William Watson quotes
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“April, April Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears.”
-- William WatsonSource : Poems (1905) vol. 1, "Song"
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“The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent.”
-- William WatsonSource : William Watson (1899). “The Collected Poems of William Watson”
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“God, eldest of Poets.”
-- William WatsonSource : "England, my England" in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 605-609), 1922.
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“Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.”
-- William WatsonSource : Sir William Watson, John Alfred Spender (1905). “The Poems of William Watson”
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“Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest.”
-- William WatsonSource : William Watson (1936). “The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935”
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“Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.”
-- William WatsonSource : William Watson (1892). “Poems”
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“Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.”
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“Too long, that some may rest, tired millions toil unblest.”
-- William WatsonSource : William Watson (1899). “The Collected Poems of William Watson”
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“In this world with starry dome,Floored with gemlike plains and seas,Shall I never feel at home,Never wholly be at ease?”
-- William WatsonSource : Sir William Watson, John Alfred Spender (1905). “The Poems of William Watson”
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“She is not old, she is not young, The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue. The haggard cheek, the hungering eye, The poisoned words that wildly fly, The famished face, the fevered hand, Who slights the worthiest in the land, Sneers at the just, contemns the brave, And blackens goodness in its grave.”
-- William WatsonSource : William Watson (1909). “New Poems”
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“And though circuitous and obscureThe feet of Nemesis how sure!”
-- William WatsonSource : William Watson (1899). “The Collected Poems of William Watson”
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“A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new.”
-- William WatsonSource : Sir William Watson, John Alfred Spender (1905). “The Poems of William Watson”
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“Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.”
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“We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing.”
-- William WatsonSource : William Watson (1936). “The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935”
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“Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth, Wrought deadlier ill than ages can undo.”
-- William WatsonSource : William Watson (1936). “The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935”
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“Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.”
-- William WatsonSource : William Watson (1917). “Retrogression: and other poems”
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“He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n; and wrote "The Bridge of Sighs"; And on it crossed to immortality.”
-- William WatsonSource : William Watson, “Thomas Hood”
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“Best they honor thee Who honor in thee only what is best.”
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“On from room to room I stray,Yet mine Host can ne'er espy,And I know not to this day,Whether guest or captive I.”
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“The after-silence, when the feast is o'er,And void the places where the minstrels stood,Differs in nought from what hath been before,And is nor ill nor good.”
-- William WatsonSource : William Watson (1936). “The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935”
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“Fiat justitia et ruant coeli. Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall. See Ferdinand I 320:1.”
-- William WatsonSource : 1602 A Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions Concerning Religion and State. This was an influential reworking of Ferdinand I's motto. See Ferdinand I 320:1.
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“His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.”
-- William WatsonSource : William Watson, “Epigrams”
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“O ye by wandering tempest sown 'Neath every alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown That wafted you afar! For ye are still her ancient seed On younger soil let fall— Children of Britain's island-breed, To whom the Mother in her need Perchance may one day call.”
-- William WatsonSource : William Watson, “England And Her Colonies”
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“Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.”
-- William WatsonSource : William Watson (1936). “The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935”
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