“Rule, Britannia! rule the waves: Britons never will be slaves.”
Quotes by James Thomson
“A pleasing land of drowsy-hed it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer-sky”
“The Wine of Love The wine of Love is music, And the feast of Love is song: And when Love sits down to the banquet, Love sits long: Sits long and ariseth drunken, But not with the feast and the wine; He reeleth with his own heart, That great rich Vine.”
James ThomsonJames Thomson, who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish poet, journalist, and translator known for his poignant exploration of despair and urban life. Born in 1834, Thomson's most ...