| Friendship. |
| Scan not a friend with microscopic glass; You know his faults, then let his foibles pass. |
| Genius. |
| Draws like Prometheus from the heavenly hearth Creative fire that glorifies our earth. |
| Genius and Talent. |
| This, Talent reproduces to a turn, Brightly it shines, but ah! it will not burn. |
| Half better than the Whole. |
| Share happy fortune with thy friend, my soul, So shall thy half be better than the whole. |
| Happiness. |
| Isle of our hopes beyond the sea of tears, Reefed round with sin and woe, delays and fears. |
| Heartless Fun. |
| Her rattling mouth-peals yield me no delight, She laughs but with her teeth, and means to bite. |
| History. |
| Fragments of fact mosaic-like combined, All toned and tinted to the artist's mind. |
| Ignorant Antagonism. |
| Wise opposition challenges advance, But we recoil from arguing ignorance. |
| Ill-natured Satire. |
| It wears away all love this trenchant art; Whittling with keen-edged wit the hearer's heart. |
| Impartiality. |
| Justice is easy, barring love or grudge; But to thyself, that proves the righteous judge. |