26. Love is a passion by no rules confin'd, The great first mover of the human mind; Science, truth, virtue, sweetness, glory, grace, AARON HILL. 28. Love why do we one passion call, When 't is a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, AARON HILL. Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear. 29. Love, thou hast every bliss in store, 80. "Tis friendship, and 't is something more; Not to know love, is not to live. I love thee, and I feel DEAN SWIFT. GAY's Fables. SHELLEY. 31. In vain you bid your captive live, While you the means of life deny; Give me your smiles, your wishes give 32. In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed, The Padlock. SCOTT's Last Minstrel. 33. But he who stems a stream with sand, SCOTT's Lady of the Lake. 34. On thy fond arm with pleasing gaze I hung, 35. Not vernal showers to budding flowers, So dear can be as thou to me, DR. DWIGHT. BURNS. 36. Had we never lov'd so kindly, Had we never lov'd so blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted. 37. Yes, love indeed is light from heaven, BURNS. BYRON'S Giaour. To live within himself; she was his life, A touch of hers, his blood would ebb and flow, BYRON'S Dream. 39. Oh, Love! what is there in this world of ours 40. BYRON'S Don Juan. Love will find its way Thro' paths where wolves would fear to prey. 41. There glides a step thro' the foliage thick, BYRON'S Giaour. And her cheek grows pale — and her heart beats quick; BYRON'S Parisina. 42. Sweet Florence! could another ever share BYRON'S Childe Harold. 43. Had sigh'd to many, tho' he lov'd but one, And that lov'd one, alas! could not be his. 44. Few BYRON'S Childe Harold. none find what they love, or could have lov'd, Tho' accident, blind contact, and the strong Necessity of loving, have remov'd Antipathies. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 45. But sweeter far than this, than these, than all, Is first and passionate love it stands alone, 46. Alas! the love of woman! BYRON'S Don Juan. it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing; BYRON'S Don Juan. 47. Man's love is of man's life a thing apart "T is woman's whole existence. 48. For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, BYRON'S Don Juan. Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter: BYRON'S Beppo. 49. But they were young; Oh! what, without our youth, Would love be? - what would youth be without love? Youth lends it joy and sweetness, vigour, truth, Heart, soul, and all that seems as from above. But, languishing with years, it grows uncouth, One of those things experience don't improve. BYRON'S Beppo. 50. Why did she love him? Curious fool, be still: Is human love the growth of human will? BYRON'S Lara. 376 51. LOVE. A love still all unquench'd, BYRON'S Lament of Tusso. 52. Yes, it was love, if thoughts of tenderness 53. There are ten thousand tones and signs, We hear and see, but none defines Involuntary sparks of thought, BYRON'S Corsair. Which strike from out the heart o'erwrought, Alike mysterious and intense Which link the burning chain that binds, We know not how, the absorbing fire. 54. And all our dreams of better life above, But close in one eternal gush of love. BYRON'S Mazeppa. BYRON'S Island. 55. Oh! what was love made for, if 't is not the same Through joy and through sorrow-through glory and shame ? MOORE. 56. The bee thro' many a garden roves, And hums the lay of courtship o'er, But, when he finds the flower he loves, He settles there, and hums no more. MOORE. |