Sweet sensibility! thou keen delight!
Unprompted moral! sudden sense of right!
_Sensibility_. H. MORE.
Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface
Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.
_Evangeline, Pt. II. Sc. 2_. H.W. LONGFELLOW.
'Twere vain to tell thee all I feel,
Or say for thee I'd die.
_'Twere Vain to Tell_. J.A. WADE.
And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift,
Is quick and transient,--comes, and lo! is gone,
While Northern thought is slow and durable.
_Luria, Act v_. R. BROWNING.
Great thoughts, great feelings came to them,
Like instincts, unawares.
_The Men of Old_. R.M. MILNES, LORD HOUGHTON.