Thomas Campbell Quotes

One moment may with bliss repay Unnumbered hours of pain.

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.

How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning.

And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!

Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore And coming events cast their shadows before.

To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

To bear is to conquer our fate.

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

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

What millions died - that Caesar might be great!

Never wedding ever wooing Still a lovelorn heart pursuing Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing Wed or cease to woo.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.