James Thomson
James Thomson
Scottish poet, dramatist, and lyricist known for his poetry collection The Seasons and for the text of the song "Rule, Brittania! His last work, The Castle of Indolence, was published just before his early death.
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth11 September 1700
blooms buds dying flower gather rose shall time tomorrow
Gather the rose buds while ye may, old time is still a flying, And that same flower that blooms today, tomorrow shall be dying
depending earnings wants
His earnings go up and down depending on what he wants to do.
king powerful rejoicing
But yonder comes the powerful king of day,/ Rejoicing in the east.
rule varied winter
See, Winter comes to rule the varied year.
decides lucky mighty oft
A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate/ Of mighty monarchs.
beauties bending stands statue tries veil
So stands the statue that enchants the world,/ So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,/ The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.
unrest woe depth
Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope Of all our universe, with desperate hope To find some solace for your wild unrest.
life statues verse
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
imagination nature paint
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
caution courage firm sure
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
death forever good heart life mind rolls round
The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.
form happiness others people
That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others
britons rule
Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.