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A happy youth, and their old age
Is beautiful and free.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
The fretful stir
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Those old credulities, to Nature dear,
Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock
Of history?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
To be a Prodigal's favourite,—then, worse truth,
A Miser's pensioner,—behold our lot!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
As in the eye of Nature he has lived,
So in the eye of Nature let him die!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
And when a damp
Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand
The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew
Soul-animating strains,—alas! too few.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Until a man might travel twelve stout miles,
Or reap an acre of his neighbor's corn.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
When his veering gait
And every motion of his starry train
Seem governed by a strain
Of music, audible to him alone.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Alas! how little can a moment show
Of an eye where feeling plays
In ten thousand dewy rays:
A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Oh for a single hour of that Dundee
Who on that day the word of onset gave!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
How fast has brother followed brother,
From sunshine to the sunless land!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
"What is good for a bootless bene?"
With these dark words begins my tale;
And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring
When prayer is of no avail?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
A power is passing from the earth.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;
Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,
Frozen by distance.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye;
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel
To self-reproach.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
A Briton even in love should be
A subject, not a slave!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
The best of what we do and are,
Just God, forgive!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)