(19 October 1784 – 28 August 1859 / Southgate, London)

poet James Henry Leigh Hunt
#181 on top 500 poets

Quotations

  • ''"No love," quothe he, "but vanity, sets love a task like
    that."''
    Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), British poet. The Glove and the Lions (l. 24). . . Favorite Poems Old and New. Helen Ferris, ed. (1957) Doubleday & Company.
    19 person liked.
    		20 person did not like.
  • ''The laughing queen that caught the world's great hands.''
    Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), British poet. The Nile (l. 8). . . Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse, The. John Hayward, ed. (1964; reprinted, with corrections, 1965) Oxford University Press.
    13 person liked.
    		17 person did not like.
  • ''It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,
    Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream,''
    Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), British poet. The Nile (l. 1-2). . . Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse, The. John Hayward, ed. (1964; reprinted, with corrections, 1965) Oxford University Press.
    12 person liked.
    		15 person did not like.
  • ''Green little vaulter in the sunny grass,''
    Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), British poet. To the Grasshopper and the Cricket (l. 1). . . Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse, The. John Hayward, ed. (1964; reprinted, with corrections, 1965) Oxford University Press.
    8 person liked.
    		16 person did not like.
  • ''Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.''
    Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), British poet. Abou Ben Adhem (l. 14). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.
    19 person liked.
    		5 person did not like.
  • ''And showed the names whom love of God had blessed,
    And, lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest!''
    Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), British poet. Abou Ben Adhem (l. 17-18). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.
    17 person liked.
    		4 person did not like.
  • ''Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)''
    Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), British poet. Abou Ben Adhem (l. 1). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.
    13 person liked.
    		4 person did not like.
  • ''Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
    Say that health and wealth have missed me,
    Say I'm growing old, but add,
    Jenny kissed me.''
    Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), British poet. Jenny Kiss'd Me (l. 5-8). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.
    10 person liked.
    		4 person did not like.

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A Night-Rain in Summer

Open the window, and let the air
Freshly blow upon face and hair,
And fill the room, as it fills the night,
With the breath of the rain's sweet might.
Hark! the burthen, swift and prone!
And how the odorous limes are blown!
Stormy Love's abroad, and keeps
Hopeful coil for gentle sleeps.

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