days quotes

Immortal, invisible,God only wise, In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, Most blesse'  d, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, Almighty, victorious,Thy great name we praise.

-Smith,Walter Chalmers
  'Immortal, Invisible', hymn.

Sae luely, luely, cam she in Sae luely was she gaen And wi' her a'my simmer days Like they had never been.

-Soutar,William
  'TheTryst', stanza 4.

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten myage.

-Southey, Robert
  'The Old Man's Comforts'.

Out upon it! I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.

-Suckling, SirJohn
  'Out Upon It!'

For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

-Swinburne, Algernon Charles
  Atlanta in Calydon, chorus,'When the hounds of spring'.

   Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happyautumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza1.

   So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 2.

   Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square; So sad, so strange, the days that are no more. Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanzas 3^4.

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'The Passing of Arthur', l.405^6.

I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the midst of tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter. 855

-Thompson, Francis
  Poems,'The Hound of Heaven'.

I suppose that even the most pleasurable of imaginable occupations, that of batting baseballs through the windows of the RCA Building, would pall a little as the days ran on.

-Thurber,James Grover
  TheThurber Carnival,'Memoirs of a Drudge'.

I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it,Time in hours, days, years Driven by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved.

-Vaughan, Henry
  Silex Scintillans,'TheWorld'.

   The people of the United States are drawn from many nations, and chiefly from the nations now at war. Some will wish one nation, others another, to succeed in this monumental struggle. I venture to speak a solemn word of warning. The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name during these days that are to try men's souls.We must be impartial in thought as well as in action.

-Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow
  Message to the Senate,19 Aug.

O Oisin, mount by me and ride To shores by the wash of the tremulous tide, Where men have heaped no burial-mounds, And the days pass by like a wayward tune.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'TheWanderings of Oisin', l.80^3.

Happy Days are Here Again.

-Yellen,Jack
  Title of song. It became linked with US Democrat campaigns.

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