Minds are of celestial birth;
Make we, then, a heaven of earth.
Let us read the dreams of glory
That childish fancy made;
Turn to the next few pages,
And see how soon they fade.
Here, while still waiting, dreaming, For some ideal life,
The young heart all unconscious Had enter'd on the strife.
See how the page is blotted:
What-could those tears be mine?
How coolly I can read you
Each blurr'd and trembling line!
Now I can reason calmly,
And, looking back again,
Can see divinest meaning
Threading each separate pain.
Here strong resolve-how broken! Rash hope, and foolish fear, And prayers, which God in pity Refused to grant or hear.
Nay-I will turn the pages
To where the tale is told
Of how a dawn diviner
Flush'd the dark clouds with gold. Household Words: My Journal.'
Youth, that pursuest with such eager pace Thy even way,
Thou pantest on to win a mournful race: Then stay! oh, stay!
Pause and luxuriate in thy sunny plain;
Once past, thou never wilt come back again A second boy.
The hills of manhood wear a noble face
When seen from far;
The mist of light from which they take their grace Hides what they are.
The dark and weary path those cliffs between
Thou canst not know,
And how it leads to regions never green,
AND is not youth, as fancy tells,
Life's summer prime of joy? Ah, no! for hopes too long delay'd And feelings blasted or betray'd Its fabled bliss destroy; And youth remembers with a sigh The careless days of infancy.-Southey.
Look back upon your hours of youth : What were your early years,
But scenes of childish cares and griefs? And say not childish tears
Were nothing; at that time they were More than the young heart well could bear. L. E. Landon.
3623. YOUTH. Happiness of
IN the sweet morn of life, when health and joy Laugh in the eye, and o'er each sunny plain A mild celestial softness seems to reign, Ah! who could dream what woes the heart annoy? No saddening sighs disturb the vernal gale
Which fans the wild-wood music on the ear; Unbathed the sparkling eye with pity's tear,
Save listening to the aged soldier's tale. The heart's slow grief which wastes the child of woe, And lovely injured woman's cruel wrong, We hear not in the skylark's morning song,
Pause while thou mayst, nor deem that fate thy gain, We hear not in the gales that o'er us blow :—
Will drive thee forth from this delicious plain,
A man at last.-Monckton Milnes.
Visions devoid of woe which childhood drew, How oft shall my sad heart your soothing scenes
Happy the schoolboy! Did he prize his bliss, 'Twere ill exchanged for all the dazzling gems That gaily sparkle in ambition's eye : His are the joys of nature, his the smile, The cherub smile, of innocence and health : Sorrow unknown, or, if a tear be shed,
He wipes it soon: for, hark! the cheerful voice Of comrades calls him to the top or ball; Away he hies, and clamours as he goes, With glee, which causes him to tread on air. Knox.
Oh! enviable, early days, When dancing thoughtless pleasure's maze, To care, to guilt unknown! How ill exchanged for riper times, To feel the follies, or the crimes,
Of others, or my own!
Ye tiny elves, that guileless sport,
Like linnets in the bush, Ye little know the ills ye court When manhood is your wish! The losses, the crosses,
That active men engage; The fears all, the tears all,
Of dim declining age !-Burns.
How bright to him life's opening morn! No cloud to intercept a ray; The rose had then no hidden thorn, The tree of life knew no decay. How greeted oft his wondering soul The fairy shapes of childish joy, As gaily on the moments stole, And still grew up the blooming boy! Hoyt.
Let them exult: their laugh and song Are rarely known to last too long: Why should we strive, with cynic frown, To knock their fairy castles down?
Eliza Cook. Blest hour of childhood! then, and then alone, Dance we the revels close round pleasure's throne, Quaff the bright nectar from her fountain-springs, And laugh beneath the rainbow of her wings. Oh! time of promise, hope, and innocence, Of trust, and love, and happy ignorance! Whose every dream is heaven, in whose fair joy Experience yet has thrown no black alloy; Whose pain, when fiercest, lacks the venom'd pang, Which to maturer ill doth oft belong, When, mute and cold, we weep departed bliss, And hope expires on broken happiness.
3624. YOUTH. Hopefulness of SELF-FLATTER'D, unexperienced, high in hope, When young, with sanguine cheer, and streamers gay,
We cut our cable, launch into the world, And fondly dream each wind and star our friend. Young.
