1362 1363 1364 1365 deren holdes Gebild still aus der Ferne mir winkt; silbergrau bezeichnet dir früh der Schnee nun die Gipfel, der sich in stürmender Nacht dir um den Scheitel ergoss. Jugend ach! ist dem Alter so nah, durch's Leben verbunden, wie ein beweglicher Traum Gestern und Heute verband. J. W. VON GOETHE UPON A CHILD THAT DYED HERE she lies, a pretty bud, lately made of flesh and blood, who as soone fell fast asleep, UPON CUPID S lately I a garland bound As R. HERRICK 'mongst roses, I there Cupid found; ALL ALL THINGS DECAY AND DIE R. HERRICK LL things decay with time: the forrest sees the growth and downfall of her aged trees: that timber tall, which threescore lusters stood the proud dictator of the state-like wood; I mean the soveraigne of all plants, the oke droops, dies, and falls without the cleavers stroke. WHE R. HERRICK HEN the rack of the winter is rolled away, and summer comes in with her garland of May, I cried, 'Lovely season, how pleased shall I see the friend of my bosom returning with thee!' 1366 With thee she returns not-Oh, how shall I bear the breath of thy fragrance that whispers despair; with thee she returns not-her death-bed has tolled, and every fond hope in my bosom is cold! W. L. BOWLES INSCRIPTION ON AN ÆOLIAN HARP HAIL, heavenly harp, where Memnon's skill is shewn that charm'st the ear with music all thine own, which tho' untouched can'st rapturous strains impart! O rich of genuine nature, free from art! such the wild warblings of the sylvan throng, so simply sweet the untaught virgin's song. C. SMART 1367 AM FLUSSE 1368 1369 VERFI ́ERFLIESSET viel geliebte Lieder A THE DEW-DROP J. F. G. SCHILLER PEARLY dewdrop see some flower adorn, and grace with tender beam the rising morn; but soon the sun permits a fiercer ray, ON ROBERT EMMETT LORD BYRON BREATHE not his name, let it sleep in the shade, where cold and unhonoured his relics are laid; 1370 sad, silent and dark be the tears that we shed, But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, T% THE MOUSE AND THE MISER T. MOORE 'O a Mouse says a miser, 'My dear Mr Mouse, says the mouse, 'Mr Miser, pray keep yourself quiet, C. SMART 1371THE ROCK OF RUBIES AND THE QUARRIE OF PEARLS 1372 1373 COME asked me where the rubies grew; SOME and nothing I did say, but with my finger pointed to the lips of Julia. Some asked how pearls did grow and where; then spoke I to my girle to part her lips, and shewed them there CUPID AND THE ROSES R. HERRICK VENUS a garden had with roses decked, VEN her joy; which none could see and not affect; her son here plucking flowers his head t' adorn, prick'd his white finger with a piercing thorn; blood from his hand, tears dropping from his eyes, to his fair mother running, thus he cries; 'Who arm'd the rose with these blood-thirsty spears, 'gainst me he wars, and yet my colours bears.' T. STANLEY 1374 1375 her trembling pennant still looked back from all the links that bind us; T. MOORE WHA VERTUE HAT one art thou, thus in torne weede yclad? Vertue, in price whom ancient sages had: why poorely clad? for fading goods past care: why double-faced? I marke each fortunes rare: this bridle what? mindes rages to restraine: why beare you tooles? I love to take great paine: why wings? I teach above the starres to flie: why treade you death? I onely cannot die. T. WYATT ELEGY 1376 WHAT HAT can atone, O ever-injured shade, No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear BEAUTY ET us use it whilst we may; LE snatch those joys that haste away: earth her winter coat may cast A. POPE 1377 and renew her beauty past; but, our winter come, in vain we solicit spring again; and when our furrows snow shall cover, R. FANSHAWE from Guarini HYLVS UI dormire paras, nocturna silentia noli quaerere nec strepitum praetereuntis aquae: 1378 1379 1380 nec volucrum, nec quos edit lyra tinnula cantus, A. JONSTON ADVERSITY THE TRUE TEST Of friendsHIP LCUN non puo saper da chi sia amato, pero c'ha i veri, e i finti amici a lato, INCOGNITA NE TVRBENT L. ARIOSTO PARCE, homo, de rebus nimium trepidare caducis, nec te vestitûs cura cibique premat: vive probus, coelique memor: nec scire labores, 'OME, shepherds, follow me! COM run up apace the mountain! see! loe beside the fountain Love laid to rest-how sweetly sleepeth he! O take heed, come not nigh him! but haste we hence and fly him: and, lovers, dance with gladness for, while Love sleeps, is truce with care and sadness. 1381 SEGEN U bist wie eine Blume Dhold und schön und rein; |