Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
character men he-man
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
peace archer moon
Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.
men mind language
Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
age action life-is
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.
book men library
Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
father son blessing
The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.
men good-man
'T is impious in a good man to be sad.
stars night men
Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
nature men made
Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
prayer heaven ardent
Prayer ardent opens heaven.
daughter night mad
It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
beautiful sweet gay
Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!
gold pearls necks
What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
dignity ends boast
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.