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
wise children reading
What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.
wise sunshine men
Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.
wise law judging
A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.
wise atheist eye
O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.
wise men good-man
A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.
curses home
Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost
would-be ifs
If you would be pungent, be brief.
flame forever heaven holy love
Love is indestructible. It's holy flame forever burneth; from Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth.
considered ought three time
There are three things that ought to be considered before some things are spoken: the manner, the place, and the time
friend happy sleep thee thou
Thou hast been called, O Sleep! The friend of woe; But 'tis the happy that have called thee so
english-poet
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
burn deeper words
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn
english-poet frame hasty judgments
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
frame judgments seems
How little do they see what really is, who frame their judgments upon that which seems