May'st Quotes
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OAutumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe, And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.
william blake— 1783 Poetical Sketches,'To Autumn'.
Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges, hath his seat In reason, and is judicious, is the scale By which to heav'nly love thou may'st ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure, for which cause Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.
john milton— 1665 Raphael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.589-94.
So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.
john milton— 1665 Michael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.11, l.535-40.
Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.
thomas haynes bayly— The Pilot, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
Oliver Wendell Holmes— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Urania; or, A Rhymed Lesson, line 325.
On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep.
— Sir William Jones, taken from Enchanted Fruit, Six Hymns to Hindu Deities. See sketch prefixed to his Poetical Works. (1847). Also in his Life, p. 110.
When summoned hence to thine eternal sleep, Oh, may'st thou smile while all around thee weep.
Charles Wesley— Charles Wesley, On an Infant. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.
thomas haynes bayly— Thomas Haynes Bayly, The Pilot.
O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.
— Alfred Tennyson, The Blackbird; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 71
Thou canst not joke an Enemy into a Friend; but thou may'st a Friend into an Enemy.
Benjamin Franklin— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1739)
