Occupation: Poet Birth: August 4, 1792 Death: July 8, 1822
The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on..
The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains th….
Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierce Into the heights of love's rare universe, Are chains of lead around its flight of fire-- I….
A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren..
Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls.
Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone? Why dost thou pass….
Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on..
Lightning my pilot sits; In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It struggles and howls at fits; Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion, This pi….
Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases exclu….
Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow..
I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek,….
As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief..
Here I swear, and as I break my oath may ... eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I ….
The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending sp….
We know not what we do When we speak words..
The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning..
When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed..
I love Love - though he has wings, And like light can flee, But above all other things, Spirit, I love thee - Thou art love and life! Oh come, M….
Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A….
Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense..
It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love,….