A springy motion in her gait, I know not by what name beside Her parents held the Quaker rule A waking eye, a prying mind, A heart that stirs, is hard to bind ; My sprightly neighbour! gone before Charles Lamb. CCCII. My Lilla gave me yestermorn "Since this sweet rose I owe to you, Dear girl, why may I not possess Unknown. CCCIII. MARGARET AND DORA. MARGARET's beauteous-Grecian arts Dora's eyes of heavenly blue Artists! Margaret's smile receive, But for perfect worship leave CCCIV. Thomas Campbell. CLEMENTINA AND LUCILLA. IN Clementina's artless mien, Enough for me? Lucilla asks, if that be all, Have I not cull'd as sweet before Ah, yes, Lucilla! and their fall I still deplore. I now behold another scene, Where Pleasure beams with heaven's own light, More pure, more constant, more serene, And not less bright. Faith on whose breast the Loves repose, And Modesty, who when she goes, Is gone for ever. Walter Savage Landor. CCCV. DEAR FANNY. "SHE has beauty, but still you must keep your heart cool: She has wit, but you mustn't be caught so: Thus Reason advises, but Reason's a fool, Dear Fanny, 'Tis not the first time I have thought so. "She is lovely; then love her, nor let the bliss fly; 'Tis the charm of youth's vanishing season; Thus Love has advised me, and who will deny That Love reasons much better than Reason, Dear Fanny? Love reasons much better than Reason. Thomas Moore. CCCVI. TO LADY ANNE HAMILTON. Too late I stay'd! forgive the crime, How noiseless falls the foot of Time, What eye with clear account remarks When all its sands are diamond sparks, Ah! who to sober measurement Honble. William R. Spencer. CCCVII. THE JUDGMENT OF THE POETS. Two nymphs, both nearly of an age, The worth of each had been complete But one, altho' her smile was sweet, And in her humour, when she frown'd, The other was of gentler cast, Her frowns were seldom known to last, To poets of renown in song The nymphs referr'd the cause, And, strange to tell, all judged it wrong, They gentle call'd, and kind and soft, And tho' she changed her mood so oft No judges, sure, were e'er so mad, In short, the charms her sister had Then thus the god, whom fondly they Was heard, one genial summer's day, "Since thus ye have combined," he said, The minx shall, for your folly's sake, Shall make your scribbling fingers ache, And pinch your noses blue." William Cowper. CCCVIII. THE MERMAID TAVERN. SOULS of Poets dead and gone, I have heard that on a day Sipping beverage divine, And pledging with contented smack |