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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