PLEASURE AND PAIN.

Pleasure is oft a visitant: but pain

Clings cruelly to us, like the gnawing sloth
On the deer's tender haunches, late and loth
'Tis scared away.

KEATS.

DELAY IS DANGEROUS.

That we would do,

We should do when we would; for this would changes,
And hath abatements and delays as many,

As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;
And then this should is like a spendthrift sigh,
That hurts by easing.

EARTHLY JOYS.

SHAKSPEARE.

Few rightly estimate the worth
Of joys that spring and fade on earth,
They are not weeds we should despise,
They are not fruits of Paradise,
But wild-flowers on the pilgrim's way
Which cheer, but not protract his stay,
Which he may not too fondly clasp
Lest they should perish in his grasp,
But yet may touch and wisely love,
As types and proofs of joys above.

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MORNING.

By this the northern waggoner had set
His seven-fold team behind the steadfast star,
That was in ocean waves yet never wet,
But firm is fixt, and sendeth light from far
To all that in the wide deep wandering are:
And cheerful chaunticlere with his note shrill
Had warned once that Phœbus' fiery carre
In haste was climbing up the eastern hill,
Full envious that night so long his room did fill,
At last fair Hesperus in his highest sky

Had spent his lamp and brought forth drawing light
Then up he rose and clad him hastily

The dwarfe him brought his steed, so both away did fly.

SPENSER.

A

TO A CHILD.

Sweet spirit newly come from heaven
With all the God upon thee still,
Beams of no earthly light are given
Thy heart even yet to bless and fill,
Thy soul a sky where sun has set,
Wears glory hovering round it yet,
And childhood's eve grows sadly bright
Ere life hath deepen'd into night.

WILLIAM ARCHER BATTER.

THE VOICE OF GRIEF.

From them rose

cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars,
And, as it were one voice, an agony
Of lamentation, like a wind, that shrills
All night in a waste land, where no one comes,
Or hath come, since the making of the world.

BIRDS.

TENNYSON.

Birds, the free tenants of earth, air, and ocean,
Their forms all symmetry, their motions grace;
In plumage delicate and beautiful,

Thick without burthen, close as fish's scales,
Or loose as full-blown poppies on the gale;

With wings that seem as they'd a soul within them,
They bear their owners with such sweet enchantment.
J. MONTGOMERY.

BLUSHING.

The rose, with faint and feeble streak,
So slightly tinged the maiden's cheek,
That you had said her hue was pale;
But if she faced the summer gale,
Or spoke, or sung, or quicker moved,
Or heard the praise of those she loved,
Or when of interest was express'd
Aught that waked feeling in her breast,
The mantling blood in ready play
Rivall'd the blush of rising day.

SCOTT.

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