James Montgomery

Poet

1771-11-04

Quotes by James Montgomery

• Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

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• The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.

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• Beyond this vale of tears There is a life above, Unmeasured by the flight of years; And all that life is love.

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• Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.

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• Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?

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• Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past.

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