Francis Thompson

Quotes

• “O GAIN that lurk’st ungainèd in all gain!O love we just fall short of in all love!O height that in all heights art still above!O beauty that dost leave all beauty pain!Thou unpossessed that mak’st possession vain,”
• “The fairest things have fleetest end,Their scent survives their close:But the rose's scent is bitternessTo him that loved the rose.”
• “Nothing begins, and nothing ends,That is not paid with moan,For we are born in other's pain,And perish in our own.”
• “Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.”
• “Thou canst not stir a flower / Without troubling of a star.”
• “The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,Moves all the labouring surges of the world.”

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