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Strona 189 - Hydaspes glide ; There all around the gentlest breezes stray, There gentle music melts on every spray ; Creation's mildest charms are there...
Strona 222 - STRANGE fits of passion I have known : And I will dare to tell, But in the Lover's ear alone, What once to me befel. When she I loved was strong and gay, And like a rose in June, I to her cottage bent my way, Beneath the evening Moon. Upon the Moon I...
Strona 102 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Strona 109 - When coarser souls are wrapt in sleep, — Sweet spirit, meet me then. There is an hour when holy dreams, Through slumber, fairest glide; And in that mystic hour, it seems Thou shouldst be by my side.
Strona 114 - Alas! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Strona 55 - But if a little exercise you choose, Some zest for ease, 'tis not forbidden here : Amid the groves you may indulge the muse, Or tend the blooms and deck the vernal year...
Strona 110 - When coarser souls are wrapped in sleep ; sweet Spirit, meet me then ! There is an hour when holy dreams through slumber fairest glide, And in that mystic hour it seems thou shouldst be by my side. My thoughts of thee too sacred are for daylight's common beam ; I can but know thee as my star, my angel, and my dream ! When stars are in the quiet skies, then most I pine for thee ; Bend on me then thy tender eyes, as stars look on the sea.
Strona 361 - twas visible— I saw not, but I felt that it was there. That which I saw was the revealed abode Of Spirits in beatitude: my heart Swelled in my breast—' I have been dead,' I cried,
Strona 60 - NINE times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from Youth to Manhood. That interval is usually occupied by an ill-placed or disappointed affection. We recover, and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
Strona 324 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun. And by-and-by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.

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