My wife's a tyrant, I'm a dunce But when I tried the same game once, C. H. A. The report goes she has all the rule Shakespeare (Merry Wives of Windsor). August 29. Love me if I live! What to me is life or death Barry Cornwall. But time, destroying far and wide, Love from the soul can ne'er divide. August 30. I have placed a golden Ring upon the hand Lady in the land, Barton Booth. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. The story without an end That angels throng to hear! Tupper. And if life comes with cross and care, I know thou❜lt half the burden bear, Gerald Massey. So in my heart did love awake William Leggett. The matron at her mirror, with her hand upon her brow, Sits gazing on her lovely face-aye, lovely even now! Why doth she lean upon her hand with such a look of care? Why steals that tear across her cheek?-she sees her first grey hair! Thomas Haynes Bayly. Proverb. Beauty's but skin deep. August 26. Sweet! lay thy heart aboon my heart, For it is a' thine ain; That morning love it gi'es to thee, Which kens nae guile or stain ! Scotch Song. But well thou play'dst the housewife's part; Have wound themselves about this heart. August 27. The fires the firmament that rend Sail forth into the sea of life, Cowper. John Logan. Longfellow (The Golden Legend). |