When howling winds, and beating rain, Each lonely scene shall thee restore ; VERSES WRITTEN ON A PAPER WHICH CONTAINED A PIECE OF BRIDE-CAKE YE curious hands, that, hid from vulgar eyes, This precious relic, formed by magic power, The Cyprian queen, at Hymen's fond request, With rosy hand the spicy fruit she brought, From Paphian hills and fair Cythera's isle; Ambiguous looks, that scorn and yet relent, Sleep, wayward god! hath sworn, while these remain, If, bound by vows to Friendship's gentle side, O, much entreated, leave this fatal place! Sweet Peace, who long hath shunned my plaintive day, Thy careless steps may scare her doves away, TO MISS AURELIA C-R, ON HER WEEPING AT HER SISTER'S WEDDING. CEASE, fair Aurelia, cease to mourn, And seize the treasure you regret. With Love united Hymen stands, You'll find your sister in his arms." SONNET. WHEN Phoebe formed a wanton smile, Strange, that thy peace, thou trembler, flies Before a rising tear! From 'midst the drops my love is born That o'er those eyelids rove : Thus issued from a teeming wave The fabled queen of love. SONG. THE SENTIMENTS BORROWED FROM SHAKSPEARE. YOUNG Damon of the vale is dead, Ye lowly hamlets, moan; A dewy turf lies o'er his head, And at his feet a stone. His shroud, which Death's cold damps destroy, Of snow-white threads was made : All mourned to see so sweet a boy In earth forever laid. Pale pansies o'er his corpse were placed, But will he ne'er return, whose tongue Ah, no! his bell of peace is rung, His lips are cold as clay. They bore him out at twilight hour, Each maid was woe - but Lucy chief, NOTES TO COLLINS. ORIENTAL ECLOGUES. PAGE 30, line 16.- Bassora, the gulf of that name, famous for the pearl fishery. Page 33, line 4. "In this line he does not merely seem to describe the sultry desert, but brings it home to the senses."- - Campbell. Page 35, line 17. That these flowers are found in very great abundance in some of the provinces of Persia, see the "Modern History" of the ingenious Mr. Salmon. - Collins. ODE TO PITY. Pella's bard, Euripides, of whom Aristotle pronounces, on a comparison of him with Sophocles, that he was the greater master of the tender passions, v TQayıxάtego5. -Collins. Page 43, line 16. The river Arun runs by the village of Trotton, in Sussex, where Otway had his birth. —Collins. ODE TO FEAR. Alluding to the Kúvas aquztous of Sophocles. See the Electra. "It may be remarked, that when we are anxious to communicate the highest possible character of sublimity to anything we are describing, we generally contrive, either directly, or by means of some strong and obvious association, to introduce the image of the heavens, or of the clouds; or, in other words, of sublimity, properly so called. In Collins' Ode to Fear, the happy use of a single word (thunders) identifies at once the physical with the moral sublime, and concentrates the effect of their united force."-Dugald Stewart. ODE TO SIMPLICITY. The andar, or nightingale, for which Sophocles seems to have entertained a peculiar 'ondness. |