PROGRESS OF POESY. THEE the voice, the dance obey, The rosy-crowned Loves are seen, On Cytherea's day, With antic sports and blue-eyed Pleasures, Frisking light in frolic measures; Now pursuing, now retreating, Now in circling troops they meet: Glance their many-twinkling feet. Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare : In gliding state she wins her easy way: O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love. GRAY. AD POESIN. TE Vox, te sequitur chorus, Ludis juncta decentibus: Tum nudo viriden pulsat humum pede Incedunt, celeres mox revocant gradus, Occurrunt, hilares dum resonant modi, Adventum Veneris carmine languido Lenti significant soni; Sublatis manibus Diva per æthera Molli tendit iter via; Pulcher purpuream vibrat Amor facem, Læti et flamma Cupidinis Matris perque genas perque sinum movet. J. W. D. THEIR GROVES O' SWEET MYRTLE. THEIR groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Though rich is the breeze in their gay sunny valleys, Their sweet-scented woodlands that skirt the proud palace, The slave's spicy forests and gold-bubbling fountains He wanders as free as the winds of his mountains- BURNS. BARNABY BRIGHT. BARNABY BRIGHT he was a sharp cur; He would make a great noise if a mouse did but stir; GAMMER GURTON. AD JOANNAM. SUAVIA laudabunt alii myrteta coloni, Qua nitidis ridet solibus auctus odor: Carior illa humilis frondet mihi silva genistæ, Rideat æstivis peregrina in vallibus aura; Silva quid est, celsas redolens quæ suspicit ædes?— Aurifluos Scotus fontes et odora vireta, B. H. K. BARNABÆOCANDIDUS. BARNABÆOCANDIDUS Molossus acer erat, H. D. PEACE. I HAVE found Peace in the bright earth, By the low voice of summer seas, I find it in the quiet tone By the flickering of a twilight fire, I find it in the silent flow In calm half-meditated dreams, But seldom have I found such Peace, If gems we seek, we only tire, The constant flowers that line our way ALFORD. THE GRENADIER. WHO comes here?-A grenadier. GAMMER GURTON. |