Edwin Arnold Professions : Poet Born : June 10, 1832 Died : March 24, 1904 Browse All Authors Top 28 quotes by Edwin Arnold No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers. Edwin Arnold earth prayer mother Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones. Edwin Arnold taj-mahal passion stones One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing. Edwin Arnold dying soldier love There is no caste in blood. Edwin Arnold castes blood Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light. Edwin Arnold light white blue Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Edwin Arnold noble strong life Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison. Edwin Arnold deliverance freedom men Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop! Edwin Arnold smile tears made Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day. Edwin Arnold lonely beautiful love Don't poets know it Edwin Arnold poet mother knows What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well. Edwin Arnold obedient wells law Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show. Edwin Arnold crystals charity deeds Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood. Edwin Arnold sympathy blood needs That what will come, and must come, shall come well. Edwin Arnold future wells Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile. Edwin Arnold born ill deeds A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field. Edwin Arnold rain rivers water Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind; Veil upon veil will lift but there must be Veil upon veil behind. Edwin Arnold veils eye mind Yet who shall shut out Fate? Edwin Arnold fate Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally. Edwin Arnold driftwood sea men The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope. Edwin Arnold eye wise men Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
