Page images
PDF
EPUB

AMONG those joys, 't is one at eve to sail
On the broad River with a favourite gale;
When no rough waves upon the bosom ride,
But the keel cuts, nor rises on the tide ;
Safe from the stream the nearer gunwale stands,
Where playful children trail their idle hands:
Or strive to catch long grassy leaves that float
On either side of the impeded boat;
What time the moon arising shows the mud,
A shining border to the silver flood.

CRABBE.

[graphic]

WHEN, in the south, the wan noon, brooding still,
Breathed a pale steam around the glaring hill,
And shades of deep-embattled clouds were seen,
Spotting the northern cliffs with lights between ;
Gazing the tempting shades to them denied,
When stood the shortened herds amid the tide,
Where from the barren wall's unsheltered end
Long rails into the shallow lake extend.

WORDSWORTH.

[graphic]
[blocks in formation]

When Fortune frowns and hopes deceive Thy answer was a blush and tear :

[blocks in formation]

In Youth's gay spring, 'mid Pleasure's Though years-long years have darkly bowers,

Where all is sunshine, mirth, and flowers,

We met ;-I bent the adoring knee,

And told a tender tale to thee!

sped,

Since thou wert number'd with the dead,

In fancy oft thy form I see;

In dreams, at least, I'm still with thee!

« ՆախորդըՇարունակել »