Quote#Death
We are Diana’s virgin train
Quote byAnne Killigrew · 1660–1685
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poems (1686), "On a Picture Painted by Herself, Representing Two Nymphs of Diana’s, One in a Posture to Hunt, the Other Bathing".
English (original)
We are Diana’s virgin train, Descended of no mortal strain: Our bows and arrows are our goods, Our palaces the lofty woods. * * * If you ask where such wights do dwell, In what blest clime, that so excel, The poets only that can tell.
— Anne Killigrew
You may also like
The bloody wolf, the wolf does not pursue; The boar, though fierce, his tusk will not embrue In his own kind, Bears, not on bears do prey: Then art thou, man, more savage far than they.
More rich, more noble I will ever hold The Muse's laurel, than a crown of gold.
I willingly accept Cassandra's fate, To speak the truth, although believ'd too late.
Brighter from her disease she shines, As fire the precious gold refines. Thus when the silent grave becomes Pregnant with life as fruitful wombs; When the wide seas and spacious earth Resign us to our second birth;
But see! the pains begin to fly; Tho’ Venus bled she could not die: See the new phœnix point her eyes, And lovelier from her ashes rise.
'Tis the night—the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play! Ye think that without, The wild winds shout, But no, it is they—it is they!
