Robert Southey
Robert Southey
Robert Southeywas an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843. Although his fame has long been eclipsed by that of his contemporaries and friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey's verse still enjoys some popularity...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth12 August 1774
christian character men
Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.
men bird abuse
Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on.
home terror knows
Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.
loyalty people giving
Few people give themselves time to be friends.
strong spirit affection
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
men house littles
There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion.
poverty reason-why misery
Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.
fields pulpit clergymen
The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.
children years house
A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.
sky rainbow promise
Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.
flirting play way
She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.
law sides
The laws are with us, and God on our side.
life fall dark
In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon Divine Rolls through the dark-blue depths.
heaven enemy earth
Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.