The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O. Coventry Patmore More Quotes by Coventry Patmore More Quotes From Coventry Patmore Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done! Coventry Patmore donesoullove-you I drew my bride, beneath the moon,Across my threshold; happy hour!But, ah, the walk that afternoonWe saw the water-flags in flower! Coventry Patmore flowermoonwater For want of me the world's course will not fail;When all its work is done the lie shall rot;The truth is great and shall prevailWhen none cares whether it prevail or not. Coventry Patmore carewantlying They who ask for no sign shall have many. Coventry Patmore asks None thrives for long upon the happiest dream. Coventry Patmore thrivedreamlong How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life! Coventry Patmore kissingmusiclight The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight. Coventry Patmore sunshinedreamsweet If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?' Coventry Patmore gnatslaughtersoul What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God. Coventry Patmore shadowloverseye Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid. Coventry Patmore knowledge-of-godlinesart The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so. Coventry Patmore coventryincrediblesdesire Ah, wasteful woman, she who may Coventry Patmore winesweetmen Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances. Coventry Patmore hatredmaylove O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One. Coventry Patmore heartremembermen The moods of love are like the wind, Coventry Patmore moodwindlife Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century. Coventry Patmore centurycommonwriting All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence. Coventry Patmore endsselfreason 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 Patmore sweetlovebook All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak. Coventry Patmore sunshinelovemen The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know. Coventry Patmore agnosticancientcare
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