Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh what were man?--a world without a sun.
-- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
-- Pleasures of Hope, Part ii, Line 21
Oh what were man?--a world without a sun.
-- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
-- Pleasures of Hope, Part ii, Line 21
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- The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd-
till woman smiled. -- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)... - But sad as angels for the good man's sin,
Weep to record,
and blush to give it in. -- Thomas Campbell (1777... - And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.
-- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
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Pleasures of Hope, Part ii, Line... - That gems the starry girdle of the year.
-- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
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Pleasures of Hope, Part ii, Line... - There shall he love when genial morn appears,
Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Pleasures of Hope,... - Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,
But leave,
oh leave the light of Hope behind! What though my winged... - Hope for a season bade the world farewell,
And Freedom shriek'd as Kosciusko fell!
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Pleasures of Hope,... - Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll
Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Pleasures of Hope,... - While Memory watches o'er the sad review
Of joys that faded like the morning dew.
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Pleasures of Hope,...
