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SONG S, &c. 
 
Music Publishers and composers are informed, the right of 
 publishing any part of these Poems to music is vested in Mr. 
 J. Dean, 148, New Bond Street, London, by Miss Smith and 
 Messrs. Saunders and Otley. 
 
SONGS OF GRANADA 
 
 THE ALHAMBRA. 
 
 WLiti) otj&cr Poem«. 
 
 BY LYDIA B. SMITH, 
 
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 OF THE " DOWN HOUSE," DOBSET, 
 
 AUTHOR OF " ENGLISH MELODIES," AND OTHER 
 MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS. 
 
 LONDON 
 SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT STREET* 
 
 1836. 
 
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 LONDON: 
 
 IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND. 
 
TO THE 
 
 RIGHT HON. LORD ASHTOWN, 
 
 HER FRIEND, 
 AND THE FRIEND OF POETRY AND MUSIC, 
 
 tlj)te Stttk Volume 
 
 IS, 
 
 WITH HIS KIND PERMISSION, GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED 
 
 BY 
 
 THE AUTHORESS. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 I do not launch my tiny shallop on the wide ocean 
 of public favour, without a full consciousness of the 
 perils which must attend its voyage, and its own 
 utter inability to resist the rough blasts of criti- 
 cism which may assail its course ; — yet, as many a 
 frail bark has? ere now, lived through the heaviest 
 seas, while the gallant vessel, whose tall masts and 
 spreading sails have appeared to defy the fury of 
 the tempest, has been cast a shapeless wreck into 
 the bosom of the deep, so am I not without a hope 
 that my " small craft" may ride securely over the 
 billows, and be wafted safe to shore. 
 
VI PREFACE. 
 
 Farewell ! then, my little bark ! though but a 
 speck on yon boundless main, may gentle and 
 favouring gales speed thee to thy goal ! Farewell ! 
 
 The Down House, 
 Jan. 1836. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Golden River .... Page 1 
 
 The Fallen Zegri . . . .3 
 
 Muley Hassan's Reply to the Christian Envoy . . 5 
 
 Come to our Fountain's Side . , .7 
 
 Escape of Abdallah from the Tower of Comares . . 9 
 
 The Christian Knight and his Moorish Love . .13 
 
 Abdallah's Battle Call . . . . 14 
 
 Leila . . . . .16 
 
 Xarifa at her Loom . . » . 18 
 
 The Warrior's Return . . . .21 
 
 Zelica's Reproach . . . . 23 
 
 The sleeping Arab Maid . . . 25 
 
 Zarah's Flight . . . . 28 
 
 The Sister's Wail for the Captive Moor . . 30 
 
Vlll CONTENTS. 
 
 The Bridge of Pinos . . Page 32 
 
 The Departure of Muza . . . .34 
 
 The Exile's Lament for Granada . . . 38 
 
 The Lonely Lyre . . . .43 
 
 Spring Time . . . . . 45 
 
 Spirit of Music . . . -50 
 
 The Fisher's Wife . . . . . 52 
 
 Memory's Tears . . . .54 
 
 I know thou'lt remember me ! . . . . 55 
 
 It is a bitter thing to feel . . ,57 
 
 The Infant Lyra . . . . . 58 
 
 The Bandit's Bride . , ' . .61 
 
 The Italian Girl dying in the North . . . 64 
 
 Memories . • . . ,67 
 
 Look on your Rose£ . . , . 70 
 
 Childhood . . . . ,73 
 
 Zelia . . . , . 77 
 
 POETICAL PICTURES. 
 
 II Biglietto d'Amore . . . .85 
 
 Silence . . . . . . 87 
 
 On young Lambton's Picture . . .90 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 IX 
 
 The Broken Heart . 
 
 . Page 92 
 
 A Group of Flowers 
 
 . 99 
 
 A Lady's Portrait . 
 
 . 101 
 
 A Miniature 
 
 . 102 
 
 Venice 
 
 . 105 
 
 The Cottage Girl 
 
 . 107 
 
 The Gypsy 
 
 . 109 
 
 The Shrimp Boy 
 
 . Ill 
 
 The Widow 
 
 . 113 
 
 Aline 
 
 . 115 
 
 The Damsel's Rock 
 
 . 118 
 
 ! Heart of Mine 
 
 . 125 
 
 The Slumberer 
 
 . 128 
 
 The Mother and Child . 
 
 . 132 
 
 Affliction 
 
 . 134 
 
 The Social Hour 
 
 . 136 
 
 SONGS AND BALLADS, &c. 
 
 The Joys of Home . . . . 141 
 
 Fairy Hopes ..... 143 
 'Twas but a Dream . . . . 144 
 
 Songs of Past Days .... 146 
 
A CONTENTS. 
 
 I love to be alone 
 
 The Name 
 
 The Deserted Home 
 
 I know not why ! 
 
 The light Farewell . 
 
 A weariness is on me 
 
 The Rival Suitors . 
 
 The Fairies* Home 
 
 Norman Battle Song 
 
 The Baron to his Steed . 
 
 Song 
 
 What is that Sound? 
 
 The youthful Page . 
 
 The Coquette 
 
 The False One 
 
 The Nun 
 
 The Faded Flower . 
 
 I'll never Braid my Hair Again 
 
 Where art thou now ? 
 
 A Summer Farewell 
 
 Leave me ! 
 
 The Gypsy's Grave 
 
 Thy Name is a forgotten Sound 
 
 The Bridal Day 
 
 The Deserted Italian 
 
CONTENTS. XI 
 
 The lonely Heart .... 199 
 
 The Perishing at Sea . . . 203 
 
 The Widow'd Mother's Parting with her Son . . 204 
 
 The Change . . . . 206 
 
 The Mourner at a Festive Scene . . . 209 
 
 Withered Flowers .... 214 
 
 Music and Pain . . . .216 
 
 The Early Dead ■ . . . 218 
 
 There is no Loneliness . . . .221 
 
 Notes to the Songs of Granada and the Alhambra 223 
 
SONGS OF GRANADA 
 
 AND 
 
 THE ALHAMBRA. 
 
SONGS OF GRANADA 
 
 THE ALHAMBRA. 
 
 GOLDEN RIVER. 
 
 Golden River ! gently flowing 
 Thro' our Vega's smiling plains ; 
 
 Wealth abundantly bestowing 
 On the land where beauty reigns ! 
 
 On thy verdant banks reclining 
 Moorish maidens softly rest — 
 
 Roses in their dark hair twining, 
 Jewels glittering in their vest ! 
 
GOLDEN RIVER. 
 
 Cool refreshing breezes blowing, 
 Rush from yon Sierra's height, 
 
 O'er the purple vineyards glowing, 
 In the setting sun's rich light ! 
 
 Many a youth and lovely maiden 
 Wanders thro' the citron grove, 
 
 Fann'd by winds with odour laden- 
 Tis the hour for those that love ! 
 
THE FALLEN ZEGRI. 
 
 They tell me, sisters, he's at rest — the Zegri's noblest 
 
 chief! — 
 A Christian's lance has pierc'd his breast : O day of 
 
 bitter grief; 
 Bring me the blood-stain'd banner, by his valour 
 
 brav r ely won, 
 I'll cherish it for his dear sake— my slain affianced one ! 
 
 His waving plumes are soil'd with gore — his jewell'd 
 corslet torn — 
 
 shall I see him never more ? is Zorayda forlorn ? 
 
 1 broider'd him a silken scarf — my name was woven 
 
 there ! 
 He bore it foremost in the van ! — Who could so nobly 
 dare ? 
 
 b 2 
 
4- THE FALLEN ZEGRI. 
 
 Few could compare in rivalry with him in love or 
 
 war— 
 Quenched is the light of chivalry, and set its brightest 
 
 star ! 
 But heroes shall avenge thee, on the red ensanguin'd 
 
 plain — 
 Alas ! they cannot bring me, my Zegri prince again ! 
 
 Beneath yon crescent moon, which is the emblem of 
 
 our faith, 
 Zorayda's vows were pledg'd to his : now they are 
 
 sealed in death ! 
 Thus mourn'd the lovely Moorish maid — but what 
 
 avails her weeping ? 
 
 For on his bloody pillow laid, her warrior love is 
 sleeping ! 
 
MULEY HASSAN'S REPLY TO THE SPANISH 
 ENVOY, 
 
 King Muley Hassan sate in state 
 In the Alhambra's judgment-hall, 
 
 The princes of his empire wait, 
 Assembled at the royal call — 
 
 Rob'd in a richly gemm'd kaftan, 
 
 On his imperial divan. 
 
 A Christian knight has proudly strode 
 On to the Paynim monarch's throne, 
 
 To tell his embassy he stood, 
 Unaw'd and firm, in lofty tone — 
 
 cc I come, at Ferdinand's command, 
 
 His tribute-money to demand \" 
 
 " By Allah !" cried Granada's king, 
 
 " Thou art an envoy bold ! 
 Since one brave message thou canst bring, 
 
 Another shall be told ! 
 
muley hassan's reply, &c. 
 
 Methinks thy head were fitly sent 
 To hang upon the battlement ! 
 
 " Look ! where a thousand falchions gleam, 
 Ready to claim thy forfeit blood ! 
 
 Beware ! for soon the crimson stream 
 Might stain yon crystal fountain's flood ! 
 
 Thank thou our regal clemency 
 
 That thou art not condemned to die ! 
 
 " And tell proud Arragon, thy lord, 
 
 To be his vassals we disown ! 
 Granada's mint coins now a hoard 
 
 Of swords and jav'lin blades alone ! 
 I trow, that in a tented field 
 A goodly tribute they shall yield ! 
 
 " Vain knight ! to Ferdinand present 
 This sharp and glitt'ring scymitar — 
 
 This, the sole gift by Muley sent. 
 The vassal-pay of Granada ! — 
 
 Thy social badge has saved thee — fly !" 
 
 Such was the message and reply. 
 
COME TO OUR FOUNTAIN'S SIDE ! 
 
 Come to our fountain's side, sweet love ! 
 
 The hours are gliding by ; 
 Bright stars are glittering above, 
 
 High in the sapphire sky ! 
 Come ! — from thy trellis'd chamber now 
 
 To him whose hopes are told ; 
 And watch the sparkling waters flow 
 
 Along their sands of Gold ! 
 
 Come ! to the Linderaxa's shade, 
 
 Where myrtle bowers bloom 
 In silver blossoms fair array'd ; 
 
 Where evening airs perfume 
 Those fairy haunts which charm'd by day— 
 
 But O ! they now might seem, 
 As through their fragrant paths I stray, 
 
 Like some enchanting dream ! 
 
COME TO OUR FOUNTAIN S SIDE. 
 
 Where art thou ling'ring, lovely one ? 
 
 Maid of the dark-veil'd eyes ! 
 Now leave thy costly ottoman, 
 
 To hear thy lover's sighs ! 
 Art thou to another list'ning? 
 
 Is th' Abencerrage forgot? — 
 No ! I see her white robes glist'ning— 
 
 She is at th* appointed spot. 
 
 Look ! the crescent moon in splendour 
 
 Sheds her chastening beams around ! 
 Music's echoes, soft and tender, 
 
 In the thrilling air resound. 
 Thro' marble courts and myrtle grove 
 
 Young graceful figures glide : 
 Come to our fountain's side, sweet love I 
 
 Come to our fountain's side ! 
 
THE ESCAPE OF ABDALLAH FROM THE 
 TOWER OF COMARES. 
 
 'Tis the dead hour of night ! 
 
 Near the Alhambra gate,, 
 A single Moorish knight 
 
 And Arab courser wait. 
 In limpid Darro's flowing stream, 
 
 As in a crystal mirror set. 
 Lit by the pale moon's vestal beam 
 
 Are imaged dome and minaret ! 
 
 In dark Comares' Tower 
 
 A royal captive lies — 
 Dangers around him lour — 
 
 O save him, or he dies ! 
 But what can human aid avail ? 
 
 How may the guarded prisoner flee ? 
 No warrior's foot can dare to scale 
 
 Yon height ! to set Abdallah free. 
 
10 THE ESCAPE OF ABDALLAH 
 
 None come to succour him — 
 
 Now well may he despair ! 
 Well may his hopes grow dim ! 
 
 But Aixa is there ! 
 Sultana mother ! 'tis thy part 
 
 To rescue thy unhappy son ;* 
 By woman's hand, and woman's heart, 
 
 Shall his deliverance be won ! 
 
 " Come hither ! maidens all ! 
 
 If ye would save your king." 
 They hasten at her call — 
 
 She bids them quickly bring 
 Their broider'd scarfs and tunics fair, 
 
 Each silken veil and golden zone — 
 None may their fav'rite girdle spare — 
 
 She claims them all and every one. 
 
 And now together twin'd 
 In many a knotty fold, 
 
 * Aben Abdallah, better known by the name of " Boabdil," was sur- 
 named " El Zagoybi," " the Unhappy." 
 
FROM THE TOWER OF COMARES. 11 
 
 She bids them firmly bind 
 
 Their turban's length unroll' d ! . . . . 
 See how with trembling hands they lower 
 
 Abdallah ! by those links made fast ! 
 Allah be prais'd ! Granada's flower 
 
 Has reach' d the river banks at last ! 
 
 Nobly thy task was done, 
 
 Aixa ! in his need ; 
 Joy ! thou hast freed thy son ! 
 
 He vaults upon his steed. 
 High he waves his hand in token, 
 
 While yon dark fortress is in sight — 
 Joy ! his dungeon chains are broken ! 
 
 None shall o'ertake him in his flight. 
 
 Haste ! 'tis for life or death, 
 
 His Arab barb speeds on ! 
 They pause not to draw breathy 
 
 Till Guadix gates are won. 
 City, mid lofty Alpuxarres, 
 
 There knocks he with his scymitar — 
 
12 THE ESCAPE OF ABDALLAH, &C. 
 
 Soon shall the snow-clad Sierras 
 Re-echo with the din of war ! 
 
 Heroic mother ! Grief 
 
 Was thine in after years ; 
 Thy son ! the traitor chief; 
 
 Woke thy reproach and tears. 
 But ne'er may his dishonour throw 
 
 Its shadow o'er thy virtue's fame ; 
 Thy dauntless soul all ages know, 
 
 For ever valued be thy name ! 
 
13 
 
 THE CHRISTIAN KNIGHT AND HIS 
 MOORISH LOVE. 
 
 Beside the plashing fountain, 
 
 Shaded by orange flow'rs, 
 A Christian knight was ling'ring 
 
 In a Moorish lady's bow'rs ! 
 
 Sweet Zuleika ! I must away 
 From this bright spot and thee ! 
 
 Too well thou know'st thy fatal pow'r — 
 Love ! set thy captive free ! 
 
 The bravest of thy Moslem chiefs 
 Have striv'n with me in vain; 
 
 But thou ! in beauty's magic thrall, 
 Hast bound me with a chain ! 
 
 Fare thee well ! — and if no other 
 Hour like this be mine to know 
 
 Weep not for thy fallen lover ! 
 For he is thy country's foe ! 
 
14 
 
 ABDALLAH'S BATTLE CALL. 
 
 Bring me my gleaming' scymitar ; 
 
 My corslet of bright steel ! 
 I hear the welcome shout of war — 
 
 " Defiance to Castile !" 
 By Muza's conquering sword led on 
 Soon shall the glorious strife be won ! 
 
 Through serried ranks of lances fierce, 
 
 MarshalFd in dread array, 
 Our Moorish falchions soon shall pierce, 
 
 And piles of victims slay ! 
 Bring me my gleaming scymitar ; 
 My soul is panting for the war ! 
 
