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Of human life must spring from woman's breast:
Your first small words are taught you from her lips;
Your first tears quench'd by her, and your last sighs
Too often breathed out in a woman's hearing,
When men have shrunk from the ignoble care
Of watching the last hour of him who led them.

Byron.

Fair ladies! you drop manna in the way of starved people.

Shakespeare.

Her Angelic Beauty.

Die when you will, you need not wear,
At Heaven's court, a form more fair
Than beauty at your birth has given ;
Keep but the lips, the eyes we see,
The voice we hear, and you will be
An angel ready made for Heaven.

Lord Herbert of Cherbury.

With sweetest airs

Entice her forth to lend her angel form
For beauty's honour'd image. Hither turn
Thy graceful footsteps: hither, gentle maid,
Incline thy polish'd forehead: let thy eyes
Effuse the mildness of their azure dawn;
And may the fanning breezes waft aside

Thy radiant locks, disclosing, as it bends,
With airy softness from the marble neck,
The cheek fair blooming, and the rosy lip,

Where winning smiles, and pleasure sweet as love,
With sanctity and wisdom, tempering, blend

Their soft allurement.

Akenside.

Her Angelic Nature.

A creature as fair and innocent of guile, as one of God's own angels, fluttered between life and death! Oh! who could hope, when the distant world to which she was akin, half opened to her view, that she would return to the sorrow and calamity of this? Rose, Rose, to know that you were passing away like some soft shadow, which a light from above casts upon the earth; to have no hope that you would be spared to those who linger here; hardly to know a reason why you should be; to feel that you belonged to that bright sphere whither so many of the fairest and the best have winged their early flight; and yet to pray, amid all these consolations, that you might be restored to those who loved you-these were distractions almost too great to bear. They were mine by day and night, and with them came such a rushing torrent of fears, and apprehensions, and selfish regrets, lest you should die, and never know how devotedly I loved you, as almost bore down sense and reason in its course. You recovered. Day by day, and almost hour by hour, some drop of health came back, and mingling with the speech and feeble stream of life which circulated languidly within you, swelled it again to a high and rushing tide. I

have watched you change almost from death to life, with eyes that turned blind with their eagerness and deep affection.

Dickens.

O Woman! in ordinary cases so mere a mortal, how, in the great and rare events of life, dost thou swell into the angel!

Bulwer.

There is a bud in life's dark wilderness,

Whose beauties charm, whose fragrance soothes distress:
There is a beam in life's o'erclouded sky,

That gilds the starting tear it cannot dry:

That flower, that lonely beam, on Eden's grove
Shed the full sweets and heavenly light of love.
Alas! that aught so fair could lead astray
Man's wavering foot from duty's thornless way.
Yet, lovely woman! yet thy winning smile,
That caused our cares, can every care beguile;
And thy soft hand amid the maze of ill
Can rear one blissful bower of Eden still.

To his low mind thy worth is all unknown,

Who deems thee pleasure's transient toy alone :

But oh! how most deceived, whose creed hath given

Thine earthly charms a rival band in heaven!

Yet thou hast charms that time may not dispel,

Whose deathless bloom shall glow where angels dwell:
Thy pitying tear in joy shall melt away,

Like morn's bright dew beneath the solar ray:

Thy warm and generous faith, thy patience meek,
That plants a smile where pain despoils the cheek;
The balm that virtue mingles here below

To mitigate thy cup of earthly woe

These shall remain, when sorrow's self is dead,

When sex decays, and passion's stain is fled.

Beresford.

In her Moods of Anger.

A noisy crowd,

Dryden.

Like woman's anger, impotent and loud.

O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd ;
She was a vixen when she went to school,
And though she be but little--she is fierce.
Shakespeare.

Fie, fie! unknit that threat'ning unkind brow,
And dart not scornful glances from those eyes,
To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor :
It blots thy beauty, as frosts bite the meads;
Confounds thy fame, as whirlwinds shake fair buds ;
And in no sense is meet, or amiable.

Shakespeare.

An Anxious One.

The hue of her countenance had changed to a marble whiteness; its expression had lost nothing of its beauty; but it was changed, and there was an anxious haggard look

about the gentle face which it had never worn before. Another minute, and it was suffused with a crimson flush, and a heavy wildness came over the soft blue eye. Again this disappeared, like the shadow thrown by a passing cloud, and she was once more deadly pale.

Dickens.

How Apostrophized.

It is no pilgrimage to travel to your lips.

Lady, you can enchain me with a smile.

Your name, like some celestial fire, quickens my spirit.

There's music in your smiles.

Report could never have a sweeter air to fly in than your breath.

Would I were secretary to your thoughts!

Edward Philips, nephew of Milton.

Though fate forbids such things to be,
Yet, by thine eyes and ringlets curl'd!
I cannot lose a world for thee,
But would not lose thee for a world!

Her Sweet Attractions.

Sweet are the charms of her I love,
More fragrant than the damask rose,

Byron.

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