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  • To break so vast a Heart

    To break so vast a Heart

    Required a Blow as vast —

    No Zephyr felled this Cedar straight —

    'Twas undeserved Blast —

  • To Captain West, of the Steamer Atlantic

              The gathering clouds around us lower,

                 The tempest wildly raves,

              But fearlessly our noble ship

                 The angry ocean braves,

              And buoyant as a sea-bird rides

                 The crested mountain waves.


              The gale, the storm, the night may come,...

  • To Celia (Fielding)

    I HATE the town and all its ways;

    Ridottos, operas, and plays;

    The ball, the ring, the mall, the court;

    Wherever the beau-monde resort;

    Where beauties lie in ambush for folks,

    Earl Straffords, and the Duke of Norfolks;

    All coffee-houses, and their praters;

    All courts of...

  • To Celia. Occasioned by her apprehending her house would be broke open, and having an old fellow to guard it, who sat up all night, with a gun without any ammunition.

    CUPID CALLED TO ACCOUNT.


       LAST night, as my unwilling mind

    To rest, dear Celia, I resign'd;

    For how should I repose enjoy,

    While any fears your breast annoy?

    Forbid it, heav'n, that I should be

    From any of your troubles free.

    O! would kind Fate attend my pray'r,
    ...

  • To Charles Butler

              Thus, one by one, dear friend, the years flow by,

                 That bear us onward to the silent land.

              And one by one, around us falling lie,

                The loved ones we have walked with, hand in hand.


              And thus, the hour comes swiftly, surely on;

                 I see its shadow...

  • To Chloes breast young Cupid slily stole

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    To Chloes breast young Cupid slily stole

    But he crept in at Myras pocket hole

  • To Chuse a Friend

    To all young Men that love to Wooe,

    To Kiss and Dance, and Tumble too;

    Draw near and Counsel take of me,

    Your faithful Pilot I will be:

    Kiss who you please, Joan, Kate, or Mary,

    But still this Counsel with you carry.


    Never Marry.


    Court not a Country Lady, she

    ...

  • To die — takes just a little while —

    To die — takes just a little while —

    They say it doesn't hurt —

    It's only fainter — by degrees —

    And then — it's out of sight —


    A darker Ribbon — for a Day —

    A Crape upon the Hat —

    And then the pretty sunshine comes —

    And helps us to forget —


    The absent — mystic —...

  • To die — without the Dying

    To die — without the Dying

    And live — without the Life

    This is the hardest Miracle

    Propounded to Belief.

  • To disappear enhances —

    To disappear enhances —

    The Man that runs away

    Is tinctured for an instant

    With Immortality


    But yesterday a Vagrant —

    Today in Memory lain

    With superstitious value

    We tamper with "Again"


    But "Never" far as Honor

    Withdraws the Worthless thing

    And...