A MOTHER ON THE DEATH OF HER SON. Ан! dear hapless boy, art thou gone? Ere thy youth had attain'd its gay bloom! When it set in the night of the tomb. Alas! the fresh beam of the day Happy mortals with thankfulness see; But I sicken, O sun, at thy ray: It brings sadness and wailing to me! Oh! might the dear child but return, From despair his lost mother to save! Or might I but share in his urn! Might I flee in his arms to the grave! LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM. WAKEFIELD. HOME. CLING to thy home! If there the meanest shed LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM. BLAND. ANACREONTIC. THE laughing women call me old, And leave it to the will of Fate. Still, as my ebbing days decline, I'll make the most of my short hours, Be bathed in odours, crown'd with flowers, And drown old care in floods of wine. PALLADAS. M. CONJUGAL AFFECTION. Gave covert from the noontide blaze, Hang on my strength while yet I live, ANTIPATER. BLAND. ON THE DEATH OF HELIODORA. THESE tears be thine, O lost in early bloom! Yes, my dead Heliodora, ever dear! Long, long for thee shall Meleager grieve; Still shall thy shade, while yet he lingers here, These empty gifts to Acheron receive. Ah! where is now my lovely blossom? torn, MELEAGER. F. LAURENCE. MUSIC AND BEAUTY. By the God of Arcadia, so sweet are the notes That tremulous fall from my Rhodope's lyre, Such melody swells in her voice, as it floats On the soft midnight air, that my soul is on fire. Oh where can I fly? the young Cupids around me Gaily spread their light wings, all my footsteps pursuing; [me, Her eyes dart a thousand fierce lustres to wound And Music and Beauty conspire my undoing. MELEAGER. M. YE gods! how easily the good man bears And weak lamenting makes our sorrows worse. ANAXANDRIDES. M. LOVE UNEXTINGUISHED BY AGE. Oн, how I loved, when, like the glorious sun Firing the orient with a blaze of light, Thy beauty every lesser star outshone !Now o'er that beauty steals the approach of nightYet, yet I love! though in the western sea Half sunk, the day-star still is fair to me! FUNERAL HONOURS. OH, think not that, with garlands crown'd, Or blushing roses scatter round To mock the paleness of the dead! What though we drain the fragrant bowl, Feign'd is the pleasure that appears, We inly mourn; o'er flowery plains UNCERTAIN. BLAND. THE HOPE OF IMMORTALİTY. Fled to the peaceful islands of the bless'd, |