Occupation: Poet Birth: August 4, 1792 Death: July 8, 1822
All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially..
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who are conscious of no secr….
I stood within the city disinterred; And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls Of spirits passng through the streets; and heard the Mount….
In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common; and, were i….
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds..
I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear..
The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed,….
I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be..
If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced..
He hath awakened from the dream of life..
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, th….
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!.
Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw..
I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused..
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted..
Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope..
Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself..
It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found..
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it ….
The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not hear….
There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the univers….