Zitate von Robert Southey
Robert Southey
Geburtstag: 12. August 1774
Todesdatum: 21. März 1843
Robert Southey war ein englischer Dichter, Geschichtsschreiber und Kritiker. Er gehört zur „Seeschule“ um William Wordsworth und Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Zitate Robert Southey
„What will not woman, gentle woman dare,
When strong affection stirs her spirit up?“
— Robert Southey
Madoc in Wales, Part II, 2 (1805).
„Where Washington hath left
His awful memory
A light for after times!“
— Robert Southey
Ode written during the War with America (1814).
„Rising and leaping,
Sinking and creeping,
Swelling and sweeping,
Showering and springing,
Flying and flinging,
Writhing and ringing,
Eddying and whisking,
Spouting and frisking,
Turning and twisting,
Around and around
With endless rebound:
Smiting and fighting,
A sight to delight in;
Confounding, astounding,
Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound.“
— Robert Southey
St. 4.
„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
[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/epoetry/southeyr.q3c/southeyr.q3c-95.html The Soldier's Wife], l. 11 (1795).
„Wild dreams! but such
As Plato lov'd; such as with holy zeal
Our Milton worshipp'd. Blessed hopes! awhile
From man with-held, even to the latter days
When Christ shall come, and all things be fulfill'd.“
— Robert Southey
For the apartment in Chepstow Castle where Henry Marten the Regicide was imprisoned thirty years.
„How beautiful is night!
A dewy freshness fills the silent air;
No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain,
Breaks the serene of heaven:
In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine
Rolls through the dark blue depths;
Beneath her steady ray
The desert circle spreads
Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky.
How beautiful is night!“
— Robert Southey
[http://www.litgothic.com/Texts/thalaba_frag.html Thalaba the Destroyer], Bk. I, st. 1 (1800).
„Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock,
“Oh Christ! It is the Inchcape Rock!”“
— Robert Southey
The Inchcape Rock, st. 15.
