“Rest you fair, good signior; Your worship was the last man in our mouths.”
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Calm Quotes — page 224 of 276
“Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.”
“Be as thou wast wont to be. See as thou wast wont to see.”
“When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.”
“Travelers must be content.”
“A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.”
“You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.”
“Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well.”
“A turn or two I'll walk To still my beating mind.”
“Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.”
“Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the earth”
“O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?”
“Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot is featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Ariel's song, scene II, Act I”
“I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.”
“Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry”
“The after-silence, when the feast is o'er,And void the places where the minstrels stood,Differs in nought from what hath been before,And is nor ill nor good.”
“Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.”
“A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.”
“Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.”
“Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!”