The Golden Violet - Lady Isabelle’s First Song
The Golden Violet (1827)
Sparkling and Bright (published 1840).
“The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.”
Satire I, l. 51.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
“Fill up the goblet and reach to me some!
Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.”
"Wine Song of Kaitmas", p. 161.
Poetry of the Orient, 1865 edition
“There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.”
Source: Selected Poetry
"City Vignettes, I: Dawn"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)
Source: "The Flaw in Paganism" in Death and Taxes (1931)
“Swimming upon water teaches men how birds do upon the air.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
“Night came—the deep and purple time
Of summer in a southern clime.”
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
“In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.”
This is a play on "Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears", the last line of William Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortality_from_Recollections_of_Early_Childhood.
Source: Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954), p. 28.
