Robert Pollok Quotes

Rumour was the messenger
Of defamation, and so swift, that none
Could be the first to tell an evil tale.

Robert Pollok

Evil, Rumor, Messengers

Robert Pollok (1857). “The Course of Time: A Poem”, p.277

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That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!

Robert Pollok

Inspirational, Goodbye, Farewell

Robert Pollok (1855). “The Course of Time: A Poem ...”, p.219

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Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist
Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin;
Most unsubstantial, unessential shade
Was earthly fame.

Robert Pollok

Fleeting, Shade, Phantoms

Robert Pollok (1829). “The Course of Time: A Poem, in Ten Books”, p.81

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Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.

Robert Pollok

Indolence, Enjoyment, Idleness

Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.356

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Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.

Robert Pollok

Eye, Clouds, Essentials

Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.117

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Sometimes you have to let go of the one you love to find out if there is really something there.
Sometimes you won't let go of love. More times love won't let go of you.
That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!

Robert Pollok

Love, Letting Go, Farewell

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Living jewels dropped unstained from heaven.

Robert Pollok

Baby, Jewels, Heaven

Robert Pollok (1832). “The Course of Time ... The Eleventh Edition”, p.156

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Friends given by God in mercy and in love;
My counsellors, my comforters, and guides;
My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy;
Companions of my young desires; in doubt
My oracles; my wings in high pursuit.
Oh! I remember, and will ne'er forget
Our meeting spots, our chosen sacred hours;
Our burning words, that utter'd all the soul,
Our faces beaming with unearthly love;--
Sorrow with sorrow sighing, hope with hope
Exulting, heart embracing heart entire.

Robert Pollok

Friends, Grief, Heart

Robert Pollok, “The Course Of Time. Book V.”

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The sun rejoicing round the earth, announced
Daily the wisdom, power and love of God.
The moon awoke, and from her maiden face,
Shedding her cloudy locks, looked meekly forth,
And with her virgin stars walked in the heavens--
Walked nightly there, conversing as she walked,
Of purity, and holiness, and God.

Robert Pollok

Stars, Moon, Heaven

Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”

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Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe.

Robert Pollok

Dark, And Love, Woe

Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.288

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Who born so poor,
Of intellect so mean, as not to know
What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do?
As not to know what God and conscience bade,
And what they bade not able to obey?

Robert Pollok

Mean, Knowing, Able

Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.159

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The Book, this Holy Book, on every line,
Mark'd with the seal of high divinity,
On every leaf bedew'd with drops of love
Divine, and with the eternal heraldry
And signature of God Almighty stamp'd
From first to last; this ray of sacred light,
This lamp, from off the everlasting throne,
Mercy took down, and in the night of time
Stood, casting on the dark her gracious bow;
And evermore beseeching men With tears
And earnest sighs, to read, believe and live.

Robert Pollok

Bible, Book, Believe

Robert Pollok, “The Course Of Time. Book Ii.”

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Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss,
Gives and receives all bliss,--
fullest when most
Thou givest! spring-head of all felicity,
Deepest when most is drawn! emblem of God!
O'erflowing most when greatest numbers drink!

Robert Pollok

Spring, Numbers, Giving

Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”

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All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends,
And many friendships in the days of Time
Begun, are lasting there and growing still.

Robert Pollok

Friends, Heaven, Faithful

Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.186

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He was the freeman whom the truth made free;
Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke;
Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul,
In spite of fools consulted seriously.

Robert Pollok

Freedom, Soul, Fool

Robert Pollok (1833). “The Course of Time, a Poem: With a Memoir of the Author, an Introductory Notice, a Copious Index, and an Analysis Prefixed to Each Book”, p.74

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The song
Of Heaven is ever new; for daily thus,
And nightly, new discoveries are made
Of God's unbounded wisdom, power, and love,
Which give the understanding larger room,
And swell the hymn with ever-growing praise.

Robert Pollok

Song, Discovery, Hymns

Robert Pollok (1868). “The Course of Time ... Twenty-fourth edition. With a memoir of the author”, p.155

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But the unfaithful priest, what tongue
Enough, shall execrate?

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Tongue, Unfaithful, Enough

Robert Pollok (1857). “The Course of Time: A Poem”, p.55

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Of lunacy,
Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride,
Ambition disappointed, riches lost,
And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft
By man inflicted on his brother man;
Sorrow, that, made the reason drunk, and yet
Left much untasted. So the cup was fill'd.

Robert Pollok

Brother, Ambition, Pride

Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.304

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With one hand he put
A penny in the urn of poverty,
And with the other took a shilling out.

Robert Pollok

Hands, Poverty, Pennies

Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.309

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Born: October 19, 1798
Died: September 15, 1827
Occupation: Poet
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