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
desire world longing
Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.
dog moving world
There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!
world weight headstone
The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!
love rome world
And when my own Mark Antony Against young Caesar strove, And Rome's whole world was set in arms, The cause was,--all for love.
love heart world
Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.
home magic-in-the-world circles
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.
curses home
Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost
wise children reading
What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.
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