Part 55

52. An antique chair, Cushion'd with cunning luxury.

N. P. WILLIS.

53. You love a hand that meets your own With grasp that causes some sensation; You love a voice whose varying tone From truth has learn'd its modulation.

MRS. OSGOOD.

54. When each and all come crowding round to share A cordial greeting, the beloved sight; When welcomings of hand and lip are there, And when these overflowings of delight Subside into a sense of quiet bliss, Life hath no purer, deeper happiness.

SOUTHEY.

55. Oh yes, the poor man's garden! It is great joy to thee, This little, precious piece of ground, Beside his door to see. For in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers, Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And joy for weary hours.

MARY HOWITT.

56. To be sad, and say nothing.

As You Like It.

57. Sweet poetry, the alchymy Which turneth all it toucheth into gold.

MRS. DANA.

58. GENTLEMAN.-- With a swimmer's stroke To fling the billows back from your drench'd hair, And laughing from your lip the audacious brine; ----rising o'er The waves as they arise, and prouder still The loftier they uplift thee; then, exulting, With a far-dashing stroke, and drawing deep The long suspended breath, again to spurn The foam which breaks around thee, and pursue Thy track like a sea-bird.

BYRON--The Two Foscari.

58. LADY.--A needle, which though it be small and tender, Yet it is both a maker and a mender, A grave reformer of old rents decay'd, Stops holes, and seams, and desperate cuts display'd; And for your country's quiet, you would like That womankind should use no other pike. It will increase their peace, enlarge their store, To use their tongues less, and their needles more. The needle's sharpness profit yields and pleasure, But sharpness of the tongue bites out of measure.

JOHN TAYLOR--Needle's Excellency.

59. Infant charms, Unconscious fascination, undesign'd; The orison repeated in your arms, The book, the bosom on your knee reclined, The low sweet fairy lore to con.

CAMPBELL--Gertrude of Wyoming.

60. With Shakspeare's self to speak and smile alone, And no intruding visitation fear To shame the unconscious laugh, or stop your sweetest tear.

CAMPBELL--Gertrude of Wyoming.

FOR WHAT HAVE YOU A DISTASTE OR AVERSION?

"I do not like you, Dr. Fell-- "The reason why I cannot tell; "But this I know full well, "I do not like you, Dr. Fell."

FOR WHAT HAVE YOU A DISTASTE OR AVERSION?

1. GENTLEMAN.--Three loud talking women, That are discoursing of the newest fashion.

JOHN TOBIN.

1. LADY.--Ye say, "There is naething I hate like the men, But the deuce gae wi'm to believe me."

BURNS.

2. The banquet-hall, the play, the ball, Have lost their charms for thee.