So false and yet so fair! so fair a mien A inan like me, so wretched and so true? One ev'ning, on the river's pleasant strand, To see me credit what a woman told me. Robert Southey. EPITAPH ON MISS ROSE. BENEATH this sod reclines that bashful flow'r, Anonymous. STANZAS WRITTEN ON A LEAF AT THE BEGINNING OF MR. PLEASURES of Mem'ry!-oh! supremely blest, Mem'ry makes her influence known I greet her as the fiend to whom belong song. Alone, at midnight's haunted hour, When nature woos repose in vain, What, but the deep inherent dread, Lest she beyond the grave resume her reign, TO CYNTHIA. THOU! whose love-inspiring air Yet who, alas! like me was blest, To others e'er thy charms were known; When fancy told my raptur❜d breast That Cynthia smil'd on me alone? Nymph of my soul! forgive my sighs; Nor blame the trembling wretch who dies, Lo! theirs is ev'ry winning art, With fortune's gifts, unknown to me! I only boast a simple heart, In love with INNOCENCE and THEE. Peter Pindar. ODE TO INNOCENCE. 'TWAS when the slow declining ray When by a murm'ring rill reclin'd, Sat wrapt in thought a wand'ring swain; Calm peace compos'd the musing mind, And thus he rais'd the flowing strain: "Hail Innocence! celestial maid! What joys thy blushing charms reveal! "On thee attends a radiant quire, Soft smiling peace, and downy rest, With love, that prompts the warbling lyre, And hope, that sooths the throbbing breast. r O, sent from heav'n to haunt the grove, Where squint-ey'd envy ne'er can come; Nor pines the cheek with luckless love, Nor anguish chills the living bloom. "But spotless beauty, rob'd in white, "Grant, heav'nly power! thy peaceful sway May still my ruder thoughts controul; "Far in the shady sweet retreat Let thought beguile the ling'ring hour; Let quiet court the mossy seat, And twining olives form the bow'r. "Let dove-ey'd peace her wreath bestow, And oft sit list'ning in the dale, While night's sweet warbler from the bough Tells to the grove her plaintive tale. "Soft, as in Delia's snowy breast, And all its blissful dreams be love." Dr. Ogilvie. |