204 DOMESTIC AFFAIRS-HOME. 2. If earth's whole orb, by some due distanc'd eye, Were seen at once, her tow'ring Alps would sink, And levell'd Atlas leave an even sphere. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 1. DOMESTIC AFFAIRS-HOME. Home is the resort Of love, of joy, of peace, and plenty, where, THOMSON'S Seasons. 2. Domestic happiness! thou only bliss COWPER'S Task.. 3. His warm but simple home, where he enjoys, With her who shares his pleasure and his heart, Sweet converse. 4. Man, through all ages of revolving time, COWPER'S Task. Unchanging man, in every varying clime, 5. Around, in sympathetic mirth, Its tricks the kitten tries, J. MONTGOMERY. GOLDSMITH. 6. With secret course which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. GOLDSMITH'S Traveller. 7. Thou spot of earth, where from my bosom WALKER-From the Danish. 8. 'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Our coming, and look brighter when we come. BYRON'S Don Juan. 9. He enter'd in his house-his home no more, Without a welcome. BYRON'S Don Juan. 10. The parted bosom clings to wonted home, If aught, that's kindred, cheer the welcome hearth. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 11. I've wander'd on thro' many a clime where flowers of beauty grew, Where all was blissful to the heart and lovely to the view— morn, But none appear'd so sweet to me as the spot where I was born. 12. 'Mid pleasures and palaces tho' we may roam, J. H. PAYNE. 206 DOUBT - DRAMA - DREAMS - SLEEP. 13. How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every SAMUEL WOODWORTH. 14. A neat little cottage in front of a grove, Where in youth they first gave their young hearts up to love, Was the solace of age, and to them doubly dear, As it call'd up the past with a smile or a tear. 15. And oh, the atmosphere of home! how bright PARK BENJAMIN. 16. Who, that in distant lands has chanc'd to roam, Ne'er thrill'd with pleasure at the name of home? 1. If I may trust the flatt'ring eye of sleep, SHAKSPEARE. 2. Dreams are but children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. SHAKSPEARE. 3. Thus have I had thee, as a dream will flatter, In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter. SHAKSPEARE. 4. Come sleep, O sleep! the certain knot of peace, 5. Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; 6. Tir'd nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! DRYDEN. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 7. When tir'd with vain rotations of the day, Sleep winds us up for the succeeding dawn. 8. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. Kind sleep affords The only boon the wretched mind can feel; MURPHY 9. Oh! thou best comforter of the sad heart, The eyes which sorrow taught to watch and weep. 10. Sleep is no servant of the will; It has caprices of its own: BOWRING-From the Spanish. 11. To each and all, a fair good-night, And rosy dreams, and slumbers light! SCOTT. 208 DREAMS-SLEEP. 12. Well may dreams present us fictions, Since our waking moments teem With such fanciful convictions, As make life itself a dream. 13. Tho' 't is all but a dream at the best, And still when happiest soonest o'er, Yet e'en in a dream to be blest, Is so sweet that I ask for no more. CAMPBELL. MOORE. 14. Again in that accustom'd couch must creep, BYRON'S Manfred. But a continuance of enduring thought, 16. I would recall a vision which I dream'd, BYRON'S Dream. 17. And dreams in their development have breath, BYRON'S Dream. |