“There shall he love when genial morn appears, Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.”

— Thomas Campbell, The Pleasures of Hope, 1799, Part II

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?”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.”

“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every Art.”

“The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, reigns more or less, and glows in every heart.”

“A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.”

“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”