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'Tis time enough, when its flowers decay,

To think of the thorns of Sorrow; And Joy, if left on the stem to-day, May wither before to-morrow. Then why, dearest! so long

Let the sweet moments fly over? Though now, blooming and young,

Thou hast me devoutly thy lover. Yet time from both, in his silent lapse, Some treasure may steal or borrow; Thy charms may be less in bloom, perhaps,

Or I less in love to-morrow.

WHEN ON THE LIP THE SIGH
DELAYS.

WHEN on the lip the sigh delays,

As if 'twould linger there for ever; When eyes would give the world to gaze, Yet still look down, and venture never;

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When, though with fairest nymphs we There let it lie, growing fonder and

rove,

There's one we dream of more than

any

If all this is not real love,

fonder

And should Dame Fortune turn truant to me,

'Tis something wondrous like it, Why,-let her go-I've a treasure be

Fanny!

To think and ponder, when apart,
On all we've got to say at meeting;

And yet when near, with heart to heart,

yond her,

As long as my heart's out at interest with thee!

Sit mute, and listen to their beating: OH! CALL IT BY SOME BETTER

To see but one bright object move,
The only moon, where stars are many-
If all this is not downright love,

I prithee say what is, my Fanny!

When Hope foretells the brightest, best,
Though Reason
on the darkest

reckons

When Passion drives us to the west,
Though prudence to the eastward
beckons ;

When all turns round, below, above,
And our own heads the most of any-
If this is not stark, staring love,
Then you and I are sages, Fanny.

NAME.

OH! call it by some better name,

For Friendship is too cold,
And love is now a worldly flame,

Whose shrine must be of gold;
And passion, like the sun at noon,
That burns o'er all he sees,
Awhile as warm, will set as soon,-
Oh! call it none of these.

Imagine something purer far,

More free from stain of clay,
Than Friendship, Love, or Passion are,
Yet human still as they :

And if thy lip for love like this No mortal word can frame, Go, ask of angels what it is, And call it by that name!

POOR WOUNDED HEART!
POOR wounded heart!
Poor wounded heart, farewell!
Thy hour is come,

Thy hour of rest is come;

Thou soon wilt reach thy home,
Poor wounded heart, farewell!
The pain thou'lt feel in breaking
Less bitter far will be,
Than that long, deadly course of
aching,

This life has been to thee

Poor breaking heart, poor breaking heart, farewell!

There-broken heart,

Poor broken heart, farewell!

The pang is o'er

The parting pang is o'er,

Thou now wilt bleed no more,
Poor broken heart, farewell!
No rest for thee but dying,

Like waves whose strife is past, On death's cold shore thus early lying, Thou sleep'st in peace at lastPoor broken heart, poor broken heart, farewell!

THE EAST INDIAN. COME May, with all thy flowers. Thy sweetly-scented thorn, Thy cooling evening showers,

Thy fragrant breath at morn : When May-flies haunt the willow, When May-buds tempt the bee, Then o'er the shining billow

My love will come to me.

From Eastern Isles she's winging
Through watery wilds her way,
And on her cheek is bringing
The bright sun's orient ray;

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PALE BROKEN FLOWER!

PALE broken flower! what art can now recover thee?

Torn from the stem that fed thy rosy breath

In vain the sunbeams seek

To warm that faded cheek!

The dews of heaven, that once like balm fell over thee,

Now are but tears, to weep thy early death

So droops the maid whose lover hath forsaken her;

Thrown from his arms, as lone and lost as thou;

In vain the smiles of all

Like sunbeams round her fall

The only smile that could from death awaken her,

That smile, alas! is gone to others

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So, my pretty Rose-tree, thou my mistress shalt be,

And the only one now I shall sigh to.'

When the beautiful hue of thy cheek through the dew

Of morning is bashfully peeping, 'Sweet tears,' I shall say (as I brush them away),

So blithe that even the slumbers

Which hung around us seem gone,
Till the lute's soft drowsy numbers
Again beguile them on.

Then, as each to his favourite sultana
In sleep is still breathing the sigh,
The name of some black-eyed Tirana
Half breaks from our lips as we lie.

'At least there's no art in this weep-Then, with morning's rosy twinkle,

ing.'

Although thou shouldst die to

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Again we're up and
gone-
While the mule-bell's drowsy tinkle
Beguiles the rough way on.

TELL HER, OH TELL HER. TELL her, oh tell her, the lute she left lying

Beneath the green arbour, is still lying there!

Breezes, like lovers, around it are sighing,

But not a soft whisper replies to their prayer.

SHINE out, Stars! let heaven assemble
Round us every festal ray,
Lights that move not, lights that trem-Tell
ble,

All to grace this eve of May.
Let the flower-beds all lie waking,
And the odours shut up there,
From their downy prisons breaking,
Fly abroad through sea and air.

her, oh tell her, the tree that, in going,

Beside the green arbour she playfully

set,

Lovely as ever is blushing and blowing And not a bright leaflet has fallen from it yet.

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Nights of song and nights of splendour, | Which smiles, and weeps, and trembles,

Filled with joys too sweet to lastJoys that, like your star-light tender, While they shone no shadow cast: Though all other happy hours From my fading memory fly, Of that star-light, of those bowers, Not a beam, a leaf, shall die!

OUR FIRST YOUNG LOVE. OUR first young love resembles That short but brilliant ray,

Through April's earliest day. No, no-all life before us; Howe'er its lights may play, Can shed no lustre o'er us

Like that first April ray.

Our summer sun may squander
A blaze serener, grander,
Our autumn beam may, like a dream
Of heaven, die calm away:
But no-let life before us

Bring all the light it may,
Twill shed no lustre o'er us
Like that first trembling ray.

AN EVENING IN GREECE.

1827.

IN thus connecting together a series of Songs by a thread of poetical narrative, the object has been to combine Recitation with Music, so as to enable a greater number of persons to join in the performance, by enlisting, as readers, those who may not feel themselves competent to take a part as singers.

The Island of Zia, where the scene is laid, was called by the ancients Ceos, and was the birthplace of Simonides, Bacchylides, and other eminent persons. An account of its present state may be found in the Travels of Dr. Clarke, who says, that it appeared to him to be the best cultivated of any of the Grecian Isles.'-Vol. vi. p. 174.

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