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
marriage men thinking
A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.
would-be ifs
If you would be pungent, be brief.
wise children reading
What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.
flirting play way
She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.
strength over-you mind
Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.
heaven enemy earth
Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.
home like-you young
Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost.
poverty reason-why misery
Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.
home terror knows
Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.
wings bees sound
The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.
home character eye
Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.
eternity graves threshold
The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.
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 frame hasty judgments
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.