William Morris quotes - page 5

Alas, alas! another day gone by, Another day and no soul come. (William Morris)
The dreams of the dawn wherein death and hope strive.
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Forsooth, brothers, fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell.
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Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter; The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.
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But the kissed lips of Love and fair life everlasting! Cry out, for one heedeth, who leadeth you home!
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Its contempt of simple pleasures which everyone could enjoy but for its folly? Its eyeless vulgarity which has destroyed art, the one certain solace of labour?
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Ye know not how void is your hope and your living: Depart with your helping lest yet ye undo me!
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All this I have seen in the dreams of the night clearer than I can force myself to see them in dreams of the day. So that it would have been nothing new to me the other night to fall into an architectural dream if that were all, and yet I have to tell of things strange and new that befell me after I had fallen asleep.
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Eve shall kiss night, And the leaves stir like rain As the wind stealeth light O'er the grass of the plain.
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Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world.
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Upon the floor uncounted medals lay Like things of little value. (William Morris)
All wonder of pleasure, all doubt of desire, All blindness, are ended.
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Change is come, and past over, no more strife, no more learning: Now your lips and your forehead are sealed with his seal, Look backward and smile at the thorns and the burning. - Sweet rest, O my soul, and no fear of returning!
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All other work but this is worthless; it is slaves' work - mere toiling to live, that we may live to toil.
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When I was journeying (in a dream of the night)
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And fair with sculptured stories it was wrought, By lapse of time unto dim ruin brought.
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This shall he think on in hell, and cry on his fellow to help him, and shall find that therein is no help because there is no fellowship, but every man for himself.
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No roaming now, my wars are passed away, No long dull days devoid of happiness, When such a love my yearning heart shall bless.
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Ah! wilt thou leave me then without one kiss, To slay the very seeds of fear and doubt, That glad to-morrow may bring certain bliss?
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It may be yet the Gods will have me glad! Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!
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When the dead, and their deeds that die not shall awaken, And the world's tale shall sound in your trumpet of warning, And the sun smite the banner called Scorn of the Scorning, And dead pain ye shall trample, dead fruitless desire, As ye wend to pluck out the new world from the fire. (William Morris)
Wait, wait, till thou hast heard this tale of mine, Then shalt thou think them devilish or divine.
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Unheard-of wealth, unheard-of love is near, If thou hast heart a little dread to bear.
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Go back and be the happier for having seen us, for having added a little hope to your struggle. Go on living while you may, striving, with whatsoever pain and labour needs must be, to build up little by little the new day of fellowship, and rest, and happiness.
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Love is enough: it grew up without heeding In the days when ye knew not its name nor its measure.
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