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Ernest Dowson
16 quotes
“I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Arthur Moore (c. 15 February 1889), in The Letters of Ernest Dowson , ed. Desmond Flower and Henry Maas (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1967), p. 35
“They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.They are not long, the days of wine and roses; Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yea! for our roses fade, the world is wild, But there, beside the altar, there, is rest.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Say, doth she weep for very wantonness? Or is it that she dimly doth foresee Across her youth the joys grow less and less, The burden of the days that are to be: Autumn and withered leaves and vanity And winter bringing end in barrenness.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Better than mortal flowers, Thy moon-kissed roses seem.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah, Lalage! while life is ours, Hoard not thy beauty rose and white, But pluck the pretty, fleeting flowers That deck our little path of light: For all too soon we twain shall tread The bitter pastures of the dead: Estranged, sad spectres of the night.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine; And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The poem was first published two years earlier in The Second Book of the Rhymers' Club (London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894), pp. 60–61
“I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I cried for madder music and for stronger wine, But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was not sorrowful, but only tired Of everything that ever I desired.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When this, our rose, is faded, And these, our days, are done, In lands profoundly shaded From tempest and from sun:Ah, once more come together, Shall we forgive the past, And safe from worldly weather Possess our souls at last?”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You ask my love completest, As strong next year as now, The devil take you, sweetest, Ere I make aught such vow. Life is a masque that changes, A fig for constancy! No love at all were better, Than love which is not free.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah, God, that sweet things should decline, And fires fade out which were not cold, Erewhile.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fairest face of all is the face I have not seen.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O pray the earth enfold Our life-sick hearts and turn them into dust.”
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source