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 P O E M S 
 
 B Y 
 
 W 1 L L I A M KENDALL 
 
 male nominatls 
 
 Parcite verbis. 
 
 Printed by R. TREWMAN and SON, for G. G. J, 
 
 AND J. Robinson, London ; and G. Dyer, 
 
 Exeter. 
 
 m,dcc,xciii.
 
 r /\ 
 
 ADFERTISEMENT, 
 
 .-^ 
 
 Ti 
 
 HE judgment of literary friends> 
 rather than the desire of praise, has in- 
 duced the author to hazard this publi- 
 cation : he has laboured to render his 
 verses corred:, but claims the usual 
 indulgence for ear/y compositions. 
 
 The Elegiac Stanzas originate 
 in real emotion, and breathe a spirit of 
 uniformity : Yet it must be remembered 
 that genuine sorrow was ever monoto- 
 nous. 
 
 A 2 From
 
 { 4 ) 
 
 From his Occasional Verses 
 are selected such only as seem calculated 
 fjr general readers. A few may pos- 
 sibly appear interesting. 
 
 In constructing the Son n e ts, Italian 
 rythm has been adopted : A chaste and 
 elegant model, which the most enlight- 
 ened poet of our own country disdained 
 not to contemplate. Amidst the de- 
 generacy of modern taste, if the studies 
 of a Milton have lost their attraction, 
 legitimate Sonnets, enriched by vary- 
 ing pauses and an elaborate recurrence 
 of rhime, still assert their superiority 
 over those tasteless and inartificial pro- 
 ductions, which assume the name, 
 without evincing a single characteristic 
 of distinguishing modulation. 
 
 Tlie F A I R Y F A N T A s I e s wcrc writ- 
 ten at the request of a friend whose 
 
 taste
 
 ( 5 ) 
 
 taste and literary attainments are 
 scarcely exceeded by his acknowledged 
 professional abilities. That Fairy per- 
 sonification, with distinct scenery and 
 appropriated action, would introduce 
 new combinations of music, was ori- 
 ginally an idea of Mr. Jackson, and 
 perfectly coincided with the Author's 
 opinion. His idea was not erroneous. 
 The Fairy Fantasies are splendid ef- 
 forts of genius as musical compositions : 
 Their claim to merit in a poetical view, 
 the reader must determine. To this 
 class some new Songs were added after 
 the completion of Mr. Jackson's music: 
 He composed them agreeably to the 
 first sketches, and although they have 
 been since amended, in a few in- 
 stances, the corrections could not be 
 adapted to the music. 
 
 These
 
 { 6 ) 
 
 These observations will account for 
 the slight diiFerence of expression which 
 may be discovered, ihould Mr. Jack- 
 son's music hereafter appear. 
 
 Catullus, the translator had once 
 an idea of publifhing, on a new plan, 
 with English Imitations. To this end, 
 he had collected every edition and com- 
 mentary of repute, and had made con- 
 siderable progress in the text and tran- 
 slation. The appearance of Doering's 
 edition in 1792, which contains an 
 accurate collation of all the contro- 
 verted readings, with the remarks of 
 antient and modern editors, anticipated 
 the most useful part of his plan, and 
 induced him to relinquish his un- 
 dertaking. 
 
 The
 
 ( 7 ) 
 
 The few Imitations subjoined, were 
 not selected for their superior merit, 
 but as specimens of the manner of 
 Catullus, untainted with his offensive 
 indelicacy. 
 
 Exeter^ July 1793-
 
 INVOCATION 
 
 To LAURA. 
 
 Thou, whose smiles divine have power 
 To calm the swelling tide of woe. 
 And where the clouds of sorrow lour 
 To bid the gales of pleasure blow ; 
 
 For thee, sweet maid, with artless lyre 
 A trembling lover wakes the lay ; 
 
 For thee, in songs of soft desire 
 
 His soul impajslon'd melts away. 
 
 Bright source of love's immortal flame/ 
 Approve the measures as they flow 
 
 Thy praise can give eternal fame. 
 Thy smile eternal bliss bestow ! 
 
 B ELEGIAC
 
 ELEGIAC STANZAS. 
 
 Non son 
 
 Quest! sospiri aidenti 
 
 Refrigerio del cuore; 
 
 Ma son piuttosto impetuosi venti 
 
 Che spiran nel incendio, e'l f.)n oiaggiore 
 
 Con turbini d' amore.
 
 ELffOIAC STANZAS. 
 
 J. 
 
 SONG. 
 
 JOLOW soon o'er the morn of my youth 
 Her shadows pale sorrow has thrown. 
 
 How soon from the glances of truth 
 
 Life's pleasing delusions are flown ! 
 
 No more thro' the vale as I rove 
 
 Bright visions illumine the air : 
 
 The mountains are clouded the grove 
 Resounds with the voice of despair. 
 
 Return, ye gay dreams of delight. 
 
 And gently deceive my fond mind ; 
 
 For truth, while she hastens your flight. 
 Leaves torment unceasing behind ! 
 
 SONG.
 
 BLECIAC STANZAS. 
 II. 
 
 SONG. 
 
 I 'ER Laura met my ravish'd view. 
 My cheek confess'd health's roseate bloom j 
 My soul, nor love nor sorrow knew 
 
 How beauty's power hath changed my doom ! 
 
 *Mid lonely glades, with tear- fraught eyes. 
 Wandering I mourn my secret pain : 
 
 The passing breeze, with lengthen'd sighs. 
 In pity murmurs to my strain. 
 
 Now, luU'd by hope's elysian smile. 
 
 My fears in silent slumber rest ; 
 Now dreams that every thought beguile. 
 
 Serenely soothing, chear my breast. 
 
 But ah ! too soon my grief returns 
 Again tumultuous passions rise ; 
 
 ^gain my tortured bosom burns. 
 And all the dear illusion flies ! 
 
 To
 
 CLEGIAC STANZAS. f 
 
 III. 
 
 To MUSIC. 
 
 HALL grief the spring of youth deform i 
 Goddess, awake ! dispel the storm. 
 
 When all our early hopes decay. 
 What varied charms attend thy lay ; 
 What calm delight thy notes serene 
 Diffuse, to chear life's lonely scene ; 
 Let bards in lofty measures tell. 
 More skill'd to sound the muse's shell : 
 Let these, replete with lyric flame. 
 In rapturous verse exalt thy name. 
 Inspired with melting sweetness sing. 
 Or boldly sweep the fervid string. 
 Be mine an humbler wreath to gain 
 To paint a fond enamour'd swain. 
 By passion's flattering dream betray'd. 
 Who flew to meet a yielding maid ; 
 But, hapless, for his promis'd fair 
 Clasp'd the fell demon of despair ! 
 
 Assist'
 
 ELEGIAC STANZAS. 
 
 Assist me in that mournful hour. 
 Blight goddess, to record thy power. 
 
 Where the wan moon in fcatter'd streams 
 Profusely pours her pensive beams 
 Along the valleys lonely way, 
 I see the love-lorn mourner stray. 
 Oft to the skies he turns his sight. 
 Invokes the living lamps of light. 
 Or throws convulsive glances round. 
 Or wildly gazes on the ground. 
 But ah ! no tears bedew those eyes. 
 From that pale lip no murmur flies : 
 He faints he falls ! his languid breath 
 Hangs fluttering o'er the verge of death. 
 
 Harmonious nymph resume thy reed. 
 Till sorrow's wound no longer bleed ! 
 
 Hark ! breathing rapture o'er the skies, 
 JEtherial sounds sublimely rise. 
 The goddess hears, she wakes the reed : 
 The wounds of sorrow cease to bleed ; 
 
 And,
 
 ELEGIAC STANZAS. 9 
 
 And, sweetest of the warbling throng. 
 
 Nights minstrel emulates the song. 
 
 Again her swelling voice prepares 
 
 Diviner measures, softer airs. 
 
 Swift from their haunts, on slender wing. 
 
 The Fairy bands delighted spring ! 
 
 In crowds they fly no lingering sprite 
 
 Of all the shadowy tribes of night. 
 
 In dripping cave, or mossy cell. 
 
 Remains to weave the wonted spell. 
 
 Retired within a veiling cloud 
 
 The listening Fays their numbers shroud ; 
 
 And as the soaring song aspires 
 
 Return the strain with echoing lyres. 
 
 Behold, unrivall'd power, behold 
 The wondrous scene thy lays unfold. 
 Enchantress ! o'er that faded cheek 
 Serenely stealing tears bespeak 
 What lenient aid thy notes impart. 
 What balm to heal a wounded heart. 
 Grief's raging pang for thee subsides. 
 And passion checks his whelming tides. 
 
 C The
 
 lO ELEGIAC STANZAS. 
 
 The swain revives ! he feels thy breath 
 Dispel the looring gloom of death : 
 He drinks thy spirit chearing note 
 And all his fears in Lethe float. 
 
 Now, goddess, now, thy labours cease ! 
 The lover's sorrow sinks to peace. 
 Assembled Elves ! in close array 
 Your squadrons join, and haste away ! 
 In dewy grot, or leafy bower. 
 With mystic dance consume the hour. 
 Till orient rays of ruddy light 
 Announce the falling reign of night. 
 
 Bright guardian of melodious lay. 
 Awhile farewell ! I own thy sway : 
 My bosom feels thy sacred fire, 
 I bend obedient to thy lyre. 
 Lives there a wretch of rugged soul 
 Unaw'd by Music's soft controul ? 
 Let LOVE the senseless savage wound 
 Ev'n HE shall own the force of sound. 
 
 SOMG.
 
 LGiAC STANZAS. II 
 
 IV. 
 
 SONG. 
 
 LEEPLESS eye-lids dim with tears. 
 Languid accents, breathing woe. 
 Sighs of sorrow, throbbing fears 
 Lovers, only lovers, know ! 
 
 What tho' ALL in life's (hort day 
 Feel awhile the storm of grief; 
 
 Hope affords a transient ray. 
 
 Fleeting pleasures yield relief. 
 
 Fame at length rewards the brave j 
 Time can envy's self destroy : 
 
 But o'er love's negledled slave 
 Ages pass, nor waft a joy. 
 
 C 3 SONG.
 
 12 ELEGIAC STANZAS. 
 
 SONG. 
 
 Jl^ OND youth, the plaintive lyre resign, 
 Thy songs sincere unheeded pine. 
 
 Thy lays too deeply sigh : 
 Not all the mournful muse's art 
 Could ever win a woman's heart. 
 
 Or melt a scornful eye. 
 
 Let flattery's liquid graces stream. 
 From every line let praises beam. 
 
 Divinely paint her charms : 
 Imperious beauty then may deign 
 With yielding smiles to meet her swain. 
 
 And bless his longing arms ! 
 
 SONG.
 
 ELEGIAC STANZAS. 
 
 VI. 
 
 SONG. 
 
 Y, 
 
 E dreary wilds, ye pathless giadcs. 
 Whose gloom no sounds of joy infest ; 
 Amid your sadly-silent shades 
 
 I seek the tranquil seat of rest. 
 
 Here let me lie in peace reclined. 
 
 Here let my loud lamenting close ; 
 
 May no rude voice, no rustling wind 
 Disturb a mourners sweet repose I 
 
 If roused by love's impassion'd strain. 
 These eyelids ope again to weep ; 
 
 May death, dissolving sorrow's chain. 
 Reward my cares with endless sleep ! 
 
 To
 
 [. ELEGIAC STANZAS. 
 
 VII. 
 
 To INSENSIBILITY. 
 
 Jr ARENT of ease, by fate assign'd 
 To calm the restless powers of mind, 
 O thou, whose solitary sway 
 The passions' fury train obey ; 
 Whose might, affliction's smiles confess. 
 Can blunt the dagger of distress : 
 Too long each agonizing smart 
 That wakes to woe the feeling heart. 
 Desponding thoughts and anxious fears 
 Have bathed these sleepless eyes in tears ! 
 At length from fortune's rage I fly. 
 And breathe to thee my votive sigh : 
 TjOve's faithless shrine 1 seek no more. 
 Thee, thee alone my lays adore. 
 
 Tho* tempests rise, and chilling strife 
 Destr^ the tender bloom of life ; 
 
 Unalter'd
 
 HLEGIAC STANZAS. Ig 
 
 Unalter'd nymph ! no veiling tears. 
 No blush on thy smooth cheek appears. 
 Dim as cool twilight's dawning ray. 
 E'er yet the vivid tints of day 
 With orient lustre gild the plains. 
 Thy never changing eye remains. 
 Eternal source of soft repose ! 
 From thee nor joy nor sorrow flows : 
 *Tis thine, with opiate smiles, to tame 
 Despair's wild wave and envy's flame. 
 At thy approach, a mournful traifi. 
 Love's pining slaves forget their pain. 
 Or strive with tranquil soul to bear 
 The sting of heart-corroding care. 
 Till thou with lenient hand diffuse 
 On every wound tliy balmy dews : 
 Then, feeling's tyrant reign is o'er 
 And hope and fear distract no more. 
 
 Hail goddess, at whose shrine I bowi 
 I woo thee with no fruitless vow. 
 I feel at length unwonted rest 
 -Breathe slowly o'er my labouring breast. 
 
 When
 
 l6 ELEGIAC STANZAS. 
 
 When fate's tormenting fiends assail. 
 Thus ever let my verse prevail ; 
 Propitious thus my prayer attend 
 Till life, and pain, and terror end ! 
 Should passion's storm again invade 
 The slumber of my peaceful shade. 
 Oh, shield me in thy sheltering arms. 
 Chase from my soul love's rude alarms j 
 Wave, gently wave thy magic wand 
 In cold oblivion quench his brand ! 
 
 So shall the Muse unceasing pay 
 At thy lov'd fane a languid lay ; 
 Where (charm'd by softly soothing sound. 
 While listening swains her lyre surround ;) 
 This placid strain shall ever flow : 
 *' If aught can calm a lover's woe. 
 If aught the captive mind can free 
 *Tis blest Insensibility 1" 
 
 SONG.
 
 ELEGIAC STANZAS. I7 
 
 V. 
 
 To LAURA.* 
 
 >ORNE on the humid wing of night. 
 When clouds and gather'd tempests rise j 
 And pale-eyed spectres urge their flight 
 In sullen pomp along the skies ; 
 
 When 
 
 * At the moment this sheet was printing off, the Poems of 
 Mrs. Robinson were sent to the author by a friend. In page 
 123 of that elegant colleftion, is contained an answer to the 
 above Elegy, entitled " Echo to him who complains." The 
 Elegy is stated by Mrs. R. to have appeared in the Oracle of the 
 25th of June, 1790, addressed to Laura, and signed * Ignotus.'' 
 In a note on this signature, the writer is supposed to be Del/a 
 Crusca. Sufficiently gratified by the flattering mistake and by 
 the exquisite poem to which it has given rise, Mr. K. would 
 not have mentioned this circumstance, had he not been anxious 
 to prevent every suspicion of interfering with ilie literary pro- 
 perty of Mr. Merry. 
 
 In the years 1789 and 1790, Mr. K. refided in London, where 
 he wrote this Elegy. Having a particular reason to wish its 
 insertion under the signature Ignotus, he left a copy himself at 
 the Office of T/ie TVorld, where he was unknown. Not observing 
 its appearance, he called a few days after, requesting the com- 
 jwsition might be returned, but was informed it liad been mis- 
 laid. How it came into T/u Oracle, he cannpt explain. 
 
 D The
 
 l8 ELEGIAC STANZAS. 
 
 When the swift flash of horror gleams 
 
 O'er the wide heath my passing form 
 
 A mournful fleeting phantom seems, 
 A kindred spirit of the storm. 
 
 So 
 
 The superior elegance of Mrs. Robinson's Echo, inducer 
 the author to present it to the reader, who will perceive a dif- 
 ference in the last stanza of the originai i,\egy, which in its 
 primitive form, ended thus : 
 
 " What power like Laura's scornful eye 
 *' Awakes the ruthless rage of pain ? 
 
 " What terror bursting from the sky, 
 
 '* Like Love distradts the tortur'd brain ?" 
 
 A dight variation he imagines occurred also in other verses, 
 but the rhimes were similar. 
 
 ECHO TO HIM WHO COMPLAINS. 
 
 \J T\.Y thee from the shades of night. 
 Where the loud tempests yelling rise j 
 
 Where horror wings her sullen flight 
 Beneath the bleak and lurid skies. 
 
 As the pale light'ning swiftly gleams 
 O'er the scorch'd wood, thy well-known form 
 
 More radiant than an angel seems. 
 Contending with the ruthless storm. 
 
 I see the scowling witch. Despair 
 
 Drink the big tear that scalds thy cheek; 
 
 While thro' the dark and turbid air. 
 The screamc of haggard Envy break. 
 
 From
 
 ELEGIAC STANKAS. I9 
 
 So fierce the withering fiend despair 
 
 Frowns in the furrows of my cheek ; 
 
 So sadly thro' the lurid air 
 
 My cries of piercing anguish break ! 
 
 Loud-bursting down the craggy steep 
 The mountain torrents hoarsely roar : 
 
 Unmoved amidst the winds I weep. 
 
 Amidst th' affrighted groves deplore. 
 
 Around tho' sever'd branches fall. 
 
 And flocks and fearful shepherds start; 
 
 Yet no tumultuous scenes appal 
 A lost rejected lover's heart. 
 
 Can 
 
 From the cold inount.un's flinty Steep, 
 
 I bear the dashing waters roar ; 
 Ah ! turn thee, turn thee, cease to weep, 
 
 Thou hast no reason to deplore. 
 
 See fell Despair expiring fall. 
 
 See Envy from thy glances start j 
 No more shall howling blasts appall, 
 
 Or with'ring grief corro.le th^- heart. 
 
 See Friendship from her azure eye 
 Drops the fond balm for ev'ry pain 
 She comes, the offspring of ihs Jky, 
 
 " To RAZE THE TROJELF.S OF THE kf/rin.'
 
 JO 
 
 ELEGIAC STANZAS. 
 
 Can raging winds, can troubled skies. 
 Can rushing torrents raise alarms ; 
 
 With cruel speed while Laura flies 
 To bless a favour'd Rival's arms I 
 
 To
 
 BLEOIAC 6TANZA8. HI 
 
 IX. 
 
 To FORTUNE. 
 
 -ESISTLESS anguish fires my thought 
 With energy to madness wrought 
 Burst wildly forth, ye songs of woe. 
 Ye lyric streams, tumultuous flow ! 
 
 Spirit ! to whom the frantic cries 
 Of fate's desponding viAims rise. 
 Where discord wakes her thrilling strain. 
 Where shrieks of war affright the plain j 
 Where clashing arms terrific shine- 
 To drench the field in blood be thine ! 
 From scenes like these, avenger, say 
 What lures thy wandering steps away ? 
 Dispel not thus the sacred charm 
 That soothed my slumbering soul's alarm. 
 Nor chase the vision of relief. 
 Nor whelm a wretch in tenfold grief ! 
 
 Thro*
 
 2 ELEGIAC STANZAS. 
 
 Thro' life's relentless tempest tost, 
 Methought each sense of pain was lost ; 
 Oblivious peace my sighs suppress'd. 
 And bade my fluttering pulses rest. 
 But rudely torn from languor's shrine, 
 O'erwhelm'd with grief, again I pine. 
 Peace wings afar her trackless flight- 
 New terrors rise : new fears affright '. 
 
 ** Sunk in eternal slumber, lies 
 The maid that erst awoke thy sighs : 
 Nor weeping love's unspotted truth. 
 Nor all the fervid prayers of youth. 
 Nor virtue's warmest wish could save 
 The bloom of beauty from the grave." 
 
 My big heart beats : my glowing veins 
 Vibrate with more than mortal pains : 
 My shivering limbs, my visage pale. 
 Too well affirm the mournful tale. 
 
 Tormenter ! cease that sickly smile ! 
 Can airy phantoms now beguile ? 
 
 To
 
 ELEGIAC STANZAS. SJ 
 
 To crown ambition's brow, display 
 The viftor's palm, the poet's bay 
 No blooming wreath my songs require, 
 T^o ray demand of heavenly fire. 
 For tearless eyes thy charms unfold. 
 Thy glittering piles of guilty gold j 
 Me wealth nor fame nor power can please- 
 All, all I ask is languid ease. 
 Lethargic hours from passion free. 
 Not joy but listless apathy ! 
 
 E'er fate this humble boon denies. 
 To thee I raise my streaming eyes ! 
 Shall life consum'd by slow decay 
 In lingering torment waste away ? 
 Rouse all thy fury ! swiftly shed 
 Heaven's fiercest horrors o'er my head 1 
 Rend the frail texture of ray frame. 
 With withering heat my blood inflame ! 
 Let death approach with hurried pace 
 And clasp me in his :oId embrace ! 
 
 OCCASIONAL
 
 OCCASIONAL VERSES, 
 
 Non isdegnate questc 
 Pictiole offerte si, ma pero taK 
 Che se con puro affetto il cor le dotli 
 Anco il cicl non le sdcgna.
 
 OCCASIONAL VERSES. 37 
 
 I. 
 
 To LAURA. 
 
 ON HER PORTRAIT. 
 
 I ET baffled art her skill forego 
 She fails thy form to trace. 
 How faint reflefted beauties glow. 
 How lifeless pidlured grace ! 
 
 Nymph of delight ! what heavenly dies 
 
 Can looks of love display ? 
 Impassion'd blushes, speaking eyes. 
 
 What pencil can pourtray ? 
 
 Compared with thee, can language tell 
 
 How coldly colours shine r 
 Cold as they seem, they yet excel 
 
 All mortal charms bu: thine ! 
 
 To
 
 ZS' OCCASIONAL VERSES. 
 
 II. 
 
 To DELIA. 
 
 Hir.E MORTAL Strains avail to bless 
 The lingering moments of distress 
 While taste refined and polish'd ease. 
 And grace and matchless beauty please ; 
 So long th' enraptured muse shall raise 
 To Delia's name the song of praise ! 
 
