Age Quote by Gerald Massey

In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed.

— Gerald Massey

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest…

— Lord Byron

And fairy month of waking mirth From whom our joys ensue Thou early gladder of the earth Thrice welcome here anew With thee the…

— John Clare

(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;) And go along with you ere you lose…

— Robert Frost

“The whiles some one did chaunt this louely lay; Ah see, who so faire thing doest faine to see, In springing flowre the image…

— Edmund Spenser

“Ah Sun-flower! weary of time, Who countest the steps of the Sun: Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done.…

— William Blake

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands,…

— Juvenal

“...is a pale desert of gigantic water-lilies. They sigh one unto the other in that solitude. And stretch towards the heaven their long and…

— Edgar Allan Poe

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through…

— Mortimer Collins

So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life, the leaf, the bud, the flower; No more doth flourish after first decay,…

— Edmund Spenser

Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty…

— Walter de La Mare