Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes

• Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away.
• I'd be a butterfly born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet.
• Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
• Oh no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard; My lips are now forbid to speak That once familiar word.
• We met,-'t was in a crowd.
• Gayly the troubadour Touched his guitar.
• Why don't the men propose, Mamma? Why don't the men propose?
• She wore a wreath of roses The first night that we met.
• Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.
• Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.
• The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me.
• Oh pilot, 't is a fearful night! There's danger on the deep.
• Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder: Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
• The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly-branch shone on the old oak wall.
• Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met; Not one fair scene or kindly smile Can this fond heart forget.
• My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret To think more happy thou hadst been If we had never met.
• I'm saddest when I sing.

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