Adam Lindsay Gordon Professions : Poet Born : October 19, 1833 Died : June 24, 1870 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Adam Lindsay Gordon There comes a point in your life when you realize: Adam Lindsay Gordon future letting-go life Life is mostly froth and bubble Adam Lindsay Gordon bubbles kindness life Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbor, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own. Adam Lindsay Gordon kindness life two In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now. Adam Lindsay Gordon trouble forget years I would live the same life over if I had to live again, Adam Lindsay Gordon chance men life For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain Adam Lindsay Gordon resolution vain death I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast. Adam Lindsay Gordon secret-places strong sea Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future. Adam Lindsay Gordon worry people past Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors