DIXIT; et avertens roseâ cervice refulsit,
Ambrosiaeque comae divinum vertice odorem
Spiravere: pedes vestis defluxit ad imos,
Et vera incessu patuit Dea. —
SHE said; and turning, shew'd her wrinkled neck,
In scales and colour like a roach's back.
Forth from her greasy locks such odours...
DAME Chastity, without dispute,
Dwelt on the earth with good King Brute; [1]
When a cold hut of modern Greenland
Had been a palace for a...
Partake as doth the Bee,
Abstemiously.
The Rose is an Estate —
In Sicily.
Parting with Thee reluctantly,
That we have never met,
A Heart sometimes a Foreigner,
Remembers it forgot —
Pass to thy Rendezvous of Light,
Pangless except for us —
Who slowly for the Mystery
Which thou hast leaped across!
SCENE---TOMHANICK.
1780.
SUSANNA.
Eliza, rise, the orient glows with day,
Already Phosphor darts his amber ray;
The fainting planets vanish from the skies,
Distinct already all the prospects rise;
Begin our walk, but cheer the lonely way
With music,...
Patience — has a quiet Outer —
Patience — Look within —
Is an Insect's futile forces
Infinites — between —
'Scaping one — against the other
Fruitlesser to fling —
Patience — is the Smile's exertion
Through the quivering —
Greece! hear that joyful sound,
A stranger's voice upon thy sacred hill;
Whose tones shall bid the slumbering nations round,
Wake with convulsive thrill.
Athenians! gather there; he brings you words
Brighter than all your boasted lore affords.
...
All hail vernal Phoebus! all hail ye soft breezes!
Announcing the visit of spring;
How green are the meadows! the air how it pleases!
How gleefully all the birds sing!...