Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell!
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.
Death: the grand perhaps.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain