Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer ( 10 of 46 )
Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
Alone!--That worn-out word,
So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;
Yet all that poets sing, and grief read more
Alone!--That worn-out word,
So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;
Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known,
Of hope laid waste, knells in that word--Alone!
The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.
The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and
the flowers faded.
I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and
the flowers faded.
Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.
Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.
Laws die, Books never.
Laws die, Books never.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of
power.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of
power.
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of
millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the read more
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of
millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye can
distinguish the tints of a violet.
