"Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save."

Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 12.

"And her face so fair Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air."

Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 29.

"These two hated with a hate Found only on the stage."

Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 93.

""Arcades ambo,"--id est, blackguards both."

Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 93.

"I 've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome."

Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 101.

"Oh "darkly, deeply, beautifully blue!" As some one somewhere sings about the sky."

Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 110.

"There 's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine."

Don Juan. Canto v. Stanza 5.

"But all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices."

Don Juan. Canto v. Stanza 27.

"And puts himself upon his good behaviour."

Don Juan. Canto v. Stanza 47.

"That all-softening, overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul,--the dinner bell."

Don Juan. Canto v. Stanza 49.

"The women pardon'd all except her face."

Don Juan. Canto v. Stanza 113.

"Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius."

Don Juan. Canto vi. Stanza 7.

"A "strange coincidence," to use a phrase By which such things are settled nowadays."

Don Juan. Canto vi. Stanza 78.

"The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore."

Don Juan. Canto viii. Stanza 3.

"Thrice happy he whose name has been well spelt In the despatch: I knew a man whose loss Was printed Grove, although his name was Grose."

Don Juan. Canto viii. Stanza 18.

"What a strange thing is man! and what a stranger Is woman!"

Don Juan. Canto ix. Stanza 64.

"And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter."

Don Juan. Canto x. Stanza 24.

"Oh for a forty-parson power!"

Don Juan. Canto x. Stanza 34.

"When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter," And proved it,--'t was no matter what he said."

Don Juan. Canto xi. Stanza 1.

"And after all, what is a lie? 'T is but The truth in masquerade."

Don Juan. Canto xi. Stanza 37.

"'T is strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article."

Don Juan. Canto xi. Stanza 59.

"Of all tales 't is the saddest,--and more sad, Because it makes us smile."

Don Juan. Canto xiii. stanza 9.

"Cervantes smil'd Spain's chivalry away."

Don Juan. Canto xiii. Stanza 11.

"Society is now one polish'd horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored."

Don Juan. Canto xiii. Stanza 95.

"All human history attests That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!-- Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner."

Don Juan. Canto xiii. Stanza 99.

"'T is strange, but true; for truth is always strange,-- Stranger than fiction."

Don Juan. Canto xiv. Stanza 101.

"The Devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice."

Don Juan. Canto xv. Stanza 13.

"A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded."

Don Juan. Canto xv. Stanza 43.

"Friendship is Love without his wings."

L'Amitié est l'Amour sans Ailes.

"I awoke one morning and found myself famous."

Memoranda from his Life, by Moore, Chap. xiv.

"The best of prophets of the future is the past."

Letter, Jan. 28, 1821.

"What say you to such a supper with such a woman?"

Note to a Letter on Bowles's Strictures.

"Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave."

Mortality.

"I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side."

Song.

"The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past."

Song.

"The heart bowed down by weight of woe To weakest hope will cling."

Song.

"Strike--for your altars and your fires! Strike--for the green graves of your sires! God, and your native land!"

Marco Bozzaris.

"But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be."

Marco Bozzaris.

"One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die."

Marco Bozzaris.

"Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined,-- The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind."

Burns.

"Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise."

On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake.

"There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest."

Twilight.

"They love their land because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his Majesty."

Connecticut.

"This bank-note world."

Alnwick Castle.

"Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt, The Douglas in red herrings."

Alnwick Castle.

"Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried."

The Burial of Sir John Moore.

"But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him."

The Burial of Sir John Moore.

"Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory."

The Burial of Sir John Moore.

"If I had thought thou couldst have died, I might not weep for thee; But I forgot, when by thy side, That thou couldst mortal be."

To Mary.

"Yet there was round thee such a dawn Of light, ne'er seen before, As fancy never could have drawn, And never can restore."

To Mary.