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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)
I am of nothing and to nothing tend,
On earth I nothing have and nothing claim,
Man's noblest works must have one common end,
And nothing crown the tablet of his name.
For oh, 'twas nuts to the Father of Lies,
(As this wily fiend is named in the Bible)
To find it settled by Laws so wise
That the greater the truth, the worse the libel.
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! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade,
Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid.
Irish Melodies (1807)
Rich and rare were the gems she wore,
And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.
Irish Melodies (1807)
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)
As sunshine broken in the rill,
Though turned astray, is sunshine still.
Lalla Rookh (1817)
While mantling on the maiden's cheek
Young roses kindled into thought.
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)
And oh if there be an Elysium on earth,
It is this, it is this!
Lalla Rookh (1817)
And music too—dear music! that can touch
Beyond all else the soul that loves it much—
Now heard far off, so far as but to seem
Like the faint, exquisite music of a dream.
Lalla Rookh (1817)
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)
My only books
Were woman's looks,
And folly's all they've taught me.
Irish Melodies (1807)
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)