Robert Southey ( 10 of 21 )
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each read more
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
"How does the Water
Come down at Lodore?"
"How does the Water
Come down at Lodore?"
She comes majestic with her swelling sails,
The gallant Ship: along her watery way,
Homeward she drives read more
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.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man,
From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man,
From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky
Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray,
Each read more
Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky
Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray,
Each in the south melting.
While Washington hath left
His awful memory,
A light for after times.
While Washington hath left
His awful memory,
A light for after times.
Now, motionless and dark, eluded search
Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky,
Rose like a shower of read more
Now, motionless and dark, eluded search
Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky,
Rose like a shower of fire.
And so never ending,
But always descending.
And so never ending,
But always descending.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to read more
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
And as, when all the summer trees are seen
So bright and green,
The Holly leaves a read more
And as, when all the summer trees are seen
So bright and green,
The Holly leaves 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?
