Edwin Arnold
Edwin Arnold
Sir Edwin Arnold KCIE CSIwas an English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work The Light of Asia...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 June 1832
blue white light
Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.
life strong noble
Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
deeds crystals charity
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.
future wells
That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
fate
Yet who shall shut out Fate?
sympathy blood flesh
Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.
men sea driftwood
Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.
love beautiful lonely
Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.
wise eye men
The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.
gold royal coats
The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.
rain rivers water
A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.
mother poet knows
Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers
dream spiritual forever
Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birth-less and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever. Death hath not touched it all, dead though the house of it seems!
sleep dying death-and-dying
Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.