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"As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!"
Peace be around Thee.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"If I speak to thee in friendship's name, Thou think'st I speak too coldly; If I mention love's devoted flame, Thou say'st I speak too boldly."
How shall I woo?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady."
How shall I woo?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The bird let loose in Eastern skies, Returning fondly home, Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies Where idle warblers roam; But high she shoots through air and light, Above all low delay, Where nothing earthly bounds her flight, Nor shadow dims her way."
Oh that I had Wings.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,-- There 's nothing true but Heaven."
This World is all a fleeting Show.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah has triumph'd,--his people are free."
Sound the loud Timbrel.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"As still to the star of its worship, though clouded, The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea, So dark when I roam in this wintry world shrouded, The hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee."
The Heart's Prayer.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal."
Come, ye Disconsolate.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold."
Oh call it by some better Name.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love."
When Twilight Dews.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I give thee all,--I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee."
My Heart and Lute.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?"
The Dream of Home.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"To Greece we give our shining blades."
Evenings in Greece. First Evening.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power."
Evenings in Greece. First Evening.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung."
If Thou would'st have Me sing and play.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by."
The Blue Stocking.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains."
On the Entry of the Austrians into Naples, 1821.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future,--two eternities!"
Lalla Rookh. The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last."
Lalla Rookh. The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There 's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream."
Lalla Rookh. The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon."
Lalla Rookh. The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate."
Paradise and the Peri.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,-- One minute of heaven is worth them all."
Paradise and the Peri.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"But the trail of the serpent is over them all."
Paradise and the Peri.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die."
The Fire-Worshippers.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!"
The Fire-Worshippers.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Beholding heaven, and feeling hell."
The Fire-Worshippers.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"As sunshine broken in the rill, Though turned astray, is sunshine still."
The Fire-Worshippers.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea."
The Fire-Worshippers.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity."
Lalla Rookh. The Light of the Harem.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Love on through all ills, and love on till they die."
Lalla Rookh. The Light of the Harem.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And oh if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this!"
Lalla Rookh. The Light of the Harem.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Humility, that low, sweet root From which all heavenly virtues shoot."
The Loves of the Angels. The Third Angel's Story.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea; But before I go, Tom Moore, Here 's a double health to thee!"
To Thomas Moore.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Here 's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky 's above me, Here 's a heart for every fate."
To Thomas Moore.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Were 't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink, Ere my fainting spirit fell 'T is to thee that I would drink."
To Thomas Moore.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain