TH AUGUST, 1803 HE gentlest Shade that walked Elysian plains Even for the tenants of the zone that lies To see how things are made and managed there. Power in my breast, wings growing in my mind, -Then why these lingering steps?-A bright adieu, 1811 ΤΟ II AT THE GRAVE OF BURNS, 1803 I SEVEN YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH SHIVER, Spirit fierce and bold, So sadness comes from out the mould And have I then thy bones so near, And both my wishes and my fear Off weight-nor press on weight!-away The tribute due To him, and aught that hides his clay Fresh as the flower, whose modest worth For so it seems, Doth glorify its humble birth With matchless beams. The piercing eye, the thoughtful brow, The prompt, the brave, Slept, with the obscurest, in the low I mourned with thousands, but as one How Verse may build a princely throne 30 20 Alas! where'er the current tends, Regret pursues and with it blends,— Neighbours we were, and loving friends True friends though diversely inclined; Through Nature's skill, May even by contraries be joined The tear will start, and let it flow; Have sate and talked where gowans blow, What treasures would have then been placed By fancy what a rich repast! But why go on ?— Oh! spare to sweep, thou mournful blast, There, too, a Son, his joy and pride, (Not three weeks past the Stripling died,) Lies gathered to his Father's side, Soul-moving sight! Yet one to which is not denied Some sad delight. For he is safe, a quiet bed Hath early found among the dead, Wronged, or distrest; And surely here it may be said That such are blest. And oh for Thee, by pitying grace 40 50 60 70 PAGE SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY AND ORDERcontinued X. At Bologna, in Remembrance of the Late Insurrections, 1837 388 389 XII. Concluded 389 XIII. Young England-what is then become of Old 390 XIV. Feel for the wrongs to universal ken 390 SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH I. Suggested by the View of Lancaster Castle (on the Road II. Tenderly do we feel by Nature's law. 391 III. The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die 392 IV. Is Death, when evil against good has fought 392 392 VI. Ye brood of Conscience-Spectres! that frequent 393 393 393 IX. Though to give timely warning and deter . X. Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine VII. I know an aged Man constrained to dwell X. How beautiful the Queen of Night, on high XI. Once I could hail (howe'er serene the sky) |