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Robert Southey, born on August 12, 1774, and died on March 21, 1843, was an influential English Romantic poet. Known for his poetry and literary criticism, Southey is considered one of the significant figures in the history of English literature.

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All Men Ifs Littles May World Mind Heaven Love Life Casts Sin Spirit States Wells Wise Years Young Age Eternity Evil

Famous Robert Southey Quotes

“Go, little Book! From this my solitude I cast thee on the Waters,--go thy ways: And if, as I believe, thy vein be good, The World will find thee after many days. Be it with thee according to thy worth: Go, little Book; in faith I send thee forth.”

Ifs World Way Believe Littles Book I Believe Water Solitude Casts Be Good Thee Veins

Book:The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

“Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.”

World Love Heart Would Be Moral

Book:The Doctor, Etc

Source: The Doctor, Etc

“And when my own Mark Antony Against young Caesar strove, And Rome's whole world was set in arms, The cause was,--all for love.”

World Love Whole Young Causes My Own Arms Mark Whole World Rome Antony

Book:All for Love: And The Pilgrim to Compostella

Source: All for Love: And The Pilgrim to Compostella

“A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.”

Men World May Wise Duty Angry Good Man

Book:The life and correspondence of Robert Southey. Ed. by C.C. Southey

Source: The life and correspondence of Robert Southey. Ed. by C.C. Southey

“Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.”

World Animal Garden Cat Pet Kitten Animal World Rosebuds

Author:Robert Southey

“There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.”

Knows World Littles Home Virtue Magic Comfort Limits Circles Surround Mystic Magic In The World

Author:Robert Southey

“Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.”

World Seems Desire Natural This World Longing Creator Restlessness

Book:The life and correspondence of Robert Southey. Ed. by C.C. Southey

Source: The life and correspondence of Robert Southey. Ed. by C.C. Southey

“From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on.”

World Looks Littles Break Gone Walking Bed Devil Farms

Book:The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir of the Author

Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir of the Author

“The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!”

Ifs World Weight Eternity Graves Threshold Headstone Unendurable

Author:Robert Southey

“There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!”

World Moving Dog Another World

Book:Joan of Arc: and minor poems

Source: Joan of Arc: and minor poems

About the Author

Born: August 12, 1774
Died: March 21, 1843
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 108

Books & Sources

The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One VolumeRelated source material

The Doctor, &cRelated source material

The Doctor, EtcRelated source material

Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two VolumesRelated source material

Southey's Common-place BookRelated source material

MadocRelated source material

Selections from the Poems of Robert Southey: Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young PersonsRelated source material

Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of SocietyRelated source material

The Life of Wesley, and the rise and progress of methodismRelated source material

The Poetical Works of Robert SoutheyRelated source material

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