Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room

46. An angel-face! its sunny "wealth of hair," In radiant ripples, bathes the graceful throat, And dimpled shoulders; round the rosy curve Of the sweet mouth, a smile seems wand...

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, BY WILEY & PUTNAM. In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

59. You are young, and of That mould which throws out heroes; fair in favor, And doubtlessly, with such a form and heart, Would look into the fiery eyes of war.

45. I call her richly blest, In the calm meekness of her woman's breast, Where that sweet depth of still contentment lies; And for her household love, which clings Unto all anci...

1. Near some fair town you'll have a _private seat_, Built uniform, not little, nor too great; It shall within no other things contain, But what are useful, necessary, plain; A...

33. The Summer, the radiant Summer's the fairest, For green woods and mountains, for meadows and bowers, For waters and fruits, and for flowers the rarest, And for bright shinin...

19. GENTLEMAN.-- A _noble horse_, With flowing back, firm chest, and fetlocks clean, The branching veins ridging the glossy lean, The mane hung sleekly, the projecting eye That...

7. When soft music comes to thine ear, as thou liest at night, thine eyes half closed in sleep, and thy soul as a stream flowing at pleasant sounds. It is like the rising breeze...

35. You will go east, you will go west, To seek for what you will not find,-- A heart at peace with its own thoughts, A quiet and contented mind. You will seek high, you will se...