"Again the violet of our early days Drinks……" — Ebenezer Elliott
"Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze."
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9 Quotes by Ebenezer Elliott
Ebenezer Elliott has 9 quotes on this site.
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Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou…
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The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.
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Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands, O'er every hill that under heaven expands.
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Things of today? Deeds which are harvest for Eternity!
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Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past…
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Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend
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Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.
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What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he…
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More Azure Quotes
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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot…
— Cecil Beaton
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It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he…
— Alfred the Great
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation,…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.
— George R. R. Martin
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When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set…
— Joseph Rodman Drake
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Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The…
— Unknown Author
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When your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock…
— John O'Donohue
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To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans…
— James Lovelock
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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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