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Crossman, Samuel
1624–83
1624–83
1
My song is love unknown,
My saviour's love for me,
Love to the loveless shown,
That they might lovely be.
O, who am I,
That for my sake
My Lord should take
Frail flesh and die?
My song is love unknown,
My saviour's love for me,
Love to the loveless shown,
That they might lovely be.
O, who am I,
That for my sake
My Lord should take
Frail flesh and die?
"My song is love unknown" (1664); set to music as a hymn from 1868, and by John Ireland in 1919
Crowfoot
c.
1830–90
c.
1830–90
1
A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we came, into nowhere we go. What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we came, into nowhere we go. What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
attributed farewell to his people, 25 April 1890.
Crowley, Aleister
1875–1947
1875–1947
1
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Book of the Law
(1909) l. 40.
Cudworth, Ralph
1617–88
1617–88
1
Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.
Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.
The True Intellectual System of the Universe
(1678)
Cumberland, Richard
1631–1718
1631–1718
1
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
George Horne
The Duty of Contending for the Faith
(1786)
cummings, e. e.
(
Edward Estlin Cummings
) 1894–1962
(
Edward Estlin Cummings
) 1894–1962
1
anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did.
"next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims" and so forth.
a politician is an arse upon
which everyone has sat except a man.
plato told
him: he couldn't
believe it (jesus
told him; he
wouldn't believe
it) lao
tsze
certainly told
him, and general
(yes
mam)
sherman.
pity this busy monster, manunkind,
not. Progress is a comfortable disease.
We doctors know
a hopeless case if—listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go.
anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did.
50 Poems
(1949) no. 29
"next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims" and so forth.
is 5
(1926) p. 62
a politician is an arse upon
which everyone has sat except a man.
1 x 1
(1944) no. 10
plato told
him: he couldn't
believe it (jesus
told him; he
wouldn't believe
it) lao
tsze
certainly told
him, and general
(yes
mam)
sherman.
1 x 1
(1944) no. 13
pity this busy monster, manunkind,
not. Progress is a comfortable disease.
1 x 1
(1944) no. 14
We doctors know
a hopeless case if—listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go.
1 x 1
(1944) no. 14
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