Poems and Miscellaneous Essays

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 edition. Excerpt: ...its joys forego? Because its joys I transiently ran o'er, And found once tasted, such 'were joys no more. You, who in youth, your Wild Oats have not sown, Bear crops of vice, which never can be mown. Odious they seem in age's furrow'd brow, Nor e'er can meet the suffrage I claim now. LINES WRITTEN WITH THE RUSH, WHICH WHILST GREEN, MAY BE MADE INTO A PEN; AND SENT WITH THE PEN INCLOSED, TO A BOTANIC FRIEND WHO WISHED FOR A SPECIMEN. IMPROMPTU. Absent from her he lov'd, a shepherd swain, To winds, and echo told his am'rous pain. Oh! to my fair, my sighs, he cried convey-- The breeze grew faint, and echo died away.--The fond remembrances my bosom knows, Teach me, some sacred power! to disclose. Sudden the green rush from the earth he drew, And pens Love's flow'r express'd the purple hue. The pliant bark-J-receiv'd his vows of truth, And equal constancy rewards the youth. Thus Love, his faithful votaries inspires With wilder genius, and sublimer fires! Viola, t The bark of the birch tree may be written upon. LINES ON READING A MOST EXCELLENT ESSAY ON THE APPLICATION OF THE WORD ROMANTIC. Yes! I will woo thee to my breast, Where thou may'st aye securely dwell! I fear thee not, romantic guest, So throw around my heart thy spell: Were I thy influence to define, I'd say thou did'st exalt--refine, The soul to love whatever is divine! The envious little mind I do beshrew, Which what it understands not, will deride; And with less mercy, on the exalted/r-a/ Who differ from the many, will decide. Yet as we value most, That which is truly rare, To differ from the throng should be our boast, And to be singularly good our care. Madame Oenlis makes the following beautiful remark on this subject....