More from The Pleasures of Memory. Part ii. i.
- A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.
- Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
- Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please. Human Life (1819)
- Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There ‘s such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.
- Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay. To -----
- Mine be a cot beside the hill; A beehive’s hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger near.
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