The name of the pretty gemstone iolite is derived from the Greek word ios, which means violet. The blue and purple tones of this gemstone can vary, and it occasionally has the good fortune to have many colours. The name "water sapphire" is another...
Fair one, why cannot you an old man love
He may as useful, and more constant prove
Experience shews you that maturer years Are a security against those fears Youth will expose you to; whose wild desire As it is hot, so 'tis as rash as fi...
What's the best thing in the world
June-rose, by May-dew impearled;
Sweet south-wind, that means no rain;
Truth, not cruel to a friend;
Persuading her to resolution in religion, and
Render herself without further delay into the Communion of the Catholic
What Heaven-entreated heart is this,
Stands trembling at the gate of bliss
Oh
Mr
Best, you're very
And all the world shall know it;
It's good to see the school we knew, the land of youth and dream
To greet again the rule we knew, before we took the stream
Though long we've missed the sight of her, Out hearts may not forget:
We've lost the old delight of her, We ...
"He prayeth best who loveth best All things, both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all
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On Turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785.
Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
I would give it all up at a word from you,
Mother o' mine
But the strife has
That I dare not shun: