Edwin Arnold
Edwin Arnold
Sir Edwin Arnold KCIE CSIwas an English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work The Light of Asia...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 June 1832
fate
Yet who shall shut out Fate?
future wells
That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
deeds crystals charity
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.
rain rivers water
A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.
blue white light
Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.
dream spiritual forever
Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birth-less and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever. Death hath not touched it all, dead though the house of it seems!
mother poet knows
Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers
life strong noble
Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
life wind voice
We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.
law wells obedient
What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
sleep dying death-and-dying
Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.
sympathy strong world
Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.
freedom men deliverance
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.
spring nuts almonds
Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.