Crown'd Quotes
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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.
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More Crown'd Quotes
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).
He ne'er is Crown'd With immortality, who fears to follow Where airy voices lead.
john keats— Bk. II, l. 211.
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.
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.
How the Doctor's brow should smile, Crown'd with wreaths of camomile.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Wreaths for Ministers.
Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are Crown'd with thorn.
gerald massey— Gerald Massey, The Kingliest Kings
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.
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.
