Coventry Patmore - The Unknown Eros (1878)

2 Sourced Quotes

View all Coventry Patmore Quotes

Having my law the seventh time disobey'd,
I struck him, and dismiss'd
With hard words and unkiss'd,
—His Mother, who was patient, being dead.

Coventry Patmore

The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.

Coventry Patmore