Poets Quote by John Donne

“O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings; climb with me the steep,—…

— John Keats

“On another occasion, he opined, "But, if ever forgetful of her past and present glory, she shall cease to be 'the land of the…

— Charles River Editors

“Arcady, like Death its denizen with us, is all around us, if we – stalled beasts who want to be set forth – but…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

“WILLMORE: Nay, if we part so, let me die like a Bird upon a Bough, at the Sheriff's Charge. By Heaven, both the Indies…

— Aphra Behn

“Song Day, in melting purple dying, Blossoms, all around me sighing, Fragrance, from the lilies straying, Zephyr, with my ringlets playing, Ye but waken…

— Susan L. Rattiner

“Linger now with me, thou Beauty, On the sharp archaic shore. Surely 'tis a wastrel's duty And the gods could ask no more. If…

— Mervyn Peake

“But, without preaching, the truth may surely be borne in mind, that the bustle, and triumph, and laughter, and gaiety which Vanity Fair exhibits…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly…

— John Keats

“Ah lucklesse babe, borne vnder cruell starre, And in dead parents balefull ashes bred, Full litle weenest thou, what sorrowes are Left thee for…

— Edmund Spenser

“SWIFTLY walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave,-- Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Ah, Lalage! while life is ours, Hoard not thy beauty rose and white, But pluck the pretty fleeing flowers That deck our little path…

— Ernest Dowson