The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Of all pains, the greatest pain
Is to love, and love in vain.
‘The happiest mortals once we were’
Cowards in scarlet pass for men of war.
‘The She Gallants’ (1696) act 5
7.82 John Woodcock Graves 1795-1886
D’ye ken John Peel with his coat so gray?
D’ye ken John Peel at the break of the day?
D’ye ken John Peel when he’s far far away
With his hounds and his horn in the morning?
’Twas the sound of his horn called me from my bed,
And the cry of his hounds has me oft-times led;
For Peel’s view-hollo would waken the dead,
Or a fox from his lair in the morning.
‘John Peel’ (1820)
7.83 Robert Graves 1895-1985
Children are dumb to say how hot the day is,
How hot the scent is of the summer rose.
‘The Cool Web’ (1927)
There’s a cool web of language winds us in,
Retreat from too much joy or too much fear.
‘The Cool Web’ (1927)
Counting the beats,
Counting the slow heart beats,
The bleeding to death of time in slow heart beats,
Wakeful they lie.
‘Counting the Beats’ (1951)
His eyes are quickened so with grief,
He can watch a grass or leaf
Every instant grow; he can
Clearly through a flint wall see,
Or watch the startled spirit flee
From the throat of a dead man.
‘Lost Love’ (1921)
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
‘The Persian Version’
As you are woman, so be lovely: