Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolate That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage, And mitigate the gloom of Age? Religion bi…

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

Why don't the men propose, Mamma? Why don't the men propose?

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

I'm saddest when I sing.

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met; Not one fair scene or kindly smile Can this fond heart forget.

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away.

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is t…

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of you…

- Thomas Haynes Bayly