Samuel Rogers Quotations
Samuel Rogers (30 July 1763 – 18 December 1855) was an English poet.
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- Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale,
Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.
- The Pleasures of Memory, Part ii. i, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- She was good as she was fair,
None—none on earth above her!
As pure in thought as angels are:
To know her was to love her.
- Jacqueline, Stanza 1, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- The good are better made by ill,
As odours crushed are sweeter still.
- Jacqueline, Stanza 3, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Mine be a cot beside the hill;
A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear;
A willowy brook that turns a mill,
With many a fall, shall linger near.
- A Wish, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- That very law which moulds a tear
And bids it trickle from its source,—
That law preserves the earth a sphere,
And guides the planets in their course.
- On a Tear, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Go! you may call it madness, folly;
You shall not chase my gloom away!
There 's such a charm in melancholy
I would not if I could be gay.
- To ———, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.
- Pæstum, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it:
He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.
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- Epigram, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Human Life (1819)
- A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.
- Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
- The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!
- Then never less alone than when alone.
- Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,—not dead, but gone before,— He gathers round him.
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