ll below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

_Hebrew Melodies._

I saw thee weep--the big bright tear
Came o'er that eye of blue:
And then methought it did appear
A violet dropping dew;
I saw thee smile--the sapphire's blaze
Beside thee ceased to shine,
It could not match the living rays
That fill'd that glance of thine.

As clouds from yonder sun receive
A deep and mellow die,
Which scarce the shade of coming eve
Can banish from the sky,
Those smiles unto the moodiest mind
Their own pure joy impart;
Their sunshine leaves a glow behind
That lightens o'er the heart.

_Hebrew Melodies._

I have observed your sex, once roused to wrath,
Are timidly vindictive to a pitch
Of perseverance, which I would not copy.

_Sardanapalus, A. 2._

She was pensive more than melancholy,
And serious more than pensive, and serene,
It may be, more than either ...
The strangest thing was, beauteous, she was wholly
Unconscious, albeit turn'd of quick seventeen,
That she was fair, or dark, or short, or tall;
She never thought about herself at all.

_Don Juan, Canto 6.
_

A learned lady, famed
For every branch of every science known--
In every Christian language ever named,
With virtues equall'd by her wit alone.
She made the cleverest people quite ashamed,
And even the good with inward envy groan,
Finding themselves so very much exceeded
In their own way by all the things that she did.

_Don Juan, Canto 1._

'Tis pity learned virgins ever wed
With persons of no sort of education,
Or gentlemen who, though well-born and bred,
Grow tired of scientific conversation:
* * * * *
Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual,
Inform us truly, have they not hen-peck'd you all?

_Don Juan, Canto 1._

What a strange thing is man! and what a stranger
Is woman? what a whirlwind is her head,
And what a whirlpool full of depth and danger
Is all the rest about her! whether wed,
Or widow, maid, or mother, she can change her
Mind like the wind; whatever she has said
Or done, is light to what she'll say or do;--
The oldest thing on record, and yet new!

_Don Juan, Canto 9._

Round her she made an atmosphere of life,