Occupation: Poet Birth: August 19, 1780 Death: July 16, 1857
Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home..
A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows..
Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!.
Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living..
Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's….
Our friends, the enemy..
Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead..
Paradise is open to all kind hearts..
Flow wine, smile woman, and the universe is consoled..
What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions..
When in our days Religion is made a political engine, she exposes herself to having her sacred character forgotten. The most tolerant become intolera….
Our century is a brutal thinker..