園 34 66 THE HEAVIEST RAINING IS THE BRIEFEST SHOWER."-BEDDOES. THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES. Leads down the animating fire of heaven To the world's use. That instrument is broken, And in another sphere the spirit works, [From "Dramatic Scenes and Fragments."] A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT. JOW lovely is the heaven of this night, How deadly still its earth! The forest brute Has crept into his grave, and laid himself Where sleep has made him harmless like the lamb. A NIGHT SCENE. HE lake, like her, heaves gently Its breast of waves under a heaven of sleep, And pictures, in its soothed, transparent being, A silver promise of the moon is breathed : A SILVER PROMISE OF THE MOON IS BREATHED. -BEDDOES. MEDITATING UNIVERSE, A BRIEF PARENTHESIS IN CHAOS."-THOMAS L. BEDDOES. 66 TO ITS OWN YOUNG BUDS, AND THE WOOING GALE, THE LILY OF THE VALLEY. And the light veil of hieroglyphic clouds Revealing the deep dream of Alpine heights, Out of the sun's grave underneath the world. [From "Dramatic Scenes and Fragments."] 35 "EVER LOVE THE LILY PALE, THE FLOWER OF LADIES BREASTS ;-(THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES) "FOR THERE IS PASSION ON ITS CHEEK, ITS LEAVES A TIMOROUS SORROW SPEAK."-BEDDOES. ITS PETALS, BRIMMED WITH COOL SWEET AIR, -(BEDDOES) WILLIAM COX BENNETT For that flower so meek and low, Unpitying Winter's doom, Vain is all its prayer ; With its ring of toying flowers: Unrelenting they must kill With their scornful breath; For the very petals fair, Which the destined flower uncloses In its innocence, To plead for its defence, By the prophecy they bear Of the coming roses, Sign the warrant for its death. [From "Poems: by the late T. L. Beddoes," edit, 1851.] "IT IS NO EARTHLY COMMON FLOWER FOR MAN TO PULL, AND MAIDENS WEAR (BEDDOES) William Cox Bennett. [WILLIAM COX BENNETT was born at Greenwich in 1820; educated at a parish school; and has since been engaged in business. He has attained deserved popularity as a writer of graceful songs, and as the poet of childhood; childish ways and little children being the subject of some of his most successful effusions. A collective edition of his poems appeared in 1862, comprising "Queen Eleanor's Vengeance," "Baby May," "War Songs," ," "The Worn Wedding-Ring," "Our Glory Roll," and numerous miscellaneous strains. He has recently been honoured with the degree of LL.D.] ARE CHASTE AS WORDS OF A VIRGIN'S PRAYER."-BEDDOES. ON THE WREATHED MIDNIGHT OF THEIR HAIR-DEEP AFFECTION IS ITS DOWN."-BEDdoes. "HOW STRANGE ARE THE FREAKS OF DREAMS!-HOW QUAINTLY THE MOCKING night-(benNNETT) "O THE WILD, WILD WINDS HAVE VOICES SPRING SONG. 37 SPRING SONG. OW do tawny bees, along, Plundering sweets from blossoms, hum; Now do showers of joyous song Everything Now doth sing, Welcome gladness-welcome Spring! Now, above, and all around, Every sound is mocking care; Everything Now doth sing, Welcome gladness-welcome Spring! Now is every hawthorn bough Welcome sunshine-welcome Spring! Now do golden lizards lie, Sunning them, on wayside banks; This they say, Welcome gladness--welcome May! THAT ONLY A WIFE'S EARS HEAR."-BENNETT. WEAVES THAT WHICH IS, WITH THAT WHICH SEEMS, TO CHEAT OUR SLEEPING SIGHT."-BENNETT, |