• From “King Henry Eighth,” Act III. Sc. 1.

    ORPHEUS, with his lute, made trees,
    And the mountain-tops that freeze,
      Bow themselves when he did sing;
    To his music plants and flowers
    Ever sprung, as sun and showers
      There had made a lasting Spring.

    Every thing that heard him play,
    Even the billows of the sea,
      Hung their...

  • Wisdom and Spirit of the universe!
    Thou Soul, that art the eternity of thought!
    And giv’st to forms and images a breath
    And everlasting motion! not in vain,
    By day or star-light, thus from my first dawn
    Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me
    The passions that build up our human soul—
    Not with the mean and vulgar works of Man,
    ...