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Eugene Lee-Hamilton Quotes

d. 1907 England

Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845–1907) was a late Victorian English poet. His work includes some notable sonnets in the style of Petrarch.

England
Poets

Also known as: Eugene Lee Hamilton, Lee-Hamilton, Eugene

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To keep through life the posture of the grave,
While others walk and run and dance and leap.

Sonnets of the Wingless Hours (1894)

Fourteen clear signs of omen in the gem
With which Medea human fate foretold

What the Sonnet Is (1845)

Or Circe’s cup, embossed with snakes that wound
Through buds and myrtles, fold on scaly fold

Fourteen small broider’d berries on the hem
Of Circe’s mantle, each of magic gold

The hollow sea-shell, which for years hath stood
On dusty shelves, when held against the ear
Proclaims its stormy parent, and we hear
The faint, far murmur of the breaking flood.
We hear the sea. The Sea? It is the blood
In our own veins, impetuous and near.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eugene Lee-Hamilton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.