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
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.
children years house
A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.
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
considered ought three time
There are three things that ought to be considered before some things are spoken: the manner, the place, and the time
english-poet frame hasty judgments
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
burn deeper words
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn
english-poet
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.