Character.. Example Exercise.............. ............................... ... ............ . M. Office .... 372 Necessity. 383 0. Oaths Ocean.. 386 390 390 P. Marriage ................................... 337 ... 436 437 Reapers 438 438 442 Memory .................................. 344 ....................................... 346 Mirth................ 350 Rebellion Mischief.............. 351 Reciprocity.. Miser................. 351 Reconciliation. Mob. .................................... 352 Reflection...................... 442 Moon. Moonlight.... 354 Regicide................... Mother ................................... 361 Mourning ................................ 364 Resolution N. ..... ..... 409 411 416 ................ ...... .......... .... .......... Sorrow......... 428 428 429 430 432 433 435 ................. 436 442 443 445 446 448 448 449 450 450 454 457 458 459 460 461 462 462 462 463 464 465 466 535 57C POETICAL QUOTATIONS ABSENCE. LIKE as the culver on the bared bough, Sits mourning for the absence of her mate, And in her songs sends many a wishful vow For his return that seems to linger late; So I, alone now left, disconsolate, Mourn to myself the absence of my love; And wandering here and there all desolate, Seek, with my plaints, to match that mournful dove. Edmund Spenser. Though absent, present in desires they be ; Our souls much further than our eyes can sec. Michael Drayton. Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion; Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; The soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun. Dr. John Donne. It is as if a night should shade noon-day, Short absence hurt him more, And made his wound far greater than before; I do not doubt his love, but I could wish Robert Mead's Comfort of Love and Friendship No happier task these faded eyes pursue; Of all affliction taught a lover yet, Unequal task! a passion to resign, Of day or dreaming night but I am with thee: Maturin's Bertram. Bertram, Bertram ! The thoughts of other days are rushing on me, O tell him I have sat these three long hours, Proctor's Mirandola. Yes, The limner's art may trace the absent feature, But oh! the scenes 'mid which they met and Not to understand a treasure's worth The thoughts-the recollections sweet and bitter, Less lovely are the fugitive clouds of eve, Long did his wife, Suckling her babe, her only one, look out Regret had deeply fix'd the poison'd dart, Maturin's Bertram. As slow our ship her foamy track T. Moore. Oh! couldst thou but know Goldsmith's Traveller. With what a deep devotedness of woe ABSENTEES - ABSTINENCE -ACCIDENT-ACCLAMATIONS. I wept thy absence, o'er and o'er again A boat at midnight sent alone Are like what I am, without thee! ABSTINENCE. Moore's Loves of the Angels. Against diseases here the strongest fence Is the defensive virtue abstinence. "Tis scarcely Two hours since ye departed: two long hours Byron's Cain. Wives, in their husbands' absence, grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. Byron's Don Juan. Absent many a year A few short months-though short, they must be long Without thy dear society; but yet We must endure it, and our love will be When from land and home receding, Miss Gould's Poems. Call thou me home! from thee apart Oh! call me home. The honours of the turf as all our own. ABSENTEES. We yet retain Some small pre-eminence; we justly boast Johnson's Sejanus Of acclamation, doubtless signs of joys It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch Sir John Beaumont When all thy mountains clap their hands in joy, And all thy cataracts thunder--" That's the boy!" O. W. Holmes |