William Johnson Cory Quotes

All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

You promise heavens free from strife, Pure truth, and perfect change of will; But sweet, sweet is this human life, So sweet, I fain would breathe it still; Your chilly stars I can forgo, This warm kind world is all I know.

A handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest.

They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remembered how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.