 With arching neck and kindling eye, 
 
 My fiery Arab stands ; 
 What joy ! in fleet career to fly, 
 
 And strike th' invading bands I 
 
abdallah's battle call. 15 
 
 Proud Ferdinand ! thy heart shall quail 
 Beneath our storm of arrowy hail ! 
 
 Legions of Moslem chivalry 
 
 Line Darro's river side; 
 Fleet barbs in battle panoply, 
 
 Are prancing in their pride ! 
 The shrill tambour and clarion's sound 
 O'er the Sierra's heights resound ! 
 
 The shock of steeds, the hard-won fight 
 
 Are dearer to my mind, 
 Than all the pleasures which delight, 
 
 In royal courts combin'd. 
 Move on ! ye mailed cavaliers ; 
 I'm eager for the rush of spears ! 
 
 Now give our banners to the wind ! 
 
 The crescent emblem waves : 
 And let the Spanish tyrants find 
 
 We'll yield them only — graves ! 
 Bring me my gleaming scymitar ! 
 Thus spoke the King of Granada ! 
 
16 
 
 « LEILA." 
 
 They had met and parted, 
 
 In the cypress grove ! 
 There, the mournful hearted, 
 
 Dwells on the words of love. 
 Hark ! 'twas a wild and horrid sound ! 
 
 She clasps her hands in fear; 
 But silence hovers deep around, 
 
 Nought more can Leila hear. 
 
 Yet, sure the rush of feet 
 
 And clash of arms was nigh ? 
 Only the breezes sweet 
 
 O'er the rose-gardens sigh ! 
 Melancholy music breathing 
 
 O'er her soul with gentle sway 
 While the silver fountains wreathing, 
 
 In fantastic eddies play, 
 
LEILA. ] 7 
 
 The gorgeous sun has set, 
 
 And in his ruddy blaze. 
 Spire, mosque, and minaret, 
 
 Glow in the parting rays ! 
 Lovelier scene she knows can never 
 
 On her sight in beauty thrill ! 
 She could linger there for ever, 
 
 Were her Hamet with her still. 
 
 They have slain thy lover. 
 
 By the headsman bow'd, 
 Murd'rous hands uncover 
 
 His princely neck and proud ! 
 Dauntlessly his life departed ; 
 
 They bear his cor'se to Leila's feet — 
 These are the two who lately parted ! 
 
 Was it thus they hop'd to meet ? 
 
18 
 
 XARIFA. 
 
 The orient pearls she's stringing, 
 
 As she bends over her loom ; 
 Rich Urns sweet odours flinging, 
 
 Scent the air with faint perfume ! 
 From the gardens of the Generalife, 
 
 Their peerless bloom was true ; 
 But Xarifa bows her head in grief — 
 
 O ! wherefore does she mourn ? 
 
 In that pillar' d hall of fretwork rare, 
 
 Rich in each brilliant hue, 
 With its alabaster fountains fair, 
 
 And walls of gold and blue, 
 The young Sultana weeps alone, 
 
 With none to heed her sighs; 
 To the low plaint of sorrow's tone, 
 
 No answ'ring voice replies! 
 
XARIFA- 19 
 
 And as the plashing- murmur, 
 
 Of cool waters came and went, 
 Thus spoke the lovely mourner, 
 
 While deep sighs her bosom rent ; 
 " How have I won this cold neglect ? 
 
 Why is my lord estrang'd ? 
 None dare Xarifa's truth suspect ! 
 
 Then wherefore is he chang'd ? 
 
 (>, bitter change ! since that bright day, 
 
 When, in my beauty's pride, 
 Granada's sons in glad array, 
 
 Welcomed their monarch's bride ! 
 Am I less fair than erst I shone ? 
 
 The worshipp'd love of him ! 
 It is thy fault — thou cruel one ! 
 
 If tears my sad eyes dim. 
 
 O ! might I win thee back again — 
 
 To prize me as of old ! 
 Alas ! I fear me 'tis in vain — 
 
 His fickle heart is cold \" 
 
 c 2 
 
20 XARIFA. 
 
 Such was the low repining, 
 
 From Xarifa's bosom wrung, 
 
 In her lonely palace pining, 
 
 As the orient pearls she strung ! 
 
21 
 
 THE WARRIOR'S RETURN. 
 
 My colours in the ring he wears 
 
 At tournament or joust ; 
 Mine the device his armour bears — 
 
 Pride of the Moslem host ! 
 His turban is of gold and green ; 
 
 Its spangled threads I wove ! 
 My image reigns his bosom's queen ! 
 
 Mine are his vows of love ! 
 
 I watch' d him ride at break of dawn 
 
 From the Elvira Gate,, 
 And here I've sat since early morn,, 
 
 His coming to await ! 
 The foremost when the strife is warm 
 
 Bright honour's meed to win ! 
 May Allah keep his head from harm 
 
 In von fierce battle's din ! 
 
22 THE WARRIOR'S RETURN. 
 
 Hark ! from the watch lower comes a cry ! 
 I hear a rushing sound 
 
 Of steeds in war-clad panoply ; — 
 They thunder o'er the ground ! 
 
 Maidens ! leave the lute's wild song^ 
 The labours of the loom ! 
 
 Join Granada's joyous throng- 
 Haste ! greet the warrior home ! 
 
23 
 
 ZELICA'S REPROACH. 
 
 <c Hast thou been in the bow'rs of the Generalife ? 
 
 Amidst the summer-bloom ? 
 Bearing back treasures of flow'r and leaf 
 
 To scent thy perfum'd room ? 
 
 " Hast thou been in the Alameda groves, 
 
 Seeking the pleasant shade ? 
 Shunning the paths which the sun-beam loves ? 
 
 Where hast thou been, sweet maid ? 
 
 " My Zelica ! why is thy dew-bright eye 
 
 In sadness shrouded now ? 
 Thy face is averted ! Tell me why 
 
 This dark cloud on thy brow ?" 
 
 cc Ask me not, false one ! thou knowest too well 
 
 Thine own heart is estrang'd ! 
 Take back thy forgotten pledge ! but tell 
 
 Me not that I am changed ! 
 
24 zelica's reproach 
 
 " Go ! plight thy fond vows at Zorayda's shrine ! 
 
 O though I may regret ! 
 The scorn which is bursting this heart of mine 
 
 Shall teach me to forget !" 
 
 Her lover, in sorrow and sad surprise, 
 
 Is rooted to the spot ! 
 " By Allah ! the tale is false !" he cries, 
 
 'Tis false ! believe it not ! 
 
 " Since the hour when our lips first told we lov'd, 
 
 By the clear Darro's stream, 
 Never from thee has my fond heart rov'd ! 
 
 Zelica ! 'tis a dream ! 
 
 cc Now perish the slanderous tongues which threw 
 
 On constancy this stain \" 
 She listens !— does she believe him true ? 
 
 Yes ! for she smiles again ! 
 
25 
 
 THE SLEEPING ARAB MAID. 
 
 Nay ! do not wake her, sister ! for her haunted sleep 
 
 is blest ! 
 And lightly sit the slumbers on that gently heaving 
 
 breast ! 
 See ! Yemen's blooming roses, thro' her flow'r-wreath'd 
 
 lattice creep ! 
 O'er the fair young Arab maiden, their perfum'd watch 
 
 they keep ! 
 
 Poor desert child ! from Afric's coast they bore her 
 beauty here, 
 
 And long she mourn'd her youth's lov'd home, with 
 
 I 
 
 frequent sigh and tear ! 
 But now, she is regaining her spirit's mirthful tone, 
 And the echo of her laughter has a music of its own ! 
 
26 THE SLEEPING ARAB MAID. 
 
 She sings the songs of Araby, to her remembrance dear, 
 So witchingly ! the sweet notes dwell in rapture on 
 
 the ear ! 
 Deep spells of might and passion lie within her dark 
 
 eye's glance ! 
 Graceful as the gazelle ! how light her step springs in 
 
 the dance ! 
 
 And Zuleima is happy ! she forgets her childhood's 
 
 grief! 
 She loves our fam'd Alhambra — and our peerless 
 
 Generalife ! 
 Our crystal fount's glad waters, and fresh blooming 
 
 myrtle groves ; 
 Our marble courts and pillars !— all these Zuleima 
 
 loves ! 
 
 When ev'ning closes round us, she repeats the tender 
 lays 
 
 Of Arabia's pilgrim poets, the inspir'd of former days ! 
 
 Or genii tales relating— more intensely glowing yet ; 
 
 Unfolds the lore of Eastern lands— the land of Ma- 
 homet ! 
 
THE SLEEPING ARAB MAID. 27 
 
 Hush ! she is dreaming of her home ! — again ! that 
 long lov'd word 
 
 On her inmost soul engraven, from the fait' ring lip is 
 heard ! 
 
 Her heart is wildly throbbing, 'neath her pearl em- 
 broider' d vest — 
 
 O wake her not, sweet sister ! for her haunted sleep is 
 blest! 
 
 
28 
 
 ZARAH'S FLIGHT. 
 
 What are those sounds the stillness breaking ? 
 
 Mournful and low ! 
 The murmur of faint echoes waking — 
 
 Accents of woe ! 
 
 The night-gale thro' rose-bowers sighing, 
 
 Blows cold and keen ; 
 Whither are Zarah's footsteps flying ? 
 
 Sad is her mien ! 
 
 They have met ! who were forbidden 
 
 To speak of love : 
 Darkness their secret flight has hidden ;— 
 
 No stars above ! 
 
 In ev'ry leaf that trembles round them, 
 
 Pursuit she fears ! 
 In vain thou striv'st to cheer her, Moslem ! 
 
 Fast flow her tears ! 
 
ZARAH S FLIGHT. 29 
 
 She thinks with terror of the morrow ! — 
 
 Harsh words will blight 
 Her name with bitter oaths ; and sorrow 
 
 Follow her flight ! 
 
 Though fond affection has entwin'd her — 
 
 The lov'd of yore ! 
 For she has left her home behind her !— 
 
 Her home no more ! 
 
so 
 
 THE SISTER'S WAIL FOR HER CAPTIVE 
 MOOR. 
 
 How mournfully ! — how mournfully 
 
 The tedious hours creep ; 
 Alas ! my spirits, wearily 
 
 Time's reckoning must keep ! 
 For deep within a dungeon tow'r 
 
 My gallant brother lies ; 
 There drooping, like a trampled flow'r 
 
 Which in oblivion dies. 
 
 Young prince of the Alabez ! far 
 
 And near thy fame was known — 
 Oh ! evil fortune of the war ! 
 
 Now in a prison thrown, 
 Thou wear'st thy very life away 
 
 In frantic grief and rage ; 
 Whilst in the fierce and desp'rate fray 
 
 Thy countrymen engage ! 
 
THE SISTER^ WAIL FOR HER CAPTIVE MOOR 31 
 
 Who could aim th' unerring jav'lin, 
 
 Or the fatal dart so well? 
 Hopeless Honda ! in thy ruin 
 
 Many as brave a hero fell ! 
 And hadst thou been slain, my brother ! 
 
 So nobly fighting there ! 
 Methinks 'twere easier to smother 
 
 The cry of my despair. 
 
 But thou ! who wert the free — the bold ! 
 
 In danger's front the first ! 
 Cag'd in Castilian prison hold — 
 
 I know thy heart will burst. 
 O could I break thy fetters now, 
 
 And set thy chain'd limbs free ! 
 Bitter ! to think the yoke should bow 
 
 A warrior like thee ! 
 
32 
 
 THE BRIDGE OF PINOS. 
 
 Ye noble brothers ! by detraction stung 
 
 To vindicate by deathless deeds your name — 
 
 How, by reproaches were your bosoms wrung, 
 Ere death had won the chaplet of your fame ! 
 
 By your bright blood — young heroes ! vainly shed, 
 Where Pinos' Bridge was lost — devoted spot ! 
 
 By our deep sorrow for the glorious dead, 
 Ne'er shall your patriot mem'ries be forgot ! 
 
 The limpid stream once dancing on its way, 
 Bearing sweet flowers on its crystal flood, 
 
 Bathing those verdant banks with silver spray — 
 Now crimson flows: — its waters stain'd with blood! 
 
 Against the onset of invading Spain, 
 
 Ye kept the pass, brave warriors ! how long ! 
 
 Till falling, amidst piles of victims slain, 
 
 Ye died — avenging your lov'd country's wrong. 
 
THE BRIDGE OF PINOS. 33 
 
 Yon column — rais'd by grateful countrymen, 
 Where Azrael * your fainting souls receiv'd, 
 
 Proclaims to Christian and to Saracen, 
 The prodigies of valour ye achieved. 
 
 In the sad hearts of weeping Granada, 
 
 Records as lasting of your worth, endure ! 
 
 Your names, the watch-word of our Freedom are, 
 Heroic brothers ! — models for the Moor ! 
 
 * Azrael— angel of Death. 
 
 "The celebrated Bridge of Pinos, long famed for many a desperate 
 struggle between the Moors and Christians. It is memorable, if only 
 from the devoted heroism of two Moorish brothers, who, being re- 
 proached by the people on the fall of the fortresses they commanded, 
 asked permission to defend the Pass of Pinos into the pl;iin. At the 
 head of a remnant of their veteran garrisons, they met the onset of the 
 whole Spanish cavalry, and long held possession of the bridge, like the 
 Roman Codes, performing incredible acts of valour. Disputing it, inch 
 by inch, till the stream ran red with blood. Every Moor died upon the 
 foot of ground he had occupied to defend, till the two brothers, scorn- 
 ing to live more amongst an ungrateful people, fell gloriously covered 
 with woands. On hearing their heroic and protracted defence, with 
 the great slaughter of the Spaniards, the admiration and regret of the 
 Moors exceeded even their reproaches, and eagerly extolling their 
 generous daring, they erected to their memory a eolumn in the vicinity 
 of the bridge — afterwards distinguished by the name of the Two Bro- 
 thers. — Roscoe's Tourist in Spain. — See note, p. 45. 
 
 D 
 
34 
 
 THE DEPARTURE OF MUZA, 
 
 The fortress keys of Granada are render'd up to 
 
 Spain ; 
 The echo of her deep despair, has reached across the 
 
 plain ! 
 Whilst crowds are hurrying to and fro, and tumult 
 
 fills the street ; 
 And oaths of fiery rage, and woe, are heard where 
 
 Moslems meet. 
 
 The fatal doom so long foretold — this dark captivity 
 Presaged by evil days of old, is mark'd by destiny. 
 Land of the Darro and Xenil ! — which now ensanguin'd 
 
 flow, 
 By the royal traitor, Boabdil, you're ceded to the 
 
 foe! 
 
THE DEPARTURE OF MUZA. 35 
 
 The clamours of a nation jar upon Abdallah's ear — 
 The voice of lamentation is resounding far and near ! 
 When amid Granada's weeping throng, heroic Muza 
 
 stood — 
 " Ye shed salt tears/' he cried, c: too long ! I'll teach 
 
 ye to shed blood ! 
 
 "Can life be so ignobly dear, that in the balance, 
 
 fame, 
 Religion, liberty, appear, each but an empty name ? 
 O ! may great Allah ere forefend I should survive the 
 
 day, 
 When Moors shall be content to bend beneath the 
 
 Christians' sway !" 
 
 f But if there be one noble heart, with freedom's 
 
 thoughts that swell, 
 Muza's mail'd tread shall ne'er depart, from the land 
 
 where heroes dwell ! 
 For while our arms the sword can wield, we still may 
 
 honour'd die ! 
 Follow me to the tented field ! I'll lead to victory !" 
 
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36 THE DEPARTURE OF MUZA. 
 
