Thomas Campbell Quotes

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O star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there,
To waft us home the message of despair?

Thomas Campbell

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.

Thomas Campbell

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.

Thomas Campbell

Let us think of them that sleep,
Full many a fathom deep,
By thy wild and stormy steep,
Elsinore!

Thomas Campbell

"Now who be ye would cross Lochgyle,
This dark and stormy water?"
"O I'm the chief of Ulva's isle,
And this, Lord Ullin's daughter.

Thomas Campbell

When peace and mercy, banish'd from the plain,
Sprung on the viewless winds to Heav'n again;
All, all forsook the friendless guilty mind,
But Hope, the charmer, linger'd still behind.

Thomas Campbell

With thunders from her native oak
She quells the floods below.

Thomas Campbell

A stoic of the woods — a man without a tear.

Thomas Campbell

Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.

Thomas Campbell

Thomas Campbell

Thomas Campbell

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Born: July 27, 1777

Died: June 15, 1844 (aged 66)

Bio: Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet chiefly remembered for his sentimental poetry dealing especially with human affairs.

Known for:

Gertrude of Wyoming (1809)
The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell (1811)
Frederick The Great And His Times (1842)

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