 O, never, never, (since she fled. 
 For whom my bosom fondly bled. 
 For whom with unabating fire 
 My fervid lips still breathe desire) 
 More cruel seem'd time's swift career 
 Than when thy voice entranced my ear ; 
 When wafting magic bliss around. 
 The harp awoke a plaintive sound ; 
 When Delia's converse lull'd my woe^^, 
 And sorrow felt a short repose. 
 
 A short
 
 OCCASIONAL VERSES. 
 
 9 
 
 A short repose no mortal strain 
 Can dissipate the rage of pain. 
 
 SONG.
 
 JO 
 
 OCCASIONAL VERSES. 
 
 ni. 
 
 SONG. 
 
 'N Delia's cheek when love display'^ 
 The timid smile of youth ; 
 My soul adored an artless maid, 
 1 vow'd eternal truth. 
 
 When time o'er every .blooming grace 
 The glow of summer spread 
 
 New beauties sparkled o'er her face- 
 But all my passion ed ! . 
 
 Thus, vernal roses sweeter seem 
 
 When morn's first blushes rise. 
 Than when the sun's maturer beam 
 Illumes meridian skies ! 
 
 T6
 
 OCCASIONAL VERSES. Jf 
 
 IV. 
 To JULIA. 
 
 HIS curious eye that oft unfolds 
 The secret shades of mind. 
 In thecj with ravish'd beam, beholds 
 A maid from vice refined ! 
 
 Soft as thy soul, thy gentle mien 
 
 Bespeaks a spotless breast : 
 The storms that cloud life's dreary scene 
 
 Have spared the seat of rQst. 
 
 No roving wish thy glance betrays. 
 
 Nor darts malignant fire. 
 Thy modest smile disdains to raise 
 
 The tumult of desire. 
 
 No restless thoughts by envy fed. 
 
 Assert their fierce controul. 
 Inflame thy cheek with guilty red, 
 
 Or rudely rend thy soul.
 
 32 OCCASIONAL VERSES. 
 
 To these dire foes the powers of truth 
 
 Afford a firm defence. 
 Bright guardians of thine artless youth. 
 
 Thy maiden innocence. 
 
 Thee, Julia, virtue's pure-ey'd train 
 Thee love himself reveres ; 
 
 And when to bless th' exulting plain. 
 Thy tranquil form appears. 
 
 With soften'd radiance beaming sweet. 
 The light of beauty breaks ; 
 
 Nor scorches with meridian heat 
 The lillies of thy cheeks. 
 
 Calm'd at thy presence, smoothly glide 
 The troubled streams of woe. 
 
 And gloomy terror's frantic tide 
 Awhile forgets to flow. 
 
 How oft since Laura's bitter scorn 
 
 Stole all my joys away. 
 And gave my heart by passion torn 
 
 To fierce despair a prey ; 
 
 Thy
 
 OCCASIONAL VERSES. 33 
 
 Thy chasten'd look, thy melting eye. 
 Thy voice that breathes delight. 
 
 Have bade grief's frowning speftre fly. 
 And chear'd the gloom of night ! 
 
 For THEE my willing muse should pour 
 
 The flood of verse along. 
 For THEE on daring pinions soar 
 
 Amid the blaze of song : 
 
 But Laura from my sleeping lyre 
 
 Hath torn the sweetest string ; 
 And hopeless love's consuming fire 
 
 Hath scorch'd the muse's wing. 
 
 F To
 
 ^4 dcfcAilONAL VtRSES. 
 
 V. 
 
 To MARIA. 
 
 On a favourite red-bloflbmed Thorn. 
 
 A. HO' purest tints at opening morn 
 O'er Heaven's pale azure beam ; 
 With purer lustre, lovely Thorn, 
 Thy rosy flowerets gledm. 
 
 Yet vainly strives that fleeting bloom 
 With Mary's olush to vie : 
 
 Her blushes chear the wintery gloom 
 When all thy blossoms die ! 
 
 VI. To
 
 OCCASIONAL VEflSES. 25 
 
 VI. 
 
 To Mr. JACKSDN, 
 
 Of Exeter. 
 
 JL HE Bard who Pindar's* mighty name 
 Assuming, gains the steep of fame ; 
 In deathless verse ihy skill displays. 
 With magic sweetness sings thy praise : 
 Yet, minstrel of the Graces, hear 
 Unpolish'd songs tho' rude, sincere. 
 
 Soother of love's severcit pain. 
 The muse impassion'd prompts thy strain. 
 Strike, pensive stri!:e the trembling string. 
 In soul-subduing measures sing I 
 With melody's divlnest fire. 
 Like Orpheus animate the lyre ! 
 
 F 2 I feel 
 
 * In the " Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians," for 
 1793, Peter Pindar has addressed an exquisite sonnet 
 to the same gentleman.
 
 36 OCCASIAONL VERSES. 
 
 I feel thy lays light-floating round 
 My bosom vibrates at the sound : 
 In sweet oblivion lost, with thee 
 I sink in dreams of extasy. 
 Now, fancy-led my spirit flics 
 To fairer climes, to purer skies. 
 No fears disturb, no cares annoy. 
 Each thought is love, each accent joy. 
 
 The measures change ! 'tis joy no more 
 Of slighted vows the notes deplore. 
 My soul dissolves in tenderest woe, 
 JDellcious tears unbidden flow ! 
 So sadly pleasing seems my grief. 
 That scarce my bosom seeks relief; 
 So sweet the sorrowing songs aspire 
 I bless the pensive mourner's lyre ; 
 Delighted hear his voice complain. 
 Nor, drown'd in rapture, heed his pain. 
 
 Had He* whose ever-during rhimes 
 Exalt the muse of elder times, 
 
 The 
 CoLtiNS. Ode to the Passions.
 
 OCCASIOt^AL VERSES. 
 
 37 
 
 The muse whose all-commanding powers 
 Were witness'd in Athenian bowers. 
 Felt the pure bliss thy notes impart ; 
 The Bard had own'd their equal art 
 Since all the charms to thine belong. 
 His lays ascribe to Grecian song. 
 
 To
 
 38 OCCASIONAL VERSES. 
 
 VII. 
 
 To LAURA. 
 
 An Imitation from Guarini.* 
 
 HY frowns my fair ? The mighty bliss 
 Was bought with equal smart. 
 I rodely stole a rapt'rous kiss, 
 
 I paid thee with my heart! 
 
 * MADRIGALE LXXI. 
 
 Bacio rubato. 
 
 N< 
 
 I ON fu senza vendetta 
 II mio furto soave : 
 Pero non vi sia grave, 
 Dolci labra amorose, 
 Ch' a le vostre vermiglie, e fresche rose 
 Caro cibo involassi a 'i desir miei j 
 Se per pena del furto il cor pcrdei. 
 
 VlII. SONG.
 
 OCCASIONAL VERSUS. 39 
 
 VIII. 
 
 SONG. 
 
 YMPHS ! with balmy smiles caressing. 
 Hear the Poet breathe desire : 
 All his graceful numbers blessing. 
 Sweetly languish o'er his lyre ! 
 
 When the morn of beauty beaming. 
 
 Sheds for you her rosy rays ; 
 His soft notes melodious-streaming 
 
 Waft to distant climes your praise. 
 
 When your charms in age declining 
 
 Lost to love no longer glow. 
 In his verse immortal shining 
 
 All your early graces blow ! 
 
 IX. IMPROMPTU.
 
 40 OCCASIONAL VERSES. 
 
 IX. 
 
 IMPROMPTU. 
 
 Written on the sea-shore with a party of ladies 
 
 'HARM'D, we view the stormy main 
 While confliding winds complain ; 
 Charm'd, behold th' unruffled deep. 
 While the billowy horrors sleep. 
 Ever various as the seas 
 Thus can lovely woman please 
 When her beauties smile sei^ne. 
 Rapture dvvells upon her mien ; 
 When they flash their angry fire, 
 Tho' we tremble, we admire 1 
 
 X. To
 
 OCCASIONAL VERSBS4 43. 
 
 To MARIA. 
 
 On an incident at Chess. 
 
 E, 
 
 <XULTING, o'er the chequerM land 
 1 led to war my sable band. 
 Where firmly ranged in close array 
 Thy snow-clad legions urged their way : 
 Untimely on th' embattled plain 
 I saw my valiant leader slain. 
 Untimely mourn'd a slaughter'd host, 
 Tho' bent vidlorious wreaths to boast. 
 
 How oft my scatter'd ranks between 
 Resistless march'd the white-arm'd Queen- 
 No phalanx check'd her rash career. 
 Each sable warriour shrunk with fear: 
 Till proud to shield his monarch's life. 
 Or perish in the glorious strife; 
 
 G Before
 
 44 OCCASIONAL VERSES. 
 
 Before the Queen's unguarded crown 
 My turret spread a baleful frown : 
 The scepter'd Nymph her state maintained. 
 When nought but swift retreat remain'd, 
 Defenceless stood, delay'd her flight. 
 And sunk beneath the turret's might. 
 When grief disturb'd thy pensive mien 
 When angry accents mourn'd the Queen : 
 (Misdeeming all my valour won 
 By swift surprise alone undone) 
 Reluctant to the chequer'd board 
 My lingering hand the chief restored : 
 But e'er my foe resum'd her ground 
 Insulting triumph breathed a sound. 
 
 Shock'd at the rude triumphant strain. 
 Resentment roused thee to complain : 
 From eyes that once serenely beam'd. 
 Indignant flashes wildly stream'd ; 
 That placid form in anger rose. 
 Nor deign'd the doubtful fight to close. 
 
 Confusion
 
 OCCASIONAL VERSES. 45 
 
 Confusion trembled thro' my frame. 
 My bosom glow'd with conscious shame. 
 New courage rose ! ah, then, no more 
 His rashness could the bard deplore; 
 For, lovely mid thy soul's alarm. 
 Disdain had heighten'd every charm. 
 The rising blush expressive spread 
 O'er all thy cheek delicious red. 
 And sparkling glances fiercely bright 
 On every feature beam'd delight. 
 
 Such lustre glowing looks impart. 
 So well reveal a feeling heart; 
 That while I pour this artless rhime, 
 I languish to repeat my crime ! 
 
 G 2 XL Te
 
 4^ OCCASIONAL VERSES. 
 
 XI. 
 
 To MARIA. 
 
 XF tranquil beams forsake thine eye. 
 If smiles that sweetly bless 
 
 At every dear-bought conquest fly j 
 Farewell, ye fields of chess ! 
 
 For me let rival warriours rest. 
 No more I tempt the fight : 
 
 One look of peace by thee suppress'd. 
 Not vanquish'd kings requite ! 
 
 XII. 7o
 
 OCCASIONAL VERSES. 47 
 
 XII. 
 
 To JULIA. 
 
 'F Julia's dulcet smile I sing. 
 Let rapture burst from every string- 
 Let eyes of heavenly radiance shine 
 With equal light from lays divine ! 
 
 Her lyre with myrtle blossoms crown'd. 
 With laurel wreaths her tresses bound, 
 Lo ! pure-eyed virtue lends her aid 
 To celebrate a spotless maid. 
 
 At Julia's name the Graces ribe, 
 Ccelestial sweetness fills the skies. 
 Airs melting airs soft winds prolong. 
 While listening love applauds the song. 
 
 Ah!
 
