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
sleep dying death-and-dying
Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.
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
rain rivers water
A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.
gold royal coats
The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.
wise eye men
The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.
love beautiful lonely
Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.
men sea driftwood
Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.
sympathy blood flesh
Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.
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.