Goes to my heart, and soothes each small distress–
Distress tho’ small, yet haply great to me!
‘Tis true, on Lady Fortune’s gentlest pad
I amble on; yet tho’ I know not why,
So sad I am! but should a friend and I
Grow cool and miff, O! I am very sad!
And then with sonnets and with sympathy
My dreamy bosom’s mystic woes I pall;
Now of my false friend plaining plaintively,
Now raving at mankind in general:
But whether sad or fierce, ’tis simple all,
All very simple, meek Simplicity.
Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it isTo sit beside our Cot, our Cot o’ergrownWith white-flower’d Jasmin, and the broad-leav’d Myrtle,(Meet emblems they of Innocence and Love!)And watch the clouds, that late were rich with light,Slow saddening round, and mark the star of eveSerenely brilliant (such should Wisdom be)Shine opposite! How exquisite the scentsSnatch’d…
What is an Epigram? A dwarfish whole,Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
That takes its meaning from the nobler part,And but translates the language of the heart.
Within the petals of a RoseA sleeping Love I ‘spied.Around his brows a beamy wreathOf many a lucent hue;All purple glow’d his cheek, beneath,Inebriate with the dew.I softly seiz’d th’ unguarded Power,Nor scar’d his balmy rest:And plac’d him, cag’d within the flower,On spotless Sara’s breast.But when unweeting of the guileAwoke the pris’ner sweet,He struggled to…
I gazed–and sighed, and sighed–for, ah! how soonEve saddens into night! Mine eyes perused,With tearful vacancy, the dampy grass,That wept and glitter’d in the paly ray,And I did pause me on my lonely way,And mused me on the wretched ones, who passO’er the black heath of Sorrow. But, alas!Most of myself I thought: when it…
To sit beside our cot, our cot o’ergrownWith white-flowered jasmine and the broad-leaved myrtle(Meet emblems they of innocence and love),And watch the clouds that late were rich with lightSlow-sad’ning round, and mark the star of eveSerenely brilliant (such should wisdom be)Shine opposite! How exquisite the scentsSnatched from yon bean-field! And the world so hushed!The stilly…
