Coventry Patmore
Coventry Patmore
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmorewas an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth23 July 1823
hatred world may
Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.
laughter gnats soul
If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?'
love-you soul done
Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!
too-much fruition moments
A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much.
dream sweet sunshine
The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.
flower moon water
I drew my bride, beneath the moon,Across my threshold; happy hour!But, ah, the walk that afternoonWe saw the water-flags in flower!
siege youth courtesy
Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!
eye shadow beloved
What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.
time stars sleep
Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod. The winter comes: the frozen rut Is bound with silver bars; the white drift heaps against the hut; and night is pierced with stars.
god mistake five-senses
Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.
love sweet book
Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.
love sunshine men
All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.
women vanity giving
The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function; and she gives herself to him who succeeds in convincing her that she, of all others, is best able to discharge it for him. A woman without this kind of "vanity" is a monster.
darkness blind one-thing
It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.