Though an angel should write, still 't is devils must print. The Fudges in England. Letter iit.

Fly not yet; 't is just the hour

When pleasure, like the midnight flower
That scorns the eye of vulgar light,

Begins to bloom for sons of night
And maids who love the moon.

Oh stay! oh stay!

Joy so seldom weaves a chain

Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain

To break its links so soon.

When did morning ever break,

And find such beaming eyes awake?

Fly not yet.

Ibid.

Ibid

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Oh think not my Spirits are always as light.

Rich and rare were the gems she wore,

And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.

Rich and rare were the Gems she wore.

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.
The Meeting of the Waters.

Oh, weep for the hour

When to Eveleen's bower

The lord of the valley with false vows came.

Eveleen's Bower.

Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side
In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?

Come, send round the Wine.

No, the heart that has truly lov'd never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close;
As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets
The same look which she turn'd when he rose.

Believe me, if all those endearing young Charms.

The moon looks

On many brooks,

"The brook can see no moon but this."1

While gazing on the Moon's Light.

And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen,
The maiden herself will steal after it soon.

'Tis sweet to think that where'er we rove

Ill Omens

We are sure to find something blissful and dear; And that when we're far from the lips we love, We've but to make love to the lips we are near.

'Tis sweet to think.

'Tis believ'd that this harp which I wake now for thee Was a siren of old who sung under the sea.

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But there's nothing half so
As love's young dream.

The Origin of the Harp.

sweet in life

Love's Young Dream.

And the best of all ways

To lengthen our days

Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear.

Ibid.

The Young May Moon.

This image was suggested by the following thought, which occurs somewhere in Sir William Jones's Works: "The moon looks upon many nightBowers; the night-flower sees but one moon."

nimitation of Shenstone's inscription, "Heu! quanto minus est cum reliquis versari quam tui meminisse."

You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Farewell! But whenever you welcome the Hour.

Thus, when the lamp that lighted
The traveller at first goes out,
He feels awhile benighted,

And looks around in fear and doubt.
But soon, the prospect clearing,

By cloudless starlight on he treads,
And thinks no lamp so cheering
As that light which Heaven sheds.

I'd mourn the Hopes

No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us,
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.

The light that lies

In woman's eyes.

My only books

Come o'er the Sea.

The Time I've lost in wooing.

Were woman's looks,

And folly's all they've taught me.

I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart,
I but know that I love thee whatever thou art.

Ibid.

Come, rest in this Boson.

To live and die in scenes like this,

With some we've left behind us.

As slow our Ship.

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

All that's bright must fade,

The brightest still the fleetest;

All that's sweet was made

But to be lost when sweetest.

Remember Thee.

All that's Bright must fade

Those evening bells! those evening bells!
How many a tale their music tells

Of youth and home, and that sweet time
When last I heard their soothing chime!

Oft in the stilly night,

Those Evening Bells.

Ere slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond memory brings the light

Of other days around me;

The smiles, the tears,

Of boyhood's years,
The words of love then spoken;

The eyes that shone

Now dimmed and gone,

The cheerful hearts now broken.

I feel like one

Who treads alone

Some banquet-hall deserted,

Whose lights are fled,
Whose garlands dead,

And all but he departed.

As half in shade and half in sun

Oft in the Stilly Night.

This world along its path advances,

May that side the sun's upon

Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!

Ibid.

Peace be around Thee.

If I speak to thee in friendship's name,
Thou think'st I speak too coldly;
If I mention love's devoted flame,
Thou say'st I speak too boldly.
A friendship that like love is warm;
A love like friendship, steady.

The bird let loose in Eastern skies,
Returning fondly home,

How shall I woo!

Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies

Where idle warblers roam;

Ibid

But high she shoots through air and light,
Above all low delay,

Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,
Nor shadow dims her way.

Oh that I had Wings

This world is all a fleeting show,

For man's illusion given;

The smiles of joy, the tears of woe,

Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,
There's nothing true but Heaven.

This World is all a fleeting Show.

Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!
Jehovah has triumph'd, his people are free.

Sound the loud Timbrel

As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean
Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see,
So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion,
Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee.

As still to the star of its worship, though clouded,
The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea,
So dark when I roam in this wintry world shrouded,
The hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee.

The Heart's Prayer.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish;

Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Come, ye

Oh call it by some better name,
For friendship sounds too cold.

Disconsolate.

Oh call it by some better Name

When twilight dews are falling soft
Upon the rosy sea, love,

I watch the star whose beam so oft

Has lighted me to thee, love.

When Twilight Dews