FANCY IN NUBIBUS. 77 FANCY IN NUBIBUS. OR THE POET IN THE CLOUDS. O! IT is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Own each quaint likeness issuing from the mould And cheek aslant, see rivers flow of gold 'Twixt crimson banks; and then, a traveller, go From mount to mount through Cloudland, gorgeous land! Or list'ning to the tide, with closed sight, Be that blind bard who, on the Chian strand By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssee Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. S. T. Coleridge. 78 WITH A COPY OF THE ILIAD. WITH A COPY OF THE ILIAD. BAYARD, awaken not this music strong Edmund Clarence Stedman. TO MILTON. 79 TO MILTON. MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea; The lowliest duties on itself did lay. W. Wordsworth. 80 THE MEMORY OF GREAT POETS. THE MEMORY OF GREAT POETS. WRITTEN IN A VOLUME OF SHAKESPEARE. How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky And warms their scutcheons with a glance of gold!- Who on Parnassus-hill have bloom'd elate; Thomas Hood. THE WORLD OF BOOKS. 81 THE WORLD OF BOOKS. WINGS have we-and as far as we can go, Which, with the lofty, sanctifies the low; Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, There do I find a never-failing store Of personal themes, and such as I love best; Two will I mention, dearer than the rest: And heavenly Una, with her milk-white lamb. W. Wordsworth. 6 Modern Poets. |