While Memory watches o'er the sad review
Of joys that faded like the morning dew.
Thomas Campbell Quotes
1777–1844 Scotland
Thomas Campbell (July 27, 1777 – June 15, 1844) was a Scottish poet, who served as Lord Rector of Glasgow University (1826–1829).
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Also known as: Campbell, Thomas, Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground
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In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere
That gems the starry girdle of the year.
Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,
Whose truths electrify the sage.
Star that bringest home the bee,
And sett'st the weary labourer free!
Theodric: A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825)
While the battle rages loud and long,
And the stormy winds do blow.
Ye Mariners of England (1800)
With thunders from her native oak,
She quells the floods below.
Ye Mariners of England (1800)
And rustic life and poverty
Grow beautiful beneath his touch.
Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind,
But leave,—oh! leave the light of Hope behind!
O Heaven! he cried, my bleeding country save!
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
When the stormy winds do blow;
When the battle rages loud and long,
And the stormy winds do blow.
But sorrow return'd with the dawning of morn,
And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away.
How glorious fall the valiant, sword in hand,
In front of battle for their native land!
Where Andes, giant of the western star,
With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd.
Ye are brothers! ye are men!
And we conquer but to save.
Song is but the eloquence of truth.
Theodric: A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825)
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Let Winter come! let polar spirits sweep
The darkening world, and tempest-troubled deep!
The Pleasures of Hope (1799)
Theodric: A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Campbell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.