RHReginald Heber

11 collected words

Reginald Heber

Life dates: 1783 AD — 1826 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1804 AD

Failed the bright promise of your early day.

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02c. 1804 AD

No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung; Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence!

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03c. 1804 AD

Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid.

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04c. 1804 AD

By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows!

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05c. 1804 AD

When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.

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06c. 1804 AD

Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.

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07c. 1804 AD

Thou art gone to the grave; but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb.

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08c. 1804 AD

Thus heavenly hope is all serene, But earthly hope, how bright soe'er, Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene, As false and fleeting as 't is fair.

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09c. 1804 AD

From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand.

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10c. 1804 AD

Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile.

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11c. 1804 AD

I see them on their winding way, About their ranks the moonbeams play.

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