Yet Ah that Spring should vanish with the Rose. That Youth's sweetscented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang Ah whence and whither flown again who knows?

Omar Khayyam
Some Similar Quotes
  1. That is one good thing about this world…there are always sure to be more springs. - L.m. Montgomery

  2. People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling with new purple hairs. And the buds are bulging like tumorous acne, and I can tell that something wet, and... - M.T. Anderson

  3. Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't. - Laurie Halse Anderson

  4. It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done. - Matthew Arnold

  5. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-whit! To-who! –a merry... - William Shakespeare

More Quotes By Omar Khayyam
  1. Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went.

  2. Ah take the cash and let the credit go.

  3. Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

  4. Ah love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire Would not we shatter it to bits - and then Re-mold it nearer to the heart's desire!

  5. Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go nor where.

Related Topics