May's in all the Italian books;
She has old and modern nooks,
Where she sleeps with nymphs and elves
In happy places they call shelves,
And will rise and dress your rooms
With a drapery thick with blooms.
Come, ye rains, then, if ye will,
May's at home, and with me still ;
But come, rather thou, good weather!
And find us in the fields together.

HOLIDAY,

By EBENEZER ELLIOTT.

OH blessed! when some holiday
Brings townsmen to the moor,
And in the sunbeams brighten up
The sad looks of the poor.
The bee puts on his richest gold,
As if that worker knew
How hardly (and for little) they
Their sunless task pursue.

But from their souls the sense of wrong
On dove-like pinion flies;

And, throned o'er all, forgiveness sees
His image in their eyes.

Soon tired, the street-born lad lies down
On marjoram and thyme,
And through his grated fingers sees
The falcon's flight sublime;
Then his pale eyes, so bluely dull,
Grows darkly blue with light,
And his lips redden like the bloom
O'er miles of mountains bright.
The little lovely maiden-hair
Turns up its happy face,

And saith unto the poor man's heart,
"Thou'rt welcome to this place."

The infant river leapeth free

Amid the bracken tall,

And cries" FOR EVER there is ONE

Who reigneth over all;

And unto Him, as unto me,
Thou'rt welcome to partake
His gift of light, His gift of air,
O'er mountain, glen, and lake.
Our father loves us, want-worn man!
And know thou this from me,

The pride that makes thy pain his couch,
May wake to envy thee.

Hard, hard to bear are want and toil,
As thy worn features tell;

But Wealth is arm'd with fortitude,
And bears thy sufferings well."

Brilliants.

HOPES.

Alas! the idols which our hopes set up,
They are Chaldean ones, half gold, half clay.
MISS LANDON.

GENIUS.

Who make their very body like their souls,
And like the young moon with a ragged edge;
Still in their imperfection, beautiful-

Whose weaknesses are lovely as their strengths
Like the white nebulous matter between stars,
Which if not light at least is likest light.

DEATH.

But when heaven remained
Utterly black, the murky shades involved
An image, silent, cold, and motionless,
As their own voiceless earth and vacant air.
Even as a vapour fed with golden beams
That minister'd on sunlight, ere the west
Eclipses it, was now that wondrous frame-
No sense, no motion, no divinity-

BAILEY.

A fragile lute, on whose harmonious strings
The breath of heaven did wander-a bright stream
Once fed with many-voiced waves-a dream

Of youth, which night and time have quench'd for ever
Still, dark, and dry, and unremember'd now.

SHELLEY.

SWIMMING.

I saw him beat the surges under him,

And ride upon their backs; he trod the water,
Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted

The surge most swoln that met him; his bold head 'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar'd Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke

To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd
As stooping to relieve him.

THE SNOW-DROP.

SHAKSPERE.

The snow-drop is the herald of the flowers
Sent with its small white flag of truce to plead
For its beleaguered brethren;-suppliantly
It prays stern winter to withdraw his troop
Of winds and blustering storms; and having won
A smile of promise from its pitying face
Returns to tell the issue of its errand

To the expectant host.

RURAL MUSINGS.

WESTWOOD.

Margaret. What sports do you use in the forest? Simon. Not many; some few, as thus :— To see the sun to bed, and to arise, Like some hot amourist with glowing eyes Bursting the lazy bands of sleep that bound him With all his fires and travelling glories round him; Sometimes the moon on soft night-clouds to rest, Like beauty nestling in a young man's breast, And all the winking stars, her handmaids keep Admiring silence, while those lovers sleep; Sometimes out-stretch'd in very idleness, Nought doing, saying little, thinking less, So view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, Go eddying round; and small birds, how they fare, When mother Autumn fills their beaks with corn, Filch'd from the careless Amalthea's horn; And how the woods berries and worms provide Without their pains, when earth has nought beside To answer their small wants.

CHARLES LAMB.

INGENUOUSNESS.

He was not born to shame!

Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;

For 't is a throne where honour may be crown'd
Sole monarch of the universal earth.

SHAKSPERE.

LOVE MORTAL.

Oft on the sands, in idle summer days

Will childlike fondness write some cherish'd name
Lull'd on the margin while the wavelet plays,
And tides steal dreaming on. Alas! the same
On human hearts, Affection prints a trace,
The sands record it, and the tides efface.
If absence parts, Hope, ready to console,
Whispers, "Be soothed, the absent shall return;"
If Death divides a moment from the goal,
Love stays the step, and decks, but leaves the urn,
Vowing remembrance; let the year be o'er
And see, remembrance smiles like joy once more.
BULWER.

A DEAD POET.

There was a poet whose untimely tomb
No human hands with pious reverence rear'd,
But the charm'd eddies of autumnal winds
Built o'er his mouldering bones a pyramid
Of mouldering leaves in the waste wilderness :
A lovely youth,-
-no mourning maiden deck'd
With weeping flowers, or votive cypress wreath,
The lone couch of his everlasting sleep:
Gentle, and brave, and generous, no Îorn bard
Breath'd o'er his dark fate one melodious sigh:
He lived, he died, he sang, in solitude.
Strangers have wept to hear his passionate notes,
And virgins, as unknown he pass'd, have sigh'd
And wasted for fond love of his wild eyes.
The fire of those soft orbs has ceased to burn,
And silence, too enamour'd of that voice,
Locks its mute music in her rugged cell.

SHELLEY.

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