Disease would vanish, like a summer-shower, THE HAPPY HUSBAND. A FRAGMENT. FT, oft methinks, the while with Thee A promise and a mystery, A pledge of more than passing life, A pulse of love, that ne'er can sleep! Of transient joys, that ask no sting And into tenderness soon dying, Wheel out their giddy moment, then A more precipitated vein Of notes, that eddy in the flow Of smoothest song, they come, they go, RECOLLECTIONS OF LOVE. I. OW warm this woodland wild recess ! Love surely hath been breathing here; And this sweet bed of heath, my dear! Swells up, then sinks with faint caress, As if to have you yet more near. II. Eight springs have flown, since last I lay III. No voice as yet had made the air Be music with your name: yet why IV. As when a mother doth explore The rose-mark on her long lost child, As whom I long had loved before- V. You stood before me like a thought, A dream remembered in a dream. . VI. Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep, ON RE-VISITING THE SEA-SHORE AFTER LONG ABSENCE, UNDER STRONG MEDICAL RECOMMENDATION NOT TO BATHE. OD be with thee, gladsome Ocean! Dissuading spake the mild physician, And lo! I breathe untroubled breath! Fashion's pining sons and daughters, That seek the crowd they seem to fly, Trembling, they approach thy waters; And what cares Nature, if they die? Me a thousand hopes and pleasures, Dreams, (the soul herself forsaking,) A blessed shadow of this Earth! O ye hopes, that stir within me, "Yea, he deserves to find himself deceived, HYMN BEFORE SUNRISE, IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI. Besides the rivers, Arve and Arveiron, which have their sources in the foot of Mont Blanc, five conspicuous torrents rush down its sides; and within a few paces of the Glaciers, the Gentiana Major grows in immense numbers, with its "flowers of loveliest blue." AST thou a charm to stay the morning star In his steep course? So long he seems On thy bald awful head, O sovran BLANC! Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! How silently! Around thee and above |