 And has the spirit-stirring call no bold response 
 
 awoke ? 
 Silence is in the Council Hall, since Muza boldly 
 
 spoke : 
 Deep scorn lit up his eagle eye, as lurid lightnings 
 
 play, 
 Awhile he paus'd for a reply — then proudly strode 
 
 away. 
 
 With indignation burning, swift as the rushing 
 
 blast, 
 For freedom nobly yearning, through th' Elvira gate 
 
 he past ; 
 The Moor's last hope has fled with thee, undaunted 
 
 Saracen ! 
 Onward his course is sped ! how swell'd the exile's 
 
 bosom then ! 
 
 Gallant Muza ! — when and where did thy spirit pass 
 away? 
 
 Thou, whose soul could singly dare, to resist the con- 
 queror's sway ! 
 
THE DEPARTURE OF MUZA. 37 
 
 Wild remorse and bitter anguish, for thy countrymen 
 
 remain — 
 In the yoke of Spain they languish. Thou alone hast 
 
 spurn'd the chain ! 
 
38 
 
 THE EXILE'S LAMENT FOR GRANADA. 
 
 Land of the citron and the vine ! 
 
 Beloved land! — Farewell ! 
 Within this anguish' d heart of mine,, 
 
 What pangs my bosom swell ! 
 Farewell, ye snow-clad monntains — 
 Lovely homes, my childhood knew — 
 Bright alabaster fountains, 
 
 Take the exile's last adieu ! 
 
 Fall'n heroes, who so nobly bled, 
 
 Fair Granada to save, 
 Vainly your life-blood has been shed ! 
 
 Peace to the, martyr' d brave ! 
 Ye soft delights entrancing, 
 
 Bath'd in mem'ry's fervid glow — 
 Glad streams in sun- light glancing ; 
 
 From your beauteous banks I go ! 
 
THE EXILE S LAMENT FOR GRANADA. 39 
 
 The triumph of our battle-cry, 
 
 In gladness borne along, 
 
 The shouts of Moslem victory, 
 
 No more inspire the song ! 
 But bitter grief, and dark dismay, 
 
 Alone can echo there, 
 In fun'ral wail, to mark the day, 
 
 Of Granada's despair ! 
 
 Her eagle fortresses are now 
 
 A black and ruin'd heap — 
 Treason has struck the final blow, 
 
 And maids and matrons weep ; 
 From scenes on which we doated, 
 
 Must our flying footsteps steal, 
 And where the Crescent floated, 
 
 Wave the banners of Castile ! 
 
 The thunder of the deep tambour, 
 
 The clarion's shrill breath, 
 Urg'd in dauntless strife the flow'r 
 
 Of Moorish hosts to death ! 
 
40 THE EXILE'S LAMENT FOR GRANADA. 
 
 O ! happy they, whose corses lie 
 On Vega's battle plain ; 
 
 For their lov'd country's cause to die, 
 Unknowing now its stain ! 
 
 Lament — lament for Granada — 
 
 Her splendid reign is done ! 
 The notes of woe are borne afar ! — 
 
 Set is her glorious sun ! 
 In her wide courts shall flash no more 
 
 Falchion or scymitar — 
 The queen of cities is no more ! 
 
 Lament for Granada. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS 
 
 LYRICS. 
 
All the songs and ballads in this collection have been as- 
 signed to Mr. Dean, (New Bond Street,) with the exception 
 of "Spirit of Music " and "The False One;" and most of 
 them have been published by him with music composed by the 
 author. To his permission they owe their re-appearance in 
 this volume. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 THE LONELY LYRE. 
 
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 No rose wreaths crown thy strings — my lonely lyre ! 
 No triumph lingers thy low notes among — 
 The most its simple pathos may aspire 
 Is, to be mingled with the breath of song ! 
 O ! though no dreams of fond ambition fire — 
 Dear art thou still to me — my lonely lyre ! 
 
 Sweet melodies of nature ! — warbling bird— 
 I And bright- wing'd insect hum — and murmuring breeze, 
 How oft my pulses have been gladly stirr'd, 
 Exulting gaily — by such sounds as these ! 
 Will not the echoes of your joy inspire 
 The heart that lov'd your music — lonely lyre ? 
 
44 THE LONELY LYRE, 
 
 Haply some wand'ring wind awhile may tremble 
 Around your chords, and in soft cadence float — 
 Teach them its mournful sweetness to resemble 
 And lend its eloquence to some wild note ! 
 Happy ! — if such tones thou should'st thus acquire, 
 From the wind's magic lute — my loneh" lyre ! 
 
45 
 
 SPRING TIME. 
 
 " Primavera ! a suoi Sospiri, 
 Vede il Ciel resserenar — 
 L'orme sue, con mille giri 
 Sciolto il rio torna a baciar ! 
 Delle grazie, degli amori 
 La festeggia il vago stool ! 
 Nuove erbette, nuovi fiori 
 Le prepara amante il Suoi." 
 
 Sweet nightingale ! thy plaintive note 
 
 Wakes in my breast a thrill 
 Of answ'ring sadness — softly float 
 
 Those notes in gentlest trill ! 
 Methinks I could remain for aye 
 Thus listening to thy melody ! 
 
 The warbling thrush — the cooing dove 
 
 Make the air musical 
 With untaught song — the chesnut grove 
 
 With such sweet sounds is full ! 
 
46 SPRING TIME. 
 
 All things with life and joyance teem 
 Basking beneath the vernal beam ! 
 
 I will not muse — I will not dream 
 
 Of what is past and gone ! 
 While all things else so blissful seem, 
 
 Shall I be sad alone ? 
 Away — away each wayward thought, 
 With aught of care or sadness fraught ! 
 
 From bough to bough — from tree to tree, 
 
 Echoes some silver voice, 
 Rich in spring's flute-like harmony, 
 
 Bidding the world rejoice ! 
 There should not be a single thing, 
 Subject to sorrow's law, in spring. 
 
 Welcome, ye bright and sunny hours ! 
 
 Ye fragrant buds, all hail ! 
 Thrice welcome to these beauteous flow'rs, 
 
 And to the nightingale ! 
 All which to life new raptures bring, 
 Welcome — each sight and sound of spring ! 
 
SPRING TIME. 47 
 
 This verdant bank — my resting-place, 
 
 Is rich with radiant things ; 
 Plants — in each hue and shape of grace ; 
 
 And many colour'd wings 
 Of sportive butterflies — whose flight 
 Looks a career of golden light ! 
 
 While round me sport a countless train, 
 
 Of birds and humming bees, 
 A spirit-like and fairy strain 
 
 Of music fills the breeze — 
 Awake ! awake ! be joyous all, 
 For this is Nature's carnival ! 
 
 What though some chord is snapp'd in twain 
 
 Which was thy dearest one, 
 And secret tears have fall'n like rain, 
 
 When summer's bloom is gone ; 
 Come hither ! hither ! blighted heart ! 
 And bid thy bosom's weight depart. 
 
 Come hither to the chesnut tree, 
 Spangled with silver bloom ! 
 
48 SPRING TIME. 
 
 'Twill weep its starry buds o'er thee ; 
 
 And round thy haunt shall come, 
 The loveliest, fairest things that are, 
 To win thee from the thought of Care ! 
 
 Hasten ! for Zephyr gently breathes, 
 
 And vernal sunbeams shine ! 
 And thou mayst weave the gayest wreathes 
 
 To hang on Flora's shrine ! 
 Let thy light step obey the call, 
 For this is Flora's festival ! 
 
 Let the soft gales which kiss thy brow, 
 
 And balmy incense bring, 
 Teach thee with new-born hopes to glow — 
 
 Hopes that may quickly fling 
 A veil of light o'er other years. 
 Forget ! forget thy wayward tears ! 
 
 Tears ! — wherefore name that chilling word 
 
 On such a day as this ? 
 O ! wherefore waken any chord, 
 
 Save that which echoes bliss ? 
 
SPRING TIME. 49 
 
 Thou may'st have wept too much erewhile ! 
 But now, come forth, and brightly smile, 
 
 For life is all too short to cling 
 
 To sorrow's imagery ! 
 Then wherefore should her sable wing 
 
 O'ershadow memory ? 
 What though our dearest hopes decay, 
 Can fond desire recall them? Nay ! 
 
 Then to the tempting greenwood hie — 
 
 Come one — come all in joy ! 
 Let not a retrospective sigh, 
 
 This hour of smiles alloy — 
 But ev'ry voice a welcome sing, 
 " All hail to the return of spring!" 
 
50 
 
 SPIRIT OF MUSIC. 
 
 Spirit ! Spirit ! come to me now ! 
 The leaves are trembling on the bough ! 
 And the sweet breath of the western breeze, 
 Shakes clouds of blossoms from the trees ! 
 The nightingale, thy fav'rite child, 
 Fills the air with her warblings wild — 
 Now is the genial time for thee, 
 Spirit of Music — come to me ! 
 
 Spirit of melody ! spirit divine ! 
 Thou knowest — thou knowest my soul is thine ! 
 Grant me a voice whose thrilling tone, 
 Whose sweetness may be all thine own ! 
 Give me to touch, by its secret lore, 
 Hearts, that have never been touch'd before ! 
 Thou that dwell'st in the balmy air — 
 Spirit of Music !*— hear my pray'r. 
 
SPIRIT CP MUSIC. 61 
 
 Beautiful Spirit ! I call thee again ! 
 
 let not thy captive plead in vain ; 
 
 1 sue for a power that may breathe 
 Calmness and peace ; for I would wreathe 
 Such a mystic spell around the soul 
 
 As colder power shall ne'er control ! 
 Sov'reign Spirit ! — spirit of bliss,, 
 Deny me not — grant this— grant this ! 
 
 Published with music, and in the possession of Mr. Mori. It ap- 
 peared in the " Musical Gem' 7 of 1830. 
 
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52 
 
 THE FISHER'S WIFE. 
 
 Oh ! could I calm yon raging sea, 
 Whose mountain waves toss fearfully 
 
 Their giant crests of foam ! 
 For he is in his slender bark, 
 Breasting that world of waters dark ; 
 
 Kind ocean, waft him home ! 
 
 'Tis awful thus to watch and wake, 
 And dare the tempest for his sake, 
 
 Trembling with hope and fear ; 
 To listen to the sea-gull's scream — 
 I see, I see the white sail gleam ! 
 
 My husband, thou art near ! 
 
 He'll chide me for my fearfulness, 
 And with a kind and gay caress, 
 
THE FISHER'S WIFE. 53 
 
 Gladden my sinking heart ; 
 Yet he will tempt the wave again, 
 And call the anxious terrors vain, 
 
 That rack me when we part. 
 
 Beautiful is the deep blue sea 
 
 When summer gales sigh placidly- 
 Over the billows hoar ; 
 
 'Tis music then to hear them dash, 
 
 As the bright waters leap and flash, 
 Against the rocky shore ! 
 
 But now ! in every echoing surge 
 I hear a note of ocean's dirge 
 
 Around its victim's bier ! 
 He's safe ! and these are idle fears ; 
 I'll brush away my woman's tears ; 
 
 My husband, thou art here ! 
 
 Published in « The Bijou " of 1830. 
 
54 
 
 MEMORY'S TEARS. 
 
 " Fugge il Tempo — ma le memoria resta." 
 
 Oh, memory ! with thy thousand spells 
 
 Of pleasure and of pain ! 
 We worship thee ! yet reason tells 
 
 Such worship is in vain ! 
 The soul's strong yearning cannot bring 
 
 One vanish' d hour back ; 
 The hopes that mock — the woes that wring- 
 
 Which mark life's weary track. 
 No ! time has mingled them alike 
 
 In the dark web of fate, 
 And when death lifts his hand to strike, 
 
 What avails love or hate ? 
 Or all the restless pangs we feel — 
 
 And felt in former years ? 
 Remember, then, thy joy — but steel 
 
 Thy heart 'gainst memory's tears ! 
 
55 
 
 SONG. 
 
 I KNOW THOl/LT REMEMBER ME. 
 
 The flowers of a foreign clime are blooming, 
 
 Dear absent one ! for thee,, 
 While the fragrant breeze around they are perfuming 
 
 Let them breathe fond thoughts of me : 
 The melodies of other lands are ringing 
 
 In rich music on thine ear ; 
 O remember then the voice of her, who's singing 
 
 The lays thou held'st so dear ! 
 
 In the fav'rite paths our careless steps frequented, 
 
 Where so joyously we met, 
 The friends of yore — the changed — and the lamented, 
 
 Haunt my dreaming fancy yet ! 
 By those, who in my sorrow or my gladness, 
 
 Felt an answering bosom thrill, 
 O be mindful, lonely heart ! in thy sadness 
 Thou art unforgotten still ! 
 
56 SONG. 
 
 For ever, and for ever, I am yearning 
 
 For the lov'd no longer nigh, 
 For bright visions which can never be returning, 
 
 And the blissful days gone by ! 
 Yet O ! by many a sweet familiar token 
 
 Recognis'd by such as thee ! 
 Though the lovely spells of happy youth are broken, 
 
 I know thou'lt remember me ! 
 
57 
 
 LINES FOR MUSIC. 
 
 " Chi vuol dimenticare, soviene sempre." 
 
 It is a bitter thing to feel 
 
 How coldly life wears on, 
 When stern, ill-omened chances steal 
 The hopes we never dare reveal, 
 
 Till, one by one, they 're gone ! 
 
 It is a bitter thing to know 
 
 That while the ready smile 
 And even brow, conceal the woe 
 Dwelling beneath that studied glow, 
 
 'Tis but deceit the while. 
 
 We mingle in the gay career, 
 
 Determined " to forget ;" 
 Why should the sad remembrance sear ? 
 In vain — the past is still too dear ! — 
 
 Too deeply graven yet ! 
 
58 
 
 THE INFANT LYRA. 
 
 Lines suggested by hearing the infant Lyra ; the little ' ' Improvisatrice' 
 who was so well known for the wonderful genius she displayed at the 
 early age of six years, when the writer first heard her play on the 
 harp. 
 
 Sweet child ! deep in thy infant mind, 
 
 The seat of music's spell, 
 Genius and feeling are enshrin'd, 
 
 And rich gifts with thee dwell ! 
 
 O who that looks upon thy brow, 
 Radiant and fair as it is now, 
 But must sigh to think of the chilling blight 
 Which soon will steal over those features bright ? 
 Radiant they are in the heavenly light 
 
 Thy enthusiasm gives ; 
 But this is no home for spirits rare, 
 There is nothing beautiful or fair 
 In this world of trial lives ! 
 
THE INFANT LYRA. 59 
 
 Thou fairy child ! I pity thee, 
 
 While all are envying ; 
 Too soon thine ardent soul will be 
 
 Depressed and withering ! 
 
 And care will steal from thy sweet face 
 Some of its own bewitching grace, 
 And the ruin of faded hope will speak 
 In paleness and woe on thy sunken cheek — 
 Where then, alas ! minstrel girl, wilt thou seek 
 Thy wond'rous inspired strain ? 
 O this is no home for spirits rare, 
 There is nothing beautiful or fair 
 But must droop in decay and pain ! 
 
 E'en so—e'en so — thy fate must be ! 
 
 Those mirthful fancies gay, 
 And childhood's playful laugh and glee 
 
 Must yield to sorrow's sway ! 
 
 Little thou know'st of grief or tears ! 
 The anguish of maturer years ; 
 
60 THE INFANT LYRA. 
 
 The passions that sear are unknown to thee ; 
 Yet suffering, sure doom of mortality, 
 Will spread its dark cloud o'er the dew-bright eye ; 
 E'en thine own, sweet child ! must fade ! 
 For this is no home for spirits rare, 
 There is nothing beautiful or fair 
 For a world like our's made ! 
 
