Robert Browning Hamilton, (1812-1889), English Poet Quotes
T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter, the day's delight!
Make us happy and you make us good.
Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.
There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -- the educated man's!
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten, even by God.
Autumn wins you best by this its mute
Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
God made all the creatures and
gave them our love and our fear,
To give sign, we and they are
His children, one family here.
What I aspired to be and
was not, comforts me.
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph.
Ambition is not what man does... but what he would do.