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Eugene Lee-Hamilton
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“Fourteen small broidered berries on the hern Of Circe's mantle, each of magic gold; Fourteen of lone Calypso's tears that rolled Into the sea, for pearls to come to them; Fourteen clear signs of omen in the gem With which Medea human fate foretold Fourteen small drops, which Fautus, growing old, Craved of the Fiend, to water Life's stem”
Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To keep through life the posture of the grave, While others walk and run and dance and leap.”
Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845–1907) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sonnets of the Wingless Hours (1894).
“The hollow sea-shell, which for years hath stood On dusty shelves, when held against the ear Proclaims its stormy parent, and we hear The faint, far murmur of the breaking flood. We hear the sea. The Sea? It is the blood In our own veins, impetuous and near.”
Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sonnet. Sea-shell Murmurs, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Gather a shell from the strewn beach / And listen at its lips: they sigh / The same desire and mystery, / The echo of the…