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Quotes from Andromeda and Other Poems — Charles Kingsley

1819–1875 England

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Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever
One grand, sweet song.

Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)

Sad, sad to think that the year is all but done.

Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)

And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep—
And good-bye to the bar and its moaning.

Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)

For men must work, and women must weep,
And there's little to earn, and many to keep,
Though the harbor bar be moaning.

Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)

Pain is no evil,
Unless it conquers us.

Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)

In the light of fuller day,
Of purer science, holier laws.

Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)

The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown
Can never come over again.

Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)

Are gods more ruthless than mortals?
Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)

Fools! who fancy Christ mistaken;
Man a tool to buy and sell;
Earth a failure, God-forsaken,
Anteroom of Hell.

Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)

'O Mary, go and call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home
Across the sands of Dee;'
The western wind was wild and dank with foam,
And all alone went she.

Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)

They rowed her in across the rolling foam,
The cruel crawling foam,
The cruel hungry foam,
To her grave beside the sea:
But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home
Across the sands of Dee.

Andromeda and Other Poems (1858)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Kingsley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.