 48 
 
 OCCASIONAL VERSES. 
 
 Ah ! love applauds my verse in vain. 
 Relentless sorrow chills the strain : 
 Yet, every charm my song conceals. 
 My ravish'd soul in silence feels ! 
 
 SONNETS.
 
 SONNETS. 
 
 Ogni mio studi 
 "E dl sfogare il doloroio core 
 Non d'acquistar faaa.
 
 SONNETS. 49 
 
 I. 
 
 SONNET. 
 
 To a poetical friend. 
 
 ASTE not in fruitless toil youth's fleeting prime. 
 Nor genial love's delight too long refuse : 
 
 Scorn wisdom's lore, and scorn the tempting muse ! 
 On lowly pinions skim the realm of time. 
 Careless of all who gain a loftier clime. 
 
 Who bathe their tresses in Castalian dews ; 
 
 Yet sorrows cannot shun, of varied hues. 
 Sorrows, that ever haunt the sons of rhime. 
 
 What dream of airy joy deludes thy mind ? 
 HI can the muse thro' life's tempestuous glade 
 
 Thy wanderings chear she weeps herself to find 
 How oft the fairest hopes of merit fade. 
 
 How oft the world, to worth, to genius blind. 
 Deems wisdom air, and virtue's self a shade ! 
 
 H II. SONNET.
 
 SP SONNETS. 
 
 II. 
 
 SONNET. 
 
 In the manner of the earlier poets. 
 
 JL HY yellow tresses floating in the wind 
 
 Loose o'er thy breast a sportive lustre throw. 
 
 Like scatter'd sun-beams dancing o'er the snow 
 Oh ! could their warm effulgence ipelt thy mind. 
 Unfeeling nymph, or teach thee to be kind. 
 
 As frost dissolves before the sunny glow ; 
 
 Propitious gales of love should ever blow. 
 Scatter thy locks, their beamy gold unbind. 
 
 And thro' thy bosom kindle soft desire. 
 Then should I pierce that adamantine heart. 
 
 That polar ice with genial heat inspire. 
 Ah me ! no ray thro' polar ice can dart 
 
 ynchanging rock ! To thee fierce passion's fire. 
 To thee love's burning sighs no warmth impart ! 
 
 in. SONNET.
 
 so N N E T i. 51 
 
 III. 
 
 SONNET. 
 
 To a dissolute charaler. 
 
 w, 
 
 HO that can breathe the fragrant air of day 
 Delighted roves beneath nocturnal skies. 
 When chilling dews, and noisome vapours rise 
 
 Who but a wretch like thee to vice a prey ? 
 
 Ah, THOU canst spurn immortal beauty's sway! 
 Endearing looks, pure blushes, tender sighs. 
 Not all the melting eloquence of eyes 
 
 From senseless revellers thy steps delay. 
 
 Who hail thee Lord, and bow to thy behest. 
 
 Wilt thou for this love's sacred rites forego. 
 Licentious monarch of the ribbald jest ? 
 
 Vain as thy rival, man's insensate foe. 
 
 Who proudly scorn'd obedience with the blest. 
 
 To reign in realms of death and endless woe. 
 
 H IV. SONNET.
 
 52 SONNETS. 
 
 IV. 
 
 SONNET. 
 
 'LJ'N hope's alluring scenes tho' fortune frown, 
 ** If love's gay radiance yield a transient light, 
 " Fearless of want, fearless of envy's might, 
 
 ** 1*11 win the fairest guerdon of renown, 
 
 ** Or pluck bright honour's wreath my verse to crown : 
 ** Whate'er betide, whate'er my toil requite, 
 " Lead, glory lead ! I'll soar a lofty flight 
 
 ** Till loud acclaims my ravish'd senses drown, 
 
 '* Till fame in Laura's heavenly smile appears." 
 
 Thus vaunted erst the victim of desire 
 
 But glory's meed no more his bosom chears. 
 
 With dying love the poet's lays expire : 
 
 The muse dissolv'd her lyric strain in tears. 
 
 When sorrow queiich'd ambition's eager fire. 
 
 V. SONNET.
 
 S O K N li T S. 53 
 
 SONNET. 
 
 JL HE hero, dauntless, on war's crimson plain 
 Hears shouts of joy proclaim the foe's success: 
 Soon fiercely-rushing myriads round him press 
 
 No coward fears his rapid steps restrain ; 
 
 With tenfold fury fir'd, he breathes disdain. 
 
 Riots in blood, and struggling with distress. 
 As dangers thicken, heeds the peril less ; 
 
 Till faint, he falls by matchless numbers slain : 
 Thus He who long unpitied pour'd his sighs. 
 
 Or wept in fruitless grief the hours away ; 
 
 Tho' scarce one cloud of early passion flies, 
 
 Tho' deepen'd shades obscure the passing day ; 
 
 Yet feels mid frequent storms new courage rise: 
 
 His spirit strengthens, while his hopes decay. 
 
 VI. SONNET.
 
 54- SONNETS. 
 
 VI. 
 
 SONNET. 
 
 On Laura's illneSs. 
 
 SPIRITS of death, your fatal rage forbear ! 
 
 Shall beauty's orient beam with ruthless pain 
 
 For ever veil'd, in dim eclipse remain. 
 In dim eclipse of health-consuming care ? 
 Disperse, ye dreary phantoms ! hear my prayer I 
 
 Propitious hear a weeping wretch complain. 
 
 And, moved to pity by his pensive strain. 
 Life's tender flower from withering tempests spare ! 
 
 They hear, my love they heed the fond request. 
 Thy smiles revive to chase the gloom of night ! 
 
 Smiles that alone can lull my fears to rest. 
 Smiles that unfading shine, divinely bright. 
 
 Whether in sickly pale thy cheek be drest. 
 Or health's warm roses blush delicious light ! 
 
 VII. SONNET.
 
 SONNETS. 55 
 
 VII. 
 
 SONNET. 
 
 .MBITIOUS worldlings ! count not him supine. 
 
 Who fame's sedudlive voice unmoved can hear : 
 
 Worthless to him her proffer'd gifts appear. 
 He shuns the field where glittering trophies shine 
 For honor's high reward let others pine ; 
 
 Him humbler toils await ; not less severe ; 
 
 To check the passions in their mad career ; 
 With virtue's smile enamour'd, to resign 
 
 Each rapturous joy of youth's enlivening age ; 
 To waste the silent hour in anxious pain. 
 
 And every fear and every hope assuage ; 
 To feel corroding cares yet ne'er complain 
 
 Labours like these h i s weary thoughts engage. 
 Whom the world deems of folly's listless train. 
 
 VIII. SONNET.
 
 56 SONNETS. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 SONNET. 
 
 To the SPIRIT of LAURA. 
 
 I^HADE of delight I shade whom my sighs. revere ! 
 
 Oh lead thy love where blissful phantoms dwell : 
 
 Whether in radiant bowers or lonely cell 
 Thy spirit rest, there let his form appear j 
 There haply feel, if spirits feel, the tear 
 
 Warm from relenting eyes spontaneous swell. 
 
 Bathe his wan cheek and all his woes dispel. 
 Vain are his hopes on earth and vain his fear : 
 
 A purer realm the mourner's toil repays. 
 Where spotless pleasure blooms eternal youth. 
 
 Not long his lingering flight thy love delays. 
 Not long laments thy loss in strain uncouth 
 
 Hark ! angels wake their harps, while he displays 
 Angelic charms simplicity and truth ! 
 
 IX. SONNET.
 
 SONNETS. 57 
 
 IX. 
 
 SONNET. ^ 
 
 Oil the dismemberment of Poland, and the events of ly^)^. 
 
 'F spirit valiant, weak of outward frame. 
 
 Too weak to bear the boisterous din of men, 
 
 I'll hide me in some solitary glen. 
 Where never vice unveil'd her scenes of shame. 
 Riot and war the maddening world inflame : 
 
 Unblushing tyranny deserts his den 
 
 Come, sweet concealment ! shroud me from his ken, 
 Nor let his bloody record boaft my name 1 
 
 Ye thoughts for others' weal that vainly pined. 
 Ye faded cheeks with deadly paleness spread. 
 
 Eyes, whose cold languor fpeaks a sorrowing mind. 
 Declare, how oft my heart profusely bled. 
 
 When KINGLY RUFFIANS trlumph'd o'er mankind. 
 And BRITISH vengeance BRITISH honor fled ! 
 
 X. SONNET.
 
 58 SONNETS. 
 
 X. 
 
 SONNET. 
 
 JLlL fated oak, dark frowning o'er the plain ! 
 
 Amidst thy tresses of luxuriant green. 
 
 The wood's wild choristers were whilom feen, 
 Chaunting their melodies of simple vein : 
 When vollied thunder tore thy trunk amain. 
 
 Fearless, unbending was thy lofty mien ; 
 
 Majestic ruin ! safe from storms I ween 
 The supple weeds beneath thy wreck remain. 
 
 Ruin'd in innocence, like thee I stand ; 
 Youth's wither'd front with dauntless courage rear. 
 
 To brave corruption raging o'er the land : 
 When blasting calumnies my visage sear. 
 
 When vice triumphant joins the yelling band ; 
 Like thee, I meet my fate, and feel no fear ! 
 
 XI. SONNET.
 
 SONNETS. 59 
 
 XI. 
 
 SONNET. 
 
 X ES, Fancy yields me love's resistless lyre ! 
 
 To wake the song of melody is mine. 
 
 Smoothly to modulate the luscious line. 
 With rapture melt, or tenderness inspire : 
 The breath of genius fans my youthful fire. 
 
 Celestial harmony forsakes the shrine. 
 
 Where erst she sat amid the choral nine. 
 And listening to my lays that breathe desire, 
 
 Marks the warm tears from Laura's eye-lid steal ! 
 Those sacred drops no mortal meafurc drew 
 
 I rave ! I dream ! Can death's pale shadow feel ? 
 Silent, for ever cold ! Renew, renew 
 
 Thy plaint, that well might rend a heart of steel ! 
 Not Fancy's felf conceives the vision true ! 
 
 Iz XIL SONNET.
 
 6o SONNETS, 
 
 XII. 
 
 SONNET. 
 
 ONSOLE a mourner, nymphs ! no longer coy. 
 
 Frown on my blighted youth : from cares I fly. 
 
 The mellow beamings of an artless eye. 
 The blush of innocence, the breath of joy. 
 Enchanting accents, smiles that chase annoy. 
 
 Ye will not, cannot to a wretch deny. 
 
 Whom lingering misery condemns to figh. 
 Till pity's tear the flame of grief deftroy. 
 
 No venal slave am I, the muse's fcorn. 
 No base idolater of filthy gold 
 
 Viftim of beauty's power, with passion lorn. 
 The sport of fortune, virgins, ye behold. 
 
 Unveil your charms ! recall hope's vernal morn ! 
 E'er shades of endless sleep my form enfold ! 
 
 FAIRY
 
 FAIRY FANTASIES. 
 
 < Ah spare the weakness of a lover's heart~- 
 Chase not the phantoms of my FAIRY SKEAMi 
 Phantoms that fade at reason's painful gleam.'
 
 FAIRY FANTASIES. 6^ 
 
 PRELUDE. 
 
