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Quotes from The Unknown Eros — Coventry Patmore

1823–1896 England

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8 quotes

The midge's wing beats to and fro
A thousand times ere one can utter "O!"

The Unknown Eros (1877)

Life is not life at all without delight.

The Unknown Eros (1877)

None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.

The Unknown Eros (1877)

To have nought
Is to have all things without care or thought!

The Unknown Eros (1877)

The flower of olden sanctities.

The Unknown Eros (1877)

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 prevail
When none cares whether it prevail or not.

The Unknown Eros (1877)

The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon’s height
Is not so sweet and white
As the most heretofore sin-spotted Soul
That darts to its delight
Straight from the absolution of a faithful fight.

The Unknown Eros (1877)

Having my law the seventh time disobey'd,
I struck him, and dismiss'd
With hard words and unkiss'd,
—His Mother, who was patient, being dead.

The Unknown Eros (1877)

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