Poetry
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO JULIA. Sing, lovely Girl! to hear Thee sing Hush'd is the listening air ; My spirit trembles on the wing, And no delay can bear. Those down-cast eyes, that smile supprest, Thy conscious power betray ; Yet, Siren! grant the bold request; Come, steal my heart away. See, see, those ruby lips divide; An ivory shrine
...appears ; There Harmony and Love reside, To ravish mortal ears. And hark! they from that sweet recess Breathe their celestial lays ; The enchanting sounds my thought possess With rapture and amaze. Still pressing on with strong control I feel the lavish strain, Till drunk with bliss, my wilder'd soul Reels on the brink of pain. Ah! how could I so rashly dare Contend with Powers divine ? The pride of victory forbear; My heart is wholly thine. ON SEEING MADEMOISELLE DANCE AT THE OPERA IN PARIS. What fine aerial Shape, In orient colours dight, Springs from the world unknown Upon my wondering sight ? Lposely through various space The lovely Figure flows, And leaves the sleeping air Unconscious as it goes. Hark ! a spontaneous strain Its fairy gait attends ; Jg ON SEEING MDLLE. DANCE,
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