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Quotes by Samuel Lover
A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.— filed under Babyhood
Her beads while she numbered, The baby still slumbered, And smiled in her face, as she bended her knee; Oh! bless'd be that warning, My child, thy sleep adorning, For I know that the angels are whispering with thee.— filed under Babyhood
For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.— filed under Ballads
For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.— filed under Dreams
Shamrock. Trifolium Repens. I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all the fairy dells, And if I find the charmèd leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!— filed under Flowers-Safflower
"Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure, For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.— filed under Luxury
Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs. γ.— filed under Matrimony
Portrait of Her Child. There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.— filed under Motherhood
Hunting. Live and think.— filed under Proverbs
There's luck in odd numbers. ii.— filed under Proverbs
Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.— filed under Reproof