John Stuart Blackie

thumb|right John Stuart Blackie FRSE (28 July 1809 – 2 March 1895) was a Scottish scholar and man of letters. Quotes Name the leaves on all the trees,Name the waves on all the seas,Name the notes of all the groves,Thus thou namest all my loves.I do love the young, the old,Maiden modest, virgin bold;Tiny beauties and the tall—Earth has room enough for all!Which is better—who can say?—Mary grave or Lucy gay?She who half her charms conceals,She who flashes while she feels?Why should I my love confine?Why should fair be mine or thine?If I praise a tulip, whyShould I pass the primrose by?Paris was a pedant foolMeting beauty by the rule:Pallas? Juno? Venus?—heShould have chosen all the three! "My Loves", anthologised by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1912) Rocking on a lazy billowWith roaming eyes,Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,Thou art now wise.Wake the power within thee slumbering,Trim the plot that's in thy keeping,Thou wilt bless the task when reapingSweet labour's prize. Address to the Edinburgh Students. Quoted by Lord Iddlesleigh, Desultory Reading; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 756. Order is the law of all intelligible existence. Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 440. Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit,But God to man doth speak in solitude. Sonnet, Highland Solitude; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729. External links Category:Academics from the United Kingdom Category:Poets from Scotland Category:1809 births Category:1895 deaths Category:Songwriters from Scotland Category:Critics from Scotland Category:Politicians from Scotland Category:Essayists from Scotland Category:Biographers from Scotland Category:Translators from Scotland Category:Political authors from Scotland Category:Journalists from Scotland Category:Theologians from Scotland Category:People from Glasgow Category:Translators of Homer