Robert Southey quotes

Robert Southey was an English Romantic poet, historian, and essayist. One of the "Lake Poets" alongside Wordsworth and Coleridge, he is well known for his verse and literary contributions. He influenced English literature and left a significant legacy through his writings and biographies. Here are 60 of his quotes:

What will not woman, gentle woman dare, When strong affection stirs her spirit up? (Robert Southey)
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. View quote
Robert Southey
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. View quote
Robert Southey
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. View quote
Robert Southey
A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden. View quote
Robert Southey
Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost. View quote
Robert Southey
My days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. View quote
Robert Southey
A man falls in love just as he falls down stairs. It is an accident. View quote
Robert Southey
Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times! View quote
Robert Southey
How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night! View quote
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Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight? (Robert Southey)
The laws are with us, and God on our side. View quote
Robert Southey
From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little, snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on. View quote
Robert Southey
And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win." "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas a famous victory. View quote
Robert Southey
In my days of youth, I remembered my God, And he hath not forgotten my age. View quote
Robert Southey
You are old, Father William." the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are grey; You are hale, Father William-a hearty old man: Now tell me the reason, I pray. View quote
Robert Southey
They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. ..... Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. ..... It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there. View quote
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 'tis the happy that have called thee so. View quote
Robert Southey
How, then, was the Devil dressed? Oh! he was in his Sunday's best; His coat was red, and his breeches were blue, And there was a hole where his tail came through. View quote
Robert Southey
It was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun, And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine. View quote
Robert Southey
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible. (Robert Southey)
The arts babblative and scribblative. View quote
Robert Southey
Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust. View quote
Robert Southey
And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok. View quote
Robert Southey
Write poetry for its own sake - not in a spirit of emulation, and not with a view to celebrity; the less you aim at that the more likely you will be to deserve and finally to obtain it. View quote
Robert Southey