Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
suicide wings soul
Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
fall autumn men
When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
dream men vision
Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
men dust long
Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!
wish fancy ease
What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
wonder
Nothing but what astonishes is true.
death stars empires
Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.
happiness men ties
The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
tyrants cain world
Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.
strong twilight theatre
This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.
disease idiot vain
Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
brother combat wounds
Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
strong joy guilt
Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt.
nature conscious
Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself.