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Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too. - Philip James Bailey, Festus

And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

The joy late coming late departs.

Capacity for joy Admits temptation.

An infant when it gazes on a light, A child the moment when it drains the breast, A devotee when soars the Host in sight, An Arab with a stranger for a guest, A sailor when the prize has struck in fight, A miser filling his most hoarded chest, Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping As they who watch o'er what they love while sleeping.

There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. - Lord Byron ,

Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy.

Sing out my soul, thy songs of joy; Such as a happy bird will sing, Beneath a Rainbow's lovely arch, In early spring.

Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.

There's a hope for every woe, And a balm for every pain, But the first joys of our heart Come never back again!

And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.

They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.

But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?

Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.

Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.

Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.