Famous quotes containing the words kersey dighton patmore, coventry kersey dighton, dighton patmore, coventry kersey, kersey, dighton and/or patmore:
“The world, unfathomably fair,
Is duller than a witling’s jest.
Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;
They lift their heavy lids, and look;
And, lo, what one sweet page can teach,
They read with joy, then shut the book.”
—Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823–1896)
“Perchance we may,
Where now this night is day,
And even through faith of still averted feet,
Making full circle of our banishment,
Amazed meet;”
—Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823–1896)
“And thou rememberest of what toys
We made our joys,”
—Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823–1896)
“With all my will, but much against my heart,
We two now part.”
—Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823–1896)
“Here, in this little Bay,
Full of tumultuous life and great repose,
Where, twice a day,
The purposeless, glad ocean comes and goes,”
—Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823–1896)
“And thou rememberest of what toys
We made our joys,”
—Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823–1896)
“He had put, within his reach,
A box of counters and a red-veined stone,
A piece of glass abraded by the beach,
And six or seven shells,
A bottle with bluebells,
And two French copper coins, ranged there with careful art,”
—Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823–1896)