Quotes from Thomas Haynes Bayly

I ask not now a lover's smile-- These eyes are sunk and dim; But in their ruin, they possess An eloquence for him; Though others pass me--from his heart More sympathy I claim; When I am gone--perchance he'll weep Whene'er he hears my name.

Give me romance, and I'll dispense With the rodomontade of common sense.

Oh! teach my heart that chilling lore That the world hath taught to Thee. While I am on the sunny shore, What are the ocean storms to Me? Oh! some that with me used to sail, Now wreck'd 'neath the waters lie; But we have felt no adverse gale, We will coldly pass them by.

Oh! where do fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized their rills?

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.

Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.