Arthur O'Shaughnessy Quotes

1844–1881 England

Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (14 March 1844 – 30 January 1881) was a British poet and singer. Though relatively unknown during his own lifetime, his works gained posthumous fame in the 20th century.

England
Poets
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Also known as: Arthur O’Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, O'Shaughnessy, Arthur

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For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample a kingdom down.

Music and Moonlight (1874)

The stars are dimly seen among the shadows of the bay,
And lights that win are seen in strife with lights that die away.

Music and Moonlight (1874)

O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go,
And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow.

Music and Moonlight (1874)

One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample a kingdom down.

The soldier, the king, and the peasant
Are working together in one,
Till our dream shall become their present,
And their work in the world be done.

Music and Moonlight (1874)

Love is this thing that we pursue today, tonight, for ever,
We care not whither, know not who shall be at length the giver:
For Love, — our life and all our years are cast upon the waves;
Our heart is as the hand that steers; — but who is He that saves?

Music and Moonlight (1874)

We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams; —
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

Music and Moonlight (1874)

We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

Music and Moonlight (1874)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arthur O'Shaughnessy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.