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“Whatever mourns when many leave these shores: Whatever shares The eternal reciprocity of tears.”

Share Tears Eternal Shore Mourn Reciprocity

Author:Wilfred Owen

“I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore: Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.”

Art Stills Hate Sea Wind Praying Eternal Calm Rage Length Shore Deaf Tempest

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton

“None can comprehend eternity but the eternal God. Eternity is an ocean, whereof we shall never see the shore; it is a deep, where we can find no bottom; a labyrinth from whence we cannot extricate ourselves and where we shall never lose the door.”

Loses Doors Ocean Eternal Eternity Bottom Shore Labyrinth

Book:Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State, in Several Practical Discourses

Source: Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State, in Several Practical Discourses

“Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.”

Humans Long Doe Shows Action Earth Past Gone Eternal Shore Bark Acres Tombstone Reefs

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Always stay close to this Heavenly Mother, because she is the sea to be crossed to reach the shores of Eternal Splendour.”

Mother Religious Sea Eternal Heavenly Shore Virgin Mary Splendour Blessed Mother

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores.”

Writing Earth Names Written Eternal Seeking Sand Shore Perpetual Seashore

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores”

Eternal Shore Whispering Desolate

Author:John Keats

“Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.”

Sleep Doors Eternal Bird Dawn Shore Host Stillness Tranquil Evermore Peeping

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

“In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”

Heart Dream Reality Lying Desire Lost Stars Imagination Sea Land Eternal Shining Evening Shore Pilots Unseen Passing Away Atlantis Forlorn Elysium

Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--- No---yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever---or else swoon in death.”

“A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.”

Years May Dream Age Song Waiting Hours Failing Youth Tears Eternal Messages Fruit Track Gates Shore Fades Decay Again And Again Worn Ache Voyages Unborn Worn Out

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.”

Source: Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Problems Solved

“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.”

Long Use Quality Virtue Sea Adventure Eternal Optimism Rebellion Unhappiness Shore Formulas Extremity Words Of Courage

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.”

Heaven Darkness Fire Eternal Ice Shore

Author:Dante Alighieri