Occupation: Poet Birth: August 4, 1792 Death: July 8, 1822
This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty..
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth..
True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truth….
The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering..
The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?.
Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, wi….
Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages..
Words are but holy as the deeds they cover..
And bid them love each other and be blest: And leave the troop which errs, and which reproves, And come and be my guest, - for I am Love's..
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon..
And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. ….
You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. ….
If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we have concerning our future? If he k….
Sounds of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass.
Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb..
No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of its authority either from the….
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one la….
I love Love -- though he has wings, And like light can flee..
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?.
And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies..
Senseless is the breast and cold Which relenting love would fold; Bloodless are the veins and chill Which the pulse of pain did fill; Every li….