Frasi di Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

“I wandered by the brookside,
I wandered by the mill;
I could not hear the brook flow,
The noisy wheel was still.”

“Great thoughts, great feelings came to them,
Like instincts, unawares.”

“Mohammed’s truth lay in a holy Book,
Christ’s in a sacred Life.”

“The hills of manhood wear a noble face
When seen from far;
The mist of light from which they take their grace
Hides what they are.”

“The beating of my own heart
Was all the sound I heard.”

“They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.”

“Oh glory, that we wrestle
So valiantly with Time!”

“But on and up, where Nature’s heart
Beats strong amid the hills.”

“Heaven was not Heaven if Phaon was not there.”

“A poet’s Mistress is a hallowed thing.”

“Lady Moon, Lady Moon, where are you roving?
Over the sea.
Lady Moon, Lady Moon, whom are you loving?
All that love me!”