Thomas Campbell:
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Famous Thomas Campbell Quotes
“To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.”
Hallowed Ground (1825)
Variant: To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
The Exile of Erin
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Drink ye to Her
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Stanza 1
Ye Mariners of England http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Campbell/ye%20mariners_of_england.htm (1800)
“The hunter and the deer a shade.”
O'Connor's Child, Stanza 5
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Thomas Campbell Quotes about the world
“Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh what were man? — a world without a sun.”
Part II, line 21
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd — till woman smiled.”
Part II, line 37
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell,
And Freedom shrieked—as Kosciusko fell!”
Part I, line 381
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“Let Winter come! let polar spirits sweep
The darkening world, and tempest-troubled deep!”
Part II, line 115–124
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Context: Let Winter come! let polar spirits sweep
The darkening world, and tempest-troubled deep!
Though boundless snows the withered heath deform,
And the dim sun scarce wanders through the storm,
Yet shall the smile of social love repay,
With mental light, the melancholy day!
And, when its short and sullen noon is o'er,
The ice-chained waters slumbering on the shore,
How bright the fagots in his little hall
Blaze on the hearth, and warm the pictured wall!
Theodric : A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825), To the Rainbow
Thomas Campbell Quotes about life
"Absence", The poetical works of Thomas Campbell (1837)
“In life's morning march, when my bosom was young.”
The Soldier's Dream http://www.bartleby.com/106/267.html
“Angel of life! thy glittering wings explore
Earth's loneliest bounds, and Ocean's wildest shore.”
Part I, lines 45 - 54
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Context: p>Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow
Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe:
Won by their sweets, in nature's languid hour,
The way-worn pilgrim seeks thy summer bower;There, as the wild bee murmurs on the wing,
What peaceful dreams thy handmaid spirits bring!
What viewless forms th' Æolian organ play,
And sweep the furrow'd lines of anxious thought away!Angel of life! thy glittering wings explore
Earth's loneliest bounds, and Ocean's wildest shore.</p
Lochiel's Warning http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/48723 (1802), a poem regarding "Gentle Lochiel", Donald Cameron of Lochiel, and the final defeat of his forces and other Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden, in which he was badly wounded.
“And rustic life and poverty
Grow beautiful beneath his touch.”
Ode to the Memory of Burns
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Thomas Campbell: Trending quotes
“How glorious is thy girdle cast
O'er mountain, tower, and town”
Theodric : A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825), To the Rainbow
Context: p>How glorious is thy girdle cast
O'er mountain, tower, and town,
Or mirror'd in the ocean vast,
A thousand fathoms down! As fresh in yon horizon dark,
As young thy beauties seem,
As when the eagle from the ark
First sported in thy beam.For, faithful to its sacred page,
Heaven still rebuilds thy span,
Nor lets the type grow pale with age
That first spoke peace to man.</p
</p><p>Still seem, as to my childhood's sight,
A midway station given,
For happy spirits to alight,
Betwixt the earth and heaven.</p>
Theodric : A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825), To the Rainbow
“With thee, sweet Hope! resides the heav'nly light,
That pours remotest rapture on the sight”
Part I, lines 22 - 25
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Context: With thee, sweet Hope! resides the heav'nly light,
That pours remotest rapture on the sight:
Thine is the charm of life's bewilder'd way.
That calls each slumb'ring passion into play.
Thomas Campbell Quotes
Theodric : A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825), To the Rainbow
Context: p>How glorious is thy girdle cast
O'er mountain, tower, and town,
Or mirror'd in the ocean vast,
A thousand fathoms down! As fresh in yon horizon dark,
As young thy beauties seem,
As when the eagle from the ark
First sported in thy beam.For, faithful to its sacred page,
Heaven still rebuilds thy span,
Nor lets the type grow pale with age
That first spoke peace to man.</p
“Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,
But leave, oh! leave the light of Hope behind!”
Part II, line 375
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Context: Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,
But leave, oh! leave the light of Hope behind!
What though my wingèd hours of bliss have been
Like angels visits, few and far between.
