Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
morning heaven dew
Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.
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!
promise bud celestial
There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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!
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.
stars night mines
Mine is the night, with all her stars.
prayer heaven path
Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.
pain leisure wheels
Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!
reflection practise
They only babble who practise not reflection
learning thinking training
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
disappointment age youth
In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.