Age Quote by William Shakespeare

Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“No, thou art come too late, Empedocles! And the world hath the day, and must break thee, Not thou the world. With men thou…

— Matthew Arnold

“If thou art worn and hard beset, With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget; If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“When you are old, at evening candle-lit beside the fire bending to your wool, read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ this praise…

— Pierre de Ronsard

My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's…

— William Shakespeare

“That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against…

— William Shakespeare

“Belatedly I loved thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new, belatedly I loved thee. For see, thou wast within and I was without,…

— St. Augustine of Hippo

And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,…

— William Shakespeare

Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our sins, not…

— Peter Abelard