• Awake, ye forms of verse divine!
      Painting! descend on canvas wing,—
    And hover o’er my head, Design!
      Your son, your glorious son, I sing;
    At Trumbull’s name I break my sloth,
      To load him with poetic riches:
    The Titian of a table-cloth!
      The Guido of a pair of breeches!

    Come, star-eyed maid, Equality!
      In thine...