(11 quotes found)
“It was a dream of perfect bliss, / Too beautiful to last.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly
“She wore a wreath of roses, / The night that first we met.”
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, / Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!”
“I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, / Dying when fair things are fading away.”
“The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, / The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.”
“We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.”
“Why don't the men propose, mamma, / Why don't the men propose?”
“Oh! no! we never mention her, her name is never heard; my lips are now forbid to speak, that once familiar word.”
“Gaily the Troubadour / Touched his guitar.”
“The rose that all are praising/ Is not the rose for me.”