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“Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.”
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George Arnold
Source : George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.123
#Beer Quotes
#Dry Quotes
#Golden Quotes
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“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.”
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George Arnold
Source : George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.81
#Summer Quotes
#Sleep Quotes
#Dark Quotes
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“I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!”
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George Arnold
Source : George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.30
#Growing Up Quotes
#Moon Quotes
#Simple Quotes
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“I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.”
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George Arnold
Source : George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.54
#Evil Quotes
#Done Quotes
#Earth Quotes
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“What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.”
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George Arnold
Source : George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.27
#Song Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Chiefs Quotes
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“The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.”
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George Arnold
Source : George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.45
#Destiny Quotes
#Glasses Quotes
#Life Is Quotes
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“I let my summer days pass idly on.”
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George Arnold
Source : George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.26
#Summer Quotes
#Summer Days Quotes
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“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!”
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George Arnold
Source : George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.60
#Sweet Quotes
#Lonely Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!”
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George Arnold
Source : George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.55
#Love Quotes
#Teaching Quotes
#Taught Quotes
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“Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. 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.”
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George Arnold
Source : George Arnold, “The Jolly Old Pedagogue”
#Happiness Quotes
#Eye Quotes
#Night Quotes
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“Life for the living, and rest for the dead!”
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George Arnold
Source : George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.37
#Death Quotes
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“O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.”
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George Arnold
Source : George Arnold (1867). “Poems Grave and Gay”, p.45
#Sweet Quotes
#Laughter Quotes
#Spring Quotes
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“The living need charity more than the dead.”
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George Arnold
Source : 'The Jolly Old Pedagogue'
#Needs Quotes
#Charity Quotes
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“But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!”
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George Arnold
Source : George Arnold, “Beer”
#Beer Quotes
#Loss Quotes
#Love Is Quotes
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“O'er hill and field October's glories fade; O'er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly; The brown leaves rustle down the forest glade, Where naked branches make a fitful shade, And the lost blooms of Autumn withered lie.”
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George Arnold
Source : George Arnold, “October”
#Lying Quotes
#Autumn Quotes
#Naked Quotes
