Friday, April 19, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Percy Addleshaw (1866 – 1916)


English poet, barrister and writer.
Page 1 of 1
Percy Addleshaw
He is the happy wanderer, who goes,
Singing upon the way, with eyes awake
To every scene, with ears alert to take
The sweetness of all sounds; who loves and knows
The secrets of the highway, and the rose
Holds fairer for the wounds that briars make.
Addleshaw quotes
We shall lodge at the sign of the Grave, you say;
Well, the road is a long one we trudge, my friend,
So why should we grieve at the break of the day?
Let us sing, let us drink, let us love, let us play,--
We can keep our sights for the journey's end.
Addleshaw
It may be we shall know in the hereafter
Why we, begetting hopes, give birth to fears,
And why the world's too beautiful for laughter,
Too gross for tears.




Page 1 of 1


© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact