1382 ich schau dich an, und wehmuth CONTENT H. HEINE 1383 1384 HOMELY hearts do harbour quiet, fear and mickle solace: states suspect their bed and diet; R EPITAPH T. LODGE EADER! if to thy bosom cling the pain of recent sorrow combated in vain; or if thy cherished grief hath failed to thwart lulling the mourner's best good thoughts asleep, bear with him, judge him gently, who makes known his bitter loss by this memorial Stone; and pray, that in his faithful breast the grace W. WORDSWORTH THE SNOWDROP OENEATH the chilling air when I behold languid head: when I behold thee drooping, pale and cold, and sorrowing for thy vernal sisters dead; methinks I mark in thee the child of woe, exposed to hardship from his earliest birth, bending beneath the wintry storms that blow, his only portion a rude spot of earth; yet sure, like thine, meek flow'r, his spring draws near, and Heaven's sweet sunshine shall inhale each tear. W. SCROPE 1385 UPON A MAID THAT DYED THE DAY SHE WAS 1386 MARRYED HAT morne which saw me made a bride THAT the evening witnest that I dy'd: those holy lights, wherewith they guide unto the bed the bashfull bride, served but as tapers for to burne A TO LAURELS FUNERALL stone, or verse, I covet none; but onely crave of you, that I may have R. HERRICK a sacred laurel springing from my grave: which being seen, blest with perpetuall greene, may grow to be not so much called a tree, as the eternall monument of me. R. HERRICK 1387 EPITAPH ON MISS DRUMMOND IN BRODSWORTH CHURCH, YORKSHIRE HERE sleeps what once was beauty, once was grace; grace that with tenderness and sense combined to form that harmony of soul and face, where beauty shines the mirror of the mind. W. MASON 1388 1389 ON AN INFANT WHO DIED HOU camest into this world a little spy; and eye were set before thee; but thou found'st them toys, SIR J. BEAUMONT WOULD that I were nigh her, wherever she rest or rove! my spirit waves as a spiral fire in a viewless wind doth move. Go forth, alone, go forth, wild-wing'd Desire, that broodest lone by the Olympian throne; O. MEREDITH 1390 1391 EPITAPH ON MICHAEL DRAYTON O, pious marble, let thy readers know children we to Drayton's name; whose sacred dust Protect his memory, and preserve his story, PART II § 32 BEN JONSON 1392 G LAUCOPIS forsakes her own, E. BULWER LYTTON 1393 TRUTH DELIVERED FROM THE DUNGEON THR HREE furies fell, which turn the world to ruth, both Envy, Strife and Slander here appear; in dungeon dark they long inclosed Truth, but Time at length did loose his daughter dear, and sets aloft that sacred lady bright, who things long hid reveals, and brings to light. Though Strife make fire, though Envy eat her heart, the innocent though Slander rend and spoil: yet Time will come, and take this lady's part, and break her bonds, and bring her foes to foil. Despair not then, though Truth be hidden oft, because at length she shall be set aloft. G. WHITNEY 1394 M. LE DUC DE NIVERNOIS TO MADAME LA MA RESCHALE DE MIREPOIX, WHO HAD SENT HIM SOME UOI! vous parlez de cheveuz blancs? que nous importe son ravage? et les graces sont de tout age. quand je vous offre mon homage: 1395 si je n'avais que dix-huit ans, CLA THE TRIUMPH OVER DEATH 'LARA ducum soboles, superis nova sedibus hospes, clausit inoffenso tramite pura diem: dotibus ornavit, superavit moribus ortum, 1396 R. SOUTHWELL VENUS TO PARIS N hell there is a tree IN where once a day do sleep the souls of false forsworen lovers, with open hearts, and there about in swarms the number hovers of poor forsaken ghosts, whose wings from off this tree do beat round drops of fiery Phlegethon to scorch false hearts with heat. This pain did Venus and her son entreat the prince of hell t' impose to such as faithless were to such as lov'd them well. And therefore this, my lovely boy, fair Venus doth advise thee, be true and stedfast in thy love, beware thou do disguise thee: for he that makes but love a jest, when pleaseth him to start, shall feel those fiery water-drops consume his faith less heart. G. PEELE |