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,

In vain a captive flies.

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
That might be happy, light and free?

13. Now what could artless Jennie do?
She had na' will to say him na';
At length she blush'd a sweet consent,
And love was ay between them twa.

14. She half consents, who silently denies.

1.

LORD LYTTLETON.

CONSTANCY-INCONSTANCY.

2. I am constant as the northern star,

Of whose true, fix'd, and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.

MCNEIL.

WESTMACOTT.

BURNS.

O heaven! were man

But constant, he were perfect; that one error
Fills him with faults; makes him run through all sins.

SHAKSPEARE.

OVID.

SHAKSPEARE.

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3. Go, bid the needle its dear North forsake,

To which with trembling reverence it doth bend;
Go, bid the stones a journey upwards make;

Go, bid th' ambitious flames no more ascend;
And when these false to their old motions prove,
Then will I cease thee, thee alone to love.

4. Perhaps this cruel nymph well knows to feign
Forbidding speech, coy looks, and cold disdain,
To raise his passion: Such are female arts,
To hold in safer snares inconstant hearts.

6. Yes, let the eagle change his plume,
The leaf its hue, the flower its bloom,
But ties around that heart were spun,
Which would not, could not be undone.

5. True constancy no time, no power can move,
He that hath known to change, ne'er knew to love.

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.

COWLEY.

GAY'S Dione.

9. Then fare thee well-I'd rather make
My bower upon some icy lake,
When thawing suns begin to shine,
Than trust to love so false as thine!

GAY's Dione.

CAMPBELL.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

8. Love bears within itself the very germ

Of change; and how should this be otherwise?
That violent things more quickly find a term
Is shown through nature's whole analogies.
BYRON'S Don Juan.

MOORE.

10. Oh, the heart, that has truly lov'd, never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close,

As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets,
The same look which she turn'd when he rose.

.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

The spell around us cast,

Or absence from my bosom take
The memory of the past.

16.

17.

Seeks, with no surer flow, the far, bright sea,
Than my unchang'd affection flows to thee.

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.
The mountain rill

Love, constant love!

Age cannot quench it—like the primal ray
From the vast fountain that supplies the day,
Far, far above

Our cloud-encircled region, it will flow
As pure and as eternal in its glow.

MOORE.

MOORE.

SOUTHEY.

PARK BENJAMIN.

PARK BENJAMIN.

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18. I lov'd thee in thy spring-time's blushing hour,-
I lov'd thee in thy summer's ripen'd noon-
I lov'd thee in the blossom, bud, and flower-

The tear of April, and the smile of June :-
Fear not, then, fear not any hour will see
The heart grow cold that ever beats for thee!

19. With a kiss my vow was greeted As I knelt before thy shrine; But I saw that kiss repeated

On another lip than mine:
And a solemn vow was spoken

That thy heart should not be chang'd;
But that binding vow was broken,
And thy spirit was estrang'd.

20. Though youth be past, and beauty fled,
The constant heart its pledge redeems,
Like box that guards the flowerless bed,
And brighter from the contrast seems.

21. Thou art fickle as the sea,

Thou art wandering as the wind,
And the restless, ever-mounting flames
Are not more hard to bind.

22. Inconstant! are the waters so

J. O. ROCKWELL.

MRS. S. J. HALE.

That fall in showers on hill and plain,
Then, tired of what they find below,
Ride on the sunbeams back again?

23. There is nothing but death
Our affection can sever,
And till life's latest breath
Love shall bind us for ever.

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;
And the record shall 'bide till my soul shall depart,
And the darkness of death o'er my being be flung.
W. H. BURLEIGH.

CONTEMPLATION-REFLECTION.

1. Thus ev'ry object of creation

Can furnish hints for contemplation,
And, from the most minute and mean,
A virtuous mind can morals glean.

5.

3. A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

2. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours,
And ask them what report they've borne to heaven,
And how they might have borne more welcome news.
YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.

GAY's Fables.

4. Thanks to the human heart, by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts, that do often lie too deep for tears.

YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.

WORDSWORTH.

Mount on Contemplation's wings,
And mark the causes and the ends of things;
Learn what we are, and for what purpose born,
What station here 't is given us to adorn ;
How best to blend security with ease,
And win our way thro' life's tempestuous seas.

GIFFORD'S Perseus.