Occupation: Poet Birth: August 4, 1792 Death: July 8, 1822
I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers..
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the v….
O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb.
February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be ….
The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that which the habitual s….
It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend ….
Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief..
He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe..
When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sa….
I love all waste and solitary places..
A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wi….
... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time..
Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful..
A dream has power to poison sleep..
Jealousy's eyes are green..
Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its….
Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue..
Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes..
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on..
Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found..
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness..