1140 SeleЯ Poetry, Ancient and Modern, for December, 1791. VERSES, INVITING STELLA TO TEA D ON THE PUBLIC FAST-DAY, EAR Stella, 'inidft the pious forrow "Tea," cries a Patriot, "on that day! ""Twere good you flung the drug away! "Rememb'ring 'twas the cruel fource "Of fad diftrust, and long divorce, "'Twixt Nations which, combin'd, had hurl'd "Their conquering jav'lin round the world. "O Indian fhrub! thy fragrant flowers "To England's weal had deadly powers, "When Tyranny, with impious hand, "To venom turn'd its effence bland; To venom fubtle, fierce, and fell, "As drench'd the dart of Ifdabel. "Have we forgot that curs'd libation, "That coft the lives of half the nation? "When Bofton, with indignant thought, "Saw poison in the perfum'd draught, "And caus'd her troubled Bay to be, "But one vaft bowl of bitter tea *: "While Até, chiefly-bidden guest, "Came fternly to the fatal feaft, "And mingled with th' envenom'd flood, "Brothers', Parents', Children's blood: "Dire as the Banquet Atreus ferv'd, "When his own Sons Thyeftes carv'd, "And Phœbus, fhrinking from the fight, "Drew o'er his orb the pall of night. "To-morrow then, at least, refrain, "Nor quaff thy gafping Country's Bane ! "For, O! reflect, poetic Daughter, « 'Trvas vanquish'd'Britain's Laurel-water †.” Lichfield Clofe. ANNA SEWARD. Alluding to the fhips' cargoes of tea which the Colonifts, on finding it taxed, threw into the Bay of Bofton; upon which hoftilities between them and the Mother Country commenced. +Alluding to the en recent murder of Sir Theodofius Boughton, by laurel-water. BRI SONNET, To Miss SEWARD. RIGHT Monitrix of Virtue's pureft lore, [refin'd! Form'd to inftruct and please with fenfe The sweet effufions of thy (prightly mind Sages and Beauties equally adore! SEWARD, poffefs'd of every power to charm, Sublimeft Truths with livelieft Wit to blend ! Proceed, thy Sex's ablest, kindest Friend, Still fhall the plaudits of the facred Nine OFT, ern sky, And lovely Philomel attunes her lay, Penfive I feek the lowly vale, and try To chase my forrows from my breast away. Slowly I wander o'er the verdant plain, Forlorn, dejected, and with woe oppreft; My downcaft eyes can scarce from tears refrain, [breaft. Whilst the fad figh escapes my grief-charg'd But, ali! in vain my forrows I bewail; Julia hears not my melancholy strain: In vain, in mournful accents, I complain, Orto the winds proclaim my love-lorn tale: Unheard, unpitied, I lament my fate, Nor prayers, nor fighs, nor tears, can change my state. FITZ-ALAN, SON NE T, of FAUSTINA MARARTI ZAPPI, To a Lady, with whom she supp fes, ber Husband to bave been formerly in Love. NYMPH, whofe powerful charms his heart could gain, [please, Whom I defire with duteous love to Thy praise he still refounds in every strain, Thy hair, thy lips, thy wit, and graceful eafe. Tell me, if e'er, by thy foft voice addrefs'd, Silent was he, or could unmov'd appear? Were looks perturb'd, and proud, to thee exprefs'd? [tear ! Such looks as force from me the frequent Alas! I've heard, in former times his eyes, Kindled by thine, his ardent flame reveal'd; And then-but thy averted face 1 fee, And confcious blushes on thy cheeks arife: O fpeak -Ah, no! thy lips, by filence feal'd, [thee. Muft ne'er confefs his heart attach'd to To Miss MARIA G- -H, MARGATE, ON N OR yet the Zodiack held the even Still o'er the day the Virgin fign appears; All was ferene-as is the Court of Peace. This calm, portentous of fome good to earth With time, gave way to dear Maria's birth: As forth the came from Hymen's ample horn, Behold, he cry'd, "a rofe without a thorn!" The raptur'd world receiv'd the Cherub fair, And gave her Grace and Wisdom, for their care. Twenty bright years have roll'd their orbits by [eye: Still more the charms than firft fhe met the This with as fordid Love fhall ne'er define- Before the treads her Margate fhores again, E. Gd, Nov. 18. Mr. URBAN, W. THOUGH both the subject and the strain of "Modern Britons," reviewed p. 945m are far below the poem you have so justly commended in p. 657; yet, as a specimen and a definition, i recommend to you to tranfcribe the following lines: "FROM one content to take things as they run, And bend before the ftorm he cannot shun, 'Tis free difcourse