British Poets. Riverside Ed (Volume 10)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1879. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... -- ccelo descendit yvudi aeavrov--Juvesai, tViflt oeavTfo!--and is this the prime And heaven-sprung adage of the olden time ?-- Say, canst thou make thyself?--Learn first that trade;-- Haply thou mayst know what thyself had made. What hast thou, Man, that thou dar'st call thine own ?-- What is there in thee, Man, that can be known ?-- Dark fluxion, all unflxable by thought, A phantom dim of past and future wrought, Vain sister of the worm, --life, death, soul, clod-- Ignore thyself, and strive to know thy God 1 TO THE YOUNG ARTIST, KAYSER OF KAYSERWERTH. KaysKb! to whom, as to a second self, Nature, or Nature's next-of-kin, the TClf Hight Genius, hath dispensed the happy skill To cheer or soothe the parting friend's Alas! Turning the blank scroll to a magic glass, That makes the absent present at our will; And to the shadowing of thy pencil gives Such seeming substance, that it almost lives. Well hast thou given the thoughtful Poet's face! Yet hast thou on the tablet of his mind A more delightful portrait left behind-- Ev'n thy own youthful beauty, and artless grace, Thy natural gladness and eyes bright with glee! Kayser farewell! Be wise ! be happy I and forget not me. MY BAPTISMAL BIRTH-DAY. God's child in Christ adopted, --Christ my all, -- What that earth boasts were not lost cheaply, rather Than forfeit that blest name, by which I call The Holy One, the Almighty God, my Father ?-- Father! in Christ we live, and Christ in Thee-- Eternal Thou, and everlasting we. The heir of heaven, henceforth I fear not death: In Christ I live! in Christ I draw the breath Of the true life !--Let then earth, sea, and sky Make war against me! On my front I show Their mighty master's seal. In vain they try To end my life, that can but end its woe.-- Is that a death-be...