Quote#Nature
Nay, come up hither. From this wave-wash'd mound
Quote byDante Gabriel Rossetti · 1828–1882
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Choice.
English (original)
Nay, come up hither. From this wave-wash'd mound Unto the furthest flood-brim look with me; Then reach on with thy thought till it be drown'd. Miles and miles distant though the last line be, And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond,— Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea.
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Tell me now in what hidden way is Lady Flora the lovely Roman? Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais, Neither of them the fairer woman? Where is Echo, beheld of no man, Only heard on river and mere—
If God in his wisdom have brought close The day when I must die, That day by water or fire or air My feet shall fall in the destined snare Wherever my road may lie.
From perfect grief there need not be Wisdom or even memory; One thing then learned remains to me — The woodspurge has a cup of three.
I am not as these are, the poet saith In youth's pride, and the painter, among men At bay, where never pencil comes nor pem
I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet, keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.
Still we say as we go,— "Strange to think by the way Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day."