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William Lisle Bowles
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“Poetic trifles from solitary rambles whilst chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fancy..now written from memory, confined to fourteen lines, this seemed best adapted to the unity of sentiment, the verse flowed in unpremeditated harmony as my ear directed but are far from being mere elegiac couplets.”
William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Preface to Poetical Works, ed. George Gilfillan, vol. 1 (Edinburgh: Ballantyne & Co, 1855)
“Back o'er the deep I turn my longing eyes, And chide the wayward passions that rebel: Yet boots it not to think, or to complain, Musing sad ditties to the reckless main. To dreams like these, adieu! the pealing bell Speaks of the hour that stays not—and the day To life's sad turmoil calls my heart away.”
William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Landing at Ostend", in Poetical Works, vol. 1 (1855)
“O harmony! thou tenderest nurse of pain, If that thy note's sweet magic e'er can heal Griefs which the patient spirit oft may feel, Oh! let me listen to thy songs again; Till memory her fairest tints shall bring; Hope wake with brighter eye, and listening seem With smiles to think on some delightful dream.”
William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Music", in Poetical Works, vol. 1 (1855)
“Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.”
William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) first seen 1833 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Simonides, "Epitaph for the Spartan dead at Thermopylæ", in Blackwood's Magazine (Dec. 1833)