4. Let me set my mournful ditty
To a merry measure-
Thou wilt never come for pity,
Thou wilt come for pleasure;
Pity then will cut away

Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.

5. I love all that thou lovest,
Spirit of Delight!

The fresh earth in new leaves dressed,
And the starry night,

Autumn evening, and the morn
When the golden mists are born.

6. I love snow, and all the forms
Of the radiant frost ;

I love waves, and winds, and storms-
Everything almost

Which is Nature's, and may be

Untainted by man's misery.

7. I love tranquil solitude,
And such society

As is quiet, wise, and good.
Between thee and me

What difference? But thou dost possess
The things I seek, not love them less.

8. I love Love, though he has wings,
And like light can flee;

But above all other things,
Spirit, I love thee-

Thou art love and life!

Oh come!

Make once more my heart thy home!

TO EMILIA VIVIANI.

Sweet-basil and mignonette,

wherefore thou sent to me

Embleming love and health, which never yet
In the same wreath might be ?
Alas, and they are wet!

Is it with thy kisses or thy tears?
For never rain or dew

Such fragrance drew

From plant or flower.
My sadness ever new,

The very doubt endears

The sighs I breathe, the tears I shed, for thee.

March 1821.

LINES.

Halcyons of Memory!
Seek some far calmer nest
Than this abandoned breast;
No news of your false spring
To my heart's winter bring.
Once having gone, in vain
Ye come again.

Vultures who build your bowers
High in the future's towers!
Withered hopes on hopes are spread :
Dying joys, choked by the dead,
Will serve your beaks for prey

Many a day.

TIME.

years!

Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality,

And, sick of prey yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore ! Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storin, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable Sea ?

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