I. 69. Two Flowers. 1. "Fair-haired, azure-eyed, with delicate Saxon complexion." 2. "I pray you pardon me, My sister Queen! nay, you will learn to This high affection for the race of Owen, 3. "Lean thy face down; drop it in These two hands, that I may hold 'Twixt their palms thy cheek and chin, Stroking back thy curls of gold." 4. "Death rides upon the sulphury 5. "The hunter Provok'd the danger of the Elephant's rage." 6. "His nature is too noble for the world; He would not flatter Neptune for his 7. trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder." "He, that of greatest works is finisher, Oft does them by the weakest minister; So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown, When judges have been babes." 8. "The news reach'd -'s duke, ere earth Was gladden'd by the lark, He sent a hundred soldiers forth 9. "The wise in great majestie Who mightily that sceptre did sustain." 70. "Like a mighty steamship foundering, "He's a finish'd coon is And the brandy's nearly done." I. "The moor around is brown and bare, 2. "Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos, is restor'd ; Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great fall, ! lets the curtain And universal darkness buries all." 3. "To the glorious, pious, and immortal memory of the good King who saved us from Popery, knavery and slavery, brass money and wooden shoes." 4. "Strike as though the echoing Lay beneath your blows the while; Or the brood of false Argyle." 5. "The Boreal Morn With mimic lustre substitutes its gleam, lake." 6. "There are three difficult things in 'this'; to write anything worth the publishing; to find honest men to publish it; and to get sensible men to read it." C. G. 66 71. The Victim and its Murderer. I. 'With every change his features played, As aspens show the light and shade." 2. "And I would that my tongue could 'express' The thoughts that arise in me." 4. lies, When silent night has closed her eyes; It is a breezy jasmine bower, The nightingale sings o'er her head." Great Alexander to subdue the world, there, and painted Stoa next.” |