Thomas Haynes Bayly

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Surely 't is better, when summer is over
To die when all fair things are fading away.

Thomas Haynes Bayly (13 October 1797 – April 1839) was a popular miscellaneous writer best known for his songs.

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• Surely 't is better, when summer is over
  To die when all fair things are fading away.
  • I'd be a Butterfly, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• I'd be a butterfly born in a bower,
  Where roses and lilies and violets meet.
  • I'd be a Butterfly, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
  Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
  • I'd be a Butterfly, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Oh no! we never mention her,
  Her name is never heard;
  My lips are now forbid to speak
  That once familiar word.
  • Oh no! we never mention her, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Variant: "Oh, no, we never mention him".

• We met,—'t was in a crowd.
  • We met, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Parodied by Thomas Hood: We met,—'t was in a mob.

• Gayly the troubadour
  Touched his guitar.
  • Welcome me Home, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Why don't the men propose, Mamma?
  Why don't the men propose?
  • Why don't the Men propose?, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• She wore a wreath of roses
  The first night that we met.
  • She wore a Wreath, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Friends depart, and memory takes them
  To her caverns, pure and deep.
  • Teach me to forget, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Tell me the tales that to me were so dear,
  Long, long ago, long, long ago.
  • Long, long ago, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• The rose that all are praising
  Is not the rose for me.
  • The Rose that all are praising, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Oh pilot, 't is a fearful night!
  There's danger on the deep.
  • The Pilot, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Fear not, but trust in Providence,
  Wherever thou may'st be.
  • The Pilot, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Absence makes the heart grow fonder:
  Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
  • Isle of Beauty, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I find that absence still increases love", Charles Hopkins, To C. C.; "Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it", Howell, Familiar Letters, book i. sect. i. No. 6.

• The mistletoe hung in the castle hall,
  The holly-branch shone on the old oak wall.
  • The Mistletoe Bough, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands,
  And many friends I've met;
  Not one fair scene or kindly smile
  Can this fond heart forget.
  • Oh, steer my Bark to Erin's Isle, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• My fond affection thou hast seen,
  Then judge of my regret
  To think more happy thou hadst been
  If we had never met.
  • To my Wife, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• I'm saddest when I sing.
  • You think I have a merry heart, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I can’t sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am", Artemus Ward, Lecture.

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