 The forebodings expressed in these lines were unfortunately verified 
 a few years ago, as it is generally supposed that this interesting child 
 fell a sacrifice to the early display of her precocious talent. 
 
61 
 
 THE BANDIT'S BRIDE. 
 
 Hurrah ! for the bandit chief! 
 
 They have ta'en him in his lair ; 
 There he stands in his sullen grief — 
 They are mocking his stern despair ; 
 Whilst the wounded and the dying lie scatter'd all 
 
 around^ 
 And many a slaughter' d robber is stiff'ning on the 
 ground. 
 
 Hurrah ! for the conflict's won ! 
 
 'Twas a fierce and deadly strife 
 Nevei more shall the gladsome sun 
 Shine on Carlos' forfeit life ! 
 But who is she ? the lovely one who's clinging to his 
 
 side ? 
 'Tis Rosalie, the mountain flower — 'tis Rosalie, the 
 bride ! 
 
62 the bandit's bride. 
 
 He had woo'd her from her bow'r 
 
 With many a fond caress ; 
 He had pluck' d the mountain flower — 
 Ah ! little did she guess 
 When he took her from her early home, and left it 
 
 desolate, 
 
 That she had chosen Carlos, the brigand, for her 
 mate ! 
 
 But dearly still she lov'd him 
 
 With a firm and faithful love ! 
 To him her heart had given 
 All — save its hopes above ! 
 And when he'd told the fearful truth, and all disguise 
 
 was o'er, 
 
 She only wept, and pray'd him, to repent and sin no 
 more ! 
 
 And now, as she flung her down, 
 
 And look'd up in his face, 
 That iron brow relax'd its frown, 
 
 As he snatch' d one wild embrace. 
 
the bandit's bride. 63 
 
 I Now fare-thee-well, my beautiful ! thou wert a 
 
 felon's wife ; 
 O would that we had never met ! for thy sweet sake^ 
 
 my life !" 
 
 With a deep sob of agony 
 
 Her slender hands she clasp'd— - 
 " Mercy !" she said, with a frantic cry, 
 As the victor's knees she grasp'd. 
 f Woman ! there is no hope for him/' was the chief- 
 tain's stern reply, 
 " Had he a thousand lives, in each he were condemn'd 
 to die !" 
 
 Down — down she sunk on the crimson'd stone, 
 
 As the fatal words he spoke — 
 " Save him," was still her dying moan, 
 And with that her heart-strings broke ! 
 And Carlos,ere the death-shot sped, a shriek of anguish 
 
 gave — 
 For low lay his lovely mountain flow'r — and they 
 shar'd one common grave. 
 
64 
 
 THE ITALIAN GIRL DYING IN THE NORTH. 
 
 I'm withering away in this bleak and frozen land — 
 Faintly my wild lyre's strings I wake, with weak and 
 
 trembling hand ; 
 They bid me wake sweet melody ; but, ah ! this 
 
 lab'ring breath- 
 Tin^ painful utterance gives sign — it is the song of 
 
 death ! 
 
 Not thus it was in happier days, when joyously I sung, 
 And list'ning crowds in rapture heard, and on my 
 
 accents hung ; 
 They said the soul of genius beam'd in lustre from 
 
 mine eye — 
 Alas ! that lovely light is quench'd — they brought me 
 
 here to die ! 
 
THE ITALIAN GIRL DYING IN THE NORTH. 65 
 
 O that I were far, far from hence,, in my own sunny 
 
 clime ! 
 This failing form might then revive — yet, yet it might 
 
 be time ; 
 Thy balmy air, sweet Italy, so healingly which blows, 
 Might bring my step its firmness back — to my wan 
 
 cheek the rose ! 
 
 Ah, no ! I feel it is too late ! my faint voice grows 
 
 more faint ; 
 These falt'ring tones can scarcely breathe my sorrow's 
 
 dying plaint ! 
 Yet bear me hence, kind strangers, to the country of 
 
 my birth, 
 Ere yet my spirit's yearning glance shall pass away 
 
 from earth ! 
 
 O bear me hence ! these regions, where deep snow 
 
 for ever lies, 
 They pierce the shrinking bosom of a child of 
 
 southern skies : 
 
66 THE ITALIAN GIRL DYING IN THE NORTH. 
 
 The icy blasts of Russia from the mountains rushing 
 forth, 
 
 Have nipp'd the blossom of my life — 1 perish in the 
 North ! 
 
 Yet once again, might I behold mine own Italian 
 
 home ! 
 Its summer bloom, and 'mongst the vines and olive 
 
 gardens roam ! 
 Record th' expiring vow of love, at beauty's native 
 
 shrine, 
 Then soar above on angel wings — I should not then 
 
 repine ! 
 
67 
 
 MEMORIES. 
 
 There is a time — there is an hour — 
 When Fancy has most witching pow'r ; 
 And floating freshly o'er the brain, 
 All that has been, returns again ! 
 Yes ! all returns — the dreams of old, 
 Which cheating tales of joy foretold — 
 The sound of some light footfall gone 
 From the domestic hearth — the tone — 
 The pressure of some kindly hand 
 Far distant in another land — 
 The merry laugh of those whom care 
 Now makes his heavy fetters wear ; 
 And who, when custom bids them smile, 
 Look as if their hearts wept the while ; 
 The visions of our happiest days ; 
 Some cherish'd look — some hoarded praise ; 
 
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68 MEMORIES. 
 
 All that has been our bliss or bane — 
 All that we felt, and felt in vain, 
 Dwells in our memory again. 
 
 Has it ne'er been thy lot to know 
 
 The throbbing pulse — the fev'rish glow — 
 
 Call'd up by treasur'd memories 
 
 In these, thy silent reveries ? 
 
 When some dear voice, in well remember'd tone, 
 
 Comes thrilling on thine ear ? 
 And with a sound of music, all its own, 
 
 Whispers some words, as dear I 
 Forgotten, perhaps, by all save thee ! 
 
 But fix'd so deeply in thy heart ; 
 Ah ! whether gay or sad they be, 
 
 Those accents ne'er depart ! 
 
 Would'st thou another spell ? — yet more — 
 The friends whose loss thou may'st deplore, 
 E'en for the dead ! there is an hour 
 When mem'ry has such mighty pow'r, 
 Their forms rise dimly on our view 
 And manhood's grace, and beauty s hue, 
 
MEMORIES. 89 
 
 As in their brightest, fairest days, 
 
 Again entrance our fervent gaze ! 
 
 They are before us in their prime — 
 
 This is the hour — this the time, 
 And fancy paints them in her freshest bloom, 
 As tho' they were not mould'ring in the tomb ! 
 
 O memory ! fond memory ! 
 
 When all things change, we fly to thee ! 
 
 We bid thee bring us back the years — 
 
 The thoughts — the friends we lov'd so well- 
 Even our sorrow Time endears ! 
 
 Breathe upon us thy magic spell ! 
 The past, the past floats round me now 
 And tones which feeling can endow 
 With many a charm, and many a throe 
 Of deeply-prov'd and silent woe ! 
 And some that were so full of bliss — 
 Too much, too bright for a world like this ! 
 Memory ! there is a witching pow'r — 
 This is the time — this is the hour ! 
 
70 
 
 LOOK ON YOUR ROSES. 
 
 " Celui qui n'a pas souffert," dit un prophete, " que sait-il?" 
 
 Madame de Stael. 
 
 Full many a bright and enthralling dream 
 Has 'rapt my soul in its sunny gleam ; 
 Vision 'd delights that were frail and fair, 
 And transient, as all things lovely are ! 
 Yet they were witching as dreams could be— 
 Look on your roses — and think of me ! 
 
 O let my name be wreathed with the thought 
 
 Of flowers and buds with perfume fraught ! 
 
 Let it be pleasant, and sweet to thee 
 
 As fountains in sandy Araby ! 
 
 As summer and summer flow'rs can be — 
 
 Look on your roses — and think of me ! 
 
LOOK ON YOUR ROSES. 71 
 
 They have been twin'd in my raven hair, 
 
 And, though they might look less bright, less fair, 
 
 Than when they adorn'd their parent tree, 
 
 Gracefully fann'd by the breezes free ; 
 
 The tresses they deck'd, were deck'd for thee — 
 
 Look on your roses— and think of me ! 
 
 Is there a blossom of radiant hue, 
 
 Whose blushing head is bow'd down with dew ? 
 
 The noonday sun shall soon dry the stain — 
 
 The rose looks up in her pride again ! 
 
 She weeps ! but forgets her tears ! Do we? 
 
 Look on your roses — and think of me ! 
 
 O that such fairy gifts must perish ! 
 Like the one precious hope we cherish, 
 Fading in dimness and tears away, 
 As the sweetest buds will first decay ; 
 But thus, alas ! it will ever be— 
 Look on your roses— and think of me ! 
 
 And is there nought lasting of mortal birth ?■ 
 There is— there is — the friendship of earth ! 
 
72 LOOK ON YOUR ROSES. 
 
 O promise of price ! to the faithful given — 
 Falter not ! there is friendship in heaven ; 
 May I among those pure spirits be ! 
 Look on your roses — and think of me ! 
 
73 
 
 CHILDHOOD, 
 
 " The tear down childhood's cheek that flows 
 Is like the dew-drop on the rose, 
 When next the passing wind goes by, 
 And sweeps the bush — the flower is dry." 
 
 I would I were a child again, 
 
 To taste of childhood's bliss; 
 Each link in life's mysterious chain 
 
 Is a broken link but this. 
 Could I recall that fairy train 
 
 Haunting- my early track, 
 And be the same I was again ! 
 
 Childhood, come back ! come back ! 
 
 To bound along the flow'ry path 
 
 With laughter echoing long ; 
 And know each plant the greenwood hath, 
 
 And fill the air with song. 
 
74 CHILDHOOD. 
 
 When my heart grows sick of the world's dull round, 
 I think of this — and sigh ! 
 O how I long for some well-known sound 
 I lov'd in those days gone by ! 
 
 Beautiful seem'd the future then 
 
 To my sanguine fantasy ; 
 Oft have I stoln to some wild glen, 
 
 To dream with ecstasy ! 
 A thousand visions of delight 
 
 Which made my gay heart thrill ; 
 What was to come, was a picture bright, 
 
 But the present brighter still ! 
 
 Have life's successes pow'r to make 
 
 Th' ambitious mind more blest, 
 Than when the child's small fingers take 
 
 The linnet from her nest ? 
 Is triumph's glow less precious then — 
 
 Does he step less proudly on — 
 Than when, amidst the haunts of men, 
 
 A richer trophy's won ? 
 
CHILDHOOD. 75 
 
 Do the pleasures of our riper hours 
 
 With greater joy abound, 
 Than when, in pursuit of summer flow'rs, 
 
 The first wild-rose is found? 
 When there is bliss in the very air, 
 
 And life in each balmy breeze, 
 Which shakes the curls from our shining hair ! 
 
 When find we joys like these ? 
 
 Childhood ! thine is a happy spell ! 
 
 Gladness is in each voice 
 Of thine ardent bosom ; well, O well,. 
 
 May'st thou bid us rejoice ! 
 For never shall the spirit of bliss 
 
 Bathe in such radiance, hours 
 Which only belong to a time like this— 
 
 Once — only once — they're ours ! 
 
 And tho' after-dreams of gladness come 
 
 To cheer our pilgrimage, 
 There is no home like our first home — 
 
 No page like our first page ! 
 
76 CHILDHOOD. 
 
 When pleasure holds her blissful reign, 
 Ere we have learnt to yearn 
 
 For joys which prove all cold and vain — 
 Childhood ! return— return ! 
 
77 
 
 ZELIA.— A SKETCH. 
 
 " In sweet pride upon that insult keen 
 She smiled ; then drooping mute and broken-hearted, 
 To the cold comfort of the grave departed." 
 
 MlLMAN. 
 
 knew of one whose destiny was sad ! 
 
 Whose heart's deep musings all were pure and holy ! 
 No dreams her light elastic spirit had, 
 
 In youthful days, allied to melancholy. 
 But many a sorrow blanch'd her roseate cheek, 
 And stole the lustre from her eyes so meek ; 
 And sadness came o'er her — the once so blest — 
 Ere she descended to her house of rest. 
 
 The hand of death relentless stole 
 The object dearest to her soul ; 
 O bitter was that dreadful hour 
 When first she learnt affliction's pow'r ! 
 
78 ZELIA. 
 
 But there was still a beacon light 
 Which shone as brilliantly and bright ; 
 On that guiding star poor Zelia kept 
 Her firm dependence, and tho' she wept, 
 From that heav'n she lov'd was sent a smile 
 To cheer her drooping heart the while. 
 
 Hope tried each witching, soothing art, 
 And pour'd her cordial on the heart ; 
 'Twas not in vain ! those tender wiles 
 Restor'd the truant peace in smiles ! 
 But there was a harder trial yet 
 
 For Zelia's mind to prove ; 
 One — gay and graceful whom she met 
 
 Had sought — and won her love. 
 Time past ! and soon by Vernon's side 
 She stood a happy, blushing bride; 
 And gaily flew some space away ! 
 But the inconstant mind will stray 
 From ev'n the loveliest ! and she 
 Was lovely as the fair can be. 
 
79 
 
 Caught by the blandishments of one 
 Who many as weak a heart had won, 
 And, harden'd in the course of sin, 
 Made it her boast such hearts to win : 
 He could forsake his Zelia now, 
 Whose drooping form and alter'd brow 
 A tale of secret suffering told ; — 
 True, he was kind — but then, how cold ! 
 How chang'd since in their bridal days 
 Each word, each look of his breath'd praise \ 
 Could he desert his Zelia? Yes ! 
 He left her to the bitterness 
 Of an aching heart, and a lonely home, 
 Where his footsteps paus'd in shame to come ; 
 For never yet had Vernon heard 
 Reproach, or one upbraiding word, 
 From her, whose hourly change was token 
 The silver chord of life was broken ! 
 ■ She could not live ! No ! Zelia's heart 
 
 Could ill support its fatal doom ; 
 In tears we watch'd her soul depart— 
 
 And Vernon wept upon her tomb ! 
 
80 
 
 He weeps for thee ! with gushing tears 
 
 Who blighted the bloom of thy youthful years ! 
 
 He weeps for thee ! who forgot thy love, 
 
 And the web of thy life in sadness wove. 
 
 Yes ! Zelia — the cruel one is here — 
 
 He has strewn flow'rs on thy early bier, 
 
 And his bosom swells, and fondly yearns, 
 
 For the lost one who no more returns ! 
 
 She, who his many wrongs forgave 
 
 Is sleeping now in the quiet grave ! 
 
 And her spirit lives in that peaceful home, 
 
 Where no neglect or unkindness come ! 
 
 But her image evermore shall dwell, 
 
 In his breast, who sobs a last farewell ! 
 
 O ye ! who know your lightest tone 
 Is dear to some heart which is yours alone, 
 Pause e're you suffer your own to range 
 From her who withers at the change ! 
 Pause — ere you fill the poison'd cup 
 With tears — and bid her drink it up. 
 
ZELIA. 81 
 
 Yea — though your truth may fall asleep- 
 Pause ! — ere you plunge the arrow deep 
 In her faithful bosom !— never more, 
 Whate'er your fate — on sea or shore, 
 Asleep or waking — shall ye cease, 
 To rue that hour— or sigh for peace ! 
 
A SERIES 
 
 POETICAL PICTURES. 
 
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85 
 
 A SERIES OF POETICAL PICTURES. 
 