“What potent spirit guides the raptur'd eye
To pierce the shades of dim futurity?”
Source: Part I, lines 14 - 21, Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Context: p>What potent spirit guides the raptur'd eye
To pierce the shades of dim futurity?
Can Wisdom lend, with all her heav'nly pow'r,
The pledge of Joy's anticipated hour?Ah, no! she darkly sees the fate of man—
Her dim horizon bounded to a span;
Or, if she hold an image to the view,
Tis nature pictur'd too severely true.</p
Theodric : A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825), To the Rainbow
Context: p>Methinks, thy jubilee to keep,
The first-made anthem rang
On earth deliver'd from the deep,
And the first poet sang.Nor ever shall the Muse's eye
Unraptured greet thy beam:
Theme of primeval prophecy,
Be still the poet's theme!</p
Theodric : A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825), To the Rainbow
Context: p>Methinks, thy jubilee to keep,
The first-made anthem rang
On earth deliver'd from the deep,
And the first poet sang.Nor ever shall the Muse's eye
Unraptured greet thy beam:
Theme of primeval prophecy,
Be still the poet's theme!</p
“The combat deepens. On, ye brave,
Who rush to glory or the grave!”
Hohenlinden http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=3042&poem=13489, st. 7 (1802)
Context: The combat deepens. On, ye brave,
Who rush to glory or the grave!
Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave,
And charge with all thy chivalry!
“On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh,
No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I”
The Harper, st. 1 (1799)
Context: On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh,
No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I;
No harp like my own could so cheerily play,
And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.
Theodric : A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825), To the Rainbow
Context: p>Can all that optics teach, unfold
Thy form to please me so,
As when I dreamt of gems and gold
Hid in thy radiant bow?When Science from Creation's face
Enchantment's veil withdraws,
What lovely visions yield their place
To cold material laws! And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams,
But words of the Most High,
Have told why first thy robe of beams
Was woven in the sky.</p
“The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything.”
Source: My Big TOE - The Complete Trilogy
Stanza 4
Ye Mariners of England http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Campbell/ye%20mariners_of_england.htm (1800)
Stanza 3
Ye Mariners of England http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Campbell/ye%20mariners_of_england.htm (1800)
“Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame,
The power of grace, the magic of a name?”
Part II, line 5
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“O star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there,
To waft us home the message of despair?”
Part II, line 325
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,
Whose truths electrify the sage.”
Ode to the Memory of Burns
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“There was silence deep as death,
And the boldest held his breath,
For a time.”
Battle of the Baltic (1805), st. 2 http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=3042&poem=17248; a poem about the Battle of Copenhagen
“But sorrow return'd with the dawning of morn,
And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away.”
The Soldier's Dream http://www.bartleby.com/106/267.html
“On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow,
His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below.”
Part I, line 385
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“Ye are brothers! ye are men!
And we conquer but to save.”
Battle of the Baltic (1805), st. 5
“To bear is to conquer our fate.”
On visiting a Scene in Argyleshire
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
O'Connor's Child, Stanza 10
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.”
Part II, line 98
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“A stoic of the woods—a man without a tear.”
Part I, stanza 23 (1809)
Gertrude of Wyoming (1809)
“Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll
Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!”
Part II, line 263
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Song of the Greeks
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“But sad as angels for the good man's sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in.”
Part II, line 357
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
The Soldier's Dream http://www.bartleby.com/106/267.html
Part I, lines 37 - 40
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“There shall he love when genial morn appears,
Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.”
Part II, line 95
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“While Memory watches o'er the sad review
Of joys that faded like the morning dew.”
Part II, line 45
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“O Heaven! he cried, my bleeding country save!”
Part I, line 359
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“Oh leave this barren spot to me!
Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!”
The Beech Tree's Petition http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/41515, st. 1
“Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.”
Part I, line 7
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
“While the battle rages loud and long,
And the stormy winds do blow.”
Stanza 1
Ye Mariners of England http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Campbell/ye%20mariners_of_england.htm (1800)
