Coventry Patmore
Coventry Patmore
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmorewas an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth23 July 1823
land foreign-lands
A woman is a foreign land.
courage light long
To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.
cares course lie none prevail shall truth whether work
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.
cares course lie none prevail shall truth whether work
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.
wise adversity evil
Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.