 IL BIGLIETTO D'AMORE. 
 
 These lines were suggested by a picture of an Italian girl dictating to 
 one of the old scribes who ply in the streets of Rome, a letter to her 
 lover. 
 
 O ! bid him soon return, 
 
 To cheer my soul again ; 
 And tell him how I burn 
 
 With hope deferred in vain ! 
 O ! say, how I have wept 
 
 My weary time away — 
 My faith hath never slept, 
 
 My truth can ne'er decay ! 
 
86 IL BIGLIETTO D AMORE. 
 
 He said my eyes were bright 
 
 As some ethereal star — 
 Bid him bring back their light ! 
 
 Dim, tearful, now they are ! 
 Look at this fading cheek, 
 
 For love of him grown pale. 
 Ay! gaze, old man, and speak — 
 
 Tell all the mournful tale ! 
 
 The grief of one who's left, 
 
 To think of past delight — 
 Of peace and joy bereft, 
 
 Till he shall bless her sight ; 
 Yet, though he's far away, 
 
 And I am left alone, 
 Old man ! I charge thee say, 
 
 I am his- own ! — his own! 
 
 Arranged to music, and in the possession of Mr. Dean, by whom it 
 will be published. 
 
87 
 
 SILENCE. 
 
 Lines suggested by a picture representing Silence as a beautiful girl 
 pressing her finger on her lip and smiling. 
 
 S ilence with a lip of mirth ? 
 
 Laughing looks, and ringlets wild ? 
 Silence ne'er in joy had birth ; 
 
 She, alas ! is Sorrow's child ! 
 
 Fancy ! thou hast surely err'd, 
 Decking her with smiles and bloom, 
 
 Who of Silence ever heard, 
 
 Save in mournfulness and gloom ! 
 
 Scarce can we recognise thee, 
 
 Lovely as thou'rt here pourtray'd : 
 
 Silence thou can'st never be, 
 
 Else those sparkling eyes would fade ! 
 
88 
 
 With the scornful and unblest, 
 With the bosom cold and chill ; 
 
 Much by haughty pride carest; 
 With the sad thou dwellest still ! 
 
 Far from noisy pleasures stealing, 
 Often art thou seen to brood, 
 
 O'er some grief that's past revealing — 
 Nursling pale of solitude ! 
 
 Blighting doubt and wasting fears, 
 Lips seal'd fast in cold despair — 
 
 Eyes, whose light is quench'd in tears- 
 Where these are, Silence is there ! 
 
 Never could'st thou yet impart, 
 One dear hope or dream of bliss ; 
 
 Cold and dull, and dim thou art, 
 Never brightly fair as this ! 
 
 Fairy form of bloom and smiles ! 
 Need we ask thee — what art thou ? 
 
89 
 
 This is one whom hope beguiles, 
 Lighting up the cheek and brow ! 
 
 Masquerading she hatji been ! 
 
 Rosy youth and sportive glee, 
 In her speaking glance are seen — 
 
 Silence ! she but mocketh thee ! 
 
 Ay ! press thy lip— thou lovely one, 
 Keep thy playful wit in thrall ! 
 
 Eloquence dwells not alone, 
 
 In one sweet feature — 'tis in all ! 
 
90 
 
 LINES, 
 
 WRITTEN ON SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE'S PICTURE OF 
 YOUNG LAMBTON. 
 
 I look upon thy radiant face, thou fair and pensive 
 
 child, 
 And think that thou wert all too bright, too beautiful 
 
 and mild, 
 To dwell upon this nether earth, where stormy passions 
 
 come : 
 So thou art gone afar from us, to thy happy spirit's 
 
 home 
 
 And though the grief of those who mourn'd thy loss 
 
 was deep and loud, 
 As they wept o'er thee, their beauteous flow'r, and laid 
 
 thee in the shroud ; 
 
LINES. 91 
 
 Yet, in his sinless, brief career, the fairy boy was blest ! 
 He tasted but the sweets of life — and then, he was at 
 rest! 
 
 O ! better far, to follow thus the lov'd one to his tomb, 
 
 When his soul is in its freshness, and his beauty in its 
 
 bloom ; 
 
 Than to watch that blissful spirit's change, or weep 
 
 the bitter tears, 
 -I 
 Of unavailing sorrow o'er the wreck of after years ! 
 
92 
 
 THE BROKEN HEART. 
 
 Suggested by a picture, which represents a young and lovely girl 
 sitting in an attitude of deep dejection, holding her lover's miniature 
 in her hand, and weeping. 
 
 " Al cor gentil ripara sempre Amore, 
 
 Siccome Angello elle verdura ; 
 
 Non fe' Amor anzi che' gentil core, 
 
 Ne' gentil cor, anzi ch' Amor, natura; 
 
 Ch' adesso come fu'l il Sole 
 
 Si tosto lo splendore fue lucente ; 
 
 Ne fu davanti al Sole ; 
 
 E prende Amor in gentilezza loco, 
 
 Cosi propiamente, 
 
 Com' il calore in clarita del foco." 
 
 GUIDO GlUNICELLI. 
 
 " Ma (ptLvei^- He leaves me." 
 
 Notes to Childe Harold. 
 
 I would not have thee know the tears, 
 
 I've shed over thy memory ; 
 The anxious hopes, the chilling fears, 
 
 Which haunt me when I think of thee ! 
 
THE BROKEN HEART. 93 
 
 The fond remembrance, cherish'd still, 
 Amidst a wreck of treasur'd store — 
 
 Th' ecstatic flush ! the thoughts that thrill ! 
 The death-like gloom, when that is o'er I 
 
 % Yes ! all my soul could give of light — 
 Of joy and fondness— wealth divine ! 
 All that it knew, of glowing, bright — 
 Realities and dreams — was thine ! 
 
 Woman wastes all her tenderness, 
 And seeks in vain oblivion's balm — 
 i And / too court forgetfulness, 
 
 But seek in vain that soothing calm ! 
 
 What dream'd I when he won my heart — 
 
 What knew I of such artful thrift ? 
 To give, and yet retain a part 
 
 Of true affection's plighted gift ? 
 
 True ! I shall rouse myself and smile — 
 And chase all signs of grief away : 
 
94 THE BROKEN HEART. 
 
 But many a sickening pang the while 
 Will silent on my bosom prey ! 
 
 The ready laugh, the sparkling eye, 
 
 Can mock joy's outward mien so well — ■ 
 
 « 
 'Twere hard such well-feign' d gaiety 
 
 Aught of the inward strife should tell ! 
 
 He'll never know one half of all 
 I must endure, and have endur'd, 
 
 The ardent spirit's restless thrall, 
 Which still clung fast, and still allur'd ! 
 
 And hopes I durst not name ! so dear ! 
 
 Which in his absence still begun" d 
 That won me through the tedious year ! 
 
 Ah ! strange they now appear, and wild ! 
 
 Minds there are of a rainbow dye, 
 
 For ever varying in their mood ; 
 The shadow soon passes — the shaft speeds by — 
 
 They skim but the surface of passion's flood ! 
 
THE BROKEN HEART. 95 
 
 I cannot change ? Does he believe 
 
 Like those I ever now can be ? 
 They lightly love, and lightly grieve, 
 
 Another fate was made for me ! 
 
 This blighted heart shall ne'er avow, 
 The grief a cold world would disdain ; 
 
 I cannot seek to shun it now, 
 My struggles to forget are vain ! 
 
 Better it is, when in life's spring 
 The outbreakings of real bliss, 
 Turn, slow and sad, to shadowing — 
 
 To semblance all — poor — cold as this ! 
 
 * * # * 
 
 O ! for one drop of that fabled spring, 
 Whose Lethean waters drown all pain ! 
 
 But, no ! to me they could never bring, 
 The blissful hopes of life again ! 
 
 Why do I sing when he's not here, 
 Who should be listening to me now ? 
 
96 THE BROKEN HEART. 
 
 He shrinks from the unbidden tear, 
 That greets a false, forgotten vow ! 
 
 Once ! he'd listen with sparkling eye 
 If my lips did but sign to speak — 
 
 But his love is a dream gone by ! 
 And my heart must forget or break ! 
 
 A lovelier face hath won his smile — 
 Now he bows at a fairer shrine ! 
 
 heav'n ! let me forget the while 
 That envied love was wholly mine ! 
 
 He shall not hear my low complaint — 
 Ah ! no ! he shall not hear my sigh — 
 
 1 would not put such cold restraint 
 Upon his new idolatry ! 
 
 I fear me he will live to rue 
 
 The cruel blight he throws on one, 
 
 Whose sadden'd heart is firm and true 
 To mourn her bitter fate alone ! 
 
THE BROKEN HEART. 97 
 
 His light and mirthful laugh sounds strange — 
 Alas ! my smiles are forc'd and chill — 
 
 Ah ! false one ! wouJd that I might change! 
 It cannot be — I love thee still ! 
 
 O ! who that hath felt passion's thrill 
 
 Its secret spells of might and pow'r, 
 Would wish to linger coldly still, 
 
 When the heart's history is o'er ! * 
 
 There's a withering sorrow now, 
 
 Like dew on a lily's head — 
 It presses down on her youthful brow, 
 
 And her gladness and glee are fled ! 
 
 And something that was sweet hath past 
 From the music of her tone ; 
 
 The bright glow of life is fading fast, 
 For her dream of fond hope is gone ! 
 
98 THE BROKEN HEART. 
 
 There lurks a canker in her bloom, 
 'Tis mingled with life and breath ; 
 
 But what is there fearful in the tomb ? 
 There is no deceit in death ! 
 
99 
 
 ON AN EXQUISITELY FINISHED PAINTING 
 OF A GROUP OF FLOWERS. 
 
 There is a voice in ye, dear flowers ! 
 
 A voice I often hear — 
 Telling of vanished days and hours, 
 
 And friends no longer near ! 
 
 But most — one little balmy gem, 
 
 My fav'rite, chosen one ! 
 Has deeper power than all of them, 
 
 To wake the thrilling tone, 
 
 Which long has slept in mem'ry's shrine, 
 
 But wakes in beauty yet — 
 O ! what a wondrous spell is thine, 
 
 Mine own sweet violet ! 
 
 A lovely flower can recall, 
 A dear, though sever'd tie ; 
 
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100 ON A GROUP OF FLOWERS. 
 
 Youth's sanguine visions, glowing all 
 In fancy's radiant dye ! 
 
 The buoyant step of careless glee, 
 The wreathed smiles of mirth — 
 
 All — all are summon'd back by thee, 
 Thou fragrant child of earth ! 
 
 I pity the insensate proud, 
 Who scorn to love a flower — 
 
 O! heed not the contemptuous crowd, 
 But own their touching power ! 
 
 They, chill'd by stately pageantry,, 
 Your simple charms disdain ; 
 
 I never wish to look on ye 
 With their cold eyes again ! 
 
 Flowers— dear flowers ! ye are to me 
 Treasures to heart and sense ! 
 
 Nature's most lovely gifts are ye, 
 Fraught with her eloquence ! 
 
101 
 
 A PORTRAIT. 
 
 Fair mother ! in thy soft blue eye, 
 
 Thy clear and open brow, 
 We read thy heart's sweet history ! 
 
 O ! still remain as now ; 
 The kind — the beautiful, the blest 
 
 With all earth can bestow ! 
 And happiness the only guest 
 
 Thy bosom e'er shall know ! 
 
 Fair mother ! may thy power to bless 
 
 Long, long be cherish'd here ! 
 Whilst thy young buds of loveliness 
 
 Gladden thy bright career ! 
 That, when fresh years have set their seal 
 
 On eyes so sweetly meek, 
 Time, and not care, shall gently steal 
 
 The roses from thy cheek ! 
 
102 
 
 ON A MINIATURE. 
 
 Dear image of our absent one ! with what a deep 
 
 delight 
 I gaze upon that lovely face, those beaming features 
 
 bright ! 
 How wistfully my lingering eye dwells on that glowing 
 
 cheek, 
 That noble brow and radiant glance ! O ! if thou 
 
 could'st but speak ! 
 
 But mute, inanimate art thou ! and all in vain caress'd 
 By lips, whose daily prayer is, " May'st thou be ever 
 
 blest !" 
 Thou know'st not of the tearful eyes, so often fixed on 
 
 thee, 
 But well can'st fancy all their love, though far away 
 
 from me ! 
 
ON A MINIATURE. 103 
 
 To think of thee the livelong day — to dream of thee 
 
 at night, 
 And ever to retain this cherish'd picture in my 
 
 sight ;— 
 To wish that I could share thy joys, and soothe 
 
 each care of thine — 
 These are affection's fond employs — and these are 
 
 ever mine ! 
 
 O ! blessed be the painter's art, which faithfully can 
 trace 
 
 Each lineament so justly dear — each charm of form 
 and face ! 
 
 But lifeless, cold, and still, alas ! must the faint tran- 
 script be ! 
 
 O ! would that pensive smile might change ! — Canst 
 thou not speak to me ? 
 
 That idle wish ! — how oft my heart sighs forth its vain 
 
 lament ! 
 When with fond ling'ring gaze on thee, mine earnest 
 
 eyes are bent ! 
 
104 ON A MINIATURE. 
 
 These cannot now respond to mine ! — but hush ! these 
 
 longings vain— 
 This treasur'd semblance is my joy, till we shall mee 
 
 again ! 
 
105 
 
 VENICE. 
 
 On one of Canaletti's paintings. 
 
 Venice ! the beautiful ! the grand ! 
 
 How sadly falFn art thou ! 
 Venice ! a rough and stranger hand 
 
 Has torn the jewels from thy brow ! 
 Thou'rt shrunk beneath a foreign pow'r- 
 
 Thou art no more the free ! 
 Past are the glories of thy hour 
 
 Of pride — fair Italy ! 
 
 O ! mournfully the dark blue sea 
 
 Thy marble buildings laves — 
 The Adriatic mourns for thee ! — 
 
 A sound of sadness in her waves ! 
 For never more like some gay bride 
 
 She'll wear her Doge's ring — 
 His gondolas in regal pride 
 
 No nuptial offerings bring ! 
 
106 VENICE. 
 
 Yes ! — thou hast crouch'd beneath the yoke — 
 
 Thy princes are as slaves — 
 The hearts which nobly would have broke 
 
 With such a doom, are in their graves ! 
 The palaces whose stately domes 
 
 Rung with the festal song, 
 Are now the cold and dreary homes 
 
 Of poverty and wrong ! 
 
 All freedom now is banished 
 From thy neglected halls ; 
 
 How is their grandeur vanished! 
 Whilst round thee, Venice ! darkly falls 
 
 A cloud, which ne'er will pass away 
 From thy degraded shore ! 
 
 Lovely art thou in thy decay- 
 But powerful no more ! 
 
107 
 
 THE COTTAGE GIRL. 
 
 On a picture of a little Cottager sitting under a tree, with a Dog at her 
 feet. 
 
 I know ev'rv winding of the woodland path — 
 I can tell where the blackbird carols wild and free ; 
 The most beautiful blossoms which the green bank hath 
 Are known to poor Carlo, my faithful dog, and me ! 
 
 And when he's sitting at my feet beneath the tree, 
 And I look upon the glories of the deep blue sky ; 
 Methinks on this pleasant earth there cannot be 
 A being half so blessed, or so glad as I ! 
 
 I wander in the spring-time to yon city gay, 
 To sell my sweet primroses, and such early flow'rs ; 
 But never saw I aught that could tempt me away 
 From thee, beloved woodland, and my own green 
 bow'rs ! 
 
