Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems.

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QUOTATIONS AND NOTES.

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QUOTATIONS, NOTES,
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EXPLANATIONS.

...SONNET I.line 13.
Ah! then, how dear the Muse's favours cost, If those paint sorrow bestwho feel it most!
"The well‐sung woes shall soothe my pensive ghost;He best can paint them who shall feel them most."
Pope's Eloisa to Abelard, 366th line.
SONNET II.line 3.
Anemonies, that spangled every grove.
Anemony Nemeroso. The wood Anemony.
...SONNET III.line 1.
The idea from the 43d Sonnet of Petrarch. Secondo parte.
"Quel rosigniuol, che si soave piagne.

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...SONNET V.line 2.
Your turf, your flowers among.
"Whose turf, whose shades, whose flowers among."
Gray.
...Line 9.
Aruna!
The river Arun.
...SONNET VI.line 12.
"For me the vernal garland blooms no more."
Pope's Imit. 1st Ode 4th Book of Horace.
...Line 13.
"Misery's love."
Shakspeare's King John.
...SONNET VII.line 4.
"On the night's dull ear."
Shakspeare.
Line 5.
Whether on Spring
alludes to the supposed migration of the nightingale.
...Line 7.
The pensive Muse shall own thee for her mate.
"Whether the Muse or Love call thee his mate.Both them I serve, and of their train am I."
Milton's First Sonnet.

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...SONNET VIII.line 14.
Have power to cure all sadnessbut despair.
"To the heart inspires Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All sadness but despair."
Paradise Lost, Fourth Book.
...SONNET IX.line 10.
And laugh at tears themselves have forced to flow.
"And hard unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forced to flow."
Gray.
...SONNET XI.line 4.
Float in light vision round my aching head!
"Float in light vision round the poet's head."
Mason.
...Line 7.
And the poor sea boy, in the rudest hour, Enjoys thee more than he who wears a crown.
"Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mastSeal up the ship boy's eyes, and rock his brainsIn cradle of the rude impetuous surge?" &c.
Shakspeare's Henry IV.
...SONNET XII.line 8.
"And suits the mournful temper of my soul."
Young.

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...SONNET XIII.line 1."Pommi ove'l sol, occide i fiori e l'erba."Petrarch, Sonnetto 112. Parte primo.
...SONNET XIV.line 1."Erano i capei d'oro all aura sparsi."Sonnetto 69. Parte primo.
...SONNET XV.line 1."Se lamentar augelli o verdi fronde."Sonnetto 21. Parte secondo.
...SONNET XVI.line 1."Valle che de lamenti miei se piena."Sonnetto 33. Parte secondo.
...SONNET XVII.line 1.
"Scrivo in te l'amato nome Di colei, per cui, mi moro."
This is not meant as a translation; the original is much longer, and full of images, which could not be introduced in a Sonnet. And some of them, though very beautiful in the Italian, would not appear to advantage in an English dress.
SONNET XXI.line 5.
"Poor maniac."
See the story of the lunatic.

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"Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he possesses his reason, or after he has lost it?Full of hope you go to gather flowers in winter, and are grieved not to find any, and do not know why they cannot be found."

Sorrows of Werter. Volume second.
...Line 8.
"And drink delicious poison from thine eye."
Pope.
...SONNET XXII.line 1.
"I climb steep rocks, I break my way through copses, among thorns and briers which tear me to pieces, and I feel a little relief."
Sorrows of Werter. Volume first.
...SONNET XXIII.line 1.
"The greater Bear, favourite of all the constellations; for when I left you of an evening it used to shine opposite your window."
Sorrows of Werter. Volume second.
...SONNET XXIV.line 1.
"At the corner of the church‐yard which looks towards the fields, there are two lime treesit is there I wish to rest."
Sorrows of Werter. Volume second.
...SONNET XXV.line 1.
"May my death remove every obstacle to your

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happiness.Be at peace, I intreat you, be at peace."

