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Edmund Gosse
13 quotes
“A sheep in sheep's clothing.”
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Of T. Sturge Moore, c. 1906
Also quoted by: Thomas Sturge Moore, Winston Churchill
“Canst thou not wait for Love one flying hour O heart of little faith?”
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The high-voiced children trebled clear and cold.”
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What curled and scented sun-girls, almond-eyed, With lotos-blossoms in their hands and hair.”
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The music of the scythes that glide and leap, The young men whistling as their great arms sweep, And all the perfume and sweet sense of sleep,The weary butterflies that droop their wings, The dreamy nightingale that hardly sings, And all the lassitude of happy things,Is mingling with the warm and pulsing blood That gushes through my veins a languid flood, And feeds my spirit as the sap a bud.”
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And see that girl, with pitcher on her head, And clean white apron on her gown of red,— Her even-song of love is but half-said:She waits the youngest mower. Now he goes; Her cheeks are redder than the wild blush-rose: They climb up where the deepest shadows close.”
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I watch his rough hands meet beneath her hair, Their broken speech sounds sweet to me like prayer.”
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The happy children! full of frank surprise, And sudden whims and innocent ecstasies; What godhead sparkles from their liquid eyes!”
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No wonder round those urns of mingled clays That Tuscan potters fashion’d in old days, And colour’d like the torrid earth ablaze,We find the little gods and loves portray’d, Through ancient forests wandering undismay’d, And fluting hymns of pleasure unafraid.”
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The enchanted silence of the hours of dew.”
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Variant: 'wizard' for 'enchanted' in Collected Poems (1911)
“Sophocles, the poet loved and feared, Whose mighty voice once called out of her lair The Dorian muse severe, with braided hair, Who loved the thyrsus and wild dances weird.”
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In fair Provence, the land of lute and rose, Arnaut, great master of the lore of love, First wrought sestines to win his lady’s heart.”
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah! sovereign Love, forgive this weaker rhyme! The men of old who sang were great at heart, Yet have we too known woe, and worn thy rose.”
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source