"Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness."

Ode to Lycoris.

"That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair."

Lament of Mary Queen of Scots.

"The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,--a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!"

The Italian Itinerant.

"Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth."

Sky-Prospect from the Plain of France.

"Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold."

Desultory Stanza.

"Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her."

Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Part i. xxv. Missions and Travels.

"As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed."

Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Part ii. xvii. To Wickliffe.

"The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing."

Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Part iii. v. Walton's Book of Lives.

"Meek Walton's heavenly memory."

Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Part iii. v. Walton's Book of Lives.

"But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant."

Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Part iii. vii. Persecution of the Scottish Covenanters.

"Where music dwells Lingering and wandering on as loth to die, Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality."

Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Part iii. xliii. Inside of King's Chapel, Cambridge.

"Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost."

To the Lady Fleming.

"But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things."

Elegiac Stanzas. Addressed to Sir G. H. B.

"To the solid ground Of Nature trusts the mind that builds for aye."

A Volant Tribe of Bards on Earth.

"Soft is the music that would charm forever; The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly."

Not Love, not War.

"True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved."

To ----. Let other Bards of Angels sing.

"Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home."

To a Skylark.

"A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!"

Ere with Cold Beads of Midnight Dew.

"Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart."

Scorn not the Sonnet.

"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."

Scorn not the Sonnet.

"But he is risen, a later star of dawn."

A Morning Exercise.

"Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark."

A Morning Exercise.

"When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone."

The Triad.

"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!"

The Triad.

"Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound."

On the Power of Sound. xii.

"The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift."

Presentiments.

"Nature's old felicities."

The Trosachs.

"Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love."

Poems composed during a Tour in the Summer of 1833. xxxvii.

"Small service is true service while it lasts. Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one: The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun."

To a Child. Written in her Album.

"Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth."

Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg.

"How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!"

Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg.

"Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?"

Memorials of a Tour in Italy. iv.

"How does the meadow-flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold."

A Poet! He hath put his Heart to School.

"Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive."

Yes, Thou art Fair.

"Such is the custom of Branksome Hall."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto i. Stanza 7.

"If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto ii. Stanza 1.

"O fading honours of the dead! O high ambition, lowly laid!"

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto ii. Stanza 10.

"I was not always a man of woe."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto ii. Stanza 12.

"I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 't was said to me."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto ii. Stanza 22.

"In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto iii. Stanza 1.

"Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto iii. Stanza 24.

"Along thy wild and willow'd shore."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto iv. Stanza 1.

"Ne'er Was flattery lost on poet's ear; A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto iv. Stanza 35.

"Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto v. Stanza 1.

"True love 's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind."

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto v. Stanza 13.

"O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood!"

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto vi. Stanza 2.

"Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line."

Marmion. Introduction to Canto i.

"Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth."

Marmion. Introduction to Canto ii.

"When, musing on companions gone, We doubly feel ourselves alone."

Marmion. Introduction to Canto ii.

"'T is an old tale and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me."

Marmion. Canto ii. Stanza 27.