Sorrows of Werter. Volume second.
...Line 11.
When worms shall feed on this devoted heart, Where even thy image shall be found no more.
From a line in Rousseau's Eloisa.
...SONNET XXVI.line 5.
For with the infant Otway, lingering here.
Otway was born at Trotten, a village in Sussex. Of Woolbeding, another village on the banks of the Arun (which runs through them both), his father was rector. Here it was therefore that he probably passed many of his early years. The Arun is here an inconsiderable stream, winding in a channel deeply worn, among meadow, heath, and wood.
...SONNET XXVII.line 4.
"Content, and careless of to‐morrow's fare."
Thomson.
...SONNET XXVIII.line 9.
"Balmy hand to bind."
Collins.
...SONNET XXX.line 6.
Bindwith.
The plant Clematis, Bindwith, Virgin's Bower, or Traveller's Joy, which, towards the end of June,

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begins to cover the hedges and sides of rocky hollows with its beautiful foliage, and flowers of a yellowish white, of an agreeable fragrance; these are succeeded by seed pods that bear some resemblance to feathers or hair, whence it is sometimes called Old Man's Beard.
...Line 9.
Banks, which inspired thy Otway's plaintive strain! Wilds,whose lorn echoes learn'd the deeper tone Of Collins' powerful shell!
Collins, as well as Otway, was a native of this country, and probably at some period of his life an inhabitant of this neighbourhood, since in his beautiful Ode on the death of Colonel Ross, he says,
"The muse shall still, with social aid, Her gentlest promise keep; E'en humble Harting's cottaged vale Shall learn the sad repeated tale, And bid her shepherds weep."
And in the Ode to Pity;
"Wild Arun too has heard thy strains, And Echo, 'midst thy native plains, Been soothed with Pity's lute."
...SONNET XXXI.line 2.
Alpine flowers.
An infinite variety of plants are found on these hills, particularly about this spot: many sorts of

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Orchis and Cistus of singular beauty, with several others.
SONNET XXXIII.line 9.
Thy natives.
Otway, Collins, Hayley.
...SONNET XLII.line 8.
The shrieking night‐jar sail on heavy wing.
The night‐jar or night hawk, a dark bird not so big as a rook, which is frequently seen of an evening on the downs. It has a short heavy flight, then rests on the ground, and again, uttering a mournful cry, flits before the traveller, to whom its appearance is supposed by the peasants to portend misfortune. As I have never seen it dead, I know not to what species it belongs.
...SONNET XLIV.line 7.
Middleton is a village on the margin of the sea, in Sussex, containing only two or three houses. There were formerly several acres of ground between its small church and the sea, which now, by its continual encroachments, approaches within a few feet of this half ruined and humble edifice. The wall, which once surrounded the church‐yard, is entirely swept away, many of the graves broken up, and the remains of bodies interred washed into the sea: whence human bones are found among the sand and shingles on the shore.

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...SONNET XLV.line 11.
The enthusiast of the lyre who wander'd here.
Collins.See note to Sonnet XXX.
...SONNET XLVI.line 8.
But where now clamours the discordant hern.
In the park at Penshurst is a heronry. The house is at present uninhabited, and the windows of the galleries and other rooms, in which there are many invaluable pictures, are never opened but when strangers visit it.
...Line 12.
Algernon Sidney.
...SONNET LI.line 4.
Ospray.
The sea‐eagle.
...SONNET LIV.line 12.
A sweet forgetfulness of human care.
Pope.
...SONNET LVII.line 7.
The larkthe shepherd's clock.
Shakspeare.

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...line 14.
"The mountain goddess, Liberty."
Milton.
...SONNET LVIII.line 8.
"Star of the earth."
Dr Darwin.
...Line 9.
"The moisten'd blade"
Walcot's beautiful Ode to the Glow‐worm.ELEGY.
This elegy is written on the supposition that an indigent young woman had been addressed by the son of a wealthy yeoman, who, resenting his attachment, had driven him from home, and compelled him to have recourse for subsistence to the occupation of a pilot, in which, in attempting to save a vessel in distress, he perished.
The father dying, a tomb is supposed to be erected to his memory in the church‐yard mentioned in Sonnet XLIV. And while a tempest is gathering, the unfortunate young woman comes thither; and courting the same death as had robbed her of her lover, she awaits its violence, and is at length overwhelmed by the waves.
...Verse 8. line 4.
And fruitless call on him 'who cannot hear.'

