170 DANCING-DANGER - PERIL. 8. My very chains and I grew friends, BYRON'S Prisoner of Chillon. 9. As custom arbitrates, whose shifting sway Our life and manners must alike obey. 1. The absent danger greater still appears; 2. From a safe port, 't is easy to give counsel. 3. DANIEL. SHAKSPEARE. We've scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it, 4. For he that stands upon a slippery place, Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. 5. 6. Let terror strike slaves mute; SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. Much danger makes great hearts most resolute. What is danger More than the weakness of our apprehension ? MARSTON. A poor cold part o' the blood; whom takes it hold of? Were made the masters of it. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. 7. Our dangers and delights are near allies; From the same stem the rose and prickle rise. ALEYN. 8. But there are human natures so allied Unto the savage love of enterprise, That they will seek for peril as a pleasure. DAY-MORNING-NIGHT, &c. 1. Dark night that from the eye its function takes, BYRON. SHAKSPEARE. 2. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. SHAKSPEARE. 3. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tip-toe on the misty mountain tops. SHAKSPEARE. 4. But look! the moon, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. 5. Oft till the star, that rose at evening bright, SHAKSPEARE. Towards heaven's descent had sloped his westerning wheel. 6. Now came still evening on, and twilight grey MILTON. MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 7. Twilight, short arbiter 'twixt day and night. MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 172 DAY-MORNING - NIGHT, &c. 8. Sweet is the breath of morn; her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds. MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 9. The sun had long since, in the lap From black to red began to turn. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 10. The morning lark, the messenger of day, 11. See the night wears away, and cheerful morn, 12. This dead of night, this silent hour of darkness, Nature for rest ordain'd, and soft repose. 13. 14. 15. O, treach'rous night! Thou lend'st thy ready veil to every treason, And teeming mischiefs thrive beneath thy shade! The waking dawn, DRYDEN. ROWE. ROWE. AARON HILL. When night-fallen dews, by day's warm courtship won, Nature, new-blossom'd, shed her colours round; The dew-bent primrose kiss'd the breeze-swept ground. -The approach of night, AARON HILL. The skies yet blushing with departing light, POPE. 16. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, COWPER'S Task. 17. Night, sable goddess, from her ebon throne, YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 18. Now the sun, so faintly glancing 19. Day glimmer'd in the east, and the white moon Hung like a vapour in the cloudless sky. Совв. ROGERS's Italy. 20. The quiet night, now dappling, 'gan to wane, Dividing darkness from the dawning main. 21. The morn is up again, the dewy morn, BYRON'S Island. With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom, Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn, And living as if earth contain'd no tomb- BYRON'S Childe Harold. 22. Night wanes-the vapours, round the mountains curl'd, Melt into morn, and light awakes the world. BYRON'S Lara. 23. All was so still, so soft, in earth and air, BYRON'S Lara. 25. Blest power of sunshine! genial day! 26. It was an evening bright and still MOORE'S Lalla Rookh. As ever blush'd on wave or bower, MOORE's Loves of the Angels. 27. Soft as a bride, the rosy dawn And, bath'd in blushes, hath withdrawn And, with her orbs dissolv'd in dew, Bends like an angel softly through The blue-pavilion'd skies. MRS. AMELIA B. WELBY. 28. O Twilight! spirit that dost render birth MRS. NORTON's Dream. 29. How calmly sinks the setting sun! And, beautiful as dream of heaven, G. D. PRENTICE. |