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• The beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard.
  -- Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) (1809-1885) -- The Brookside...
• A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet.
  -- Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) (1809-1885) -- The Men of Old...
• Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.
  -- Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) (1809-1885) -- The Men of Old...
• I wandered by the brookside, I wandered by the mill
  I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still....
• Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain!
  Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain!...
• Lord of himself,--that heritage of woe! -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Lara, Canto i, Stanza 2
• Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, Stanza 1...
• Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto i, Stanza 10...
• And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, Stanza 32...