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• Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.

  Samuel Rogers

  Twilight, Games, Play

  Samuel Rogers (1854). “The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes”, p.63

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• And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.

  Samuel Rogers

  Musical, Mountain, Sound

  Samuel Rogers (1836). “Poems”, p.85

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• By many a temple half as old as Time.

  Samuel Rogers

  Time, Half, Temples

  'Italy. A Farewell' (1828) 2, 5.

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• Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.

  Samuel Rogers

  Men, Example, Action

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• The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd,
  The child is born by many a pang endear'd
  And now the mother's ear has caught his cry;
  O grant the cherub to her asking eye!
  He comes--she clasps him. To her bosom press'd
  He drinks the balm of life, and drops to rest.

  Samuel Rogers

  Mother, Children, Eye

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• To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.

  Samuel Rogers

  Time, Made, Chinks

  Samuel Rogers (1842). “Italy, a Poem”, p.217

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• A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

  Samuel Rogers

  Reading, Men, Doe

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• Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.

  Samuel Rogers

  Sunset, Play, Long

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell (1858). “The pleasures of memory, by S. Rogers. The pleasures of hope, by T. Campbell”, p.22

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• Oh! she was good as she was fair.
  None-none on earth above her!
  As pure in thought as angels are,
  To know her was to love her.

  Samuel Rogers

  Love, Life, Angel

  Samuel Rogers, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Stothard (1834). “Poems”, p.142, London : Printed for T. Cadell, and E. Moxon

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• The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.

  Samuel Rogers

  Made, Ill, Crushed

  Samuel Rogers (1836). “Poems”, p.154

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• Mine be a cot beside the hill;
  A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear;
  A willowy brook, that turns a mill,
  With many a fall shall linger near.

  Samuel Rogers

  Fall, Ears, Bees

  Samuel Rogers (1843). “Poems”, p.215

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• Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

  Samuel Rogers

  Thinking, Achievement, Done

  'Human Life' (1819) l. 49.

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• Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.

  Samuel Rogers

  Thinking, Paris, Mind

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• But the day is spent;
  And stars are kindling in the firmament,
  To us how silent--though like ours, perchance,
  Busy and full of life and circumstance.

  Samuel Rogers

  Stars, Busy, Silent

  Samuel Rogers (1854). “The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes”, p.204

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• Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.

  Samuel Rogers

  Gay, May, Madness

  'To - , 1814'

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