WIST Quotations

FitzGerald, Edward -- “Chronomoros,” l. 33ff, Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal (5 Dec 1840)

Dave — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 23:56:21 +0000

Whether we wake or we sleep,
Whether we carol or weep,
The Sun with his Planets in chime,
Marketh the going of Time.

Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883) English writer, poet, translator
“Chronomoros,” l. 33ff, Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal (5 Dec 1840)

Dave — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 22:20:32 +0000

The King in a carriage may ride,
And the Beggar may crawl at his side;
But in the general race,
They are traveling all the same pace.

Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883) English writer, poet, translator
“Chronomoros,” l. 57ff, Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal (5 Dec 1840)

Dave — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 23:48:48 +0000

I am all for the short and merry life.

Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883) English writer, poet, translator
Letter to Frederick Tennyson (31 Dec 1850)

Later his epitaph.

Dave — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 00:45:50 +0000

Leave well — even “pretty well” — alone: that is what I learn as I get old.

Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883) English writer, poet, translator
Letter to W. F. Pollock (7 Dec 1869)