Occupation: Poet Birth: August 4, 1792 Death: July 8, 1822
Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred..
So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he ….
Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to bear..
It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things..
Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; The foul cubs like their parents are..
In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue..
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful auth….
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too..
Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war..
Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been ….
Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea..
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root o….
... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impres….
Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!.
The conceptions which any nation or individual entertains of the God of its popular worship may be inferred from their own actions and opinions, whic….
The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream. Have ye done well?.
The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose..
Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother's hate, Hath drunk so deep the cup of bitter fate As that poor wretc….
Peace is in the grave..
Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of their inter….
The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought..