10 Timeless Lines From Iconic British Romantic Poets

Zee Media Bureau
Nov 09, 2023

On love and kindness

“On that best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts, Of kindness and of love.” - William Wordsworth

A stillness that looms

“As idle as a painted ship. Upon a painted ocean.” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

On life experience

“Nothing ever becomes real till experienced.” - John Keats

On keeping hope

“Oh, Hope! thou soother sweet of human woes! How shall I lure thee to my haunts forlorn!” - Charlotte Smith

Sharing happiness

“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.” - Lord Byron

Grandeur does not stay forever

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" - Percy Bysshe Shelley

On lonesome

“I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of my woes” - John Clare

On greed

“The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.” - Leigh Hunt

On education

”All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”- Sir Walter Scott

Our dependence on nature

"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." - William Blake

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