Ernest Dowson Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Ah, Lalage! while life is ours, Hoard not thy beauty rose and white, But pluck the pretty fleeing flowers That deck our little path of light: For all too soon we twain shall tread The bitter pastures of the dead: Estranged, sad spectres of the night. The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

2. I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng,Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind;But I was desolate and sick of an old passion,Yea, all the time, because the dance was long;I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine;And I am desolate and sick of an old passion,Yea, hungry for the lips of my desire:I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion. The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

3. I was not sorrowful, but only tiredOf everything that ever I desired. The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

4. They are not long, the days of wine and roses:Out of a misty dreamOur path emerges for awhile, then closesWithin a dream. The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson