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When did morning ever break,
And find such beaming eyes awake?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
This world is all a fleeting show,
For man's illusion given;
The smiles of joy, the tears of woe,
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,—
There's nothing true but Heaven.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
No, the heart that has truly lov'd never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close;
As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets
The same look which she turn'd when he rose.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
To live and die in scenes like this,
With some we 've left behind us.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
If thou would'st have me sing and play
As once I play'd and sung,
First take this time-worn lute away,
And bring one freshly strung.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
To sigh, yet feel no pain;
To weep, yet scarce know why;
To sport an hour with Beauty's chain,
Then throw it idly by.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Who ran
Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
As half in shade and half in sun
This world along its path advances,
May that side the sun's upon
Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
If I speak to thee in friendship's name,
Thou think'st I speak too coldly;
If I mention love's devoted flame,
Thou say'st I speak too boldly.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Who has not felt how sadly sweet
The dream of home, the dream of home,
Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet,
When far o'er sea or land we roam?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Those evening bells! those evening bells!
How many a tale their music tells
Of youth and home, and that sweet time
When last I heard their soothing chime!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Fly not yet; 't is just the hour
When pleasure, like the midnight flower
That scorns the eye of vulgar light,
Begins to bloom for sons of night
And maids who love the moon.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Like a young eagle who has lent his plume
To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom,
See their own feathers pluck'd to wing the dart
Which rank corruption destines for their heart.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Oh stay! oh stay!
Joy so seldom weaves a chain
Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain
To break its links so soon.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
When Time who steals our years away
Shall steal our pleasures too,
The mem'ry of the past will stay,
And half our joys renew.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are!
From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins,
That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war,
Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Oh, weep for the hour
When to Eveleen's bower
The lord of the valley with false vows came.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
I give thee all,—I can no more,
Though poor the off'ring be;
My heart and lute are all the store
That I can bring to thee.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
When twilight dews are falling soft
Upon the rosy sea, love,
I watch the star whose beam so oft
Has lighted me to thee, love.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)