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GOOD NIGHT.

Good night? ah! no; the hour is it!
Which severs those it should unite;
Let us remain together still,

Then it will be good night.

How can I call the lone night good,
Though thy sweet wishes wing its flight?
Be it not said, thought, understood,
Then it will be good night.

To hearts which rear each other move
From evening close to morning light,
The night is good; because, my love,
They never say good night.

TO-MORROW.

WHERE art thou, beloved, To-morrow?

Whom young and old, and strong and weak,

Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow,
Thy sweet smiles we ever seek,-

In thy place-ah! well-a-day!
We find the thing we fled-To-day.

DEATH.

THEY die-the dead return not-Misery
Sits near an open grave and calls them over,
A Youth with hoary hair and haggard eye-

They are the names of kindred, friend, and lover, Which he so feebly called-they all are gone! Fond wretch, all dead, those vacant names alone, This most familar scene, my pain

These tombs alone remain.

Misery, my sweetest friend-oh! weep no more!
Thou wilt not be consoled-I wonder not!
For I have seen thee from thy dwelling's door
Watch the calm sunset with them, and this spot
Was even as bright and calm, but transitory,
And now thy hopes are gone, thy hair is hoary;
This most familiar scene, my pain-
These tombs alone remain.

A LAMENT.

O World! O life! O time!

On whose last steps I climb,

Trembling at that where I had stood before; When will return the glory of your prime ?

No more Oh, never more!

Out of the day and night

A joy has taken flight;

Fresh spring, and summer, and winter boar, Move my faint heart with grief, but with delight No more -Oh, never more!

LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY.

THE fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean,

The winds of heaven mix for ever

With a sweet emotion;

Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle-
Why not I with thine?

See the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother:
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea;-
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?

January, 1820.

TO E*** V***

MADONNA, wherefore hast thou sent to me
Sweet basil and mignionette?

Embleming love and health, which never yet

In the same wreath might be.

Alas, and they are wet!

Is it with thy kisses or thy tears?

For never rain or dew

Such fragrance drew

From plant or flower-the very doubt endears
My sadness ever new,

The sighs I breathe, the tears I shed for thee, March, 1821.

ΤΟ

I FEAR thy kisses, gentle maiden,
Thou needest not fear mine;
My spirit is too deeply laden

Ever to burthen thine.

I fear thy mien, thy tones, thy motion,
Thou needest not fear mine;
Innocent is the heart's devotion
With which I worship thine.

LINES.

WHEN the lamp is shattered
The light in the dust lies dead-
When the cloud is scattered,
The rainbow's glory is shed.
When the lute is broken,
Sweet tones are remembered not;
When the lips have spoken,
Loved accents are soon forgot.

As music and splendour
Survive not the lamp and the lute,
The heart's echoes render

No song when the spirit is mute:

No song but sad dirges,

Like the wind through a ruined cell,
Or the mournful surges

That ring the dead seaman's knell.

When hearts have once mingled
Love first leaves the well-built nest,
The weak one is singled
To endure what it once possest.
O Love! who bewailest

The frailty of all things here,

Why choose you the frailest

For your cradle, your home, and your bier?

Its passions will rock thee

As the storms rock the ravens on high:

Bright reason will mock thee, Like the sun from a wintry sky. From thy nest every rafter Will rot, and thine eagle home

Leave thee naked to laughter,

When leaves fall and cold winds come..

TO WILLIAM SHELLEY.

(With what truth I may say

Roma! Roma! Roma!

Non e piu come era prima!)

My lost William, thou in whom

Some bright spirit lived, and did

That decaying robe consume

Which its lustre faintly hid,

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