Thomas Campbell: Trending quotes (page 3)

“Another's sword has laid him low,
Another's and another's;
And every hand that dealt the blow—
Ah me! it was a brother's!”

Thomas Campbell

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

“And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.”

Thomas Campbell

Part II, line 98
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

Nature

“A stoic of the woods—a man without a tear.”

Thomas Campbell

Part I, stanza 23 (1809)
Gertrude of Wyoming (1809)

Tear

“The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd — till woman smiled.”

Thomas Campbell

Part II, line 37
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

World , Sadness , Smile

“Few, few shall part where many meet!
The snow shall be their winding-sheet,
And every turf beneath their feet
Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.”

Thomas Campbell

Hohenlinden, st. 8 (1802)

Parting

“Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll
Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!”

Thomas Campbell

Part II, line 263
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

Soul , Parting

“Again to the battle, Achaians!
Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!
Our land, the first garden of Liberty's tree,
It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free.”

Thomas Campbell

Song of the Greeks
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Tree , Heart

“But sad as angels for the good man's sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in.”

Thomas Campbell

Part II, line 357
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

Sadness , Angels

“That gems the starry girdle of the year.”

Thomas Campbell

Part II, line 194
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

“And rustic life and poverty
Grow beautiful beneath his touch.”

Thomas Campbell

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

Life , Beauty

“Our bugles sang truce, for the night-cloud had lower'd,
And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky;
And thousands had sunk on the ground overpower'd,
The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die.”

Thomas Campbell

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

Star , Sleep , Night

“The torrent's smoothness, ere it dash below!”

Thomas Campbell

Part III, stanza 5
Gertrude of Wyoming (1809)

“When peace and mercy, banish'd from the plain,
Sprung on the viewless winds to Heav'n again;
All, all forsook the friendless guilty mind,
But Hope, the charmer, linger'd still behind.”

Thomas Campbell

Part I, lines 37 - 40
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

Peace , Hope

“There shall he love when genial morn appears,
Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.”

Thomas Campbell

Part II, line 95
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

Love , Smile , Beauty , Tear

“Oh, how hard it is to find
The one just suited to our mind!”

Thomas Campbell

Song, st. 1

“When o'er the green undeluged earth
Heaven's covenant thou didst shine,
How came the world's grey fathers forth
To watch thy sacred sign.

And when its yellow lustre smiled
O'er mountains yet untrod,
Each mother held aloft her child
To bless the bow of God.”

Thomas Campbell

Theodric : A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825), To the Rainbow

God , World , Smile , Mountain

“Oh! once the harp of Innisfail
Was strung full high to notes of gladness;
But yet it often told a tale
Of more prevailing sadness.”

Thomas Campbell

O'Connor's Child, st. 1 (1810)

Sadness

“And rival all but Shakespeare's name below.”

Thomas Campbell

Part I, line 472
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

“While Memory watches o'er the sad review
Of joys that faded like the morning dew.”

Thomas Campbell

Part II, line 45
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

Sadness , Memory , Joy

“O Heaven! he cried, my bleeding country save!”

Thomas Campbell

Part I, line 359
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

Country