Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room
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Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room
Amusements; Fortune-telling; Quotations, English
15. A wide future is before you;
Your heart will beat for fame,
And you will learn to breathe with love
The music of a name,
Writ on the tablets of that heart
In characters of flame.
J. O. SARGENT.
16. To grow in the world's approving eyes,
In friendship's smile, and home's caress,
Collecting all the heart's sweet ties
Into one knot of happiness.
MOORE.
17. Sorely harass'd, and tired at last with fortune's vain
delusions, O,
You'll drop your schemes like idle dreams, and come to this
conclusion, O,--
The past was bad, the future hid, the good and ill untried, O,
But the present hour is in your power, and so you will enjoy it, O.
BURNS.
18. You will be blest exceedingly; your store
Grow daily, weekly, more and more,
And peace so multiply around,
Your very hearth seem holy ground.
MARY HOWITT.
19. With steady aim your fortune chase,
Keen hope let every sinew brace,
Through fair, through foul, urge on your race,
And seize the prey;
Then cannie, in some cozie place,
Thou'lt close life's day.
BURNS.
20. In your dreams a form you'll view,
That thinks on you and loves you too;
You start, and when the vision's flown
You'll weep that you are all alone.
H. K. WHITE.
21. Quiet by day,
Sound sleep by night, study and ease
Together mix'd, sweet recreation,
And innocence which most doth please,
With meditation.
POPE.
22. GENTLEMAN.--A gentle lover shalt thou be,
Sitting at thy loved one's side;
She giving her whole soul to thee,
Without a thought or wish of pride,
And she shall be thy cherish'd bride.
J. R. LOWELL.
22. LADY.--Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow,
Thou shalt not escape calumny.
SHAKSPEARE.
23. Every day
A little life, a blank to be inscribed
With gentle deeds, such as in after time
Console, rejoice, whene'er you turn the leaf
To read them.
ROGERS.
24. Through many a clime 'tis yours to go,
With many a retrospection cursed;
And all your solace is to know,
Whate'er betide, you've known the worst.
BYRON.
25. Rouse to some high and holy work of love,
And thou an angel's happiness shalt know,
Shalt bless the earth while in the world above;
The good begun by thee shall onward flow,
In many a branching stream, and wider flow.
CARLOS WILCOX.
26. You shall go down as men have ever done,
And tread the pathway worn by common tramp.
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