Dost love sweet Hyacinth? Its scented leaf Curls manifold,-all love's delights blow double : 'Tis said this flow'ret is inscribed with grief,— But let that hint of a forgotten trouble. I pluck'd the Primrose at night's dewy noon; Like Hope, it show'd its blossoms in the night; 'Twas, like Endymion, watching for the Moon! And here are Sun-flowers, amorous of light! These golden Buttercups are April's seal,- Here's Daisies for the morn, Primrose for gloom, THE FORSAKEN. THE dead are in their silent graves, And the dew is cold above, And the living weep and sigh, Over dust that once was love. Once I only wept the dead, But now the living cause my pain : How couldst thou steal me from my tears, To leave me to my tears again? My mother rests beneath the sod,- I wish'd that she could see our loves,- Last night unbound my raven locks, The morning saw them turn'd to gray, Once they were black and well beloved, But thou art changed-and so are they! The useless lock I gave thee once, Was ta'en with smiles,-but this was torn In sorrow that I send to thee! AUTUMN. THE Autumn is old, Old age, begin sighing! The vintage is ripe, But some that have sow'd The year's in the wane, The night has no eve, And the day has no morning ; Cold winter gives warning. The rivers run chill, The red sun is sinking, And I am grown old, And life is fast shrinking; Here's enow for sad thinking! ODE TO MELANCHOLY. COME, let us set our careful breasts, The world!-it is a wilderness, Where tears are hung on every tree; For thus my gloomy phantasy Makes all things weep with me! Come let us sit and watch the sky, Except sweet nightingale; for she Why shines the sun, except that he Let clay wear smiles, and green grass wave, Whilst man is made of his own grave, I saw my mother in her shroud, Ay, let us think of Him a while, |