If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such.… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be; The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!' — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook! — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
