Talk:Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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 * Two lives that once part are as ships that divide When, moment on moment, there rushes between The one and the other a sea;—  Ah, never can fall from the days that have been A gleam on the years that shall be!
 * A Lament. Compare: "Ships that pass in the night", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn, Part iii. "The Theologian’s Tale: Elizabeth" iv.


 * Memory, no less than hope, owes its charm to “the far away.”
 * A Lament.


 * When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee;  Bend on me then thy tender eyes,  As stars look on the sea.
 * When Stars are in the quiet Skies.


 * Buy my flowers,—oh buy, I pray! The blind girl comes from afar.
 * Buy my Flowers.


 * Every man has his price, I will bribe left and right.
 * Walpole (1785).


 * No weapon that slays Its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.
 * Lucile (1860).