 JlN silence too long have I sigh'd. 
 
 And breathed my soft sorrows in vain : 
 
 My tears but awaken her pride. 
 
 My verse but invites her disdain. 
 
 Shall love all my pleasures destroy. 
 Shall grief ever doom me to pine ? 
 
 Forbid it, delusions of joy I 
 
 Let Fancy's bright empire be mine. 
 
 With Elves of the sun-beam I'll glide, 
 I'll rove the gay realms of delight ; 
 
 In the cloud, in the whirlwind I'll ride 
 Or flit with the visions of night. 
 
 On the strand when the wild billows roar, 
 I'll mount in the foam of the deep ; 
 
 'Mid ruins hear speilres deplore. 
 Or wander the desart and weep ; 
 
 Thro'
 
 6jf. FAIRY FANTASIES. 
 
 Thro' ice-cover'd regions I'll pass. 
 
 Lakes, mountains, and cool-dripping cells ; 
 With Fairies strew flowers on the grass. 
 
 And gaily dance over the dells. 
 
 Ye phantoms ! that silence alarms, 
 Ye shadows ! that soften desire, 
 
 Ah shroud a fond youth with your charms. 
 Till love's gloomy tempests retire ! 
 
 II. CAVERN.
 
 FAIRY FANTASIES. 65 
 
 II. 
 
 CAVERN. 
 
 PIRITS, list! unhallow'd eyes 
 Daring view our mysteries 
 Thro' the cavern as ye fled 
 Heard ye not a mortal tread ? 
 E'er he rashly venture near. 
 Warn We thus his eager ear : 
 
 * Bold intruder ! breathe no sound 
 
 * Softly, softly stalk around : 
 
 * Silent view the wondrous scene, 
 
 * Work divine of forms unseen 
 
 * Trembling gaze, nor rudely brave 
 ' Spirits of the secret cave ! 
 
 * High in airy splendor hung, 
 
 * We the lucid gems have strung, 
 
 * Flashing on thy ravish'd sight 
 
 * Quivering floods of liquid light ; 
 
 K ' Purer
 
 66 FAIRY FANTASIES. 
 
 ' Purer radiance, milder rays 
 
 * Than the solar beam displays. 
 
 * We the massy rock have rent, 
 ' We the ponderous arch have bent j 
 ' Streams assuming shapes unknown 
 
 * Pendant frown, congeal'd to stone ; 
 
 * Monstrous forms, to daunt thine eyes, 
 ' At our bidding instant rise. 
 
 ' Favour'd mortal ! haste away : 
 
 * Hie thee to the realms of day ! 
 
 * E'er our mystic shouts rebound 
 
 * Dreadful, thro' the vast profound ; 
 
 * E'er we shroud thy soul in night ; 
 
 * Swiftly, swiftly speed thy flight 1' 
 
 III. BURNING
 
 FAIRy FANTASIES. 6j 
 
 III. 
 
 BURNING MOUNTAIN. 
 
 Jr lERCE-EYED Elves, attend my call ! 
 
 Hear the task your Queen assigns ; 
 Quit the caverns' chrystal hall. 
 
 Yawning gulphs, and gloomy mines ; 
 
 Hither be your wanderings bent. 
 
 Pierce the mountains' secret cells : 
 
 Here mid struggling vapours pent. 
 Thunder forth terrific yells ! 
 
 Thunder ! till th' imprison'd steams 
 
 Hurl aloft the riven rock ; 
 Till the kindled sulphur gleams 
 
 Bursting with redoubled shock : 
 
 Then with frowns affright the skies. 
 
 Thro' the deepening shadows stray. 
 
 Bid the smoky volume rise. 
 
 In the livid lightening play ! 
 
 K 2 Swiftly
 
 6i 
 
 FAIRY FANTASIES. 
 
 Swiftly down the mountain side 
 
 Floating flame in torrents urge. 
 
 Dreadful thro' the deluge ride. 
 Riot on the fiery surge ! 
 
 When the work of fate is done. 
 
 Seek with me the central deep ; 
 
 There the radiant horrors shun. 
 
 There in cooling grottoes sleep ! 
 
 IV. LAKES.
 
 FAIRY FANTASIES. 69 
 
 IV. 
 
 LAKES. 
 
 HERE the wave in slow meanders 
 Winds beneath o'erhanging trees ; 
 There your Elfin empress wanders. 
 
 There she quafFs the morning breeze : 
 
 Rising from her reedy pillow. 
 
 Round the moss-clad rock she plays ; 
 
 Leaning on her pearly billow. 
 All the liquid realm surveys : 
 
 Envious shades the landscape banish 
 Shades my radiant mirror shroud : 
 
 See the glossy stillness vanish- 
 Chase oh chase that rufHing cloud ! 
 
 Gentle Elves ! in streamlets brawling 
 
 Down the pendent forest flow ; 
 Foaming high, or faintly falling. 
 
 Join the lucid lake below ! 
 
 Soon
 
 JO FAIRY FANTASIES. 
 
 Soon the formless cliff ascending. 
 
 Spread with vapoury veil the scene j 
 
 Misty steams and mountains blending. 
 Soften nature's savage mien ! 
 
 Noon opposes flame-surrounded ! 
 
 To your rocks, ray Fays, repair ! 
 There in caves with thickets bounded 
 
 Wake your woe-dispelling air. 
 
 While the lake with trembling lustre 
 Owns the magic of ^our songs; 
 
 While amidst your Fairy cluster 
 Echo every note prolongs ; 
 
 Lull my toil with opiate numbers 
 Till the star of evening glows : 
 
 Lap me in oblivious slumbers. 
 
 Wave the wand of soft repose ! 
 
 V. DREAMS.
 
 FAIRY FANTASIES. Jt 
 
 DREAMS, 
 
 OW the star of day descends. 
 Now the din of nature ends- 
 Visions 1 hear our Elfin cries. 
 Phantoms ! airy spedlres, rise ! 
 Well ye know to us belongs 
 Power to rule your mingled throngs ! 
 
 Go ! with bloody garlands crown'd. 
 Glide the murderer's couch around ; 
 Near the base seducer lie. 
 Wildly shriek, and sadly sigh : 
 Or in sable robes array'd. 
 Flit before the faithless maid ! 
 
 If the lover's eyelid close. 
 Soothe with slumber soft his woes ; 
 Lull the restless swain's alarms. 
 Lead the virgin to his arms. 
 
 Poar
 
 FAIRY FANTASIES. 
 
 Pour the nedlar-streaming kiss. 
 Bathe his ravish'd soul in bliss ! 
 
 Shadowy forms, our call obey ! 
 Wander where we point the way 
 Soon, too soon, unwelcome light 
 Melts the parting shades of night ; 
 Then must we our sports forbear. 
 Then with you dissolve in air ! 
 
 VI. GLACIERES.
 
 rXlRY FANTASIES. 73 
 
 VI. 
 
 GLACIERES. 
 
 HERE icy billows strew the plairti 
 Mid rattling hail, and sleety showers^ 
 In realms of frost we spirits reign ; 
 
 In varied sport consume the hours. 
 
 O'erwhelming weights of gather'd snow 
 Oft from the hoary mount we tear ; 
 
 Deep-thundering down the vale below. 
 Or whirl'd in eddies thro' the air. 
 
 'Mid desart rocks, in regions drear. 
 Fantastic scenes our skill displays : 
 
 Their snow- built spires the cities rear. 
 
 The groves their chrystal branches raise. 
 
 ^therial Elves unnumber'd beams 
 O'er all our wild creations throw. 
 
 Cold saphire radiance, emerald streams. 
 And blushing rays of ruby -glow. 
 
 L What
 
 74 
 
 FAIRY FANTASIES. 
 
 What scenes of glory yet remain ! 
 
 What secret wonders might we tell ! 
 But, hark oar queen forbids the strain. 
 
 And calls us lingering to her cell. 
 
 Vir. RUINS.
 
 FAIRY FANTASIES. 75 
 
 VII. 
 
 RUINS. 
 
 DEMONS. 
 
 -OCKING whirlwinds shake the dome 
 Fays of darkness, hither roam ! 
 Shapeless legions, shades of fear. 
 Heed ye not ? appear ! appear ! 
 Earthquakes heave the panting ground. 
 Fanes dismantled totter round : 
 Hark ! with hideous roar they fall ! 
 Loudly bursts the shatter'd wall ! 
 Columns quiver ! arches groan ! 
 Sinks the mighty mass of stone 
 Wherefore Fairies thus delay ? 
 Hither, hither haste away ! 
 
 FAIRIES. 
 
 Imps of horror ! cease your strain- 
 Yes, we hear ; but hear in vain : 
 
 L 2 Dare
 
 76 FAIRY FANTASIES. 
 
 Dare not, cannot heed your cry 
 Fate forbids her Fays to fly. 
 
 Frown, ye Demons! Fiends, destroy! 
 Fays serener bliss enjoy. 
 
 We, when silence veils the skies. 
 O'er the ruin'd temples rise : 
 Thro' the vaulted roof o'erthrown 
 Some in hollow murmurs moan ; 
 Some upon the moon-beam sail 
 Dimly clad in glimmering mail ; 
 Some, to brave the wintery wind. 
 Falling piles with ivy bind ; 
 Some along the mouldering heap 
 Teach the hoary moss to creep : 
 All in tranquil scenes delight. 
 All in peace consume the night. 
 
 Frown, ye Demons! Fienos, destroy! 
 F^ys serener bliss enjoy. 
 
 vni. LIGHT.
 
 rAIRY FANTASlJtS. 77 
 
 VIII. 
 
 LIGHT. 
 
 'OMS, Fairies that revel in light. 
 Shall we float on the beams of the moon ; 
 Illumine the shadows of night. 
 
 Or brighten the lustre of noon ? 
 
 Shall we pour glowing tints from the sun 
 The gay-coloured arch to adorn ; 
 
 Strew meteors, in crowds as we run. 
 Or blush in the crimson of morn ? 
 
 To the north, starry region, repair. 
 
 And o'er the cool azure difFuse 
 Pale glances quick-trembling in air. 
 
 Warm flashes and fiery hues ? 
 
 No ! no ! on the lightenings wild wing. 
 With Elves of the tempest we'll fly : 
 
 While THEY in the storm shrilly sing, 
 
 Wb'll glare thro' the gloom of the sky! 
 
 IX. GROVES,
 
 78 FAIRY FANTASIES. 
 
 IX. 
 
 GROVES, &c. 
 
 ITHIN these groves and bowers serene 
 Retired from mortal haunts afar, 
 Wh^n rising o'er the shadowy green 
 
 Appears mild evening's welcome star ; 
 
 We sportive Elves and wandering Sprites 
 Join on the flower-enamell'd ground. 
 
 To celebrate our festive rites. 
 
 Or lead the mazy dance around. 
 
 The trees a lively foliage gain 
 
 Beneath whose sheltering shade we stray. 
 And deeper verdure decks the plain 
 
 Where'er our magic circles play. 
 
 Now lightly glance our nimble feet. 
 
 Now, smoothly sliding o'er the grass. 
 
 We haste Titania's train to meet 
 
 Nor shake a dew-drop as we pass : 
 
 And
 
 FAIRY FANTASIES. 
 
