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Adam Lindsay Gordon Quotes

There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won't anymore, And who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won't anymore, And who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

Adam Lindsay Gordon
Life, Letting Go, Future

Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbor, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

Adam Lindsay Gordon
Life, Kindness, Two
'Ye Wearie Wayfarer' 'Fytte 8'

Life is mostly froth and bubble

Adam Lindsay Gordon
Life, Kindness, Bubbles
'Ye Wearie Wayfarer' 'Fytte 8'

Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

Adam Lindsay Gordon
Past, People, Worry

In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.

Adam Lindsay Gordon
Years, Forget, Trouble
Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”

I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go.

Adam Lindsay Gordon
Life, Men, Chance
Adam Lindsay Gordon (1912). “The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon: Edited with Introduction, Notes & Appendixes, by Frank Maldon Robb”

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

Adam Lindsay Gordon
Death, Resolution, Vain
Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”

I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.

Adam Lindsay Gordon
Strong, Secret Places, Sea
The Swimmer', stanza 5, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).

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