I always want to jump overboard now, but reason restrains me.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
If a proper pride, and a sense of what is due to his family no longer restrains him, let him understand that his father is a mere beggar, dependent on the will of another, though you have nothing to fear, as I may tell you that he acknowledges your lover as his son, and insists on my sanction to your marriage."
"Won from the Waves"
W.H.G. Kingston
So then calumniate with brazen courage, Your hatred's fury nought restrains- Since your dark blood could ne'er atone for One drop within the Poet's pure veins.
"Russian Lyrics"
Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi