Ladies, well I deem, delight In comely tire to move; Soft, and delicate, and bright, Are the robes they love. Silks, where hues alternate play,

Fair Cousin, thy page is small to encage the thoughts which engage the mind of a sage, such as I am;

WHEN mirth is full and free, Some sudden gloom shall be; When haughty power mounts high, The Watcher’s axe is nigh. All growth has bound; when greates…

Weep not for me;— Be blithe as wont, nor tinge with… The stream of love that circles ho… Light hearts and free! Joy in the gifts Heaven’s bounty…

ONCE, as I brooded o’er my guilt… A fever seized me, duties to devis… To buy me interest in my Saviour’… Not that His love I would extenua… But scourge and penance, masterful…

I am a harp of many chords, and ea… Strung by a separate hand;—most mu… My notes, discoursing with the men… Not the outward ear. Try them, th… With wisdom, fancy, graceful gaiet…

Prune thou thy words; the thoughts… That o’er thee swell and throng;— They will condense within thy soul… And change to purpose strong. But he who lets his feelings run

TODAY the Blessed Three in One Began the earth and skies; Today a Conqueror, God the Son, Did from the grave arise; We too will wake, and, in despite

SHE is not gone;—still in our sig… That dearest maid shall live, In form as true, in tints as brigh… As youth and health could give. Still, still is ours the modest ey…

MAN is permitted much To scan and learn In Nature’€™s frame; Till he well-nigh can tame Brute mischiefs, and can touch

Let the sun summon all his beams t… Bright pageant in his court, the c… Earth trim her fields and leaf her… Till the dull month with summer-sp… It is my Birthday;—and I fain wou…

‘Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscer… Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile… Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Ac… IN childhood, when with eager eye… The season-measured year I view’d…

O that Thou wouldest rend the bre… That veils Thy presence from the… O that, as erst Thou camest from… Sudden in strength, Thou so would… Track’d out by judgments was Thy…

There is in stillness oft a magic… To calm the breast, when strugglin… Touch’d by its influence, in the s… Diviner feelings, kindred with the… By this the Arab’s kindling thoug…