Poems
A source page for quotes linked to Samuel Rogers.
“A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.”
“Feeling hearts--touch them but lightly--pour A thousand melodies unheard before.”
“Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.”
“Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.”
“Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.”
“Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew.”
“To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.”
“Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.”
“Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.”
“Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.”
“I lived to write, and wrote to live.”
“To know her was to love her.”
“A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.”
“Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.”
“Gentle to others, to himself severe.”
“Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.”
“The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.”