DEDICATION. TO LEIGH HUNT, ESQ. GLORY and loveliness have passed away; With these poor offerings, a man like thee. [THE Short Pieces in the middle of the Book, as well as some of the Sonnets, were written at an earlier period than the rest of the Poems.] POEMS. "Places of nestling green for Poets made.' I STOOD tip-toe upon a little hill, STORY OF RIMINI. The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a modest pride Caught from the early sobbing of the morn. The clouds were pure and white as flocks new shorn, Far round the horizon's crystal air to skim, A bush of May flowers with the bees about them; And let long grass grow round the roots to keep them A filbert hedge with wildbriar overtwined, The spreading blue bells: it may haply mourn Open afresh your round of starry folds, Dry up the moisture from your golden lids, That in these days your praises should be sung Here are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight : Linger awhile upon some bending planks |