Canto XV, st. 11.
The Curse of Kehama (1810)
„Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,“
— John Donne, libro Holy Sonnets
No. 10, line 1
Holy Sonnets (1633)
Contesto: Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
— Kunti character from Indian epic Mahabharata
Kunti in grief on seeing her husband dead during an intercourse with Madri
The Mahabharata/Book 1: Adi Parva/Section CXXV
— Nicholas Rowe English poet, dramatist 1674 - 1718
Lady Jane Grey (1715), Act II, scene 1, line 235.
„O dream of fame, what hast thou been to me
But the destroyer of life's calm content!“
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838
Erinna
The Golden Violet (1827)
— François Fénelon Catholic bishop 1651 - 1715
Origine: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 542.
„Whither hast thou fled, O wind?“
— James Macpherson Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician 1736 - 1796
said the king of Morven. "Dost thou rustle in the chambers of the south? pursuest thou the shower in other lands? Why dost thou not come to my sails? to the blue face of my seas?"
"Lathmon"
The Poems of Ossian
„1887. Think thyself happy if thou hast one true Friend; never think of finding another.“
— Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
Canto II
1840s, My Childhood's Home I See Again (1844 - 1846)
— Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the younger) ancient Greek Epicurean philosopher -331 - -278 a.C.
Attributed to Metrodorus by Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, V, 14, as translated by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Clement of Alexandria, vol. II, in Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325, vol. XII, 1869, p. 300 https://archive.org/details/antenicenechris05donagoog/page/n314.
„If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.“
— John Lancaster Spalding Catholic bishop 1840 - 1916
Origine: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 85
— Marcus Aurelius, libro Meditations
Variant Translation: Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already.
VII, 27
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
„Milk the ewe that thou hast, why pursue the thing that shuns thee?“
— Theocritus ancient greek poet
Idyll 11, line 75; translation by Andrew Lang, from Theocritus, Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose ([1880] 1901) p. 63.
Idylls
— Luís de Camões Portuguese poet 1524 - 1580
<p>Ah! minha Dinamene! Assim deixaste
Quem não deixara nunca de querer-te!
Ah! Ninfa minha, já não posso ver-te,
Tão asinha esta vida desprezaste!</p><p>Como já pera sempre te apartaste
De quem tão longe estava de perder-te?
Puderam estas ondas defender-te
Que não visses quem tanto magoaste?</p><p>Nem falar-te somente a dura Morte
Me deixou, que tão cedo o negro manto
Em teus olhos deitado consentiste!</p><p>Oh mar! oh céu! oh minha escura sorte!
Que pena sentirei que valha tanto,
Que inda tenha por pouco viver triste?</p>
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Ah! minha Dinamene! Assim deixaste
— Thomas Dekker English dramatist and pamphleteer 1572 - 1632
Poem Sweet Content http://www.bartleby.com/101/204.html
„The resurrection is
In spirit done in thee,
As soon as thou from all
Thy sins hast set thee free.“
— Angelus Silesius German writer 1624 - 1677
The Cherubinic Wanderer
— Ali, libro Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
