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Top 25 Alfred Austin Quotes (2024 Update)

Alfred Austin Quote: “Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.”

1. “Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “The bright incarnate spirit of the Morn.”

2. “The bright incarnate spirit of the Morn.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “We are all alike, and we love to keep passion aglow at our feet, Like one that sitteth in shade and complacently smiles at the heat.”

3. “We are all alike, and we love to keep passion aglow at our feet, Like one that sitteth in shade and complacently smiles at the heat.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.”

4. “He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities – that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.”

5. “Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities – that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.”

6. “In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf.”

7. “From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind.”

8. “Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief’s first flakes fall silent on the heart!”

9. “Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief’s first flakes fall silent on the heart!”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “Tears are the summer showers to the soul.”

10. “Tears are the summer showers to the soul.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography.”

11. “A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves ’twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.”

12. “So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves ’twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.”

13. “When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.”

14. “If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she’s asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.”

15. “Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she’s asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “Perhaps a maiden’s bashfulness is more A matron’s lesson than our lips aver.”

16. “Perhaps a maiden’s bashfulness is more A matron’s lesson than our lips aver.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.”

17. “Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.”

18. “Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “Doth Nature draw me, ’tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.”

19. “Doth Nature draw me, ’tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.”

20. “Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.”

21. “In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer’s extinguished fire and autumn’s drifting smoke.”

22. “Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer’s extinguished fire and autumn’s drifting smoke.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “There is no gardening without humility.”

23. “There is no gardening without humility.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?”

24. “Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.”

25. “My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.”

26. “No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.”

27. “No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.”

— Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin Quote: “Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger and further reach Than they dreamed of, a billow comes bursting, how they turn and scamper and screech!”

28. “Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger and further reach Than they dreamed of, a billow comes bursting, how they turn and scamper and screech!”

— Alfred Austin

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