Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Quote

Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?—
Moths that a garment fret.
The world is turned memorial, crying, "Thou
Shalt not forget!"


Mandragora, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?— Moths that a garment fret. The world is turned memorial, crying, Thou Shalt not forget!

Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?— Moths that a garment fret. The world is turned memorial, crying, Thou Shalt not forget!

Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?— Moths that a garment fret. The world is turned memorial, crying, Thou Shalt not forget!

Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?— Moths that a garment fret. The world is turned memorial, crying, Thou Shalt not forget!