Urns Quotes
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The earth is rocking, the skies are riven Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven.
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More Urns Quotes
Love in your hearts as idly burns As fire in antique Roman urns.
— Canto I, line 309.
The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old! The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Manfred (1817), Act III, scene 4.
Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.
william cowper— Line 357.
Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil, one, and one of good.
— Homer, The Iliad, Book 24, line 663. Pope's translation. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 147-148.
