Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Adam Lindsay Gordon

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon.

Last updated on October 5, 2024.

Adam Lindsay Gordon was a British-Australian poet, horseman, police officer and politician. He was the first Australian poet to gain considerable recognition overseas, and according to his contemporary, writer Marcus Clarke, Gordon's work represented "the beginnings of a national school of Australian poetry".

Australian - Poet | October 19, 1833 - June 24, 1870

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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

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

Adam Lindsay Gordon

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

Adam Lindsay Gordon

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

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

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

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

Adam Lindsay Gordon

Life is mostly froth and bubble

Adam Lindsay Gordon