"A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify; A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky."

Christian Fidelity.

"Love divine, all love excelling, Joy of heaven to earth come down."

Divine Love.

"Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell!) he practised what he preached."

The Art of Preserving Health. Book iv. Line 301.

"Pray, Goody, please to moderate the rancour of your tongue! Why flash those sparks of fury from your eyes? Remember, when the judgment 's weak the prejudice is strong."

Midas. Act i. Sc. 4.

"Where passion leads or prudence points the way."

Choice of Hercules, i.

"Each cursed his fate that thus their project crossed; How hard their lot who neither won nor lost!"

The Festoon (1767).

"Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea."

The Storm.

"That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,-- Creation's blot, creation's blank."

When Jesus dwelt.

"In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half confounded, was the grace of God to man at length manifested."

Sermons. Vol. ii. p. 287.

"There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine."

Despatch to Pitt, Sept. 2, 1759.

"Kathleen mavourneen! the grey dawn is breaking, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill."

Kathleen Mavourneen.

"Who can refute a sneer?"

Moral Philosophy. Vol. ii. Book v. Chap. 9.

"Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey? And why does thy nose look so blue?"

Gaffer Grey.

"And ye sall walk in silk attire, And siller hae to spare, Gin ye 'll consent to be his bride, Nor think o' Donald mair."

The Siller Croun.

"A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we 're all good fellows together."

Sprigs of Laurel. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"The moon had climb'd the highest hill Which rises o'er the source of Dee, And from the eastern summit shed Her silver light on tower and tree."

Mary's Dream.

"Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world and child of the skies! Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold, While ages on ages thy splendors unfold."

Columbia.

"Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing, Hope, and comfort from above; Let us each, thy peace possessing, Triumph in redeeming love."

Benediction.

"Roy's wife of Aldivalloch, Wat ye how she cheated me, As I came o'er the braes of Balloch?"

Roy's Wife.

"Bounding billows, cease your motion, Bear me not so swiftly o'er."

Bounding Billows.

"While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled."

Trust in Providence.

"The glory dies not, and the grief is past."

Sonnet on the Death of Sir Walter Scott.

"Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar."

Oh swiftly glides the Bonnie Boat.

"'T was whisper'd in heaven, 't was mutter'd in hell, And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; On the confines of earth 't was permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence confess'd."

Enigma. The letter H.

"Oh, it 's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island."

The snug little Island.

"And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves."

Adams and Liberty.

"They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

The Dred Scott Case (Howard, Rep. 19, p. 407).

"To make a mountain of a mole-hill."

Original Letters. Second Series, p. 312.

"March to the battle-field, The foe is now before us; Each heart is Freedom's shield, And heaven is shining o'er us."

March to the Battle-Field.

"Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong."

Toast given at Norfolk, April, 1816.

"Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain; Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty, and Law."

Motto of the "Salem Register." (Life of Story, Vol. i. p. 127.)

"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph."

Speech on his Trial and Conviction for High Treason, September, 1803.

"Imitation is the sincerest flattery."

The Lacon.

"Behold how brightly breaks the morning! Though bleak our lot, our hearts are warm."

Behold how brightly breaks.

"A sound so fine, there 's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence."

Virginius, Act v. Sc. 2.

"We have met the enemy, and they are ours."

Letter to General Harrison (dated "United States Brig Niagara. Off the Western Sisters. Sept. 10, 1813, 4 P. M.").

"Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his cross and earliest at his grave."

Woman, Part i. (ed. 1822).

"They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy."

Speech in the United States Senate, January, 1832.

"Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace.""

Letter to W. H. Seward, March 3, 1861.

"Rock'd in the cradle of the deep, I lay me down in peace to sleep."

The Cradle of the Deep.

"Right as a trivet."

The Ingoldsby Legends. Auto-da-fe.

"My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close Is scattered on the ground--to die."

My Life is like the Summer Rose.

"Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality."

The Character of Napoleon.

"Rise up, rise up, Xarifa! lay your golden cushion down; Rise up! come to the window, and gaze with all the town."

The Bridal of Andalla.

"By the margin of fair Zurich's waters Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of fair Zurich's daughters In a dream of love melted away."

Fair Zurich's Waters.

"I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one."

I saw Two Clouds at Morning.

"On thy fair bosom, silver lake, The wild swan spreads his snowy sail, And round his breast the ripples break As down he bears before the gale."

To Seneca Lake.

"What fairy-like music steals over the sea, Entrancing our senses with charmed melody?"

What Fairy-like Music.

"Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are."

She is not Fair.

"I would not live alway: I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way."

I would not live alway.