Robert Southey: Trending quotes

“And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and tasted that; and that was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right.”

Robert Southey book Goldilocks and the Three Bears

"The Story of the Three Bears", The Doctor http://www.edsanders.com/stories/3bears/3bears.htm (1837).

“Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.”

Robert Southey

Books

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”

Robert Southey

Happy , Friendship , Missing You , Goodbye

“The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.”

Robert Southey

Loss , Time

“"Great news! bloody news!" cried a newsman;
The Devil said, "Stop, let me see!"
"Great news? bloody news?" thought the Devil;
"The bloodier the better for me."”

Robert Southey

St. 33.
The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)

“Rising and leaping,
Sinking and creeping,
Swelling and sweeping,
Showering and springing,
Flying and flinging,
Writhing and ringing,
Eddying and whisking,
Spouting and frisking,
Turning and twisting,
Around and around
With endless rebound:
Smiting and fighting,
A sight to delight in;
Confounding, astounding,
Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound.”

Robert Southey

St. 4.
The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)

Spring , Fight , Flying

“And so never ending, but always descending,
Sounds and motions forever and ever are blending
All at once and all o'er, with a mighty uproar, —
And this way the water comes down at Lodore.”

Robert Southey

St. 8.
The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)

Way , Water

“It was a summer evening,
Old Kaspar's work was done,
And he before his cottage door
Was sitting in the sun,
And by him sported on the green
His little grandchild Wilhelmine.”

Robert Southey

St. 1.
The Battle of Blenheim http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_battle_of_blenheim.html (1798)

Sport , Sun , Summer

“"And everybody praised the Duke
Who this great fight did win."
"But what good came of it at last?"
Quoth little Peterkin.
"Why, that I cannot tell," said he,
"But 'twas a famous victory."”

Robert Southey

St. 11.
The Battle of Blenheim http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_battle_of_blenheim.html (1798)

Victory , Fight

“What will not woman, gentle woman dare,
When strong affection stirs her spirit up?”

Robert Southey

Madoc in Wales, Part II, 2 (1805).

Strong

“Where Washington hath left
His awful memory
A light for after times!”

Robert Southey

Ode written during the War with America (1814).

Light , Memory , Time

“And last of all an Admiral came,
A terrible man with a terrible name,—
A name which you all know by sight very well,
But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.”

Robert Southey

March to Moscow, St. 8 (1814).

“It runs through the reeds,
And away it proceeds,
Through meadow and glade,
In sun and in shade,
And through the wood-shelter,
Among crags in its flurry,
Helter-skelter,
Hurry-skurry.”

Robert Southey

St. 2.
The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)

Sun

“In my days of youth, I remembered my God,
And he hath not forgotten my age.”

Robert Southey

The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them, st. 6.

God , Youth , Age

“Cold is thy heart and as frozen as Charity!”

Robert Southey

The Soldier's Wife http://www.lib.utexas.edu/epoetry/southeyr.q3c/southeyr.q3c-95.html, l. 11 (1795).

Heart

“Wild dreams! but such
As Plato lov'd; such as with holy zeal
Our Milton worshipp'd. Blessed hopes! awhile
From man with-held, even to the latter days
When Christ shall come, and all things be fulfill'd.”

Robert Southey

For the apartment in Chepstow Castle where Henry Marten the Regicide was imprisoned thirty years.

Dreams , Hope , Christ

“He came to ask what he had found,
That was so large, and smooth, and round.”

Robert Southey

St. 2.
The Battle of Blenheim http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_battle_of_blenheim.html (1798)

“Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock,
“Oh Christ! It is the Inchcape Rock!””

Robert Southey The Inchcape Rock

The Inchcape Rock, st. 15.

Christ

“How does the water
Come down at Lodore?”

Robert Southey

St. 1.
The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)

Water

“Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.”

Robert Southey

Letter to Charlotte Brontë in March 1837, reported in Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë, Vol. I (1857), p. 139, and in Mumby Letters of Literary Men, Vol. II (1906), p. 185.

Life , Literature , Business