Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes

#1. 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 bids the tempest cease,
And, leads her to a port of peace;
And on, the lonely pilot steers
Through the lapse of future years.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

#2. She wore a wreath of roses,
The night that first we met.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

#3. We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

#4. Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

#5. Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

Thomas Haynes Bayly

#6. 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

#7. Why don't the men propose, Mamma? Why don't the men propose?

Thomas Haynes Bayly

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

Thomas Haynes Bayly

#9. Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

#10. The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

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

Thomas Haynes Bayly

#12. The rose that all are praising
Is not the rose for me.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

#13. I'm saddest when I sing.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

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

Thomas Haynes Bayly

#15. Oh! where do fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized their rills?

Thomas Haynes Bayly

#16. Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.

Thomas Haynes Bayly