"Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best."

"Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foo…"

"A willing heart adds feather to the heel, And makes the clown a winged Mercury."

"Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! And if upon its stillness fall The visions of a busy brain, We'll have our pleas…"

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

"The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now d…"

"The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear sub…"

"Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field, Still on their dinner…"

"But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is."

"Yes! I could find some comfort in the thought Of being scourged, Were there but hope that this defiling sin Which mar…"