While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
THOMAS MOORELike ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
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Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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All that’s bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that’s sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.
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From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
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Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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