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
roots choices affection
Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!
fire evil being-thankful
Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when, though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and fagot at command.
heaven good-intentions hell
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
kindness self omission
Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.
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.
prosperity fortune endure
Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.
freedom men mountain
Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.
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.
summer tree hollies
And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?
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.