Leigh Hunt
Leigh Hunt
James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist, poet, and writer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth19 October 1784
dream egypt vision
It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands.
beautiful
The beautiful attracts the beautiful.
garden soul mood
This garden has a soul, I know its moods.
safety church rooms
The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.
cheerful littles firsts
If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.
justice tree poetic
Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
heart june lazy
Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.
sorrow tears despair
Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.
tired sleep past
It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labour of the day is gone
kissing blue shade
We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our breath and blueness is.
faces admirer anglers
A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish.
acceptance sacrifice self
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
life bishops cupid
If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be; The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!'
morning food taste
Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.