Robert Southey

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the read more

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

And so never ending,
But always descending.

And so never ending,
But always descending.

"How does the Water
Come down at Lodore?"

"How does the Water
Come down at Lodore?"

. . . make the abhorrent eye
Roll back and close.

. . . make the abhorrent eye
Roll back and close.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing read more

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.