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"I fruitless mourn to him who cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain."
Gray's exquisite Sonnet;in reading which it is impossible not to regret that he wrote only one.
...THE ORIGIN OF FLATTERY.
This little poem was written almost extempore on occasion of a conversation where many pleasant things were said on the subject of flattery; and some French gentlemen who were of the party enquired for a synonym in English to the French word fleurette. The poem was inserted in the two first editions, and having been asked for by very respectable subscribers to the present, it is reprinted. The Sonnets have been thought too gloomy; and the author has been advised to insert some of a more cheerful cast. This poem may by others be thought too gay, and is indeed so little in unison with the present sentiments and feelings of its author, that it had been wholly omitted but for the respectable approbation of those to whose judgment she owed implicit deference.
...SONNET LXI.line 1.
Ill‐omen'd bird, whose cries portentous float.
This Sonnet, first inserted in the novel called the Old Manor House, is founded on a superstition attributed (vide Bertram's Travels in America) to the Indians, who believe that the cry of this night hawk (Caprimulgus Americanus) portends some evil, and when they are at war, assert that it is

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never heard near their tents or habitations but to announce the death of some brave warrior of their tribe, or some other calamity.
...SONNET LXII.
First published in the same work.
...SONNET LXIII.line 1.
O'er faded heath‐flowers spun, or thorny furze.
The web, charged with innumerable globules of bright dew, that is frequently on heaths and commons in autumnal mornings, can hardly have escaped the observation of any lover of nature. The slender web of the field spider is again alluded to in Sonnet LXXVII.
...SONNET LXIV.
First printed in the novel of "The Banished Man."
...SONNET LXV.
To the excellent friend and physician to whom these lines are addressed, I was obliged for the kindest attention, and for the recovery from one dangerous illness, of that beloved child whom a few months afterwards his skill and most unremitted and disinterested exertions could not save!
...SONNET LXVI.
Written on the coast of Sussex during very tempestuous weather in December 1791, but first published in the novel of Montalbert.

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...SONNET LXVII.
Printed in the same work.
...SONNET LXX.line 11.
He has "no nice felicities that shrink."
" 'Tis delicate felicity that shrinksWhen rocking winds are loud."
Walpole.
...SONNET LXXII.line 1.
Thee! "lucid arbiter 'twixt day and night."
Milton.
...SONNET LXXIII.line 5.
"Wilt thou yet murmur at a misplaced leaf?"
From a story (I know not where told) of a fastidious being, who, on a bed of rose leaves, complained that his or her rest was destroyed because one of those leaves was doubled.
...SONNET LXXIV.line 1.
"Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care."
Shakspeare.
...Line 5.
Murmuring I hear The hollow wind around the ancient towers.
These lines were written in a residence among ancient public buildings.

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...SONNET LXXV.
First published in the novel of Marchmont.
...SONNET LXXVI.line 5.
The base control Of petty despots in their pedant reign Already hast thou felt;
This was not addressed to my son, who suffered with many others in an event which will long be remembered by those parents who had sons at a certain public school, in 1793, but to another young man, not compelled as he was, in consequence of that dismission, to abandon the fairest prospects of his future life.
...SONNET LXXVII.line 1.
Small, viewless aeronaut, &c. &c.
The almost imperceptible threads floating in the air, towards the end of summer or autumn, in a still evening, sometimes are so numerous as to be felt on the face and hands. It is on these that a minute species of spider convey themselves from place to place; sometimes rising with the wind to a great height in the air. Dr Lister, among other naturalists, remarked these insects. "To fly they cannot strictly be said, they being carried into the air by external force; but they can, in case the wind suffer them, steer their course, perhaps mount and descend at pleasure: and to the purpose of rowing themselves along in the air, it is observable that they ever take their flight backwards, that

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is, their head looking a contrary way like a sculler upon the Thames. It is scarcely credible to what height they will mount; which is yet precisely true, and a thing easily to be observed by one that shall fix his eye some time on any part of the heavens, the white web, at a vast distance, very distinctly appearing from the azure sky.But this is in autumn only, and that in very fair and calm weather."
From the Encyclop. Britan.
Dr Darwin, whose imagination so happily applies every object of natural history to the purposes of poetry, makes the goddess of Botany thus direct her Sylphs

