James Beattie
James Beattie
James Beattie FRSEwas a Scottish poet, moralist and philosopher...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 October 1735
enamoured merry sing
Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, and sing enamoured of the nut-brown maid.
breathed lips sweet words
How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.
dawn days delightful faithful fond husband jealousy looked love nor season wedding
No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.
hamlet heard mortals naught sweets torrent
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.
amidst faith inflexible invincible patient serene though
Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms.
brought goals hopefully last progress score three undo
The gaffer brought me in to score goals and I have always said that is what I can do. One goal, or two or three could set it off and hopefully we can progress from there and not undo what we did last year.
false leads science
By the glare of false science betrayed, that leads to bewilder and dazzles to blind.