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Thus ever fade my fairy dreams of bliss. - [Disappointment] Thus, as the stream and ocean greet, With waves that madden as they meet-- Thus join the bands whom mutual wrong, And fate and fury drive along. - [War] Thy day without a cloud bath pass'd, And thou wert lovely to the last; Extinguish'd not decay'd! As stars that shoot along the sky Shine brightest as they fall from high. - [Death] Thy fanes, thy temple, to the surface bow, Commingling slowly with heroic earth, Broke by the share of every rustic plough: So perish monuments of mortal Birth, To perish all in turn, save well-recorded Worth. - [Fame] Time, the corrector when our judgments err, the test of truth and love; sole philosopher, for all besides are sophists. - [Time] 'Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on. - [Proverbs] 'Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, For tea and coffee leave us much more serious. - [Drunkenness] 'Tis said the lion will turn and flee From a maid in the pride of her purity. - [Proverbs] 'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction. - [Proverbs] 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. - [Absence] 'Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it. - [Proverbs] To be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious. - [Proverbs] To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind; all are not fit with them to stir and toil. - [Retirement] To no men are such cordial greetings given As those whose wives have made them fit for heaven. - [Wives] To pass their lives on fountains and on flowers, and never know the weight of human hours. - [Fairies] To the mind, Which is itself, no changes bring surprise. - [Change] To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves! - [Duty : Guilt] Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle. - [Proverbs] Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom. - [Truth] Tully was not so eloquent as thou, thou nameless column with the buried base. - [Ruins] 'Twas a public feast and public day-- Quite full, right dull, guests hot, and dishes cold, Great plenty, much formality, small cheer. And everybody out of their own sphere. - [Dinner] 'Twas strange--in youth all action and all life, Burning for pleasure, not averse from strife; Woman--the field--the ocean--all that gave Promise of gladness, peril of a grave, In turn he tried--he ransack'd all below, And found his recompense in joy or woe, No tame trite medium; for his feelings sought In that intenseness an escape from thought: The tempest of his heart in scorn had gazed On that the feebler elements hath rais'd; The rapture of his heart had look'd on high, And ask'd if greater dwelt beyond the sky: Chain'd to excess, the slave of such extreme, How woke he from the wildness of that dream, Alas! he told not--but he did awake To curse the wither'd heart that would not break. - [Satiety] 'Twere vain to speak, to weep, to sigh; Oh, more than tears of blood can tell When wrung from guilt's expiring eye, Are in the word farewell--farewell. - [Farewell] Upon her face there was the tint of grief, The settled shadow of an inward strife; And an unquiet drooping of the eye, As if its lid were charged with unshed tears. - [Grief] Vain, froward child of empire, say, Are all thy playthings snatched away? - [Proverbs] Displaying page 14 of 34 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 [14] 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
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