Samuel Rogers 1763-1855 John Bartlett


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Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.
The Pleasures of Memory. Part ii. i.
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She was good as she was fair, None—none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are: To know her was to love her. 1
Jacqueline. Stanza 1.
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The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still. 2
Jacqueline. Stanza 3.
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A guardian angel o’er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.
Human Life.
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Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
Human Life.
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The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master’s spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!
Human Life.
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Then never less alone than when alone. 3
Human Life.
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Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,—not dead, but gone before,— 4 He gathers round him.
Human Life.
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Mine be a cot beside the hill; A beehive’s hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near.
A Wish.
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That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,— That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
On a Tear.



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Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There ’s such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.
To ———.
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To vanish in the chinks that Time has made. 5
Pæstum.
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Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.
Epigram.

Note 1.
See Burns, Quotation 59.

None knew thee but to love thee.—Fitz-Greene Halleck: On the Death of Drake. [back]

Note 2.
See Bacon, Quotation 10. [back]

Note 3.
This is literally from Seneca, Epistola lxiii. 16. See Mathew Henry, Quotation 16. [back]

Note 4.
See Waller, Quotation 14. [back]

Note 5.
See Waller, Quotation 14. [back]

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