Occupation: Poet Birth: July 30, 1763 Death: December 18, 1855
Oh! she was good as she was fair. None-none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are, To know her was to love her..
Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire..
Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible..
Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew..
Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail..
Long on the wave reflected lustres of play..
Then never less alone than when alone..
The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand mel….
A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip..
Feeling hearts--touch them but lightly--pour A thousand melodies unheard before..
The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd, The child is born by many a pang endear'd And now the mother's ear has caught his cry; O grant the ch….
Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts..
Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head..
Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it..
That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course..
When a new book is published, read an old one..
To vanish in the chinks that Time has made..
To know her was to love her..
Gentle to others, to himself severe..
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else..
Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men..