108 THE COTTAGE GIRL. 
 
 I never have known grief! for sorrow comes with sin — 
 I feel there's One above, the innocent will bless — 
 'Tis He that makes my heart all peace and joy within, 
 And fills me with a spirit of deep thankfulness ! 
 
 Yes ! thine is a, blessed lot, little cottage maid ! 
 There are many in the world who might envy thee ; 
 Though in glittering jewels and bright gems array'd, 
 Gold cannot heal a breaking heart, nor give thy glee ! 
 
 Go not from thy peaceful home, artless blue-eyed child ! 
 Palaces could offer no pleasures like thy own ; 
 Live amongst thy flowers— thyself as pure and wild ! 
 The guileless mind like thine, knows happiness alone! 
 
109 
 
 THE GYPSY. 
 
 On a painting by Mr. F. Rochard, of a Gypsy telling Fortunes. 
 
 I am of earth's wild wanderers ! 
 
 Mine is a roving part ; 
 Yet the Gypsy girl's content with hers — 
 
 Care preys not on her heart ! 
 When from my sylvan haunts I roam, 
 
 The fair, the gay, the young, 
 Around the fortune-teller come — 
 
 Fate hangs upon her tongue ! 
 
 I have spells for the fond lover — 
 
 Spells for the miser's thrift — 
 I've a charm that can discover 
 
 Each rare and secret gift ! 
 
110 THE GYPSY. 
 
 Now come hither ! thou lovely lady, 
 And cross my palm with gold ; 
 
 For costly should the guerdon be, 
 Thy future fate t' unfold ! 
 
 Let me throw my raven tresses back, 
 
 To gaze on one so fair; 
 Give me thy lily hand ! — I track 
 
 The line of fortune there ! 
 Thanks ! gentle lady ! for thy meed — 
 
 A benison 'twill bring ; 
 The stars a bright lot have decreed 
 
 To thee, with a wedding-ring ! 
 
 And now away I'll gladly hie 
 
 To the woodland and the glen ; 
 How sweet the air of the summer sky, 
 
 Afar from the haunts of men ! 
 And, though no gold or jewels glow 
 
 Amid each ebon curl, 
 As dear the wild-rose on her brow 
 
 To the dark ey'd Gypsy girl ! 
 
 Published with music by Mr. Dean. 
 
Ill 
 
 THE SHRIMP BOY. 
 
 On a drawing of a Fisher Boy with his Basket of Shrimps, walking 
 on the Sea Shore. 
 
 O do not scorn the orphan boy ! with his fresh and 
 
 finny store, 
 When he brings his hard-earn'd harvest, from the 
 
 chaf'd sea, safe to shore! 
 Scorn not the youthful fisherman, nor turn him from 
 
 thy door ; 
 He is a good and honest lad! and the orphan boy is 
 
 poor ! 
 
 There is a little fairy one at home who waits for him, 
 With an anxious heart and sorrowful, and eyes with 
 
 tears made dim ! 
 For their father nerish'd in his bark, 'neath the dark 
 
 stormy sea ; 
 And thy sister, Edward, shudders, lest that tyrant 
 
 Deep claim thee ! 
 
112 THE SHRIMP BOY. 
 
 But little peril is there now in thy safe and gainful 
 
 trade ! 
 So thou hast told thy sister, who with smiles thy words 
 
 repaid; 
 But 'tis at night, when he must face the terrors of the 
 
 Deep, 
 That she sighs and prays for thee by turns, ere she 
 
 sinks in her tearful sleep ! 
 
 And forth he goes with a lightsome heart, and a bold 
 
 and daring will — 
 Secure that in his wat'ry path, God will be with him 
 
 still! 
 But see ! he 's filled his basket, and has brought its 
 
 freight to shore — 
 O ! do not slight the orphan !— the fisher boy is poor ! 
 
113 
 
 THE WIDOW. 
 
 Cosi trapassa al trapassar d'un giorno 
 Delia Vita mortal il fiore e'l verde.— Tasso. 
 
 Call her not " lonely I" though sorrow's trace 
 Is left on that meek and lovely face ! 
 Though the palm world around is sleeping., 
 While she, her mournful watch is keeping ; 
 Though from that anguish stricken heart 
 All thought of earthly joys depart; 
 Buried with him in the sepulchre- 
 Call her not (C lonely !" God is with her ! 
 
 Far — far away from this world of care, 
 Her affections in bright regions are ! 
 Purified now from mortal leaven, — 
 Where is her treasure? — fix'd in heaven ! 
 Are there not minist'ring spirits nigh 
 To guard her in her agony ? 
 
114 THE WIDOW. 
 
 More softly falls the frequent tear — 
 Call her not lonely ! for God is near ! 
 
 ! fondly must sad memory hover 
 O'er him — the faithful husband — lover ! 
 He, who within thy heart ensuring 
 Was with thy very life entwin'd ! 
 
 But like a flower early blighted, 
 
 He's gone !— and thou art left benighted ; 
 
 Yet, tho' thy bright years are past by, 
 
 1 call thee not " lonely !" — thy God is nigh ! 
 
 Those are the lonely, who in their woe 
 
 No rock of strength for their weakness know- 
 
 Who in their desolate path are left 
 
 Of ev'ry solace and hope bereft ! — 
 
 Who, all despair, while tears are springing, 
 
 Are not to faith's best promise clinging — 
 
 Faith which can chasten thy sorrow now ! — 
 
 These are the lonely !— but, O ! not thou ! 
 
 
115 
 
 ALINE. 
 
 The subject is taken from a painting by an amateur artist of great merit. 
 
 Say, sweet Aline ! say, fair Aline ! 
 
 Why dost thou wander here at ev'n ? 
 
 Is it to gaze on the lake so sheen, 
 
 Or to meet mild Night with her air serene ? 
 
 Is it to catch a farewell glance 
 
 Of the parting sunbeams, as they dance 
 
 O'er the rich foliage of the spring ? 
 
 Is it to hear the woodland ring 
 
 With the nightingale's sweet carolling ? 
 
 Is it to gather the fragrant rose ? 
 Or to watch the flowerets as they close ? 
 Is it to bend o'er the streamlet clear, 
 And see thy beauty imaged there ? 
 Is it to muse on thy lost Henri — 
 Far, as thou knowest, far from thee ? 
 
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116 ALINE. 
 
 Nay ! say not some, in battle slain- — 
 He fell ! and never rose again ! 
 Thou think'st this still a falsity ! 
 Can cheerful hope yet smile on thee ? 
 
 sweet Aline ! O fair Aline ! 
 
 1 cannot read thy alter'd mien ! 
 
 Her look is wild — her glance is keen — 
 What can this fev'rish transport mean ? 
 Her cheek is flush'd — her pulses beat — 
 Her step how hurried ! and how fleet ! 
 
 A little skiff comes swiftly o'er 
 The waters — Aline gains the shore ; 
 She tosses back the curls which flow 
 O'er her fair shoulders — white as snow ! 
 Why does she -clasp her hands ? and why 
 That gleam of rapture in her eye ? 
 
 The boat is fastened to the shore — 
 Who was it toss'd away the oar ? 
 What mantled stranger, too, is he 
 Who springs upon the bank ? And see ! 
 
ALINE. 117 
 
 Now he is kneeling at Aline' s feet ! 
 And she, as pale as winding-sheet ! 
 She faints—revives— O ecstasy ! 
 'Tis the long-lost, — her lov'd, Henri ! 
 
118 
 
 HADJAR EL BENAT ; OR, THE DAMSEL'S 
 ROCK. 
 
 This story is founded on a fact related in Burchardt's " Notes on 
 the Bedouins," vol. i. p. 276, as follows— 
 
 " Another instance of Bedouin feeling occurred above twenty years 
 since, near Wady Feiran, in the Desert of Sinai, where a mountain is 
 shown, from which two young girls precipitated themselves, having the 
 ringlets of their hair twisted together ; thus they dashed themselves to 
 pieces, because on that evening they were to be married to men they 
 disliked. The summit from which they threw themselves is still called 
 ' Hadjlr el BenaV or the Damsel's Rock." 
 
 Upon a dizzy height they stood — 
 
 Two graceful Arab maids ; 
 Why were they in that solitude, 
 
 Far from their sheltering shades ? 
 One fairy form had closely clung 
 
 Around her sister's statelier frame ; 
 And upwards was her white arm flung, 
 
 As, shudderingly her accents came : 
 
HAD JAR EL BENAT. 119 
 
 " Dear native tents ! they stilly look 
 
 Beneath the noontide glare ! 
 And scarce a rustling breeze has shook 
 
 Our date-tree waving there ! 
 Yet, Fatme ! there will be fierce rage, 
 
 And weapons glancing keenly bright, 
 And anguish, time can ne'er assuage, 
 
 In our own Bedouin tribe to-night ! 
 
 " But 'twill be vain ! their lightning speed ! 
 
 Our death-cry will have past — 
 With none to stay — with none to heed — 
 
 Unknown, upon the blast ! 
 The savage vulture of the wild 
 
 Alone to track our bones may dare ; 
 Yet, happier for the Desert's child 
 
 A death like this — than life's despair ! 
 
 " Sister ! they'll miss our glancing feet 
 
 When the moon's midnight pomp is gleaming ; 
 
 At the c Mesamer/* throngs will meet ! 
 Ah ! none will of our fate be dreaming* 
 
 * The Mesamer are general throughout the Desert,, but almost every 
 
120 HADJAR EL BENAT ; 
 
 While they pour forth our praise in song-, 
 And seek us 'mongst the veiled train, 
 
 Will they not think we linger long ? — 
 Ne'er shall they see our forms again ! 
 
 <e Our Arab tents ! I lov'd them well ! 
 
 My gentle camel too — 
 And thou, my meek, dark-ey'd gazelle ! 
 
 How well my voice it knew ! 
 My cruel sire ! — all these I've left, 
 
 Because my spirit would be free ; 
 Of liberty and love bereft — 
 
 Both sold ! what is my life to me ?" 
 
 The big tears down her cheeks have roll'd- 
 The loud sob rends her breast ; 
 
 The sorrow by Tier lips untold 
 Bursts forth — too long represt. 
 
 tribe differs in the mode of singing them. The song is often composed 
 extempore,and relates to the beauty and qualities of the girl who dances.*' 
 — See Burchardt's Notes. 
 
OR, THE DAMSEL'S ROCK- 121 
 
 Then with a proud and mournful look, 
 
 The lovely Fatme on her gaz'd ; 
 The crimson glow her face forsook, 
 
 While thus her firm sweet voice she rais'd : 
 
 " Leila ! the day is closing in ! 
 
 Soon must the hated tread 
 Of those who thought with gifts to win 
 
 Our hearts, be hither led. 
 Speak ! for thou may'st repent thee yet — 
 
 Thy fond lamenting' s not in vain ! 
 O ! if life cause thee one regret, 
 
 Return to Sinai's tents again ! 
 
 " Thou wert to-night a destin'd bride, 
 
 And in a warrior's grasp 
 Could'st thou not thine abhorrence hide ? 
 
 Rich bracelets he would clasp 
 Upon thy rounded wrists— content 
 
 May yet bring brightness to thy lot ; 
 Could'st thou be happy in his tent? 
 
 If so — let Fatme be forgot ! 
 
122 HADJAR EL BENAT ; 
 
 " Alone I'll take the fatal leap, 
 
 And set my wild heart free ; 
 Leila ! when silently I sleep, 
 
 Shed no salt tears for me ! 
 I'd sooner scatter to the wave, 
 
 Or give the winds each mangled limb, 
 Than be the wedded household slave 
 
 Of yon dark chief I hate — of him /" 
 
 She ceas'd to speak — like diamonds glist'ning 
 
 With a deep light intense, 
 Shone her dark eyes, and Leila list'ning 
 
 To her wild eloquence 
 Felt the sad purpose firmer grown, 
 
 And softer thoughts have faded by : 
 " Ah, no ! sweet sister ! not alone ! — 
 
 I too, like thee, came here to die ! 
 
 " I came ! for they had sternly torn 
 
 Young Hassan from my side; 
 They would not let me sit forlorn 
 
 To weep— but pledg'd me bride — 
 
 
OR, THE DAMSEL'S ROCK. 123 
 
 Not unto one whose name I cherish, 
 But to his foe — yon tyrant Sheikh !— 
 
 One kiss, sweet sister ! ere we perish, 
 But let our last farewell be brief \" 
 
 Their ebon ringlets streamed afar 
 
 Upon the mountain gale ; 
 Twisted together now, they are 
 
 Forming one sable veil. 
 Their arms entwine each other's waist — 
 
 Tenderly clinging, as of yore ; 
 And thus, in lovely links eniac'd, 
 
 They leap the crag — are seen no more ! 
 
 'Tis eve — and long the wedding feast 
 
 Has been in pomp prepar'd — 
 Soon shall those sounds of joy have ceas'd, 
 
 And they who would have shar'd 
 In the gay banquet, seek around, 
 
 Their destin'd, their betroth' d, in vain ; 
 Ne'er shall those victim brides be found, 
 
 Or their light forms be seen again ! 
 
124 HAD JAB EL BEN AT, 
 
 Fair Arab maids ! ye are at rest ! 
 
 Your wild hearts knew no bond ; 
 Ye are at peace— no ties unblest 
 
 Can wring your bosoms fond ! 
 u Hadjar el Benat" towers above 
 
 The bloody grave which made you free ; 
 And dearly Sinai's children love 
 
 " The Damsels' Rock/' to mourn o'er ye ! 
 
125 
 
 
 O ! HEART OF MINE ! 
 
 " What deep wounds ever clos'd without a scar ?« 
 The heart's bleed longest, and but heal to wear 
 That which disfigures it." 
 
 Childe Harold. 
 
 ! heart of mine ! so mournful grown, 
 Has joy no voice — has mirth no tone — 
 
 To wake thy silent echoes yet ? 
 The festal scene — the dance— the song — 
 Those sounds of gladness borne along, 
 
 Charm me no more ! — I must forget ! 
 
 1 must forget ! but O ! my heart ! 
 How shall thy memories depart ? 
 
 How shall I strip thy haunted shrine, 
 Where all things rich and lovely dwell ? 
 I've hid them in that lonely cell, 
 
 And undisturb'd, they still are mine ! 
 
126 O ! HEART OF MINE ! 
 
 I could not part with them in death, 
 Mingled with life, and hope, and breath, 
 
 I bear them through this weary strife, 
 Where all are struggling to be blest, 
 But find not here their spirits' rest — 
 
 I bear them on ! — they are my life ! 
 
 The vanished dreams of love and youth ; — 
 Th' unshaken trust m others' truth — 
 
 The mind which spurn'd the cold world's thrall ; 
 Bright hopes, and fond imaginings, 
 And heav'nward thoughts with eagle wings, 
 
 Lie garner' d there — in safety all ! 
 
 And when unheeded springs the tear, 
 And no congenial bosom near, 
 
 Whispers a sympathizing word ; 
 Inly we turn- for there, no change 
 Can make us feel how stern and strange 
 
 All outward things seem to us here ! 
 
 O ! heart of mine ! the task is vain ! 
 Wear not the mask of mirth again ! 
 
O ! HEART OF MINE ! 127 
 
 The quivering lip smiles wanly yet, 
 And with its trembling laughter still 
 The bitter tones of anguish thrill — 
 
 Strive, strive no more— thou must forget ! 
 
128 
 
 THE SLUMBERER. 
 
 " Qu'un songe an ciel m'enleve, 
 Que plein d'ombre et d'amour 
 Jamais il ne s'ach^ve, 
 Et que lanuitje r£ve 
 A mon reve du jour !" 
 
 Victor Hugo. 
 
 " Quanto place* al mondo e breve sogno." 
 
