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There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron.

In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.

But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane.

Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!

The careful pilot of my proper woe.

I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one.

What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great?

And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

History is the devil's scripture.

There were his young barbarians all at play There was their Dacian mother--he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday.

"Farewell!" For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair.

Hope, withering, fled--and Mercy sighed farewell.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see.

My heart is feminine, nor can forget-- To all, except one image, madly blind; So shakes the needle, and so stands the pole, As vibrates my fond heart to my fix'd soul.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return,--Get very drunk; and when You wake with headache, you shall see what then.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon, Condemn'd to drudge, the meanest of the mean, And furbish falsehoods for a magazine.