Name: Human Life (1819)
Author: Samuel Rogers

A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.

Samuel Rogers

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

Samuel Rogers

Then never less alone than when alone.

Samuel Rogers

An open music box with a ribbon of silver light rising from it on a plum cloth. — Original artwork

The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!

Samuel Rogers

A row of copper nails driven flush into a plank, with the last nail still standing up. — Original artwork

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

Samuel Rogers

Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,--not dead, but gone before, He gathers round him.

Samuel Rogers