Frederick Locker-Lampson
British poet (1821-1895)
Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) was an English man of letters and poet.
Quotes
edit- And this was your Cradle? Why, surely, my Jenny,
Such cozy dimensions go clearly to show
You were an exceedingly small pickaninny,
Some nineteen or twenty short summers ago.- The old Cradle; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- "Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears
Of gentle and simple for thousands of years;
The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare
Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.- Vanity Fair; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- What an arm—what a waist
For an arm!- To My Grandmother; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- The world's as ugly, ay, as Sin,—
And almost as delightful.- The Jester's Plea; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Lightly I sped when hope was high
And youth beguiled the chase,—
I follow, follow still: But I
Shall never see her face.- The Unrealized Ideal; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 195.