"Thin clouds of Gossamer in air display, And hide the vale's chaste lily from the ray."
These filmy threads form a part of the equipage of Mab:

"Her waggon spokes are made of spiders' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, The traces of the smallest spider's web."
Juliet, too, in anxiously waiting for the silent arrival of her lover, exclaims,

"Oh! so light of foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint; A lover may bestride the gossamer That idles in the wanton summer air, And yet not fall"
...SONNET LXXIX.To the goddess of Botany.
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as Milton wishes, in Il Penseroso,
"Of every herb that sips the dew,"
seems to be a resource for the sick at heartfor those who, from sorrow or disgust, may without affectation say
"Society is nothing to one not sociable!"
and whose wearied eyes and languid spirits find relief and repose amid the shades of vegetable nature.I cannot now turn to any other pursuit that for a moment soothes my wounded mind.
"Je pris gout a cette récreation des yeux, qui dans l'infortune, repose, amuse, distrait l'esprit, et suspend le sentiment des peines."
Thus speaks the singular, the unhappy Rousseau, when in his "Promenades" he enumerates the causes that drove him from the society of men, and occasioned his pursuing with renewed avidity the study of Botany. "I was," says he, "Forcé de m'abstenir de penser, de peur de penser a mes malheurs malgré moi; forcé de contenir les restes d'une imagination riante, mais languissante, que tant d'angoisses pourroient effaroucher a la fin"
Without any pretensions to these talents which were in him so heavily taxed with that excessive irritability, too often, if not always the attendant on genius, it has been my misfortune to have endured real calamities that have disqualified me for finding any enjoyment in the pleasures and pursuits which occupy the generality of the world. I have been engaged in contending with persons whose cruelty has left so painful an impression on my mind, that I may well say

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"Brillantes fleurs, émail des pres, ombrages frais, bosquets, verdure, venez purifier mon imagination de teus ces hideux objets!"

Perhaps, if any situation is more pitiable than that which compels us to wish to escape from the common business and forms of life, it is that where the sentiment is forcibly felt, while it cannot be indulged; and where the sufferer, chained down to the discharge of duties from which the wearied spirit recoils, feels like the wretched Lear, when Shakspeare makes him exclaim

"Oh! I am bound upon a wheel of fire, Which my own tears do scald like melted lead."
...SONNET LXXX.To the Invisible Moon.
I know not whether this is correctly expressed I suspect that it is not.What I mean, however, will surely be understoodI address the Moon when not visible at night in our hemisphere.
"The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon When she deserts the night, Hid in her secret interlunar cave."
Milton, Samps. Agon.
...SONNET LXXXI.
First printed in a publication for the use of young persons, called "Rambles Farther."
...Line 6.
Where briony and woodbine fringe the trees.

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Briony, Bryonia dioica, foliis palmatis, &c. White Briony, growing plentifully in woods and hedges, and twisting around taller plants.
Line 8.
"Murmur their fairy tunes in praise of flowers,"
a line taken, I believe, from a poem called "Vacuna," printed in Dodsley's collection.
SONNET LXXXII.To the Shade of Burns.
Whoever has tasted the charm of original genius so evident in the composition of this genuine poet,
A poet "of nature's own creation,"
cannot surely fail to lament his unhappy life, (latterly passed, as I have understood, in an employment to which such a mind as his must have been averse,) nor his premature death. For one, herself made the object of subscription, is it proper to add, that whoever has thus been delighted with the wild notes of the Scottish bard, must have a melancholy pleasure in relieving by their benevolence, the unfortunate family he has left?
...Line 14."Enjoys the liberty it loved"Pope.
...SONNET LXXXIII.line 1.
The upland shepherd, as reclined he lies.
Suggested by the recollection of having seen, some years since, on a beautiful evening of summer,