about her and about her: mend. Freely to stand triumphant at the door, ON AN ELEGANT LADY, IN HER WI 'ER that fine form while Tafte can thus Ο Such captivating powers of black and white, HORACE, B. II. ODE iii. TRANSLATED. W preft, Or Fortune's partial favours bleft, And fpreading pines, above your head, Here order the too-tranfient rofe, 1142 SeleЯ Poetry, Ancient and Modern, for December, 1791. It nought avails:-both King and Slave ON VISITING THE GRAVE OF STERNE. BY MR. SAMWELL. W WITH facred awe, with kind concern, Here Friendship still shall vifit Sterne, And mufe upon the dust beneath; Now withering in the fhade of Death. Humanity with gentle tread, ON THE DEATH OF DR. JAMES MUIR- *O D.E SWEET TO AURORA. WEET, blushing Nymph! the gates of With pearly hand unbar ; Step forth, bright Goddess of Delight, And develope the lawn ; The fpangles of the dawn! While infant Zephyrs blow! With balmy lips breathe forth the Morn, And dashes o'er the ground. On every plant, and every flower, Of light the animating fount, In vernal Nature's sphere What fragrance breathes from ev'ry flower! Of Morn's ambrofial beam! Re-iffues from the thorn. Ye feather'd Minstrels, join in fong! Select Poetry, Ancient and Modern, for December, 1791. 1143 Forbear, with rude, irrev'rent feet, to tread This claffic ground, where Troy once rear'd its head; Nor ask why Fate, or unrelenting Time, Or why the grass in strange diforder grows AD PERALTEM EPIGRAMMA AIN', Peralte, me gravi eripuit malo Tuus ifte frater nobilis veneficus? Fuiffe medicum nempe quem narras meum ? Omitte: nam quòd vivo fat refelleris. BY THE SAME. THY brother, my physician, doft thou fay, THE DOG AND THE WATER-LILY. TH HE noon was fhady, and foft airs When, 'fcap'd from literary cares, I wander'd on his fide. My fpaniel, prettiest of his race, (Two nymphs, adorn'd with every grace, Now wanton'd, loft in flags in reeds, Now starting into fight, It was the time when Oufe difplays His lilies newly blown ; To fteer it close to land; But ftill the prize, though nearly caught, Beau mark'd my unfuccessful pains But with a chirrup fhrill and strong, I thence withdrew, and follow'd long My quick approach, and foon he dropp'd Charm'd with the fight, "the world," I cried, My dog thall mortify the pride Of man's fuperior breed: But, chief, myself I will enjoin, To fhew a love as prompt as thine TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE W imperial fway, HEN Greece, fubdued, own'd Rome's Thither, on eagle-wings, Arts took their way; reigns; But modern times urge us to look at home, Such were the pow'rful strokes thy art could L' they live. DE S H. P A I R. When death or abfence parts a faithful pair; Or Love which dies not confecrates the tomb. But dark beyond compare the moody night, 'Tis then one dreary void! no gleam of light, 1144 Select Poetry, Ancient and Modern, for December, 1791. Or once, perhaps, the trod the rural vale, Yet of its every charm that face bereave! T the grove 'tis in vain I repair, They afford not a refuge from care, To the fireams, on whose banks I reclin'd, They the cause of my forrows renew. For they cannot remove my despair; Gay pleasure encircled me round; And chearfulness welcom'd the day. And in years, as in forrow, was young. I have fat on the bench at my door With a pleasure to monarchs unknown, For, had I the wealth of a king, THE NINETEENTH IDYLLIUM OF A S Cupid once, a roguifh boy, For he too is a little thing, Yet leaves behind as fmart a fting. EPITAPH ON A TOMB-STONE IN THE BURYING- To the memory of the venerable JOHN WESLEY, A.M. late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. This great light arose, by the fingular providence of God, to enlighten these nations, and to revive, enforce, and defend, the pure apoftolical doctrine and practice of the Primitive Church, which he continued to defend, both by his labours and his writings, for more than half a century; and who, to his inexpreffible joy, not only beheld their influence extending, and their efficacy witnessed in the hearts and lives of many thousands, but also, far above all human power or ex- for their continuance and establishment, to the joy of future generations. Reader, if thou art constrain'd to bless the inftrument, |