“Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * * * * Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting spring.” ShouldLittlesFailingProveSpringBirdLaysFarewellCheerfulEverlastingPartingRobinsBoonHarbingerRequiem Author:William Wordsworth
“Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jest or pranks, that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale, Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.” WantPainSimpleLaughingFireFailingReadyPressesStrangerTalesPitySpotsLuxuryEveningPlentyChairsRetiringGuestsCrownsPausesToilSighCheerfulHospitalityDoing GoodJestAbodePranksBashful Book:Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author Source: Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author
“Be mine that silent calm repast, A conscience cheerful to the last: That tree which bears immortal fruit, Without a canker at the root; That friend which never fails the just, When other friends desert their trust.” LastsFailingTreeMinesBearsConscienceRootsSilentFruitCalmDesertImmortalCheerful Book:The Poems of Cooper, and Cotton Source: The Poems of Cooper, and Cotton
“Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.” MenBelieveCharacterPastEnergyLove IsFailingEffectsProudElementsOrdinaryContradictionResolutionStrongestBelieve In MeCheerfulMeekSpiritedProud Man Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton