Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo |
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. |
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. |
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. |
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness |
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness |
All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of love, and feed his sacred flame. |
Alone, alone, all all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony |
Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea! |
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars. |
An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye! |
Ancestral voices prophesying war! |
And all should cry, Beware! Beware! / His flashing eyes, his floating hair! / Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread, / For he on honey-dew hath fed, / And drunk the milk of Paradise. |
And ice, mast-high, came floating by, / As green as emerald. |
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. |