Gerald Griffin

Gerald Griffin

Gerald Griffin (1803 – June 12, 1840) was an Irish novelist, poet and playwright.

Quotes

• A place in thy memory, dearest,
  Is all that I claim;
  To pause and look back when thou hearest
  The sound of my name.
  • A Place in thy Memory, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• When, like the rising day,
  Eileen Aroon!
  Love sends his early ray,
  Eileen Aroon!
  What makes his dawning glow
  Changeless through joy and woe?
  Only the constant know!—
  Eileen Aroon!
  • Eileen Aroon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).