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George Darley
6 quotes
“It is not Beauty I demand, A crystal brow, the moon's despair, Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand, Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair.”
George Darley (1795–1846) said by 1846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Loveliness of Love, attributed to Anonymous in Francis Turner Palgrave, The Golden Treasury (Cambridge: Sever and Francis, 1861), no. 86, p. 88. Elsewhere attributed to George Darley. Attributed to Carew in S. Austi…
Also quoted by: Thomas Carew (misattributed)
“Give me, instead of beauty's bust, A tender heart, a loyal mind, Which with temptation I could trust, Yet never linked with error find.”
George Darley (1795–1846) said by 1846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Half-buried to her flaming breast In this bright tree, she makes her nest, Hundred-sunned Phoenix! when she must Crumble at length to hoary dust!”
George Darley (1795–1846) said by 1846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O fast her amber blood doth flow From the heart-wounded Incense Tree, Fast as earth’s deep-embosom’d woe In silent rivulets to the sea!”
George Darley (1795–1846) said by 1846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sweet in her green dell the flower of beauty slumbers, Lull'd by the faint breezes sighing through her hair; Sleeps she and hears not the melancholy numbers Breathed to my sad lute 'mid the lonely air.”
George Darley (1795–1846) said by 1846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Come then, my bird! For the peace thou ever bearest, Still Heaven's messenger of comfort to me— Come—this fond bosom, O faithfullest and fairest, Bleeds with its death-wound, its wound of love for thee!”
George Darley (1795–1846) said by 1846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source