Charles Lamb Quotes about Heart

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The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er; And hearts that once beat high

The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er; And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.

Charles Lamb

Music, Wall, Heart

Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

Charles Lamb

Spring, Heart, Simplicity

Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1854). “Talfourd, T. N. Life and letters”, p.38

I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.

Charles Lamb

Heart, Library, Thee

Charles Lamb (1866). “The works of Charles Lamb”, p.51

Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken.

Charles Lamb

Love, Memories, Heart

When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

Charles Lamb

Heart, Power, Peculiar

And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.

Charles Lamb

Heart, Stealing, Stolen

Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

Charles Lamb

Children, Heart, Childhood