Then, Celia, leave your apish tricks, No patches can lost youth recall, Nor whitewash prop a tumbling wall, AN ATTEMPT AT THE MANNER OF WALLER. Drayton, March, 1753. DID not thy reason and thy sense, Then fear not I should e'er rebel, Nay, this were less absurd and vain First from necessity we own your sway, A SONG. THE sparkling eye, the mantling cheek, How seldom we behold in one! All meet in you, and you alone, Beauty, like other powers, maintains Each single feature faintly warms; Our eyes, our ears, our heart alarms. So when on earth the god of day Obliquely sheds his tempered ray, Through convex orbs the beams transmit, The beams that gently warmed before, Collected, gently warm no more, But glow with more prevailing heat. A SONG. On the green margin of the brook Am I less lovely then? (she cries, My faded cheek, my colour fled; The rose he in his bosom wore, How oft upon my breast was seen! While thus sad Phyllida lamented, She wiped the fallen tears away, Then sighed and blushed, as who should say, Ah! Thyrsis, I am won. UPON A VENERABLE RIVAL. FULL thirty frosts since thou wert young Ye sages! spite of your pretences Not that I deem it weak to love, But ah! the pangs we lovers prove Unheeded on the youthful brow For once, then, if untutored youth, For once attempt not to despise Who early loves, though young, is wise,- ON THE PICTURE OF A SLEEPING CHILD. FROM THE LATIN OF VINCENT BOURNE. SWEET babe, whose image here expressed Soothing slumbers, soft repose, THE CERTAINTY OF DEATH. MORTALS! around your destined heads In vain we trifle with our fate; At best we but prolong the date, Fondly we think all danger fled, Thus the wrecked mariner may strive The fury of the main. But there, to famine doomed a prey, Since then in vain we strive to guard Our frailty from the foe, Lord, let me live not unprepared To meet the fatal blow! ettu the whelming brine, As his surength decline, death a lasting strife, Sqced y des pair of life. A Heshersdeis friends had failed T check Cat versel's course, But That pitiless perforce They left their outcast mate behind, Aui scudded still before the wind. Some succour yet they could And, such as storms allew. The cask, the coop, the ficated or ... as it seemed, co Aware that flight, in s Alone could resine then; Yet bitter felt it still to die Vi re. Deserted, and his friends so nigh. |