Occupation: Poet Birth: August 4, 1792 Death: July 8, 1822
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar..
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man..
There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky....
Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an exc….
If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!.
I love tranquil solitude..
...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet..
Familiar acts are beautiful through love..
Within my heart is the lamp of love, And that is day!.
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age..
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems Omnipotent; To love, and bear; to….
I wish no living thing to suffer pain..
When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven..
To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night..
What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered ….
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it..
And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast rose from the dreams….
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present..
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will….
There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has bee….
Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and….