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
rain rivers water
A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.
blood castes
There is no caste in blood.
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.
freedom men deliverance
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.
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.
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.
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.
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.