Richard Henry Horne

A portrait of Richard Henry Horne, painted by Margaret Gillies.

Richard Henry Horne (later Richard Hengist Horne) (January 1, 1803 – March 13, 1884) was an English poet and critic.

Quotes

• 'T is always morning somewhere in the world.
  • Orion (1843), Book iii, Canto ii. Compare: "'T is always morning somewhere", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Wayside Inn. Birds of Killingworth, stanza 16.

• A sweet content
  Passing all wisdom or its fairest flower.
  • Orion (1843), Book iii, Canto ii.

• The wisdom of mankind creeps slowly on,
  Subject to every doubt that can retard
  Or fling it back upon an earlier time.
  • Orion (1843), Book iii, Canto ii.

• Far out at sea,—the sun was high,
  While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail,
  We saw a snow-white butterfly
  Dancing before the fitful gale,
  Far out at sea.
  • Genius; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 88.

• The laurel-tree grew large and strong,
  Its roots went searching deeply down;
  It split the marble walls of Wrong,
  And blossomed o'er the Despot's crown.
  • The Laurel Seed; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 439.

• Ye rigid Plowmen! Bear in mind
  Your labor is for future hours.
  Advance! spare not! nor look behind!
  Plow deep and straight with all your powers!
  • The Plow, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); reported as The Plough in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 18-19.

• On me, on me
  Time and change can heap no more!
  The painful past with blighting grief
  Hath left my heart a withered leaf.
  Time and change can do no more.
  • Dirge; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 342-44.

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