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"Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail."
The Pleasures of Memory. Part ii. i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"She was good as she was fair, None--none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are: To know her was to love her."
Jacqueline. Stanza 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still."
Jacqueline. Stanza 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing."
Human Life.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please."
Human Life.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!"
Human Life.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Then never less alone than when alone."
Human Life.
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"Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,--not dead, but gone before,-- He gathers round him."
Human Life.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Mine be a cot beside the hill; A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near."
A Wish.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,-- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course."
On a Tear.
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"Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay."
To ----.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"To vanish in the chinks that Time has made."
Pæstum.
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"Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it."
Epigram.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain