Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.
Robert SoutheyBe thankful that your lot has fallen on times when, though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and fagot at command.
Robert SoutheyAffliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Robert SoutheyTake away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.
Robert Southey