 Pktrarca. 
 
 Kind sleep ! thou bring'st to us all things most che- 
 rished — 
 
 The friendships and the love of former years ; 
 The ardent hopes, which severally have perish'd — 
 
 The dead, whose loss we mourn with bitter tears ; 
 Successively, as in a magic glass, 
 Before our haunted sight, their shadwos pass ! 
 
 Their shadows pass— and with them many a voice, 
 Whose dear familiar music bears a spell, 
 
THE SLUMBERER. 129 
 
 Bidding the slumberer's cheated sense rejoice; — 
 
 They come ! a tale of other days they tell ; 
 We dream — are blest ! then waken with a start,—- 
 The bright illusions one by one depart ! 
 
 One moment I^but one moment ! — must I strain 
 My aching eyes so vainly ? — O, too fast 
 
 Ye vanish from the arms that would detain 
 Your lov'd, your worshipped images, — they're past ! 
 
 I may not now recall them ; all are gone — 
 
 Melting like mountain mists — I am alone I 
 
 But when the midnight taper's dimly burning, 
 And in deep sleep my weary eyes shall close, 
 
 Then shall the phantoms of the past, returning, 
 Steal round the pillow of my soft repose ; 
 
 And many a treasured memory shall roll 
 
 Back, in clear living waves, upon my soul ! 
 
 Perhaps in festal dance, or laugh, or song, 
 Fancy may bear us on, in blithesome cheer, — 
 
 Again we mingle in the brilliant throng, 
 And fairy music charms our listening ear ; 
 
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130 THE SLUMBERER. 
 
 Then, sudden comes a change ! and discord flings 
 Her inharmonious fingers on the strings ! 
 
 Before the shrinking sight, in dark array, 
 
 She brings th' unwelcome forms of pain and grief! 
 
 O ! rouse thee, slumberer ! rouse thyself, and pray 
 For calmer influences to give relief; 
 
 Ye blessed angels ! guardians of our rest ! 
 
 Avert from sleep all reveries unblest ! 
 
 Banish pale Terror thence, and secret dread, 
 And Fear, and Disappointment's icy chill ! 
 
 But round the couch where lies my weary head 
 Let Faith, and hopes of heaven hover still ! 
 
 And benedictions from the lips most dear, 
 
 In thrilling echoes linger on the ear ! 
 
 Bring me the forms whom death has torn away ! 
 
 Those, who have left a sorrowing band on earth ; 
 Command their lov'd and fleeting shades to stay— 
 
 They, who once gladden' d our forsaken hearth ! 
 Faintly those well-known features still we trace— 
 They brighter grow— then fade from our embrace ! 
 

 THE SLUMBERER. 131 
 
 These passionate fond yearnings — are they vain ? 
 
 Alas ! they are ! yet fancy can recall 
 In vivid imagery the cherished train, 
 
 Who still exist in love's unfading thrall : 
 The chang'd, the sever'd, the belov'd of yore — 
 These^ haunted sleep ! thy magic can restore ! 
 
 Mysterious pow'r ! through thee we yet may steal 
 Something from the stern grasp of ruthless Fate ! 
 
 We soothe our stricken hearts with the unreal, 
 And slumber makes us feel less desolate. 
 
 Too many tears have sprinkled memory's urn — 
 
 But to the dreamer all her joys return ! 
 
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THE MOTHER AND CHILD. 
 
 " Ye weep ! and it is well ! 
 For tears befit earth's partings !" 
 
 Mrs. Hematvs 
 
 Mother ! sweet mother ! why weep you now ? 
 Let me kiss the sadness from your brow ! 
 Sunshine is gilding the fair green earth— 
 My heart leaps up with a pulse of mirth ; 
 Hush all your weary cares to sleep — 
 Mother ! sweet mother ! why do you weep ? 
 
 Look on these starry flow'rs so sweet — 
 I sought them out, with my eager feet ; 
 When the sun rose — I was up as soon, 
 Lest their delicate hues should fade at noon ; 
 The early dews still their perfumes steep — 
 Are they not lovely ? — O ! do not weep ! 
 
THE MOTHER AND CHILD. 133 
 
 The world is so beautiful and bright ! 
 Canst thou not share in my young delight ? 
 I heard the birds carolling in their glee — 
 And I was so happy ! — I wish'd/or thee! 
 But thy cheek is wan — and thy step is slow — 
 Mother ! sweet mother ! why weep you so ? 
 
 I weep, my child ! for the days are near 
 
 When thy mother's step shall no more be here — 
 
 I weep ! for the shadow is o'er me now, 
 
 Which soon must throw gloom on thy radiant brow. 
 
 I am bound for a dim and distant shore, 
 
 Whence my faint voice will greet thine ear no more ; 
 
 But I go to a lovelier world than this — 
 
 A realm of eternal beauty and bliss ! 
 
 Thither thou'lt follow me, when I am gone — 
 
 Let us pray that the bright goal may be won ; 
 
 Think on my bidding, when I shall sleep — • 
 
 Look on me, dearest — I do not weep I 
 
134 
 
 AFFECTION. 
 
 . ' . Strong affection 
 
 Contends with all things, and o'ercometh all things. 
 
 Joanna Baillie. 
 
 There is a power valued most, 
 
 Where pleasure's deepest draughts will pall — 
 The sweetest solace life can boast, 
 
 Cherish'd as loveliest by all ! 
 Affection ! None disown the charms 
 
 That in her silver accents lie — 
 The tone of melting love, which warms 
 
 E'en thy chill bosom — Apathy ! 
 
 Sweet spirit ! When the fading brow 
 And cheek tell of hard struggles past 
 
 And anguish rends the heart— 'tis thou 
 That leadest us to peace at last ! 
 
AFFECTION. 135 
 
 Peace never found in pleasure's path., 
 Full of enchantment though it be ! 
 
 The choicest balm existence hath, 
 Affection ! is bound up in thee ! 
 
 If ever she become thy guest, 
 
 O ! never let her step depart ! 
 But like the dove within her nest, 
 
 Press her as closely to thy heart ! 
 For true affection is the shrine 
 
 In which all earthly joys reside — 
 And, if that " pearl of price" be thine, 
 
 What is the world to thee beside? 
 
 
136 
 
 THE SOCIAL HOUR. 
 
 The world its glittering spells may throw 
 
 Upon the dazzled mind, 
 Awhile we court the transient glow 
 
 Such treasures leave behind ! 
 Awhile, perhaps, the whisper' d praise 
 
 Of crowds may be our pride, 
 We live in vanity's dark ways, 
 
 And know no joys beside ! 
 
 But tell me— can the proud displays 
 
 Of all the great and gay — 
 The flatt'ring throng, the voice of praise, 
 
 Steal one real care away ? 
 The blandishments of pomp and power 
 
 May dazzle— but may sear ! 
 O ! sweeter far the quiet hour, 
 
 With those the heart holds dear ! 
 
THE SOCIAL HOUR. 137 
 
 The interchange of mind and thought, 
 
 From words and fancies free, 
 Those days with soft communion fraught, 
 
 They are the days for me ! 
 Let others seek in gaudy state, 
 
 Their dreams of ideal bliss ; 
 I ask no greater boon from fate, 
 
 No lot more fair than this ! 
 
SONGS AND BALLADS. 
 
141 
 
 THE JOYS OF HOME. 
 
 The joys of home ! the joys of home ! 
 
 Oh! many are the ties,, 
 The thousand pleasant memories, 
 
 Woke by the name of home ! 
 
 Home ! 'tis a word that breathes around, 
 
 A sweet and soothing spell ! 
 Past hours that we remember well, 
 
 Are present at that sound. 
 
 They haunt us still — those scenes of joy ! 
 
 The bright hopes of our youth ; 
 The childish glee which was, in truth, 
 
 Pleasure without alloy ! 
 
 Go ! search the proud and princely dome, 
 Where crowds feign to be gay ! 
 
142 THE JOYS OP HOME. 
 
 Ask of their bliss — then turn away. 
 Back to thy peaceful home ! 
 
 Back to the well-remember' d spotl, 
 
 So cherished in thy mind, 
 Back to the simple and the kind, 
 
 Where cold deceit is not ! 
 
 Where dark mistrust shall never come, 
 And hearts are true and warm ; 
 
 And love has thrown its holiest charm, 
 Around the name of home ! 
 
143 
 
 FAIRY HOPES. 
 
 Fairy hopes ! untimely blighted ! whither — whither 
 
 are ye gone ? 
 Ye have faded as sweet flowers fade — in the absence of 
 
 the sun ! 
 The garden but a joyless waste appears without your 
 
 bloom. 
 And thus my heart is withering, in darkness and in 
 
 gloom. 
 
 But soon the lovely spring will come, and breathing 
 
 life and light, 
 Earth's blossoms will seem doubly sweet — her beauties 
 
 doubly bright ! 
 Will not the soul's " spring-time" revive ? Ah, no ! 
 
 we vainly yearn 
 For the blissful hopes so deeply dear — they never can 
 
 return ! 
 
144 
 
 'TWAS BUT A DREAM ! 
 
 'Twas but a dream ! and yet I heard 
 
 My name in accents clear, 
 Nam'd by those lips, whose lightest word 
 
 Is music to mine ear ! 
 Oh thou ! — so lov'd — so justly dear ! 
 Would thou wert here — would thou wert here ! 
 
 'Twas but a dream ! and yet methought 
 
 I knew that silvery tone, 
 With all affection's sweetness fraught, 
 
 Calling on me alone ! 
 Oh thou !— so lov'd— so justly dear ! 
 Would thou wert here — would thou wert here ! 
 
 Each pleasure I once deem'd so great, 
 Now cold and joyless seems — 
 
'twas but a dream. 145 
 
 Without thee I am desolate — 
 Come to me still in dreams. 
 Oh thou !— so lov'd — so justly dear ! 
 Would thou wert here — would thou wert here ! 
 
146 
 
 THE SONGS OF PAST DAYS. 
 
 O music! in thy eloquent charm, 
 
 A magic power lies, 
 Which seems to spring, ever fresh and warm, 
 
 From the heart's mysteries. 
 The songs of past days — a faint, low tone, 
 
 Remember'd perhaps for years, 
 And long unheard— O ! who has not known 
 
 Some strain which wakes their tears ? 
 
 We listen ! — how dim the present grows 
 
 Before our mental gaze ; 
 And nought seems real, save the joys or woes, 
 
 Which mark'd our early days ! 
 We listen ! those well known sounds enthrall 
 
 Our souls in a sweet pain — 
 They're hush'd ! — and realities recall 
 To busy life again ! 
 
147 
 
 "I LOVE TO BE ALONE!' 
 
 I love to be alone 
 When the days of mirth are gone ! 
 When sorrow weighs me down, 
 
 I love to be alone ! 
 
 I love to be alone 
 When my heart is sad and dreary — 
 When faint, and low, and weary 
 
 I love to be alone ! 
 
 I would not be alone, 
 When with buoyant step of glee, 
 Earth seems like Paradise to me 
 
 And ev'ry joy my own! 
 
 When all my cares are flown, 
 And life seems one bright dream, 
 If I float down pleasure's stream — 
 
 O ! it could not be alone ! 
 
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148 
 
 THE NAME. 
 
 When starting from my broken rest, 
 
 Some word my fond lips frame, 
 Which in my dreams hath made me blest, 
 
 That, dearest ! is thy Name ! 
 Sweetly it makes my bosom thrill, 
 
 To feeling's tenderest tone — 
 In crowds, alone, 'tis with me still ! 
 
 Yes, dearest ! 'tis thine own ! 
 
 When cold and still this heart shall be 
 
 Which throbs so wildly now — 
 And death asserts his victory, 
 
 And marks the pallid brow. 
 When murmur'd is the final pray'r, 
 
 Should they ope this heart of mine, 
 The Name most deeply graven there, 
 
 My dearest ! would be thine ! 
 
THE NAME. 149 
 
 They'd lay me in my darksome cell, 
 
 And thou would'st sadly weep,, 
 For her who lov'd thee once so well, 
 
 Sunk in the last, long sleep ! 
 But, though death awhile should sever, 
 
 My spirit would be brightly free, 
 I would hover round thee, dearest, ever ! 
 
 And fondly watch o'er thee ! 
 
150 
 
 THE DESERTED HOME. 
 
 They are past and gone ! 
 
 Those days that were so glad and bright ! 
 
 They are past and gone ! 
 
 Too rapid was their flight ! 
 
 These lonely halls no echoes fill, 
 
 Of the youthful tones, whose gladsome sound 
 
 Once made these walls with joy resound — 
 
 I listen ! — all is still ! 
 
 Ah ! whither have they wandered ? 
 Those gay young groups that us'd to come 
 Around the threshold of my home ? 
 Ah ! whither have they fled ? 
 Some now are roaming o'er the sea, 
 Some dwell apart in foreign climes, 
 Who fondly think on those old times — 
 Far — far away from me ! 
 
THE DESERTED H031E. 151 
 
 They are past and gone ! 
 
 Those days that were so glad and bright, 
 
 Can we call back one ? 
 
 All, never ! — would we might ! 
 
 The mem 'ries of our early years, 
 
 Shall hallow still this cherished spot — 
 
 And hopes, though faded, ne'er forgot, 
 
 Whose light is quench'd in tears ! 
 
152 
 
 " I KNOW NOT WHY !" 
 
 I know not why ! — but oft a deep gloom shading, 
 Steals o'er my gayest mood — my happiest hours — 
 The glory from my ardent soul is fading — 
 A tempest withers Hope's reviving flow'rs ! 
 I know not why ! 
 
 I know not why ! — but oft, when laughter thrilling 
 Leaves its light echo joyously behind — 
 Tears, from their secret fount mine eyes are filling, 
 I shudder ! as the leaf shakes in the wind ! 
 I know not why ! 
 
 Do I not know ? — can fate her stern course alter ? 
 Are they not shadows of the brightness gone, 
 Which make the fond heart faint — the red lip falter ? 
 Leaving me mournful memories alone ! 
 They tell me why ! 
 
53 
 
 THE LIGHT FAREWELL. 
 
 She. "Oh! whither? whither away, love ! 
 To thy home o'er yon dark sea ? 
 Hast thou no farewell to say, love — 
 No parting* word for me ?" 
 
 He. " Adieu ! we meet no more — perchance 
 
 Thou'lt not remember long 
 Who claim'd thee oftenest in the dance, 
 
 Whose gay voice joined thy song! 
 See my bark is bounding over, 
 
 The foaming billows white ! 
 Fair girl !— thou must lose thy lover ! 
 
 I quit these shores to-night/' 
 
1-54 THE LIGHT FAREWELL- 
 
 She. " Since thou must cross the deep, fair love ! 
 
 Since thus thou bid'st c good bye/ 
 Thou shalt not see me weep, false love ! 
 
 Nor hear one parting sigh ! 
 O ! remember the sunny hours 
 
 Which have so swiftly flown, 
 Yet, dream not in Clara's bow'rs, 
 
 That Clara droops alone ! 
 Go ! faithless rover ! wild and free, 
 
 And fickle as the wind, 
 To thy home o'er the changeful sea, 
 
 Thou of the changeful mind ! 
 
 " And yet, in sad truth, I could love — 
 
 Have given my heart to thee ; 
 But I knew thy changeful mood, love — 
 
 'Twas a talisman for me ! 
 Light faith — light constancy, I trow, 
 
 Each to the other gave — 
 Ah ! well I deemed thy fleeting vow 
 
 Was written in the wave ! 
 
THE LIGHT FAREWELL. 155 
 
 The wave may bear thee hence — away ! 
 
