9. I strove not to resist so sweet a flame, But gloried in a happy captive's name; Nor would I now, would love permit, be free! 10. My heart with love is beating, Transported by your eyes; Alas! there's no retreating, LORD LYTTLETON. 11. I've rich ones rejected, and fond ones denied, But, take me, fond shepherd,-I'm thine. 12. Oh, do not talk to me of love, "Tis deepest cruelty to me Why throw a net around the bird MCNEIL. That might be happy, light and free? WESTMACOTT. 13. Now what could artless Jennie do? She had na' will to say him na'; BURNS. 14. She half consents, who silently denies. OVID. 1. CONSTANCY-INCONSTANCY. O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect; that one error Fills him with faults; makes him run through all sins. 2. I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true, fix'd, and resting quality SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 138 CONSTANCY - INCONSTANCY. 3. Go, bid the needle its dear North forsake, To which with trembling reverence it doth bend; Go, bid th' ambitious flames no more ascend; 4. Perhaps this cruel nymph well knows to feign 5. True constancy no time, no power can move, COWLEY. GAY'S Dione. He that hath known to change, ne'er knew to love. 6. Yes, let the eagle change his plume, 7. Sooner shall the blue ocean melt to air, Sooner shall earth resolve itself to sea, Than I resign thine image, Oh my fair! Or think of any thing, excepting thee. 8. Love bears within itself the very germ GAY's Dione. CAMPBELL. BYRON'S Don Juan. Of change; and how should this be otherwise? 9. Then fare thee well-I'd rather make My bower upon some icy lake, BYRON'S Don Juan. MOORE. 10. Oh, the heart, that has truly lov'd, never forgets, As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, .1. Sweetest love! I'll not forget thee! Time shall only teach my heart Fonder, warmer to regret thee, Lovely, gentle as thou art! 12. There are three things a wise man will not trust: The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith. 13. Tell her I'll love her while the clouds drop rain, Or while there's water in the pathless main. 14. Think not, beloved, time can break Or absence from my bosom take MOORE. MOORE. SOUTHEY. 15. The love that is kept in the beauty of trust, Cannot pass like the foam from the seas, Or a mark that the finger hath trac'd in the dust, Where 't is swept by the breath of the breeze. MRS. AMELIA B. WELBY. 16. 17. The mountain rill Seeks, with no surer flow, the far, bright sea, Love, constant love! PARK BENJAMIN. Age cannot quench it—like the primal ray Our cloud-encircled region, it will flow As pure and as eternal in its glow. PARK BENJAMIN. 140 CONSTANCY - INCONSTANCY. 18. I lov'd thee in thy spring-time's blushing hour,- 19. With a kiss my vow was greeted On another lip than mine: That thy heart should not be chang'd; 20. Though youth be past, and beauty fled, 21. Thou art fickle as the sea, Thou art wandering as the wind, 22. Inconstant! are the waters so That fall in showers on hill and plain, 23. There is nothing but death Our affection can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever. J. O. ROCKWELL. MRS. S. J. HALE. W. C. BRYANT. J. G. PERCIVAL. 24. Where'er thou journeyest, or whate'er thy care, My heart shall follow, and my spirit share. MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY. 25. The finger of love, on my innermost heart, Wrote thy name, O adored! when my feelings were young; W. H. BURLeigh. CONTEMPLATION-REFLECTION. 1. Thus ev'ry object of creation Can furnish hints for contemplation, GAY'S Fables. 2. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, 3. A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 4. Thanks to the human heart, by which we live, 5. WORDSWORTH. Mount on Contemplation's wings, GIFFORD'S Perseus. |