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"Spirits of the Dead" was first titled "Visits of the Dead" when it was published in the 1827 collection Tamerlane and Other Poems. The title was changed for the 1829 collection Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. The poem follows a dialogue between a dead speaker and a person visiting his grave. The spirit tells the person that those who ...
Pages in category "Quotations from literature" The following 191 pages are in this category, out of 191 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Be as true to each other as this dial is to the sun. Begone about Thy business. Come along and grow old with me; the best is yet to be. [1]Hours fly, Flowers die.
Family quotes from famous people. 11. “In America, there are two classes of travel—first class and with children.” —Robert Benchley (July 1934) 12. “There is no such thing as fun for the ...
Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty: 1842 The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale 1800 "'Tis not for the unfeeling, the falsely refined" Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty: 1815 To the Cuckoo 1802 "O Blithe New-comer! I have heard," Poems of the Imagination. 1807 She was a phantom of delight 1803 ":She was a phantom of ...
Horace, Ars Poetica: poetry must be dulce et utile, i.e., both enjoyable and instructive. dulce periculum: danger is sweet: Horace, Odes, 3 25, 16. Motto of the Scottish clan MacAulay. dulcius ex asperis: sweeter after difficulties: Motto of the Scottish clan Fergusson. [9] dum cresco spero: I hope when I grow: Motto of The Ravensbourne School.
This verse, written by Pindar, [21] was used on the reverse of the winners' medals for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Μέτρον ἄριστον. Métron áriston. "Moderation is best" On occasions where neither too much nor too little is a good choice, as when eating or celebrating. Cleobulus, according to Diogenes Laërtius. [22]
The verse orþanc enta geweorc in Maxims II and similar phrases in The Ruin inspired J.R.R. Tolkien the names of the tower Orthanc and the tree-men Ents in The Lord of the Rings. [14] The Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger suggests that the form of the "Maxims" poems influenced a verse recited by the Ent Treebeard in Book III, chapter iv of The Two ...