Sir Lewis Morris

Sir Lewis Morris (23 January 1833 – 12 November 1907) was a popular poet of the Anglo-Welsh school.

Quotes

• The wind that sighs before the dawn
  Chases the gloom of night,
  The curtains of the East are drawn,
  And suddenly—'t is light.
  • Le Vent de l'Esprit, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• The love of the Right, tho' cast down, the hate of victorious Ill,
  All are sparks from the central fire of a boundless beneficent will.
  • A new Orphic Hymn, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Sound, jocund strains; on pipe and viol sound,
  Young voices sing;
  Wreathe every door with snow-white voices round,
  For lo! 't is Spring!
  Winter has passed with its sad funeral train,
  And Love revives again.
  • Life-Music, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Toil is the law of life and its best fruit.
  • The Ode of perfect Years, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• The victories of Right
  Are born of strife.
  There were no Day were there no Night,
  Nor, without dying, Life.
  • The Ode of Evil, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• The world still needs
  Its champion as of old, and finds him still.
  • The Epic of Hades (1877), "Herakles".

• Call no faith false which e'er hath brought
  Relief to any laden life,
  Cessation to the pain of thought,
  Refreshment mid the dust of strife.
  • Tolerance, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Rest springs from strife and dissonant chords beget
  Divinest harmonies.
  • Love's Suicide, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• The passionate love of Right, the burning hate of Wrong.
  • The Diamond Jubilee, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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