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an engagement between two armed ships, from the high Down called the Beacon Hill, near Brighthelmstone.
...SONNET LXXXIV.line 15.
Haply may'st thou one sorrowing vigil keep, Where Pity and Remembrance bend and weep.
"Where melancholy friendship bends and weeps."
Gray.
...THE DEAD BEGGAR.
I have been told that I have incurred blame for having used in this short composition, terms that have become obnoxious to certain persons. Such remarks are hardly worth notice; and it is very little my ambition to obtain the suffrage of those who suffer party prejudice to influence their taste; or of those who desire that because they have themselves done it, every one else should be willing to sell their best birth‐rights, the liberty of thought, and of expressing thought, for the promise of a mess of pottage.
It is surely not too much to say, that in a country like ours, where such immense sums are annually raised for the poor, there ought to be some regulation which should prevent any miserable deserted being from perishing through want, as too often happens to such objects as that on whose interment these stanzas were written.
It is somewhat remarkable that a circumstance exactly similar is the subject of a short poem called

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the Pauper's Funeral, in a volume lately published by Mr Southey.
...THE FEMALE EXILE.
This little poem, of which a sketch first appeared in blank verse in a poem called "The Emigrants," was suggested by the sight of the group it attempts to describea French lady and her children. The drawing from which the print is taken I owe to the taste and talents of a lady, whose pencil has bestowed the highest honor this little book can boast.
...OCCASIONAL ADDRESS.WRITTEN FOR A PLAYER.Line 4.
The becca‐fica seeks Italian groves, No more a wheat‐ear
From an idea that the wheat‐ear of the southern Downs is the becca‐fica of Italy. I doubt it; but have no books that give me any information on the subject.
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A hero now, and now a sans culotte.
At this time little else was talked of.
...Last line.
For though he plough the sea when others sleep, He draws, like Glendower, spirits from the deep.
"Glen. I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

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Hotsp. But will they come when you do call for them?"

Shakespeare.

The spirits that animate the night voyages of the Sussex fishermen are often sunk in their kegs, on any alarm from the Custom‐House officers; and being attached to a buoy, the adventurers go out when the danger of detection is over, and draw them up. A coarse sort of white brandy which they call moonshine, is a principal article of this illegal commerce.
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His lisping children hail their sire's return.
"No children run to lisp their sire's return."
Gray.
...Line 20.
And the campaign concludes, perhaps, at Horsham.
At Horsham is the county jail.
...Line 24.
And soft, celestial mercy, doubly bless'd.
"It is twice blessed, It blesseth him that gives and him that takes."
Shakspeare.
...DESCRIPTIVE ODE.
The singular scenery here attempted to be described, is almost the only part of this rock of stones worth seeing. On a high broken cliff hang the ruins of some very ancient building, which the

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people of the island call Bow and Arrow Castle, or Rufus' Castle. Beneath, but still high above the sea, are the half‐fallen arches and pillars of an old church, and around are scattered the remains of tomb‐stones, and almost obliterated memorials of the dead. These verses were written for, and first inserted in, a Novel, called Marchmont; and the close alludes to the circumstance of the story related in the Novel.
...VERSES
Supposed to have been written in the New Forest
in early Spring.These are from the Novel of Marchmont.Line 1.
As in the woods where leathery lichen weaves Its wintry web among the sallow leaves.
Mosses and lichens are the first efforts of Nature to clothe the earth: as they decay, they form an earth that affords nourishment to the larger and more succulent vegetables: several species of lichen are found in the woods, springing up among the dead leaves, under the drip of forest trees; these, and the withered foliage of preceding years, afford shelter to the earliest wild flowers about the skirts of woods, and in hedge‐rows and copses.
The Pile‐wort (Ranuncula Ficaria) and the Wood Anemone (Anemone Nemerosa) or Windflower, blow in the woods and copses. Of this latter beautiful species there is in Oxfordshire a blue one, growing wild, (Anemone pratensis pedunculo

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involucrato, petalis apice reflexis foliis bipinnatis Lin. Sp. Pl. 760.) It is found in Whichwood Forest, near Cornbury quarry. (Vide Flora Oxoniensis). I do not mention this by way of exhibiting botanical knowledge (so easy to possess in appearance) but because I never saw the Blue Anemone wild in any other place, and it is a flower of singular beauty and elegance.
...Line 11.
Uncultured bells of azure Jacynths blow.
Hyacinthus non scriptusa Hare‐bell.
...Line 12.
And the breeze‐scenting Violet lurks below.
To the Violet there needs no note, it being like the nightingale and the rose, in constant requisition by the poets.
...SONG.FROM THE FRENCH.
A free translation of a favourite French song.
"Un jour me demandoit Hortense Ou se trouve le tendre amour?"
...APOSTROPHETO AN OLD TREE.
The philosophy of these few lines may not be very correct, since mosses are known to injure the stems and branches of trees to which they adhere;

