Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
men wife soul
Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.
men sky soul
The soul of man was made to walk the skies.
sea safety miracle
The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
beautiful sweet gay
Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!
men dust long
Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!
nature left
Take God from nature, nothing great is left.
nature progress delight
Nature delights in progress; in advance.
time thrown
Time elaborately thrown away.
time mirrors assault
We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!
time loss bells
The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.
men mind language
Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
pain leisure wheels
Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!
prayer heaven path
Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.
stars night mines
Mine is the night, with all her stars.