Owen Meredith
Owen Meredith
Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton GCB GCSI GCIE PCwas an English statesman and poet. He served as Viceroy of India between 1876 and 1880, during which time Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India...
achieve barren goes harvest hope hopes life man regrets seeks wherever
The man who seeks one thing in life and but one May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets
genius sensitive talent words
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)
plain
One of the sublimest thing in the world is plain truth.
herself man moment sweet woman
Oh, moment of sweet peril, perilous sweet! When woman joins herself to man
disguise eyes honest pure shining soul sweet true
Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them