O dearer far than light and life are dear.
While all the future, for thy purer soul,
With "sober certainties" of love is blest.
Wordsworth—Poems Founded on the Affections. VII. 115. (Knight's ed.)
| seealso = (See also Mn/roN)
| topic =
| page = 484
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| text = <poem>Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever.
Sir Thomas Wyatt—Songs and Sonnets. A
Renouncing of Love.
LOVE LIES BLEEDING
Amarantus Caudatus
Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover
Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading:
Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her:
Love lies bleeding.
Swinburne—Love Lies Bleeding.
This flower that first appeared as summer's guest
Preserves her beauty 'mid autumnal leaves
And to her mournful habits fondly cleaves.
| author = Wordsworth
| work = Love Lies Bleeding. (Companion Poem.)
.
LOYALTY (See Fidelity, Patriotism, Royalty)
LUCK
O, once in each man's life, at least,
Good luck knocks at his door;
And wit to seize the flitting guest
Need never hunger more.
But while the loitering idler waits
Good luck beside his fire,
The bold heart storms at fortune's gates,
And conquers its desire.
Lewis J. Bates—Good Luck.
As ill-luck would have it.
| author = Cervantes
| work = Don Quixote.
| place = Pt. L Bk. I. Ch. II.
.
As they who make
Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
George Eliot—The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. I.
A farmer travelling with his load
Picked up a horseshoe on the road,
And nailed it fast to his barn door,
That luck might down upon liim pour;
That every blessing known in life
Might crown his homestead and his wife,
And never any kind of harm
Descend upon his growing farm.
James T. Fields—The Lucky Horseshoe.
Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.
Heywood—Proverbs. Pt. I. Ch. IX.
| seealso = (See also Tennyson)
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.
Douglas Jerrold—Jerrold' s Wit. Meeting
Trouble Half-Way.
Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
Juvenal—Satires. VII. 202.
Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.
"Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure,
For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory
O'More.
Samuel Lover—Rory O'More.
| seealso = (See also Merry Wives op Windsor)
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 15
| text = Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth
The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.
| author = Milton
| work = At a Vacation Exercise in the College.
.
By the luckiest stars.
All's Well That Ends Well. Act I. Sc. 3. L.
252.
When mine hours were nice and lucky.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act III. Sc. 13. L. 179.
And good luck go with thee.
As good luck would have it.
Merry Wives of Windsor. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 83.
Goodluckliesinoddnumbers * * * They
say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in
nativity, chance, or death.
MerryWives of Windsor. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 2.
| seealso = (See also Lover)
| topic =
| page = 484
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| num =
| text = <poem>And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck
Shall fling her old shoe after.
| author = Tennyson
| work = Will Waterproofs Lyrical Monologue. St. 27.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Heywood)
.
LUXURY
Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.
To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair
of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt
on his back.
Tom Brown—Laconics.
| seealso = (See also Sorbienne)
| topic =
| page = 484
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{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon,
So costly were they; carpets, every stitch
Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish
You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.
| author = Byron
| work = Don Juan. Canto V. St. 65.
.
Blest hour! It was a luxury—to be!
Coleridge—Reflections on having left a Place
of Retirement. L. 43.
O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree.
