Coventry Patmore
Coventry Kearsey Deighton Patmore (July 23, 1823 – November 26, 1896) was an English poet and critic.
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- 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.- Peace, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Life is not life at all without delight.
- Victory in Defeat, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- To have nought
Is to have all things without care or thought!- Legem Tuam Dilexi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- 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.- Magna est Veritas, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.
- Tired Memory, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- The flower of olden sanctities.
- 1867, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- 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 Toys, reported in The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877), p. 50.
External links
- Works by Coventry Patmore at Project Gutenberg
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Coventry Patmore at Wikisource.