Margaret Capel: A Novel, vol. 2 of 3

Our joys are kin to griefs--in time shall cease The term of soundest health: disease Dwells in our house, and opes to death a door. Oft amid favouring gales and summer skies Des...

A few days after their return home, the weather, always so unsettled in our climate, became suddenly cold, and Aveline's illness immediately assumed a more serious form. Mr. Lin...

_Soph._ You powers, that take into your care the guard Of innocence, aid me! for I am a creature So forfeited to despair, hope cannot fancy A ransom to redeem me ... ... ... ......

Is there no more but parting left, of all The love we bore each other? Is it easy So to break trust and faith? Are all the tales Of constancy, that make the heart beat high, Mer...

Mrs. Somerton had kindly offered, as soon as ever she learned the particulars of Margaret's situation, to take the charge of her, and treat her like one of her own daughters.

No more endure to weigh The shame and anguish of the evil day Wisely forgetful! O'er the ocean swell Sublime of Hope, I seek the cottaged dell Where Virtue calm with careless st...

Where'er we gaze, above, around, below, What rainbow tints, what magic charms are found! Rock, river, forest, mountain, all abound; And bluest skies that harmonise the whole. Be...

_Ansel._ His food--sharp sorrow, ever galling doubt, Fear, that aye nettles near the core of love-- And long suspense that maketh faint the heart; Patience it may be, and much j...

Mighty power, all powers above! Great unconquerable Love! Thou who liest in dimple sleek, On the tender virgin's cheek: Thee the rich and great obey; Every creature owns thy swa...

And some will die, these are the gentle hearted, Shook down like flowers by early frost: and some Will grow in scorn and bitterness of heart, As giving unto others, the full mea...

Lieben Freunde! Es gab schön're Zeiten Als die unsern--das ist nicht zu streiten! Und ein edler Volk hat einst gelebt. Könnte die Geschichte davon schweigen Tausend Steine würde...

Oh! sir, I did love you With such a fixed heart, that in that minute Wherein you slighted or betrayed me rather; I took a vow to obey your last decree, And never more look up to...

He that would flee from suffering must die, For life is suffering, and life's cure is death. The earth, the sea, the radiant orb of day, The star-bespangled sky, the moon's soft...

_Ar._ Yes, in the stars--when on a winter's night They stand as thick as drops of dew new frozen On the dark arch of Heaven--or when they lie Mirrowed upon the heaving sea--or s...

There was, perhaps, nothing on earth for which Elizabeth Gage would have felt more unmixed contempt, than for an unrequited attachment;--no fate under Heaven from which she woul...

Might'st thou perceive austerely in his eye That he did plead in earnest, yea or no? Look'd he, or red, or pale, or sad, or merrily? What observation mad'st thou in this case.

Que es la vida? Un frenesi; Que es la vida? Una ilusion, Una sombra, una ficcion, Y el mayor bien es pequeño. Que toda la vida es sueño, Y los sueños, sueño son.

And now that hope and joy are seen to fade, Like stars dim gliding till they mix with shade; Now that thy cheek has sorrow's canker proved When thus by sickness changed, ah! mor...

Steig' empor, o Morgenroth, und röthe Mit purpurnem Küsse Hain und Feld! Säus'le nieder, Abendroth und Flöte Sanft in Schlummer die erstorb'ne Welt; Morgen--ach! Du röthest Eine...