 79 
 
 And oft on silken wings upborne 
 
 Thro* the dim air our sports pursue; 
 
 Till scatter'd by the breeze of morn. 
 We quickly vanish from the view ! 
 
 X. FEMALE
 
 8o FAIRY FANTASIKS. 
 
 FEMALE BEAUTY. 
 
 IRGINS ! mild as vernal showers. 
 Sweeter far than opening flowers. 
 Fond seducers ! would ye know 
 Whence your soft allurements flow ? 
 Elves alone by nature led. 
 Elves your morn of beauty spread ! 
 
 We your tender cheeks to flush. 
 Thrice refine the rose's blush j 
 For your veins' delicious blue. 
 Steep a violet leaf in dew ; 
 For your skins' resplendent white. 
 Steal a ray of lunar light ; 
 For the glances of your eyes. 
 Snatch a sunbeam from the skies ! 
 
 Thus in life's enchanting bloom 
 Fairies every grace illume : 
 
 Fairies
 
 FAIRY FANTASIES. 8 1 
 
 JPairies hail your morn of youth. 
 Tranquil hour of artless truth- 
 Pleased when mortal charms dispense 
 Lovely looks of innocence 1 
 
 But when passion's eager rage 
 Sheds th' untimely blight of age ; 
 When delusive art appears. 
 Faithless accents, feigning tears- 
 All your blest protectors fly ! 
 All your beauties fade and die ! 
 
 M XI. SEA.
 
 82 FAIRY FANTASIES. 
 
 XI. 
 
 SEA. 
 
 i. n! IGHT wakens the tempest ! the bark speeds away 
 Scale the billow, fleet Elves 1 boldly dash in the spray 1 
 
 When clouds veil the skies. 
 
 The gleam of your eyes 
 The* mild as the moonbeam is radiant as day. 
 
 Hoarsely scream the fell spirits ! oh silence their quire ! 
 Smoothe the wide-swelling surge! clothe the waters in fire! 
 
 Leave the mist-cover'd steep ! 
 
 Hurry on to the deep ! 
 Proteft the swift pinnace till dangers retire ! 
 
 ** We hasten, fair chief! the wind sinks at our strain : 
 " The storm disappears that o'ershadow'd the main : 
 
 ** On the clifF, on the sand, 
 
 *' In clusters we stand : 
 *' We twinkle like stars on the sea's level plain !" 
 
 Tis
 
 FAIRY FANTASIES. 83 
 
 Tis well wait the morn ! when the sunny rays glow. 
 Should the nymphs lave their limbs let the tide gently flow j 
 
 Soft smiles from the fair 
 
 Rewarding your care. 
 While ye sport with the wave on their bosoms of snow ! 
 
 Then wander the rocks, and explore every shell 
 Beneath whose pure roof pearly hues love to dwell ; 
 
 Bring leafllets, bring flowers 
 
 From coralline bowers. 
 Bring gems of rich lustre to lighten my cell ! 
 
 " We hear and obey to thy banquet we fly : 
 *' With gems of rich lustre we'll rival the sky, 
 
 " We'll bring thee bright flowers 
 
 " From coralline bowers, 
 " And carol thy praises till ocean reply !'* 
 
 M XII. DESART.
 
 84. FAIRY FANTASIES. 
 
 xir. 
 
 DESART. * 
 
 rRAVELLERS. 
 
 iC ALSE Arab ! faithless robber, stay ! 
 When water fails, will guides betray ? 
 We faint with thirst ! no drop remains 
 To slake our lips, or cool our veins ! 
 He flies he flies with treacherous haste 
 He leaves us on the dreary waste : 
 Clear springs, he said, or verdure mild 
 Would chear us o'er the trackless wild. 
 Or stars of gold the sand illume. 
 Or groves of cool acacia bloom : 
 'Twas falsehood all- no verdant scene 
 But bitter senna's barren green. 
 No woods appear, no waters bless 
 Unbounded, hideous wilderness 1 
 
 See BRUcE's/ublime narrative of his journey over the defart 
 of Sennaar. 
 
 SPIRIT.
 
 FAIRY FANTASIES. ,^.^85 
 
 SPIRIT. 
 
 Loud lamentings, piercing cries 
 
 Fill the solitary plain : 
 Spirits of the desart rise ! 
 
 Rise ! 'tis Iran's insensate train. 
 
 Lo for guilty gold they stray 
 
 Avarice leads their impious crew ! 
 
 Withering squadrons, blast their way- 
 Ruthless fiends ! their steps pursue ! 
 
 Desolate the burning land. 
 
 Thro' the dusty whirlwind glare. 
 
 Stalk amid the pillar'd sand. 
 
 Scorch the breezes, taint the air ! 
 
 Let nor worm, nor Inseft breath 
 
 Live beneath the venom'd gale- 
 Spread the purple haze of death. 
 Turn the sultry planets pale ! 
 
 Instant
 
 86 FAIRY FANTASIES. 
 
 Instant be our task begun ! 
 
 FURIES. 
 
 Fiend of death ! the work Is done. 
 Sandy whirlwinds sweep the ground- 
 Fiery columns close them round- 
 Now they tremble ! Now they sink ! 
 Haste thee life's last sob to drink ! 
 Poison taints the blushing sky. 
 Winds breathe flame they die ! they die ! 
 
 XIII. FLOWERS.
 
 FAIRY FANTASIES. 2j 
 
 XIII. 
 
 FLOWERS. 
 
 EEP, deserted flowers of night 
 We must waken day's delight ! 
 We must weave in nature's loom 
 Summer radiance, vernal bloom. 
 Morning opes her purple eyes 
 Orient colours, countless dies 
 Dissipate the spell of sleep : 
 Weep, deserted poppies, weep ! 
 Fays no more in filmy trance 
 Round your slumbering leaflets dance. 
 
 Rising from night's speftred scene. 
 Now we gambol o'er the green ; 
 Flit where noon-tide fervors shine. 
 Fan the blossoms e'er they pine. 
 Cooling airs on welcome wing 
 To the fainting lilly bring ; 
 
 Animate
 
 6S FAIRY FANTSIES. 
 
 Animate the fading rose. 
 Laugh in every bud that blows. 
 
 Glorious revel '.soon it ends ! 
 See, the misty gloom descends. 
 Stay thee bright-hair'd imp of light ! 
 Check thy steeds' ungovern'd flight ! 
 Eve's triumphant shadow lours : 
 Round her visage, dim with showers. 
 Shrivelling moon-beams faintly play : 
 We must leave ye, buds of day ! 
 
 Flowers of siknce, mourn no more* 
 Fays your filmy trance restore. 
 Softest dews of slumber fell. 
 While we breathed that opiate spell : 
 Silent poppies ! cease your fears 
 Vifionary bliss appears. 
 
 XIV. CONCLUSIOI**
 
 FAIRY FANTASIES. 89 
 
 XIV. 
 
 CONCLUSION, 
 
 JL HE Fairy visions melt away. 
 
 Each rapturous dream of bliss is flown : 
 To blow-consuming cares a prey, 
 I feel of love the pangs alone. 
 
 When day's declining prospers fade. 
 And darkness reassumes her reign ; 
 
 Eager I seek the midnight shade. 
 
 There midst imbowering woods complain. 
 
 Once Hope my pensive wanderings blest. 
 
 And chcar'd my path with glittering dreams ; 
 
 Once Fancy own'd me for her guest : 
 
 Ah ! then I lov'd the moon's pale beams 1 
 
 No more 1 court her pleasing light 
 
 In deepest woods I shroud my care ; 
 
 For Hope is lost in endless night. 
 
 And Fancy dwells not with d e s p a vr 1 
 
 N
 
 IMITATIONS 
 
 OF 
 
 CATULLUS.
 
 9* CATULLUS. 
 
 AD PASSEREM LESBIAE. 
 
 ASSER, deliciae meae puellae, 
 Quicum ludere, quera in sinu tenere, 
 Quoi priraum digitum dare adpetenii, 
 Et acris solet incitare morsus : 
 Quum desiderio meo nitenti 
 Carum nescio quid lubet iocari, 
 (Vt solatiolum sui doloris : 
 Credo, ut turn gravis acquiescat ardor) 
 Tecum ludere, sicut ipsa, possem, 
 t tristis animi levari curas ; 
 Tarn gratum mihi, quam ferunt puellae 
 Pernici aureolum fuisse malum. 
 Quod zonam solu'ii: diu ligatam. 
 
 LVCTVS
 
 IMITATION. 9J 
 
 To Leebia's Sparrow. 
 
 -OWEET Sparrow, all my Love's delight. 
 Whose wantoa frolics charm her sight ; 
 By Lesbia's playful hand caress'd. 
 As oft she lays thee on her breast. 
 Her taper fingers tempting seek 
 The sportive vengeance of thy beak : 
 When cares oppress, the soft relief. 
 The soothing solace of her grief! 
 With thee, like Lesbia, might I play ; 
 Like her my weary woes allay : 
 With softer joy should I be blest 
 Than Atalanta's self confess'd ; 
 When gold, amidst the rapid race. 
 Unbound her zone and check'd her pace. 
 
 Oa
 
 94 CATULLUS. 
 
 LVCTVS IN KORTE PASSIRI5. 
 
 L, 
 
 jUGETE, o Veneres, Cupidinesque, 
 Et quantum est hominum venustiorum. 
 Passer mortuus est meae puellae. 
 Passer, deliciae meae puellae, 
 Quem plus ilia oculis suis amabat : 
 Nam mellitus crat, suamque norat 
 Ipsam tarn bene, quam puella matrem : 
 Nee sese a gremio illius movebat ; 
 Sed circumsiliens modo hue, modoilluc. 
 Ad solam dominam usque pipilabat. 
 Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum, 
 Illuc, unde negant redire quemquam : 
 At vobis male sit, malae tenebrae 
 Orci> quae omnia bella devoratis : 
 Tam bellum mihi passerem abstulistis. 
 O fadlum male ! O miselle passer, 
 Tua nunc opera meae puellae 
 Flendo turgiduli rubent ocelli.
 
 IMITATIOJf. 95 
 
 On tke Death of Lesbia's Sparrow. 
 
 jL E Graces, weep \ ye Loves, complain ! 
 Lament, ye men of softer vein ! 
 Her soul's delight, her Sparrow dies. 
 More loved by Lesbia than her eyes : 
 The sweetest bird 1 as honey mild ! 
 He follow'd Lesbia like a child 
 He never from her bosom stray'd. 
 For her alone he fondly play'd. 
 Now here, now there, while leaping light. 
 He chirp'd his lay and charm'd her sight j 
 Who now a dreary road must fly. 
 Whence all return the fates deny. 
 
 Ye shades of death, ye shades unblest. 
 
 May tenfold gloom your realms invest ! 
 On all that lovely lives ye prey. 
 
 Ye tore my lovely bird away. 
 
 Oh luckless bird ! Oh cruel deed ! 
 
 For THEE my heart is doom'd to bleed 
 
 For THEE forlorn my Love appears, 
 
 Swolii licr boft eyes and red with tears ! 
 
 To
 
 j6 CATULLirs. 
 
 AD LESBIAM. 
 
