Thomas Campbell: Trending quotes (page 2)

Thomas Campbell

O'Connor's Child, Stanza 5
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The meteor flag of England
Shall yet terrific burn,
Till danger's troubled night depart,
And the star of peace return.”

Thomas Campbell

Stanza 4
Ye Mariners of England http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Campbell/ye%20mariners_of_england.htm (1800)

Peace , Star , Night

“Britannia needs no bulwarks,
No towers along the steep;
Her march is o'er the mountain waves,
Her home is on the deep.”

Thomas Campbell

Stanza 3
Ye Mariners of England http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Campbell/ye%20mariners_of_england.htm (1800)

Home , Mountain

“Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame,
The power of grace, the magic of a name?”

Thomas Campbell

Part II, line 5
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

“Absence! is not the soul torn by it
From more than light, or life, or breath?
'Tis Lethe's gloom, but not its quiet,—
The pain without the peace of death!”

Thomas Campbell

"Absence", The poetical works of Thomas Campbell (1837)

Life , Death , Pain , Peace

“Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh what were man? — a world without a sun.”

Thomas Campbell

Part II, line 21
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

World , Smile , Beauty , Sun

“Come back! come back!" he cried in grief
"Across this stormy water;
And I'll forgive your Highland chief,
My daughter! O my daughter!”

Thomas Campbell

Stanza 13
Lord Ullin's Daughter

Forgiveness , Water , Daughters

“O star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there,
To waft us home the message of despair?”

Thomas Campbell

Part II, line 325
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

Home , Star , Science , Despair

“"Now who be ye would cross Lochgyle,
This dark and stormy water?"
"O I'm the chief of Ulva's isle,
And this, Lord Ullin's daughter.”

Thomas Campbell

Stanza 2
Lord Ullin's Daughter

Water , Daughters

“Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,
Whose truths electrify the sage.”

Thomas Campbell

Ode to the Memory of Burns
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Truth , Heart

“Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell,
And Freedom shrieked—as Kosciusko fell!”

Thomas Campbell

Part I, line 381
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

World , Hope , Freedom , Season

“In life's morning march, when my bosom was young.”

Thomas Campbell

The Soldier's Dream http://www.bartleby.com/106/267.html

Life

“There was silence deep as death,
And the boldest held his breath,
For a time.”

Thomas Campbell

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

Death , Silence , Time

“Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low,
With his back to the field and his feet to the foe,
And leaving in battle no blot on his name,
Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.”

Thomas Campbell

Lochiel's Warning (1802)

Death

“But sorrow return'd with the dawning of morn,
And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away.”

Thomas Campbell

The Soldier's Dream http://www.bartleby.com/106/267.html

Dreams

“On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow,
His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below.”

Thomas Campbell

Part I, line 385
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

Water

“To-morrow let us do or die.”

Thomas Campbell

Part III, stanza 37
Gertrude of Wyoming (1809)

“Thus, while Elijah's burning wheels prepare,
From Carmel's height, to sweep the fields of air,
The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began,
Dropt on the world — a sacred gift to man.”

Thomas Campbell

Part I, lines 41 - 44
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

World

“Ye are brothers! ye are men!
And we conquer but to save.”

Thomas Campbell

Battle of the Baltic (1805), st. 5

Men

“To bear is to conquer our fate.”

Thomas Campbell

On visiting a Scene in Argyleshire
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Fate