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  • There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.

  • Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode.

    Sweet   Heart   Peaceful  
  • Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves.

    Farewell   Night   Shade  
  • There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.

    James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1866). “The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.133
  • Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

    Wings   Lightning   Way  
    James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1866). “The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.170
  • Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts.

    Sweet   Flower   Heart  
    James Gates Percival, James Gordon Brooks, James Lawson, Henry Denison, George Robertson (jr. of Savannah, Ga) (1828). “The Columbian lyre: or, Specimens of transatlantic poetry”, p.228
  • The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!

    Dark   Years   Voice  
  • How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

    James Gates Percival (1823). “Poems”, p.72
  • I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

    Father   Mean   Fool  
  • Roses bloom, and then they wither; Cheeks are bright, then fade and die; Shapes of light are wafted hither, Then, like visions, hurry by.

    Light   Rose   Vision  
    James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1866). “The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.363
  • In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, On its leaves a mystic language bears.

    Flower   Garden   Land  
    James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1859). “The poetical works of James Gates Percival”, p.361
  • The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety and pleasure.

    Cheer   Years   Darkness  
    James Gates Percival (1822). “Prometheus, part II, with other poems”, p.105
  • Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail, Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay; Though darken'd in this poor life by a veil Of suffering, dying matter, we shall play In truth's eternal sunbeams; on the way To heaven's high capitol our cars shall roll; The temple of the Power whom all obey, That is the mark we tend to, for the soul Can take no lower flight, and seek no meaner goal.

    Play   Goal   Car  
    James Gates Percival (1821). “Poems by James G. Percival ...”, p.322
  • Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

    James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1859). “The poetical works of James Gates Percival”, p.286
  • O rose! the sweetest blossom, Of spring the fairest flower, O rose! the joy of heaven. The god of love, with roses His yellow locks adorning, Dances with the hours and graces.

    Spring   Flower   Yellow  
    James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1866). “The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.494
  • The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

    Air   Poetry   World  
    James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1859). “The poetical works of James Gates Percival”, p.1
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