Thomas Campbell quotes
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844): Scottish poet. The library holds 66 quotes by Thomas Campbell, drawn from Pleasures of Hope, Lochiel’s Warning, The Pleasures of Hope and other works. The 60 below are the most quoted; search the library in the maker for the rest.
Often about: nature, grief, happiness, life, time, war
The best-known Thomas Campbell quotes
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But sad as angels for the good man’s sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in.
Pleasures of Hope, Part ii. Line 357 -
The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger’s troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.
Ye Mariners of England -
’Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Pleasures of Hope, Part i. Line 7 -
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave, oh leave the light of Hope behind! What though my winged hours of bliss have been Like angel visits, few and far between.
Pleasures of Hope, Part ii. Line 375 -
And rustic life and poverty Grow beautiful beneath his touch.
Ode to the Memory of Burns -
There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time.
Battle of the Baltic -
Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?—a world without a sun.
Pleasures of Hope, Part ii. Line 21 -
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.
Lochiel’s Warning -
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.
Hohenlinden -
The world was sad, the garden was a wild, And man the hermit sigh’d—till woman smiled.
Pleasures of Hope, Part ii. Line 37 -
On Prague’s proud arch the fires of ruin glow, His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below.
Pleasures of Hope, Part i. Line 385 -
Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name?
Pleasures of Hope, Pt. II -
Triumphal arch, that fill’st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.
To the Rainbow -
Drink ye to her that each loves best! And if you nurse a flame That’s told but to her mutual breast, We will not ask her name.
Drink ye to Her -
Ye mariners of England, That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!
Ye Mariners of England -
Beauty’s tears are lovelier than her smile.
The Pleasures of Hope, Pt. i., Line 180 -
Coming events cast their shadows before.
Lochiel’s Warning -
To bear is to conquer our fate.
On visiting a Scene in Argyleshire -
To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.
Hallowed Ground -
The torrent’s smoothness, ere it dash below!
Gertrude of Wyoming, Part iii. Stanza 5 -
In the human breast two master-passions cannot coexist.
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Now our fates from unmomentous things May rise like rivers out of little springs.
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Yon friendless man, at whose dejected eye Th’ unfeeling proud one looks, and passes by, Condemned on penury’s barren path to roam, Scorned by the world, and left without a home.
Pleasures of Hope -
There shall he love when genial morn appears, Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.
Pleasures of Hope, Part ii. Line 95 -
Whose lines are mottoes of the heart, Whose truths electrify the sage.
Ode to the Memory of Burns -
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave—oh! leave the light of Hope behind!
The Pleasures of Hope, Pt. II -
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.
Song of the Greeks -
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!
O’Connor’s Child, Stanza 10 -
Oh leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!
The Beech-Tree’s Petition -
What though my wingèd hours of bliss have been, Like angel-visits, few and far between.
The Pleasures of Hope, Pt. II -
False Wizard, avaunt! I have marshalled my clan, Their swords are a thousand, their bosoms are one! They are true to the last of their blood and their breath, And like reapers descend to the harvest of death.
Lochiel’s Warning -
The world was sad.—the garden was a wild; And Man, the hermit, sighed—till Woman smiled.
Pleasures of Hope, Pt. I -
In life’s morning march, when my bosom was young.
The Soldier’s Dream -
When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Ye Mariners of England -
But sorrow return’d with the dawning of morn, And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away.
The Soldier’s Dream -
There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill; For his country he sigh’d, when at twilight repairing To wander alone by the wind-beaten hill.
The Exile of Erin -
I watch the wheels of Nature’s mazy plan, And learn the future by the past of man.
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The sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.
The Soldier’s Dream -
Auspicious hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe.
The Pleasures of Hope, Pt. i., Line 45 -
’Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.
Lochiel’s Warning -
Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o’er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep.
Ye Mariners of England -
Who hath not own’d, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name?
Pleasures of Hope, Part ii. Line 5 -
While Memory watches o’er the sad review Of joys that faded like the morning dew.
Pleasures of Hope, Part ii. Line 45 -
The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave!
Hohenlinden -
Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry.
Hohenlinden -
O star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, To waft us home the message of despair?
Pleasures of Hope, Part ii. Line 325 -
O Heaven! he cried, my bleeding country save!
Pleasures of Hope, Part i. Line 359 -
Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a love-lorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you’re doing, In my cheek’s pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing, Wed, or cease to woo.
Maid’s Remonstrance -
Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness o’er the parting soul!
Pleasures of Hope, Part ii. Line 263 -
A stoic of the woods,—a man without a tear.
Gertrude of Wyoming, Part i. Stanza 23 -
The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!
Hohenlinden -
O Love! in such a wilderness as this.
Gertrude of Wyoming, Part iii. Stanza 1 -
Lochiel, Lochiel! beware of the day; For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal; ’Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.
Lochiel’s Warning -
I am convinced that there is no man that knows life well, and remembers all the incidents of his past existence, who would accept it again; we are certainly here to punish precedent sins.
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One could take down a book from a shelf ten times more wise and witty than almost any man’s conversation.
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There live, alas! of heaven-directed mien, Of cultured soul, and sapient eye serene, Who hail thee, Man! the pilgrim of a day, Spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay, O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, To waft us home the message of despair?
Pleasures of Hope -
Hope for a season bade the world farewell, And Freedom shriek’d as Kosciusko fell!
Pleasures of Hope, Part i. Line 381 -
Without the smile from partial beauty won, O, what were man?—a world without a sun.
Pleasures of Hope, Pt. II -
Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you ’tis true: Yet wildings of nature, I dote upon you, For ye waft me to summers of old When the earth teemed around me with fairy delight, And when daisies and buttercups gladdened my sight, Like treasures of silver and gold.
Field Flowers -
What millions died that Caesar might be great!
Where these quotes come from
- Pleasures of Hope (19 quotes)
- Lochiel’s Warning (6 quotes)
- The Pleasures of Hope (6 quotes)
- Ye Mariners of England (4 quotes)
- Hohenlinden (4 quotes)
- Gertrude of Wyoming (3 quotes)
- The Soldier’s Dream (3 quotes)
- Ode to the Memory of Burns (2 quotes)
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