ANTISTROPHE. Haste, then, to the pleasant groves, Resume thy station in Apollo's dome, Than Delos, or the fork'd Parnassian hill! Since now a splendid lot is also thine, With authors of exalted note, The ancient glorious lights of Greece and Rome. EPODE. Ye, then, my works, no longer vain, Gift of kind Hermes, and my watchful friend, And whence the coarse unletter'd multitude Perhaps some future distant age, Less tinged with prejudice, and better taught, To judge more equally. Then, malice silenced in the tomb, Thanks to Rouse, if aught of praise TRANSLATIONS OF THE ITALIAN POEMS. SONNET. FAIR Lady! whose harmonious name the Rhine, Through all his grassy vale, delights to hear, Base were indeed the wretch who could forbear To love a spirit elegant as thine, That manifests a sweetness all divine, Nor knows a thousand winning acts to spare, And graces, which Love's bow and arrows are, Tempering thy virtues to a softer shine. When gracefully thou speak'st, or singest gay Such strains as might the senseless forest move, Ah then-turn each his eyes and ears away, Who feels himself unworthy of thy love! Grace can alone preserve him ere the dart Of fond desire yet reach his inmost heart. SONNET. As on a hill-top rude, when closing day So, on my tongue these accents, new and rare, Are flowers exotic, which Love waters there. While thus, O sweetly scornful! I essay Thy praise in verse to British ears unknown, And Thames exchange for Arno's fair domain; So Love has will'd, and ofttimes Love has shown, That what he wills, he never wills in vain — Oh that this hard and sterile breast might be To Him, who plants from heaven, a soil as free! CANZONE. THEY mock my toil-the nymphs and amorous swains And whence this fond attempt to write, they cry, Love-songs in language that thou little know'st? How darest thou risk to sing these foreign strains? Say truly. Find'st not oft thy purpose cross'd, And that thy fairest flowers here fade and die? Then with pretence of admiration high Thee other shores expect, and other tides, Her deathless laurel leaf, with which to bind Speak, muse! for me-the fair one said, who guides My willing heart, and all my fancy's flights, SONNET, TO CHARLES DEODATI. CHARLES and I say it wondering - thou must know Words exquisite, of idioms more than one, SONNET. LADY! It cannot be but that thine eyes But deem them, in the lover's language-sighs. Whence my sad nights in showers are ever drown'd, SONNET. ENAMOUR'D, artless, young, on foreign ground, To thee, dear Lady, with an humble sigh As safe from envy as from outrage rude, |