The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

They die not,—for their life was death,—but cease;
And round their narrow lips the mould falls close.
‘The House of Life’ (1881) pt. 2 ‘The Choice’
I do not see them here; but after death
God knows I know the faces I shall see,
Each one a murdered self, with low last breath.
‘I am thyself,—what hast thou done to me?’
‘And I—and I—thyself,’ (lo! each one saith,)
‘And thou thyself to all eternity!’
‘The House of Life’ (1881) pt. 2 ‘Lost Days’
Give honour unto Luke Evangelist;
For he it was (the aged legends say)
Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.
‘The House of Life’ (1881) pt. 2 ‘Old and New Art’
When vain desire at last and vain regret
Go hand in hand to death, and all is vain,
What shall assuage the unforgotten pain
And teach the unforgetful to forget?
‘The House of Life’ (1881) pt. 2 ‘The One Hope’
Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell.
‘The House of Life’ (1881) pt. 2 ‘A Superscription’
Sleepless with cold commemorative eyes.
‘The House of Life’ (1881) pt. 2 ‘A Superscription’
Unto the man of yearning thought
And aspiration, to do nought
Is in itself almost an act.
‘Soothsay’ st. 10
I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.
‘Sudden Light’
6.84 Gioacchino Rossini 1792-1868
Monsieur Wagner a de beaux moments, mais de mauvais quart d’heures.
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Said to Emile Naumann, April 1867, in Naumann ‘Italienische Tondichter’ (1883) 4, 541