
William Shakespeare
Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.
Edgar Allan Poe
Among the attributes of God although they are all equal mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
Miguel de Cervantes
A minority may be right and a majority is always wrong.
Henrik Ibsen
A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment.
W.S. Gilbert
The world is my country the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god the future of man is my heaven.
F. R. Scott
As vivacity is the gift of women gravity is that of men.
Joseph Addison
He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
Dorothy Parker
God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.
William Shakespeare
Women and elephants never forget.
Dorothy Parker