Occupation: Poet Birth: August 4, 1792 Death: July 8, 1822
a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick!.
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?.
The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and….
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year..
[L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The brightest hour of unbor….
Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing..
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance..
What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves..
Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe?.
The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves..
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow..
Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness..
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!.
Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief..
Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all….
O! I burn with impatience for the moment of the dissolution of intolerance; it has injured me..
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, an….
Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches..
It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the s….
By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!.