How gaily is at first begun
Our life's uncertain race! Whilst yet that sprightly morning sun, With which we just set out to run, Enlightens all the place.
How smiling the world's prospect lies, How tempting to go through! Not Canaan to the prophet's eyes, From Pisgah, with a sweet surprise, Did more inviting show. How soft the first ideas prove
Which wander through our minds! How full the joys, how free the love, Which does that early season move, As flowers the western winds! Anne, Countess of Winchelsea. Oh! the joy
Of young ideas painted on the mind In the warm glowing colours fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new And all is lovely.-Hannah More.
Youth with swift feet walks onward in the way; The land of joy lies all before his eyes; Age, stumbling, lingers slower day by day, Still looking back, for it behind him lies. Frances Anne Kemble Butler.
3625. YOUTH. Immortal
YET grieve thou not, nor think thy youth is gone, Nor deem that glorious season e'er could die. Thy pleasant youth, a little while withdrawn, Waits on the horizon of a brighter sky; Waits, like the morn, that folds her wing and hides Till the slow stars bring back her dawning hour; Waits, like the vanish'd spring, that slumbering bides Her own sweet time to waken bud and flower.
There shall He welcome thee, when thou shalt stand On His bright morning hills, with smiles more sweet
Than when at first He took thee by the hand,
Through the fair earth to lead thy tender feet. He shall bring back, but brighter, broader still, Life's early glory to thine eyes again, Shall clothe thy spirit with new strength, and fill
Thy leaping heart with warmer love than then.
Hast thou not glimpses, in the twilight here,
Of mountains where immortal morn prevails? Comes there not, through the silence, to thine ear A gentle rustling of the morning gales;
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm
In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes;
Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.-Gray.
Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed,
Less pleasing when possess'd; The tear forgot as soon as shed,
The sunshine of the breast. Theirs buxom health of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new,
And lively cheer of vigour born; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly the approach of morn.
Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play;
No sense have they of ills to come,
Nor care beyond to-day;
Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate,
And black Misfortune's baleful train. Ah! show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murtherous band: Ah, tell them they are men !—Gray.
O life! how pleasant in thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning ! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like school-boys at the expected warning, To joy and play.—Burns.
Ah! who can say, however fair his view, Through what sad scenes his path may lie? Let careless youth its seeming joys pursue, Soon will they learn to scan with thoughtful eye The illusive past and dark futurity.
A babe in a, 965
A babe in glory, 2006 A beggar ask'd an, 1477' A beggar of Shiraz, 1285 A boat at midnight, 12 A bright or dark, 2219 A butterfly basked on, 445 A Christian's wit is, 3528 A cloud lay cradled, 806 A critic was of, 638
A crown! Golden in, 2142 A crown! what is, 2142
A day, a day, 499 A day and hour, 2216
A death-bed's a, 737
A decent boldness ever, 2405
A dreary place would, 438
A fault doth never, 1109
A few days may, 1434
A flower that does, 2235
A fool! indeed, has, 3357
A fount-o'ershading tree stands, 232
A fragrant piece of, 218
A friend should bear, 1404
A full hot horse, 182 A genial hearth, a, 2634
A gentle angel walketh, 2638 A golden treasure is, 1419 A good man's prayers, 2832
A government on freedom's, 1572 A Hampden too is, 1453 A happy genius is, 1452 A horseman, flying in, 2958
A hundred times in, 624
A husbandman who many, 3457
A jest's prosperity lies, 2063
A jewel is a, 2462
A jewel fallen within, 2725
A judge-a man, 2096
A just man cannot, 2109
A king, who by, 1615 A leper once to, 469 A life of honour, 1853 A little flock! Yes, 516 A little learning is, 1000 A little longer still, 1034 A little faith will, 1154 A little maiden read, 1806 A little word in, 2130 A little bird I, 1982 A little fire is, 2605 A little while of, 3376 A little while, for, 3377 A little theft a, 3444 A lively faith will, 1154 A lovely bud so, 960 A man in authority, 247 A man in his, 894 A man may cry, 1317 A man of sense, 208 A man there came, 3309 A man through Syria's, 2261 A man to-day the, 2402 A merchant famed for, 3228 A million beats of, 2494 A millstone and the, 1724 A mind which through, 630 A miracle with miracles, 2486 A mist of words, 3561 A moaning cry, as, 1032
A moral, sensible, and, 2405
A mother's holy arms, 2808 A mother's love how, 2506 A mother's love to, 2506 A native grace sat, 288 A night of fretful, 274
A nightingale, that all, 3270 A noble emulation breaks, 1210 A noble heart doth, 3003
A novel was a, 2578
A parent ask'd a, 555
A peace is of, 2670
A perfect judge will, 639 A pilgrim bound to, 2524 A pilgrim through his, 3582 A pining sceptic towards, 2717
A plain suit, since, 932.
