Sits on me as a cloud along the sky, Which will not let the sunbeams through, nor yet 9. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep; and if I weep, "T is that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, which we must steep First in the icy depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we least wish to behold will sleep. BYRON. BYRON'S Don Juan 10. But can the noble mind for ever brood, CAMPBELL. 11. 'T was thus in Nature's bloom and solitude, 12. Come, rouse thee, dearest: 't is not well Thus darkly o'er the cares that swell As brooks and torrents, rivers, all CARLOS WILCOX. MRS. DINNIES. .106 CARE - MELANCHOLY-GLOOM. 13. Blame not, if oft, in melancholy mood, This theme too far such fancy hath pursued; 14. Oh! it is hard to put the heart Alone and desolate away To curl the lip in pride, and part 15. Strange that the love-lorn heart will beat With rapture wide amid its folly ;— No grief so soft, no pain so sweet As love's delicious melancholy. ROBERT SANDS. N. P. WILLIS. MRS. A. B. WELBY. 16. O! dark is the gloom o'er my young spirit stealing! Then why should I linger when others are gay ?The smile that I wear, is but worn for concealing A heart, that is wasting in sadness away. MRS. A. B. WELBY. 17. Alas, for my weary and care-haunted bosom! The spells of the spring-time arouse it no more; 18. How vain a task, to wake my lyre MRS. OSGOOD. 19. Pale Care now sits enthron'd upon that cheek, Where rosy Health did erst her empire hold. J. T. WATSON. CAUTION-DISCRETION - PRUDENCE. 1. But now, so wise and wary was the knight, By trial of his former harms and cares, That he decry'd, and shunned still his sight: The fish, that once was caught, new bait will hardly bite. SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 2. They, that fear the adder's sting, will not Come near his hissing. CHAPMAN. 3. Look forward what's to come, and back what's past; 4. The better part of valour is discretion. DENHAM. SHAKSPEARE. 5. When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks. SHAKSPEARE. 6. Prudence! thou vainly in our youth art sought, 7. None pities him that's in the snare, And, warn'd before, would not beware. DRYDEN. HERRICK. 8. Man's caution often into danger turns, And his guard, falling, crushes him to death. YOUNG. 9. He knows the compass, sail and oar, GAY's Fables. 108 CELIBACY - CHASTITY. 10. Would you, when thieves are known abroad, Bring forth your treasures in the road? Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus expos'd his wealth? 11. The mouse, that always trusts to one poor hole, Can never be a mouse of any soul. GAY'S Fables. POPE. 12. All's to be fear'd where all is to be lost. 2. Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Chaste as the icicle That's curdled by the frost of purest snow, And hangs on Dian's temple. 3. Lady, you are the cruelest she alive, 4. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. MILTON'S Comus. 5. Our Maker bids increase; who bids abstain But our destroyer, foe to God and man? MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 6. There swims no goose so grey, but, soon or late, She finds some honest gander for a mate. POPE. 7. Most women's weak resolves, like reeds, will fly, 8. When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, The only way her guilt to cover, And wring his bosom-is to die. 9. If I am fair, 't is for myself alone; GAY'S Dione. I do not wish to have a sweetheart near me, For surely I would plight my faith to none, GOLDSMITH. Though many an amorous cit might jump to hear me : For I have heard that lovers prove deceivers, When once they find that maidens are believers. 10. Her bosom was a soft retreat For love and love alone, From MICHEL ANGELO. And yet her heart had never beat It dwelt within its circle, free From tender thoughts like these, As the blossom waits the breeze, MRS. AMELIA B. WELBY. |