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but the images of Poetry cannot always be exactly adjusted to objects of Natural History.
...Line 4.
fronds of studded moss.
The foliage, if it may be so called, of this race of plants, is termed fronds; and their flowers, or fructification, assume the shapes of cups and shields; of those of this description, more particularly adhering to trees, is Lichen Pulmonarius; Lungwort Lichen, with shields; the Lichen Caperatus, with red cups; and many others which it would look like pedantry to enumerate.
...Line 9.
The Woodbine and the Clematis are well known plants, ornamenting our hedge‐rows in summer with fragrant flowers.
...Line 12.
Nightshade, (Solanum Lignosum) woody Nightshade, is one of the most beautiful of its tribe.
...Line 13.
The silver weed, whose corded fillets wove.
The silver weed, Convolvulus Major (Raii Syn. 275) or greater Bind‐weed, which, however the beauty of the flowers may enliven the garden or the wilds, is so prejudicial to the gardener and farmer that it is seen by them with dislike equal to the difficulty of extirpating it from the soil. Its cord‐like stalks, plaited together, can hardly be forced from the branches round which they have twined themselves.

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...THE FOREST BOY.
Late circumstances have given rise to many mournful histories like this, which may well be said to be founded in truth! I, who have been so sad a sufferer in this miserable contest, may well endeavour to associate myself with those who apply what powers they have to deprecate the horrors of war. Gracious God! will mankind never be reasonable enough to understand that all the miseries which our condition subjects us to, are light in comparison of what we bring upon ourselves, by indulging the folly and wickedness of those who make nations destroy each other for their diversion, or to administer to their senseless ambition.
If the stroke of war Fell certain on the guilty head, none else If they that make the cause might taste th' effect, And drink themselves the bitter cup they mix; Then might the bard (the child of peace) delight To twine fresh wreaths around the conqueror's brow; Or haply strike his high‐toned harp, to swell The trumpet's martial sound, and bid them on When Justice arms for vengeance; but, alas! That undistinguishing and deathful storm Beats heaviest on the exposed and innocent; And they that stir its fury, while it raves, Safe and at distance, send their mandates forth Unto the mortal ministers that wait To do their bidding!
Crowe.
I have in these stanzas, entitled the Forest Boy, attempted the measure so successfully adopted in

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one of the poems of a popular novel, and so happily imitated by Mr Southey in "Poor Mary."
...ODE TO THE POPPY.
This and the following poem were written (the first of them at my request, for a Novel) by a lady whose death in her thirty‐sixth year was a subject of the deepest concern to all who knew her.
Would to God the last line which my regret on that loss, drew from me, had been propheticand that my heart had indeed been cold, instead of having suffered within the next twelve months after that line was written, a deprivation which has rendered my life a living death.
...APRIL.Line 4.From their moss'd cradles, &c.
The oak, and, in sheltered situations, the beech, retain the leaves of the preceding year till the new foliage appears.
The return of the spring, which awakens many to new sentiments of pleasure, now serves only to remind me of past misery.
This sensation is common to the wretchedand too many poets have felt it in all its force.
"Zefiro torno, e'l bel tempo rimena, E i fiori, e l'erbe, sua dolce famiglia; &c. &c. "Ma per me lasso!"
Petrarch on the Death of Laura.

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And these lines of Guarini have always been celebrated.
"O primavera gioventù dell' anno, Bella madre di fiori D'erbe noveile e di novelli amori; Tu torni ben, ma teco Non tornano i sereni E fortunati di, delle mie gioje; Tu torni ben, tu torni, Ma teco altro non torna Che del perduto mio caro tesoro, La rimembranza misera e dolente."
...ODE TO DEATH.
From the following sentence in Lord Bacon's Essays.
"Death is no such formidable enemy, since a man has so many champions about him that can win the combat of himRevenge triumphs over Death; Love slights it; Honour courts it; dread of Disgrace chooses it; Grief flies to it; Fear anticipates it."

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