Glorious Burden

Famous quotes containing the words glorious and/or burden:

    My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
    And in the heavens write your glorious name.
    Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue,
    Our love shall live, and later life renew.
    Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love’s gentle sport;
    By his own talents he worked his undoing.
    Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved,
    Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)