Samuel Rogers

"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."

"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."

"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 vanish in the chinks that Time has made."

"Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it."

"Hence, to the realms of Night, dire Demon, hence! Thy chain of adamant can bind That little world, the human mind, And sink its noblest powers to impotence."

"Lo, steel-clad War his gorgeous standard rears ! The red-cross squadrons madly rage, And mow thro' infancy and age"

"Thou first, best friend that Heav'n assigns below To sooth and sweeten all the cares we know."

"Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail."

"Oh ! 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."

"The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still."

"A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing."

"Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please."

"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!"

"Then, never less alone than when alone."

"Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,—not dead, but gone before,— He gathers round him."