John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Frances Janes Van Alstyne Crosby. (1820– ?) |
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| “Give,” said the little stream, “Give, oh give, give, oh give,” As it hurried down the hill. “I am small, I know, but wherever I go The fields grow greener still.” |
| ”Give,” said the little Stream. |
| George John Whyte-Melville. (1821–1878) |
| 7455 |
| When you sleep in your cloak there ’s no lodging to pay. |
| Boots and Saddles. |
| 7456 |
| For everything created In the bounds of earth and sky Has such longing to be mated, It must couple or must die. |
| Like to Like. |
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| Ah, better to love in the lowliest cot Than pine in a palace alone. |
| Chastelar. |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson. (1821–1895) |
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| And this was your Cradle? Why, surely, my Jenny, Such cozy dimensions go clearly to show You were an exceedingly small pickaninny, Some nineteen or twenty short summers ago. |
| The old Cradle. |
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| “Vanitas vanitatum” has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair. |
| Vanity Fair. |