Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave. - James Thomson

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Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.

James Thomson

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About James Thomson

James Thomson (September 11, 1700 – August 27, 1748) was a Scottish poet and playwright.

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Alternative Names: James Thomſon

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Additional quotes by James Thomson

Crowned with the sickle, and the wheaten sheaf,
While Autumn, nodding o'er the yellow plain,
Comes jovial on.

Their only labour was to kill the time;
And labour dire it is, and weary woe,
They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme,
Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go,
Or saunter forth, with tottering steps and slow.

Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?