“Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave, oh! leave the light of Hope behind!”

— Thomas Campbell, The Pleasures of Hope (1799)

About Thomas Campbell

1777 – 1844

Scottish poet, author of "Hallowed Ground".

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

“'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.”

“Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name?”

“For God made all mankind to be happy, to be serene.”

“We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.”

“Have I not found a happy earth? I least should breathe a thought of pain.”

“Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.”

“Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read / The Hunter's waking thoughts.”