Occupation: Poet Birth: August 4, 1792 Death: July 8, 1822
Can man be free if woman be a slave?.
Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry..
The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man..
It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them, but mo….
Peter was dull; he was at first Dull; - Oh, so dull - so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed - Still with his dulness was he cursed - D….
The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it..
That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon..
Necessity, thou mother of the world!.
Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach..
I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and derive Experience from his folly….
...What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must be supreme, establishing his throne O….
And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come..
To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign..
Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away..
Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?.
He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, b….
Love, from its awful throne of patient power In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep, And narrow ….
Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life wh….
Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song..
No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not ….
O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?.