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Young, loving, and beloved; the good, the great.
She was a nation's hope—a nation's pride :
With her that pride has fled—those hopes have died.
She was a nation's hope—a nation's pride :
With her that pride has fled—those hopes have died.
To feel
We are not what we have been, and to deem
We are not what we should be—and to steel
The heart against itself; and to conceal,
With a proud caution, love, or hate, or aught,—
Passion or feeling, purpose, grief, or zeal,—
Which is the tyrant spirit of our thought,
Is a stern task of soul:—no matter,—it is taught.
Byron
We are not what we have been, and to deem
We are not what we should be—and to steel
The heart against itself; and to conceal,
With a proud caution, love, or hate, or aught,—
Passion or feeling, purpose, grief, or zeal,—
Which is the tyrant spirit of our thought,
Is a stern task of soul:—no matter,—it is taught.
Byron
Half the hopes of this life are delusive, but while they delude us into happiness, let us not affect to despise them. Imagination is only a gayer name for matter of fact; in many cases—think so, and 'tis so. If felicity be seated in the mind, it must often depend upon the fair shadows of opinion, and, one may say, without a paradox, that these are frequently substantial.
Welcome, welcome, doe I sing,
Far more welcome than the spring;
He that parteth from you, never
Shall enjoy a spring for ever.
Far more welcome than the spring;
He that parteth from you, never
Shall enjoy a spring for ever.
