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
mother prayer earth
No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.
tears made sweetest
Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!
eye mind veils
Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind; Veil upon veil will lift but there must be Veil upon veil behind.
death soul firsts
For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.
deeds born ill
Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.
sympathy strong world
Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.
life wind voice
We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.
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.
fate
Yet who shall shut out Fate?
sympathy blood flesh
Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.
gold royal coats
The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.
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!