Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

- James Gates Percival

Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

- James Gates Percival

There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.

- James Gates Percival

Roses bloom, and then they wither; Cheeks are bright, then fade and die; Shapes of light are wafted hither, Then, like visions, hurry by.

- James Gates Percival

Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail, Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay; Though darken'd in this poor life by a veil Of s…

- James Gates Percival

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

- James Gates Percival

There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.

- James Gates Percival

O rose! the sweetest blossom, Of spring the fairest flower, O rose! the joy of heaven. The god of love, with roses His yellow locks adorning, Dances …

- James Gates Percival

Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam Is eve…

- James Gates Percival