A politician, Proteus-like, 2756 A present Deity in, 2552 A priest by Heaven, 2746 A prince is but, 2145 A prison is a, 2873
A quiet conscience makes, 565
A rare thing is, 1388
A sad estate of, 2822
A safe stronghold our, 779 A saint! Oh, would, 3027 A sceptic, matched with, 3406 A secret in his, 3048
A shipwreck'd sailor on, 2597 A show of liberty, 2214 A smith at the, 50
A spark creates the, 2935 A sprout of evil, 1103
A strong and mailed, 1033 A tender mother lives, 2357
A thing of beauty, 281
A thousand gnats make, 2913 A thousand years a, 2605
A thousand years scarce, 3224 A thunder-storm! the, 3229 A true good man, 2635 A trusting heart, a, 2355 A valiant man ought, 615 A very little goodness, 1564 A vintner at the, 127
A virtuous deed should, 3449 A wand'rer I've been, 734 A weaver sat one, 2660 A whisper woke the, 3107 A wife becomes the, 3504 A wife's a man's, 3504 A willing heart adds, 2136 A wind came up, 659 A wise man likes, 452 A worthy man of, 3297 A wretched thing it, 1735 A young maiden's heart, 1733 A youngster at school, 890
Abou Ben Adhem (may, 2699 About the joys and, 1527 Above all things raillery, 2923 Above me are the, 2512 Above the seats of, 90 Absence of occupation is, 2980 Abstruse and mystic thoughts, 3234 Absurd longevity! More, more, 113 Absurd! to think to, 1196 Abundance is a blessing, 3004 Accomplishments have taken virtue's, 3525 Accomplishments were native to, 19 Accountable to none but, 570
Actions rare and sudden, 37 Adieu! adieu! what means, 51 Admirers of false pleasures, 2732 Affliction is the wholesome, 88 Afflictions may press me, 93 After our child's untroubled, 297 After the Christian's tears, 1444 After the joys of, 1445 After the storm a, 76 Against diseases here the, 15 Against our peace we, 880 Age by degrees invisibly, 103 Age is froward, uneasy, 115 Age, like ripe apples, 116 Age sits with decent, 110 Ah, can you bear, 2497 Ah, child, unjust to, 1050 Ah, dearest Lord, I, 2810 Ah, friend! to dazzle, 3542 Ah! from real happiness, 3419 Ah! how unjust to, 1050 Ah, hush now your, 1594 Ah, look thou largely, 402 Ah me! full sorely, 1206 Ah me! those joyous, 2407 Ah, monarchs! could ye, 3477 Ah! ne'er so dire, 639 Ah! silly man, who, 3053 Ah, that deceit should, 1918 Ah! vice! how soft, 3416 Ah, what a sigh, 689 Ah! what is human, 2239 Ah! what would the, 442
Ah! whence yon glare, 3472
Ah! when did wisdom, 3515 Ah! who can say, 3632 Ah! who can tell, 2769
Ah, woman woman! thou, 3541 Ah, world unknown! how, 3575 Ah, wretched and to, 3053 Ah, yes, Philosopher, thy, 1703 Aim at the highest, 128 Alas! and is domestic, 1301 Alas! had reason ever, 2706 Alas! how light a, 895
Alas! I am but, 200
Alas! I have nor, 1049
Alas! I have no, 1643
Alas! I have walk'd, 3064
Alas! our young affections, 2631 Alas! the breast that, 1629 Alas! the joys that, 1330 Alas! the praise given, 1280 Alas! the world is, 3579 Alas! they had been, 1400 Alas! what differs more, 7 Alas! when all our, 3233 All are architects of, 370 All are but parts, 1519 All are not just, 2114 All are not taken, 2969 All countries are my, 1128 All day the sun, 710 All evils natural are, 1950 All flesh is grass, 751 All flowers will droop, 10 All friendly trust is, 3048 All great concernments must, 2925 All great souls make, 589 All greatness is in, 1624 All hail, Thou noble, 325
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