Thomas Chatterton: Quotes about love

Thomas Chatterton was English poet, forger. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Thomas Chatterton: 28 quotes3 likes

“O Chatterton! that thou wert yet alive!
Sure thou would'st spread the canvass to the gale,
And love, with us, the tinkling team to drive
O'er peaceful Freedom's undivided dale;
And we, at sober eve, would round thee throng,
Hanging, enraptur'd, on thy stately song!
And greet with smiles the young-eyed Poesy
All deftly mask'd, as hoar Antiquity.”

Thomas Chatterton

Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Monody on the Death of Chatterton" (1794) line 126.
Criticism

“Mie love ys dedde,
Gon to hys death-bedde,
Al under the wyllowe tree. Waterre wytches, crownede wythe reytes,
Bere mee to yer leathalle tyde.
I die; I comme; mie true love waytes.
Thos the damselle spake, and dyed.”

Thomas Chatterton

Ælla; a Tragycal Enterlude, "Mynstrelles Songe", line 54.

“Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde.
Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde,
Is Charitie and Love aminge highe elves;
Knightis and Barons live for pleasure and themselves.”

Thomas Chatterton

Stanza 4.
An Excelente Balade of Charitie