"Oh, leave the gay and festive scenes, The halls of dazzling light."

The Light Guitar.

"If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot."

An Official Despatch, Jan. 29, 1861.

"I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told."

The Monks of Old.

"A place in thy memory, dearest, Is all that I claim; To pause and look back when thou hearest The sound of my name."

A Place in thy Memory.

"Sparkling and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in."

Sparkling and Bright.

"The very mudsills of society. . . . We call them slaves. . . . But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere; it is eternal."

Speech in the U. S. Senate, March, 1858.

"It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war."

Despatch to Earl Russell, Sept. 5, 1863.

"We are swinging round the circle."

On the Presidential Reconstruction Tour, August, 1866.

"We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade."

We have been Friends.

"All we ask is to be let alone."

First Message to the Confederate Congress, March, 1861.

"'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I 've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot."

Absence conquers Love.

"Oh would I were a boy again, When life seemed formed of sunny years, And all the heart then knew of pain Was wept away in transient tears!"

Oh would I were a Boy again.

"Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun, Upstairs and dounstairs, in his nicht-goun, Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock, "Are the weans in their bed? for it 's nou ten o'clock.""

Willie Winkie.

"A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!"

Life on the Ocean Wave.

"What are the wild waves saying, Sister, the whole day long, That ever amid our playing I hear but their low, lone song?"

What are the wild Waves saying?

"Well, General, we have not had many dead cavalrymen lying about lately."

A remark to General Averill, November, 1862.

"Come in the evening, or come in the morning; Come when you 're looked for, or come without warning."

The Welcome.

"But whether on the scaffold high Or in the battle's van, The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man!"

The Dublin Nation, Sept. 28, 1844, Vol. ii. p. 809.

"Oh the heart is a free and a fetterless thing,-- A wave of the ocean, a bird on the wing!"

The Captive Greek Girl.

"Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility."

England's Trust. Part iii. Line 227.

"Why thus longing, thus forever sighing For the far-off, unattain'd, and dim, While the beautiful all round thee lying Offers up its low, perpetual hymn?"

Why thus longing?

"Don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown; Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembl'd with fear at your frown!"

Ben Bolt.

"The Survival of the Fittest."

Principles of Biology, Vol. i. Chap. xii. (American edition, 1867.)

"Who fears to speak of Ninety-eight? Who blushes at the name? When cowards mock the patriot's fate, Who hangs his head for shame?"

The Dublin Nation, April 1, 1843, Vol. ii. p. 339.

"On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead."

The Bivouac of the Dead. (August, 1847.)

"For every wave with dimpled face That leap'd upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace And held it trembling there."

Musings. Stanza 4.

"To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand."

Rule of the "Harry Wadsworth Club" (from "Ten Times One is Ten," 1870).

"Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission."

Editorial in the "New York Tribune," Feb. 16, 1877.

"The last link is broken That bound me to thee, And the words thou hast spoken Have render'd me free."

Song.

"Old Simon the cellarer keeps a rare store Of Malmsey and Malvoisie."

Simon the Cellarer.

"Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins."

Letter to Thomas Raikes, May 25, 1835.

"She 's all my fancy painted her; She 's lovely, she 's divine."

Alice Gray.

"Stately and tall he moves in the hall, The chief of a thousand for grace."

Life at Olympus, Lady's Book, Vol. xxiii. p. 33.

"When the sun's last rays are fading Into twilight soft and dim."

Thou wilt think of me again.

"Rattle his bones over the stones! He 's only a pauper, whom nobody owns!"

The Pauper's Ride.

"In the days when we went gypsying A long time ago; The lads and lassies in their best Were dress'd from top to toe."

In the Days when we went Gypsying.

"Speak gently! 't is a little thing Dropp'd in the heart's deep well; The good, the joy, that it may bring Eternity shall tell."

Speak gently.

"Hope tells a flattering tale, Delusive, vain, and hollow. Ah! let not hope prevail, Lest disappointment follow."

The Universal Songster. Vol. ii. p. 86.

"Nose, nose, nose, nose! And who gave thee that jolly red nose? Sinament and Ginger, Nutmegs and Cloves, And that gave me my jolly red nose."

Deuteromela, Song No. 7. (1609.)

"The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter.""

Apologie. Book iii. Chap. v. Sect. 9.

"Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, Mercy I ask'd; mercy I found."

Remains.

"Begone, dull Care! I prithee begone from me! Begone, dull Care! thou and I shall never agree."

Musical Companion. (1687.)

"Much of a muchness."

The Provoked Husband, Act i. Sc. 1.

"Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John, The bed be blest that I lye on."

A Candle in the Dark, p. 58. (London, 1656.)

"Junius, Aprilis, Septémq; Nouemq; tricenos, Vnum plus reliqui, Februs tenet octo vicenos, At si bissextus fuerit superadditur vnus."

Description of Britain (prefixed to Holinshed's "Chronicle," 1577).

"Thirty dayes hath Nouember, Aprill, June, and September, February hath xxviii alone, And all the rest have xxxi."

Chronicles of England. (1590.)

"Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, February has twenty-eight alone, All the rest have thirty-one; Excepting leap year,--that 's the time When February's days are twenty-nine."

The Return from Parnassus. (London, 1606.)

"There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies show; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow. There cherries hang that none may buy, Till cherry ripe themselves do cry."

An Howres Recreation in Musike. (1606. Set to music by Richard Alison. Oliphant's "La Messa Madrigalesca," p. 229.)

"Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row; Which when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds filled with snow."

An Howres Recreation in Musike. (1606. Set to music by Richard Alison. Oliphant's "La Messa Madrigalesca," p. 229.)

"A vest as admired Voltiger had on, Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won, Whose artful colour pass'd the Tyrian dye, Obliged to triumph in this legacy."

The British Princes, p. 96. (1669.)