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Robert Southey war ein englischer Dichter, Geschichtsschreiber und Kritiker. Er gehört zur „Seeschule“ um William Wordsworth und Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. August 1774 – 21. März 1843
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“And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and tasted that; and that was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right.”

Robert Southey buch Goldilocks and the Three Bears

"The Story of the Three Bears", The Doctor http://www.edsanders.com/stories/3bears/3bears.htm (1837).

“"Great news! bloody news!" cried a newsman;
The Devil said, "Stop, let me see!"
"Great news? bloody news?" thought the Devil;
"The bloodier the better for me."”

Robert Southey

St. 33. <br class="br"> The Devil&#x27;s Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)

“It was a summer evening,
Old Kaspar's work was done,
And he before his cottage door
Was sitting in the sun,
And by him sported on the green
His little grandchild Wilhelmine.”

Robert Southey

St. 1. <br class="br"> The Battle of Blenheim http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_battle_of_blenheim.html (1798)

“Where Washington hath left
His awful memory
A light for after times!”

Robert Southey

Ode written during the War with America (1814).

“In my days of youth, I remembered my God,
And he hath not forgotten my age.”

Robert Southey

The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them, st. 6.

“Cold is thy heart and as frozen as Charity!”

Robert Southey

The Soldier&#x27;s Wife http://www.lib.utexas.edu/epoetry/southeyr.q3c/southeyr.q3c-95.html, l. 11 (1795).

“He came to ask what he had found,
That was so large, and smooth, and round.”

Robert Southey

St. 2. <br class="br"> The Battle of Blenheim http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_battle_of_blenheim.html (1798)

“How does the water
Come down at Lodore?”

Robert Southey

St. 1. <br class="br"> The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)

“Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.”

Robert Southey

Letter to Charlotte Brontë in March 1837, reported in Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë, Vol. I (1857), p. 139, and in Mumby Letters of Literary Men, Vol. II (1906), p. 185.

“The arts babblative and scribblative.”

Robert Southey

Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, No. 1, pt. 2 (1829).

“Yet leaving here a name, I trust,
That will not perish in the dust.”

Robert Southey

My Days Among the Dead Are Past, st. 4.

“And then they knew the perilous Rock,
And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok.”

Robert Southey

The Inchcape Rock http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6688&amp;poem=28859, st. 4 (1802).

“"You are old, Father William." the young man cried,
"The few locks which are left you are grey;
You are hale, Father William—a hearty old man:
Now tell me the reason, I pray."”

Robert Southey

The Old Man&#x27;s Comforts and How He Gained Them http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Southey/the_old_man&#x27;s_comforts.htm, st. 1 (1799).

“From its fountains
In the mountains,
Its rills and its gills;
Through moss and through brake,
It runs and it creeps
For a while, till it sleeps
In its own little lake.”

Robert Southey

St. 2. <br class="br"> The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)

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