Edward Young
Edward Young
Edward Youngwas an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 July 1683
peace archer moon
Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.
might ifs knows
Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?
men mind language
Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
age action life-is
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.
mistake men bears
Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."
book men library
Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
father son blessing
The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.
men good-man
'T is impious in a good man to be sad.
stars night men
Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
nature men made
Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
morning heaven dew
Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.
prayer heaven ardent
Prayer ardent opens heaven.
daughter night mad
It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!
promise bud celestial
There buds the promise of celestial worth.