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The Torrent's Smoothness, Ere It Dash Below!
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The torrent's smoothness, ere it dash below!
-- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
-- Gertrude of Wyoming, Part iii, Stanza 5
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O Love! in such a wilderness as this.
-- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Gertrude of Wyoming, Part iii, Stanza 1...
A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.
-- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Gertrude of Wyoming, Part i, Stanza 23...
And rival all but Shakespeare's name below.
-- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Pleasures of Hope, Part i, Line 472...
Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name?
-- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Pleasures of Hope, Part ii, Line 5...
On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow, His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below.
-- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Pleasures of Hope, Part i, Line 385...
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently
for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness....
And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.
-- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Pleasures of Hope, Part ii, Line 98...
But Hope, the charmer, linger'd still behind.
-- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Pleasures of Hope, Part i, Line 40...
That gems the starry girdle of the year.
-- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Pleasures of Hope, Part ii, Line 194...