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• Thus she stood amid the stooks, Praising God with sweetest looks.
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- Ruth...
• Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien co
  The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn....
• No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, .
  . . . . . No road, no street, no t' other side the way, ....
• She who hesitates is won.
• One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Paradise and the Peri...
• This child is not mine as the first was; I cannot sing it to re
  I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bless it upon my breast....
• I don't mind men who kiss and tell. I need all the publicity I can get. -- Ruth Buzzi
• Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love!
  Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied...
• Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- The Bridge of Sigh...