Crown'd Quotes 

Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade; The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
Alexander Pope
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How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.

Andrew Marvell

— c.1650-1652  'The Garden' (published1681).

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A love still burning upward, giving light To read those laws; an accent very low In blandishment, but a most silver flow Of subtle-paced counsel in distress. Right to the heart and brain, tho' undescried, Winning its way with extreme gentleness Thro' all the outworks of suspicious pride; A courage to endure and to obey: A hate of gossip parlance and of sway, Crown'd Isabel, thro' all her placid life, The queen of marriage, a most perfect wife.


— Alfred Tennyson, Isabel.

Tags: love, burning, upward, giving, light, read, laws, accent, low

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He ne'er is Crown'd With immortality, who fears to follow Where airy voices lead.

john keats

— Bk. II, l. 211.

Tags: immortality, who, fears, follow, airy, voices, lead

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Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich Crown'd? No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain; It only serves to prove the living vain.

john gay

— John Gay, Trivia, Book III, line 231.

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He was not born to shame: Upon his brow shame was asham'd to sit; For 'tis a throne where honour may be Crown'd Sole monarch of the universal earth.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act III, scene 2, line 91.

Tags: born, shame, brow, asham'd, sit, throne, honour, may, Sole

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How the Doctor's brow should smile, Crown'd with wreaths of camomile.

thomas moore

— Thomas Moore, Wreaths for Ministers.

Tags: brow, smile, wreaths, camomile

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Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are Crown'd with thorn.

gerald massey

— Gerald Massey, The Kingliest Kings

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Where drooping lotos-flowers, distilling balm, Dream by the drowsy streamlets sleep hath Crown'd, While Care forgets to sigh, and Peace hath balsamed Pain.


— Paul H. Hayne, Sonnet, Pent in this Common Sphere.

Tags: drooping, distilling, balm, Dream, drowsy, streamlets, sleep, While, Care

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Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They Crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.

lord byron

— Lord Byron, Manfred, Act I, scene 1, line 62.

Tags: Mont, Blanc, monarch, mountains, him, long, throne, rocks, robe

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