1
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!Eliza Cook
2
Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.Eliza Cook
3
I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye.Eliza Cook
4
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?Eliza Cook
5
A cheer then for the noble breast that fears not danger's post And like the lifeboat proves a friend When friends are wanted most.Eliza Cook
6
A cheer then for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post And like the lifeboat proves a friend When friends are wanted most.Eliza Cook
7
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!Eliza Cook
8
Though language forms the preacher 'Tis "good works" make the man.Eliza Cook
9
Oh! Much may be done by defying The ghosts of Despair and Dismay And much may be gained by relying On "Where there's a Will There's a Way."Eliza Cook
10
The span of life is waning fast Beware unthinking youth beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!Eliza Cook
11
There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.Eliza Cook