| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Rapture |
| | | | Sweet the young muse with love intense, |
| Which smiles oer sleeping innocence. |
Smart. | 1 |
| | Not the poet in the moment |
| Fancy lightens on his ee, |
| Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, |
| That thy presence gies to me. |
Burns. | 2 |
| | An infant when it gazes on the light, |
| A child the moment when it drains the breast, |
| A devotee when soars the Host in sight, |
| An Arab with a stranger for a guest, |
| A sailor when the prize has struck in fight, |
| A miser filling his most hoarded chest, |
| Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping |
| As they who watch oer what they love while sleeping. |
Byron. | 3 | | |
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