George Arnold
George Arnold
effective hence impressive mode poetry saying simply widely
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence their importance.
learn life rest
Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life for the living, and rest for the dead!
bed dead happy jolly living night sang though
And he sang every night as he went to bed. 'Let us be happy down here below: the living should live, though the dead be dead.' Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.
summer sleep dark
A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies silent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap.
destiny glasses life-is
The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.
summer summer-days
I let my summer days pass idly on.
lonely sweet men
Ah, many a one has started forth with hope and purpose high; Has fought throughout a weary life, and passed all pleasure by; Has burst all flowery chains by which men aye have been enthralled; Has been stone-deaf to voices sweet, that softly, sadly called; Has scorned the flashing goblet with the bubbles on its brim; Has turned his back on jewelled hands that madly beckoned him; Has, in a word, condemned himself to follow out his plan By stern and lonely labor--and has died, a conquered man!