 Vi 
 
 IVAMUS, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, 
 Rumoresque senum severiorum 
 Omnes unius aestimemus assis. 
 Soles occidere et redire possunt : 
 Nobis, cum semel occidit brevis lux, 
 Nox est perpetua una dormlenda. 
 
 Da mi basia mille, deinde centum, 
 Dein mille altera, dein secunda centum, 
 Dein usque altera mille, deinde centum : 
 Dein, cum millia multa fecerimus, 
 Conturbabimus ilia, ne sciamus, . 
 Aot ne quis malus invidere possit. 
 Cum tantum sclat esse basiorum. 
 
 AD
 
 IMITATION. 97 
 
 To Lesbia. 
 
 _ Let us love our lives away. 
 Nor heed what wrinkled sages say ! 
 The setting sun relumined shines 
 When once our shortlived day declines. 
 We hail, alas ! no dawning light. 
 We sleep one long eternal night. 
 
 My lips with thousand kisses bless- 
 Swift with a hundred more caress ! 
 A rapturous thousand yet impart- 
 Still with a hundred chear my heart ! 
 A thousand yet ! a hundred more ! 
 With glowing myriads swell the store ! 
 So swiftly then we'll mingle blisses, 
 Not Envy's self shall count our kisses ! 
 
 To
 
 98 CATULLUS. 
 
 AD LESBIAM. 
 
 'UAERIS, quot mihi basiationes 
 Tuae, Lesbia, sint satis superque ? 
 Quam magnus numerus Libyssae arenae 
 Laserpiciferis iacet Cyrenis, 
 Oraclum lovis inter aestuosi, 
 Et Batti veteris sacrum sepulcrum : 
 Aut quam sidera multa, cum tacet nox, 
 Furtivos hominum vident amores : 
 Tam te basia multa basiare, 
 Vesaao satis et super Catullo est. 
 Quae nee pernumerare curiosi 
 Fossint, ec mala fascinare lingua.* 
 
 * The influence of Magic did not extend (according to ancient superttition) 
 beyond the limit of niuubers. 
 
 IN
 
 IMITATION. 99 
 
 To Lesbia. 
 
 JLJLoW many kisses must I sip 
 To satiate love from Lesbia's lip ? 
 O seek Cyrene's fragrant shore. 
 The countless Lybian sand explore. 
 From where Jove's fervid fane is rear'd 
 To antient Battus' tomb revered ; 
 Or swift the sum of stars unfold 
 Of stars that secret joys behold. 
 When night in silent splendor glows 
 And all but lovers seek repose : 
 So many kisses must I sip 
 To satiate love from Lesbia's lip ! 
 With these my raging passion bless 
 Catullus only feels excess. 
 When no keen eye can count his joy, 
 * No envious spell his bliss annoy ! 
 
 * Vide the note in the opposite page. 
 
 O 2 Ok
 
 CATULLUS. 
 
 IN NUPTIIS JULIAE ET MANHI. 
 
 'OLLIS o Heliconei 
 Cultor, Uraniae genus. 
 Qui rapis teneram ad virum 
 Virginem, o Hymenaee Hymen, 
 Hymen o Hymenaee : 
 
 Cinge tempora floribus 
 Suaveolentis amaraci. 
 Flammeum cape : laetus hue 
 Hue veni, niveo gerens 
 Luteum pede soecum : 
 
 Excitusque hilari die, 
 Nuptialia coneinens 
 Voce earmina tinnula, 
 Pelle humum pedibus, manu 
 Pineam quate taedam. 
 
 Nam que
 
 IMITATION. lOl 
 
 On the Nuptials of Julia and Manhus. 
 
 ON of Urania, hear our strain ! 
 From Helicon's bright summit glide : 
 Thou, who to bless her eager swain 
 
 Leadst swiftly on the virgin bride. 
 
 For thee our choral measures rise 
 With Hymen's name we wake the skies ! 
 
 To crown thy brow, let flowerets sweet 
 
 Of marjoram a garland lend. 
 Haste, bring the veil ! thy snowy feet 
 
 Adorn'd with yellow sock, descend ! 
 
 Come! hither come, with joyful cry! 
 
 Awake, awake the nuptial sound ! 
 O wave thy piny torch on high. 
 
 And beat with measured step the ground ! 
 
 As
 
 102 CATULLUS. 
 
 Namque Julia Manlio, 
 Qualis Idalium colens 
 Venit ad Phrygium Venus 
 ludicem, bona cum bona 
 Nubit alite virgo : 
 
 Floridis velut enitens 
 Myrtus Asia ramulis, 
 Quos Hamadryades Dcae 
 I.udicrum sibi roscido 
 Nutriunt humore. 
 
 Quare age, hue aditum ferens 
 Pcrge linqaere Thespiae 
 Rupis Aonios specus, 
 Lympha quos super inrigat 
 Frigerans Aganippe : 
 
 Ac domum dominam voca, 
 Conjugis cupidam novi, 
 Mentem amore revinciens, 
 Ut tenax hedera hue et hue 
 Arborem implicat errans. 
 
 Vos
 
 IMITATION. 103 
 
 For, as Idalian Venus fair. 
 
 When Paris view'd her glowing charms. 
 See Julia, spotless maid, repair 
 
 In happy hour to Manlius' arms. 
 
 Like her's the blooming myrtle's hue 
 On Asia's odour-breathing shore ; 
 
 Whose blossoms, nursed with pearly dew. 
 
 The sportive wood-nymphs sprinkle o'er. 
 
 Here turn thy ftep : here wander now 
 Leave, Hymen, leave Aonian caves : 
 
 Quit Thespia's rock, whose tuneful brow 
 Cool- streaming Aganippe laves ! 
 
 Lead to her spouse the blushing bride. 
 Her soul with love's soft fetters bind j 
 
 la circling folds on every side 
 
 As trees with ivy wreaths are twined. 
 
 Unspotted
 
 104 CATULLUS. 
 
 Vos item simul integrae 
 Virgines, qulbus advenit 
 Par dies, agite in modum 
 i)icite : O Hymfenaee Hymen, 
 Hymen o Hymenaee : 
 
 Ut lubentius, audiens 
 Se citarier ad suum 
 Munus, hue aditum ferat 
 Dux bonae Veneris, boni 
 Conjugator amoris. 
 
 Qais Deus magis ah magis 
 Est petendus amantibus ? 
 Quem colent homines magis 
 Coelitum ? O Hymenaee Hymen, 
 Hymen o Hymenaee. 
 
 Te suis tremulus parens 
 Invocat : tibi virgines 
 Zonula soliiunt sinus : 
 Te timens cupida novus 
 Captat aure maritus. 
 
 Ta
 
 IMITATION. 105 
 
 Unspotted maids, whom fate ere long 
 
 Afligns connubial joys to meet ; 
 Accordant join the choral song. 
 
 In loudly-warbled notes repeat : 
 To Hymen let the measures rise. 
 With Hymen ! Hymen '.'wake the skies ! 
 
 So may the god of chaste desire 
 
 Invoked prepare his hallow'd rite ; 
 
 And, pleased to hear your songs aspire. 
 On swifter pinions urge his flight. 
 
 What power that roves the realms of air 
 Shall ardent lovers worship more ? 
 
 What favouring god, with purer prayer. 
 With warmer vows shall man adore ? 
 
 To Hymen let the measures rise. 
 
 With Hymen ! Hymen ! wake the skies ! 
 
 The nymphs with panting bosoms bare. 
 Unloose their zones for thy delight : 
 
 The parent breathes an anxious prayer. 
 The fervid youth invokes thy rite, 
 
 P Impatient
 
 io6 
 
 CATULLUS. 
 
 Tu fero juVeni in manus 
 Ploridam ipse puellulam 
 Matris e gremio suae 
 Dedis, o Hymenaee Hymen, 
 Hymen o Hymenaee. 
 
 Nil potest sine te Venu?, 
 Fama quod bona comprobet, 
 Commodi capere : at potest, 
 Te volente. Quis huic Deo 
 Compararier ausit ? 
 
 Nulla quit sine te domus 
 Liberos dare, nee parens 
 Stirpe jungier : at potest 
 Te volente. Quis huic Deo 
 Compararier ausit ? 
 
 Quae
 
 IMITATION. 107 
 
 Impatient to his eager hand 
 
 To yield the beauteous maid is thine : 
 With trembling haste, at thy command. 
 
 Maternal arms their charge resign ! 
 
 To Hymen let the measures rise, 
 
 With Hymen ! Hymen ! wake the skies ! 
 
 false are the joys that love attend, 
 
 Unhallow'd, unapproved by fame, 
 Till nuptial rites their influence lend. 
 Till Hymen consecrate the flame : 
 For thee we rend the vocal air, 
 What god with Hymen can compare ? 
 
 No founders of a noble race 
 
 Shall time to lasting fame consign ; 
 His sire no glorious heirs shall grace 
 
 Till thou proteft the lengthening line : 
 For thee we rend the vocal air. 
 What god with Hymen can compare ? 
 
 P2 The
 
 108 CATULLUS. 
 
 Quae tuis careat sacris, 
 Non queat dare praesides 
 Terra finibus : at queat, 
 Te volente. Quis huic Deo 
 Compararier ausit ? 
 
 Claustra pandite januae, 
 Virgo adest. Viden', ut faces 
 Splendidas quatiunt comas i 
 Sed moraris, abit dies ; 
 Prodeas, nova nupta. 
 
 Tardat ingenuus pudor. 
 Quae tamen magis audiens 
 Flet, quod ire necesse sit. 
 Sed moraris, abit dies ; 
 Prodeas, nova nupta. 
 
 Flere desine. Non tibi, 
 Aurunculeja, periculum est, 
 Ne qua femina pulchrior 
 Clarum ab Oceano diem 
 Viderit venientem. 
 
 Tali
 
 IMITATION. 109 
 
 The climes that nuptial bonds despise. 
 
 No guardian power shall e'er command : 
 
 Nor kings, nor honour'd heroes rise. 
 
 Till thou descending bless the land : 
 
 For thee we rend the vocal air. 
 What god with Hymen can compare ? 
 
 The virgin comes : the doors unfold : 
 The torches' waving tresses shine ! 
 
 Appear, appear, sweet bride, behold 
 The lucid stars of eve decline ! 
 
 While modest fear prolongs her stay 
 The shouts redoubled rend her ear : 
 
 She weeps ! The fleeting hours decay, 
 O virgin bride, appear, appear ! 
 
 No ill awaits a maid like thee, 
 
 Aurunculeia! cease to weep : 
 
 A fairer nymph ne'er smiled to see 
 The day-star rising from the deep. 
 
 Like
 
 IIO CATULLUS. 
 
 Talis in vario solet 
 Divitis domini hortulo 
 Stare flos hyacinthinus. 
 Sed moraris, abit dies : 
 Prodeas, nova nupta. 
 
 Prodeas, nova nupta, sis : 
 (Jam videtur) et audias 
 Nostra verba. (Viden' ? faces 
 Aureas quatiunt comas.) 
 Prodeas, nova nupta. 
 
