Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsleywas a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives that failed but led to the working reforms of the progressive era. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth12 June 1819
blood boot dog goose hey lad round trees
When all the world is young, lad, / And all the trees are green; / And every goose a swan, lad / And every lass a queen; / Then hey for boot and horse, lad, / And round the world away: / Young blood must have its course, lad,/ And every dog his day.
baby dog horse
The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away: Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.
dog lame dull
The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.
dog heart men
These glorious things-words-are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog....for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves.
dog swans blood
Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
dogs dull lame meet though work
Do the work that's nearest, / Though it's dull at whiles, / Helping, when we meet them,/ Lame dogs over stiles.
country lonely light
It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.
ashamed divine germ noble
To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue.
act chief comfort happy luxury though
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about
men sooner women work
For men must work and women must weep./ And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.
inside keeper outside turned
He did not know that a keeper is only a poacher turned outside in, and a poacher a keeper turned inside out.
free man
There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought.
across call cattle home sands
O Mary, go and call the cattle home / And call the cattle home, / And call the cattle home,/ Across the sands of Dee.
men dragons years
Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.