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John Keble
19 quotes
“As fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.”
John Keble (1792–1866) first seen 1832 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lectures on Poetry 1832–1841 (1844), translated from the Latin by Edward Kershaw Francis (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912), Vol. I, Lecture XVI, p. 317.
“The deeds we do, the words we say,— Into still air they seem to fleet, We count them ever past; But they shall last, In the dread judgment they And we shall meet!”
John Keble (1792–1866) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: IV. Early Warnings, § 1: Effect of Example", in Lyra Innocentium (Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1846), p. 103.
“The voice that breathed o'er Eden, That earliest wedding day, The primal marriage blessing, It hath not passed away.”
John Keble (1792–1866) first seen 1857 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Holy Matrimony", in The Salisbury Hymn-Book, ed. Horatio Bolton, Earl Nelson (Salisbury: Brown and Co., 1857), p. 174; reprinted in Miscellaneous Poems, ed. George Moberly (Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1870), p. 119.
“When you find yourself, as I daresay you sometimes do, overpowered as it were by melancholy, the best way is to go out, and do something kind to somebody or other.”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letters of Spiritual Counsel and Guidance, ed. R. F. Wilson (Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1870), Letter III, p. 6.
“The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask.”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And help us, this and every day, To live more nearly as we pray.”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sun of my soul! thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near: Oh, may no earth-born cloud arise To hide Thee from Thy servant's eyes!”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Abide with me from morn till eve, For without Thee I cannot live: Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I dare not die.”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may along the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billows past?”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time's waters will not ebb, nor stay.”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout,Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in every nook, Every wave in every brook, Chanting with a solemn voice, Minds us of our better choice.”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sweet is the smile of home; the mutual look When hearts are of each other sure; Sweet all the joys that crowd the household nook, The haunt of all affections pure.”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Give us grace to listen well.”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken, feels her present God again, And in her Father's arms Contented dies away.”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The watchful mother tarries nigh Though sleep have closed her infant's eye, For should he wake, and find her gone, She knows she could not bear his moan.”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh?”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Tis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows in Paradise our store.”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'T is sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows in Paradise our store.”
John Keble (1792–1866) said by 1866 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source