 Non tuus levis in mala 
 Deditus vir adultera, 
 Probra turpia persequens, 
 A tuis teneris volet 
 Secubare papillis : 
 
 Lenta qui velut assitas 
 Vitis implicat arbores, 
 Iraplicabitur in tmim 
 Complexum. Sed abit dies ; 
 Prodeas, nova nupta.
 
 IMITATION. Ill 
 
 Like thee, 'mid rival flowerets shines 
 
 The hyacynth in vernal pride ! 
 But see the star of eve declines. 
 
 Appear, appear, unspotted bride. 
 
 Haste, haste 1 The beauteous form behold ! 
 
 Sweet maid, our clamours reach thine ear ! 
 The torches wave their locks of gold 
 
 O virgin bride, appear, appear ! 
 
 Thy love shall never bid thee grieve. 
 
 Nor cloy'd, nor faithless to thy charms. 
 
 That softly-swelling bosom leave 
 To riot in a wanton's arms. 
 
 Thee shall his fond embrace enfold. 
 As elms invite the circling vine. 
 
 Appear, appear, sweet bride, behold 
 The lucid stars of eve decline ! 
 
 Soft
 
 112 CATULLUS* 
 
 O cubile, quot [o nimis 
 Candido pede lefti] 
 
 Quae tuo veniuut hero. 
 Quanta gaudia, quae vaga 
 Nodle, quae media die 
 Gaudeat. Sed abit dies ; 
 Prodeas, nova nupta. 
 
 Tollite, o pueri, faces : 
 Flammeum video venire, 
 Ite, concinite in modum : 
 lo Hymen Hymenaee io, 
 lo Hymen Hymenaee. 
 
 Neu diu taceat procax 
 Fescennina locutio ; 
 Neu nuces pueris neget 
 Desertum domioi audiens 
 Concubinus amorem. 
 
 Da
 
 IMITATION. 113 
 
 Soft couch of love, whose ivory feet 
 
 Confess the happiest aid of art. 
 How soon on thee shall Manlius meet 
 
 A bliss too mighty to impart ! 
 
 What rapturous hours shall charm his day. 
 What joys the conscious night endear ! 
 
 But see the lamp of eve decay 
 
 O virgin bride, appear appear ! 
 
 The veil appears ! away, away 
 
 Remove the torches' ardent light ! 
 
 Boys, loudly swell the choral lay. 
 
 Hail with shrill shouts th' auspicious night ! 
 
 To Hymen let the measures rise. 
 
 With Hymen ! Hymen ! wake the skies ! 
 
 * # * 
 
 # * * 
 
 * * # # 
 
 * * 
 
 Q^ Fond
 
 I 1 <f CATULLUS. 
 
 Da nuces pueris, iners 
 Concubine. Satis diu 
 Lusisti nucibus. Lubet 
 lam servire Thalassio. 
 Concubine nuces da. 
 
 Sordebant tibi villuli 
 Concubine, hodie atque heri : 
 Nunc tuum cinerarias 
 Tondet os. Miser, ah miser 
 Concubine, nuces da. 
 
 Diceris male te a tuis 
 Unguentate glabris marite 
 Abstinere : bed abstine. 
 lo Hymen Hymenaee io, 
 lo Hymen Hymenaee. 
 
 Scimus haec tibi, quae licent. 
 Sola cognita : Sed marito 
 Ista non eadem licent. 
 lo Hymen Hymenaee io, 
 lo Hymen Hymenaee. 
 
 Nupta
 
 IMITATION. H; 
 
 Fond husband, for the youthful throng 
 With nuts profusely strew the ground : 
 
 Enough ! Thalassius swells the song : 
 The Fescenninian jests resound ! 
 
 Once, Manlius, every joy was thine 
 
 That youth's unfetter'd warmth allows : 
 
 These roving pleasures now resign, 
 A purer bliss awaits a spouse. 
 
 To Hymen let the measures rise. 
 
 With Hymen ! Hymen ! wake the skies ! 
 
 Q^z Thou
 
 il6 CATULLUS. 
 
 Nupta tu quoque, quae tuus 
 Vir petet, cave ne neges ; 
 Ne petitum aliunde eat. 
 lo Hymen Hymenaee io, 
 lo Hymen Hymenaee. 
 
 En tibi domus ut potens, 
 Et beata viri tui. 
 Quo tibicine serviat, 
 (lo Hymen Hymenaee io, 
 lo Hymen Hymenaee.) 
 
 Usque dum tremulum movens 
 Cana tempus anilitas 
 Omnia omnibus annuic. 
 Io Hymen Hymenaee io, 
 Jo Hymen Hymenaee. 
 
 Transfer omine cum bono 
 Limen aureolos pedes, 
 Rasileraque subi forem. 
 Io Hymen Hymenaee io, 
 Io Hymen Hymenaee. 
 
 Adspice,
 
 IMITATION. 117 
 
 Thou too, new-married bride, beware 
 Nor shun a husband's eager arms 1 
 
 Grant all he asks, lest vice ensnare 
 His soul to court illicit charms. 
 
 To ItviTien let the measures rise. 
 
 With Hymen ! Hymen ! wake the skies ! 
 
 Behold the mansion of thy spouse : 
 
 Delighted there each hour employ. 
 
 Till age approach with hoary brows 
 And all the bloom of life destroy. 
 
 To Hymen let the measures rise. 
 
 With Hymen ! Hymen ! wake the skies ! 
 
 Now lightly leap with nimble feet. 
 
 Swift o'er the polish 'd threshold glide ; 
 
 With happy omen haste to greet 
 
 The youth who fondly seeks his bride. 
 
 To Hymen let the measures rise. 
 
 With Hymen 1 Hymen ! wake the skies ! 
 
 Withia
 
 Il8 CATULLUS. 
 
 Adspice, intus ut accubans 
 Vir tuus Tyrio in toro, 
 Totus immineat tibi. 
 lo Hymen Hymenaee io, 
 lo Hymen Hymenaee. 
 
 Illi, non minus ac tibi, 
 Pedlore uricur intimo 
 Flamma, sed peiiite magis. 
 Io Hymen Hymenaee io, 
 lo Hymen Hymenaee. 
 
 Mitte brachiolum teres, 
 Praetextate, puellulae ; 
 lam cubile adeant viri. 
 Io Hymen Hymenaee io, 
 Jo Hymen Hymenaee. 
 
 Vos bonae senibus viris 
 Cognitae bene feminae. 
 Collocate puellulam. 
 Io Hymen Hymenaee io, 
 Io Hymen Hymenaee. 
 
 Jam
 
 119 IMITATION. 
 
 Within on Tyrian couch reclined. 
 
 Sweet bride, thy longing husband see ! 
 
 Thy blushing beauties fire his mind. 
 Each ardent sigh is full of thee. 
 
 Like thine his bosom feels the flame. 
 
 The throbbing tumult of desire : 
 Love, inly gliding thro' his frame. 
 
 Consumes his soul with fiercer fire. 
 
 To Hymen let the measures rise. 
 
 With Hymen ! Hymen ! wake the skies I 
 
 Attendants cease your fruitless aid. 
 
 Support no more her polish'd arras ; 
 
 Swift to the couch attend the maid. 
 
 Soothe, gently soothe her love's alarms. 
 
 Experienced matrons, chaste and sage. 
 
 To hoary husbands long allied. 
 With speed instruct her artless age : 
 
 On nuptial vestments lay the bride ! 
 
 To Hymen let the measures rise. 
 With Hymen ! Hymen ! wake the skies ! 
 Approach !
 
 120 CATULLUS. 
 
 lam licet venias, marite : 
 Uxor in thalamo est tibi 
 Ore floridulo nitens ; 
 Alba parthenice velut, 
 Luteumve papaver. 
 
 At marite (ita me juvent 
 Coelites) nihilominus 
 Pulcher es, neque te Venus 
 Negligit. Sed abit dies : 
 PergCj ne remorare. 
 
 Nonuiu remoratus es. 
 lam venis. Bona te Venus 
 luverit : quoniam palara 
 Quod cupis, capis, et bonum 
 Non abscondis amoren]. 
 
 Ille pulvis Erythrei, 
 Siderumque micantium 
 Subducat numerum prius. 
 Qui vostri numerare volt 
 Multa millia ludi. 
 
 Ludite,
 
 IMITATION. 121 
 
 Approach ! and let thy soul be blest 
 
 Stretch'd on the couch her limbs recline 
 
 Love's lilJies blossom on her breast. 
 
 Her cheeks like opening poppies shine ! 
 
 Thou too art fair with favouring eye 
 
 Hath Venus view'd thee, beauteous boy ! 
 
 But see thick darkness veils the sky. 
 
 Haste, haste, the rapid hours employ. 
 
 The bridegroom comes ! not long delay 'd. 
 
 Love smiles propitious on the youth 
 That artless won a yielding maid 
 
 By vows sincere and manly truth. 
 
 Whoe'er your moments of delight 
 
 Should strive by numbers to explore. 
 
 As well might count the stars of night 
 Or sands on Erythrasa's shore. 
 
 R Thus
 
 122 CATVLLUS. 
 
 Ludite, ut lubet, et brevi 
 Liberos date. Non decet 
 Tarn vetus sine liberis 
 Nomen esse : sed indidem 
 Semper ingenerari. 
 
 Torquatus, volo, parvolus 
 Matrls e gremio suae 
 Porrigens teneras manus, 
 Dulce rideat ad patrem, 
 Semihiante labello. 
 
 Sit suo similis patri 
 Manlio, et facile insciis 
 Noscitetur ab omnibus, 
 t pudicitiam suae 
 Matris indicet ore. 
 
 Talis illius a bona 
 Matre laus genus approbet, 
 Qualis unica ab optima 
 Matre Telemacho manet 
 Fama Penelopeo. 
 
 Claudite
 
 IMITATION. 123 
 
 Thus ever live in blissful state ! 
 
 Let children crown the chaste embrace ! 
 Ah sure that glorious name from fate 
 
 May justly claim a lengthen'd race. 
 
 Soon shall a son with artless charms. 
 
 Lean from his mother's breast awhile ; 
 
 Stretch to his sire his infant arms. 
 
 Half ope his little lips and smile ! 
 
 While Manlius in liis tender cheek 
 Appears to every gazing eye. 
 
 May youthful innocence bespeak 
 A lovely mother's purity ! 
 
 As o'er Ulysses' offspring shone 
 
 Penelope's unrivall'd fame ; 
 May Julia's son illustrious own 
 
 His spotless mother's equal name I 
 
 R2 Ye
 
 124 
 
 CATULLUS. 
 
 Claudite ostia, virgin es 
 Lusimus satis. At, boni 
 Conjuges, bene vivite, et 
 Mpnere assiduo valentem 
 Exercete juveotam.
 
 IMITATION. 
 
 "S 
 
 Ye nymphs, no longer wake the lay. 
 
 Close now the gates and cease your strain- 
 Blest pair ! enjoy life's fleeting day. 
 
 While youth and genial years remain !
 
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 CONTENTS. 
 
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 Invocation - ._- Page i 
 
 Elegiac Stanzas 3 
 
 Occasional Verses 2.5 
 
 Sonnets - -----------49 
 
 Fairy Fantasies - - -.^..----61 
 
 Imitations of Catullus - 9^ 
 
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