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
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.
freedom men deliverance
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.
blood castes
There is no caste in blood.
passion pieces proud
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.
future wells
That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
rain rivers water
A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.
blue white light
Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.
law wells obedient
What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
sleep dying death-and-dying
Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.
spring nuts almonds
Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.
man
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
mother prayer earth
No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.
tears made sweetest
Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!
soldier dying lovers
One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.