Thomas Campbell: Quotes about the world

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“Let Winter come! let polar spirits sweep
The darkening world, and tempest-troubled deep!”

Thomas Campbell

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!

“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)

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

Thomas Campbell

Part I, line 381
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

“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)

“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)

“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