 Ours was a transient spell ! 
 Adieu ! I would not have thee stay., 
 
 Take back thy " light farewell !" 
 
136 
 
 A WEARINESS IS OX ME! 
 
 A weariness is on me ! — I pine to be alone! 
 
 Free from the gaze of curious eyes — O ! for my quiet 
 
 home ! 
 Yon flattering crowd's vain praises — how valueless are 
 
 they ! 
 A weariness is on me! — I long to be away ! 
 
 A weariness is on me ! — but ah ! how few can think 
 The crystal cup, so richly gemm'd, is poisoned to the 
 
 brink — 
 EvYi so— tho' sparkling smiles may hide the anguish of 
 
 my breast — 
 A weariness is on me ! — I would I were at rest ! 
 
 A weariness is on me ! — though homage crowns my 
 
 shrin e,, 
 And many a glance from kindly eyes, is lighted up by 
 
 mine ! 
 
A WEARINESS IS ON ME. 157 
 
 Though flow'rs and incense deck my path, and court 
 
 my longer stay, 
 A weariness is on me ! I pine to be away ! 
 
 A weariness is on me ! — for many a sad regret, 
 
 And many a bitter memory are busy with me yet ! 
 
 In yon gay crowd's cold scrutiny, my heart's deep 
 
 thoughts must sleep ! 
 A weariness is on me !— I must have time to weep ! 
 
158 
 
 THE RIVAL SUITORS. 
 
 The one is young and beautiful, 
 
 The other rich and old ! 
 This talks to me of his hoarded love, 
 
 That of his hoards of gold ! 
 Sir Eglamour has lovely eyes 
 
 That do beseech one so — 
 But then his coffers are but scant — 
 
 What shall I say ? H eigho ! 
 
 Sir Hildebrand has fair broad lands, 
 
 And many a lordly hall ! 
 And trains of .servants numberless, 
 
 To hasten at his call ! 
 Sir Eglamour has little, 
 
 Save his true heart to bestow — 
 His name ranks high in honour's list, 
 
 Which shall I choose ? Heigho ! 
 
THE RIVAL SUITORS. 159 
 
 My wealthy suitor brings me store 
 
 Of gems and rubies rare — 
 But Eglamour declares they cannot 
 
 Make me look more fair! 
 And dearer than a diamond mine 
 
 To Eglamour I know, 
 Is one smile from his lady love ! 
 
 Which shall I choose ? Heigho ! 
 
 E'en as the lady Julie mus'd, 
 
 In love's deep reverie,, 
 A gallant knight stept to her bow'r 
 
 And bent him on his knee, 
 " Now — blessings on those kindly words ! 
 
 Nay ! do not tremble so— 
 Be mine that treasured hand and smile \" — 
 
 " Take them !" she sigh'd— •" Heigho \" 
 
160 
 
 THE FAIRIES' HOME. 
 
 To night ! to night ! this very night ! 
 
 While earthly beings sleep ! 
 By the lovely and pale moonlight 
 
 Our revelries well keep ! 
 No mortal footstep dare intrude 
 
 Our haunts of fairy glee ! 
 This sweet and radiant solitude, 
 
 To us alone is free I 
 
 Where the dew-drops by thousands lie, 
 
 In glist'ning splendour dight ! 
 There we shall foot it merrily, 
 
 In gallant trim to night ! 
 Where sing the nightingale and thrush, 
 
 And zephyrs gently sigh, 
 Where the bright crystal fountains gush 
 
 Our elfin court's held by ! 
 
 
THE FAIRIES HOME. 161 
 
 Haste ! away to enchanted ground ! 
 
 Drink from the full acorn ! 
 Did ye not hear the blast he wound ? 
 
 'Twas Oberon's magic horn ! 
 From the charm' d goblet we shall sip, 
 
 That makes delight our own ! 
 Ne'er was it touched by mortal lip — 
 
 The happy Fay's alone ! 
 
 Nightly we hold our festival, 
 
 Beneath the oaken shade — 
 The little glow-worm lights our hall 
 
 Of moss the carpet's made ! 
 A bright troop to the banquet come ; 
 
 Each in his em'rald vest ! 
 Oh ! lovely is our fairy home ! 
 
 And none like us are blest ! 
 
162 
 
 THE NORMAN BATTLE SONG. 
 
 " The exclamation " Aux Fils des Preux !" was used to encourage 
 young knights to emulate the glories of their ancestors, and to do 
 nothing unworthy the noble title given them. In many instances it 
 was attended with the most animating consequences. — See note in 
 Monstrelet's Chronicles, vol. i. page 254. 
 
 Aux Fils des Preux ! Ye sons of Fame ! 
 
 Think of your fathers' ashes now — 
 Fight ! for the honour of your name — 
 
 Fight ! for your valiant sires laid low ! 
 " Aux fils des Preux \" 
 
 Aux Fils des Preux! — red be your swords 
 With many a crimson battle stain ! 
 
 Fight on ! ye noble knights and lords, 
 Stay not to count the warlike slain ! 
 (( Aux Fils des Preux I" 
 
THE NORMAN BATTLE SONG. 163 
 
 Aux Fils des Preux ! — from many a heart 
 
 The silent prayer now is breathing, 
 Who, with fond hopes saw ye depart — 
 
 Fair hands the victor's crown are wreathing- — 
 " Aux Fils des Preux !" 
 
 Aux Fils des Preux ! — On ! soldiers on ! 
 
 Your blades are keen — your courage strong ! 
 Soon shall the conqueror's meed be won, 
 
 And triumph swell our battle song ! 
 " Aux Fils des Preux ! ' 
 
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164 
 
 THE BARON TO HIS STEED. 
 
 The banquet is spread, and the red wine pour'd, 
 
 And my vassals are ready to meet their lord ! 
 
 In the heat of the chase, those who miss'd their track 
 
 Must find their own way to the castle back ; 
 
 I may not, to seek the missing, stay — 
 
 Then on ! my brave courser ! away, away ! 
 
 Gallop on ! gallop on ! thro' the rushing wind ! 
 We must leave the Black Forest far behind ; 
 Careering along, in the murky sky, 
 The Wild Huntsmen, and Phantom pack, sweep by ! 
 But woe to the chieftain who joins their halloo ! 
 Gallop on ! gallop on ! from that fearful crew. 
 
 Through many a hard-fought battle won, 
 My gallant Barb ! thou hast borne me on ; 
 
THE BARON TO HIS STEED. 165 
 
 And a fierce delight has possest my brain, 
 As we trampled o'er heaps of the fallen slain ; 
 But I war not with demon foes — my steed, 
 Then away ! — there is joy in thy winged speed ! 
 
 For I know how an anxious heart and eye 
 Are watching the sound of thy hoof-prints nigh ! 
 Now — start not aside while I blow a blast 
 Shall warn the belov'd one, I come at last ! 
 Hurry on ! o'er the drawbridge ! — my noble steed, 
 There's triumph and joy in thy winged speed ! 
 
166 
 
 SONG. 
 
 They say that absence has an art 
 
 To steal affection's warmth away — 
 That passion's thraldom brings the heart 
 
 To worse than premature decay! 
 Alas ! what feelings run to waste, 
 
 Which worldly wisdom must condemn — 
 Which have a sort of heavenly taste — 
 
 A touch of Paradise in them ! 
 
 'Tis true ! time's sure but silent spell 
 
 May banish idle hopes and fears ! 
 But time nor absence can dispel 
 
 The sweet, fond dreams of early years. 
 Link'd with our souls in freshness still 
 
 The brightest gems in mem'ry's zone ; 
 'Tis something ! alter as we will, 
 
 To call those precious dreams our own ! 
 
16? 
 
 WHAT IS THAT SOUND? 
 
 What is that sound which heavily falls 
 
 Upon the unwilling ear ? 
 Which, from the heart's deep cavern calls 
 The sigh, and the bursting tear? 
 What is that sound ? — O ye can tell, 
 Who have felt the grief of that word, Farewell ! 
 
 There's no glad meeting unalloy'd 
 By its sad and frequent smart ! 
 Who but hath felt the aching void 
 When cherish'd friends depart ? 
 What is that sound ? — O ye can tell, 
 Who have known the grief of that word, Farewell ! 
 
 And bitter is the parting hour 
 When those who love must sever ! 
 
 The clouds which dark around them lour 
 May cast their gloom for ever ! 
 
168 WHAT IS THAT SOUND ? 
 
 Yet the heart lives on in that mournful spell, 
 And sadly thrilling, echoes back, " Farewell !" 
 
 And when bright eyes are dim with woe, 
 
 And the fair cheek pale and wan 
 With sorrow's marks ! — O well we know 
 Some dear lov'd one is gone ! 
 Why are they drooping ? — O ye can tell, 
 Who have felt the grief of that word, " Farewell !' 
 
 The last farewell ! 'tis a dreary thought 
 
 For the mourners who remain ; 
 Yet a hope is left with blessing fraught — 
 We know we shall meet again, 
 In a bright world where no partings dwell, 
 And there is no sound of that word, " Farewell !" 
 
169 
 
 THE YOUTHFUL PAGE. 
 
 The rose has left thy cheek, young page 1 
 
 The tear is in thine eye ! 
 The fatal truth is known, young page — 
 
 Thou canst not choose but die. 
 A stripling as thou wert in name, 
 
 Ah ! woman's love was thine ; 
 And thou hast bartered peace and fame 
 
 For this sweet dream of thine ! 
 
 Thou hadst a precious gem, young page — 
 
 One begg'd it on his knee ; 
 Thou gav'st that gem away, young page ! 
 
 And now ! he scorneth thee ! 
 And didst thou dream that plume would hide 
 
 Thy bright long auburn hair ? 
 Thy snow-white bosom's swelling pride 
 
 Betray'd the secret there. 
 
170 THE YOUTHFUL PAGE. 
 
 Away, away ! thou lovely page ! 
 
 When woman's fame is gone, 
 O ! what can make her wish, young page, 
 
 For life to linger on ? 
 Those brilliant eyes with tears are dim, 
 
 Pale grows thy drooping brow ! 
 Thy sunny home was left, for him — 
 
 But he forsakes thee now ! 
 
 And thou must wear thy life away 
 
 In penitence and pray'r ; 
 Poor breaking heart ! will it survive 
 
 Thy shame, and thy despair ? 
 O no ! thy spirit ne'er could brook 
 
 His chill averted eye ! 
 His careless mien — his alter'd look — 
 
 Thou canst not choose but die ! 
 
171 
 
 THE COQUETTE. 
 
 I know thee at last ! then, Enchantress ! 
 
 I thank thee for breaking the spell ! 
 Cold and fickle thou proves!, and heartless- 
 
 Unmov'd thou hast heard my farewell ! 
 Ill-fated is he, who distrusting 
 
 The tale of thy blandishments light, 
 His bosom implicitly trusting, 
 
 Too late finds the truth in its blight. 
 
 But, skill'd as thou art in coquetry, 
 
 Thou may'st tamper too often — beware ! 
 Whilst weaving fresh fetters for vict'ry, 
 
 Thyself may'st fall into a snare ! 
 Thou art not worth regret ! soft deceiver ! 
 
 Go ! boast the success of thy wiles — 
 I care not who turns thy believer — 
 
 I care not who feast on thy smiles. 
 
172 THE COQUETTE. 
 
 I have found thee a mere simulation — 
 
 I see thy cold policy now ; 
 Seek elsewhere the fond adulation 
 
 Thy arts led me once to bestow ! 
 O woman ! too oft we impeach thee, 
 
 And wound by suspicions unkind ; 
 'Tis the pang we have felt in thy treach'ry 
 
 Leaves doubt and dark mistrust behind ! 
 
 'Twill be long ere the thought of thy falseness 
 
 Lose aught of its anguish and pain ; 
 But now, all thy witch'ry were pow'rless — 
 
 The cheated return not again ! 
 Fare thee well ! fare thee well ! there are many 
 
 Willing slaves, easy dupes may remain ; 
 Few will love thee so madly ! (if any !) 
 
 But I thank thee for breaking the chain ! 
 
173 
 
 THE FALSE ONE. 
 
 When he said that he'd adore me, 
 
 Could I think that he deceiv'd ? 
 I might smile at his fond flattery — 
 
 Yet those vows were believ'd ! 
 But now ! thou hast been faithless, 
 
 Thy triumph is o'er ! 
 I know of all thy falseness ! 
 
 I'll see thee no more ! 
 
 They bade me to beware of thee — 
 
 The false, and the untrue ! 
 They warn'd me how my fate would be — 
 
 That fate which now I rue ! 
 Fickle heart ! and could such worship be 
 
 A mockery vain ! 
 Go —think not that I weep for thee — 
 
 Such grief 111 disdain ! 
 
174 THE FALSE ONE. 
 
 Yes! another's is the loveliness 
 
 Thou hast call'd cc more divine!" 
 She hath beauty that can deeper bless 
 
 Glances brighter far than mine ! 
 The perjur'd oaths thou hast spoken, 
 
 Seek not to renew ! 
 Thy faith to me is broken— 
 
 Now, false one ! adieu ! 
 
 The music of this ballad is in the possession of Mr. Mori, by whor 
 it was published in his " Musical Gem," of 1832. 
 
175 
 
 THE NUN 
 
 Listen ! to the convent bell ! 
 
 Mournfully pealing on 
 ? Tis the fair nun's fun'ral knell ! 
 A broken heart is gone ! 
 Now peace be with thee, weary one ! thy spirit's 
 
 strife is past ! 
 They bear thee to the quiet grave ! there softly sleep 
 at last ! 
 
 In the holy vesper hymn 
 
 Her silvery voice would float ; 
 But its echoes soon grew dim ! 
 Despair had chang'd each note ! 
 Its melody is hush'd in death— the bosom, grief op- 
 press 
 Has sunk beneath its heavy weight!— at length she 
 is at rest ! 
 
176 THE NUN. 
 
 She was forced to be a nun ! 
 The plighted love of years 
 By ambition was undone ;— 
 
 Vain were all her pleading tears ! 
 But memVy was too faithful, and those blighted 
 
 hopes too dear ! 
 She wither'd in her cloister'd cell ! — they bear her on 
 her bier ! 
 
177 
 
 THE FADED FLOWER. 
 
 Lines adapted to an air of Weber's. 
 
 'Tis ever thus ! the young' and fair,, 
 
 The beautiful and bright — 
 They are the first to bid despair 
 
 Cloud all our hopes in night. 
 How oft I've kiss'd her sunny brow. 
 
 And clasp'd her hand in mine ! 
 Angel on earth ! — an angel now 
 
 In purer worlds to shine ! 
 Torn from us in untimely hour — 
 Peace to thee ! — peace ! my faded flow'r ! 
 
 I've hung upon her gentle tone — 
 
 Her slumbers I have blest; 
 Little I dreaded then, my Own ! 
 
 This, for thy place of rest ! 
 
178 THE FADED FLOWER. 
 
 In awe — together we have gaz'd 
 
 On the bright stars at even ! 
 And kindred aspirations rais'd 
 
 Our loving souls to heaven ! 
 Torn from us in untimely hour — 
 
 Peace to thee ! peace ! — my faded flow'r ! 
 
 I saw thee in my dream at night — 
 
 I heard thy voice in sleep ; 
 It whispered — There ! in realms of light — 
 
 There thou wilt never weep ! 
 Through life — in faith — go ! struggle on, 
 
 A wilderness of tears ; 
 But there, we meet in bliss, my Own ! 
 
 Through everlasting years ! 
 
179 
 
 ILL NEVER BRAID MY HAIR AGAIN. 
 
 I'll never braid my hair again 
 
 With those sweet flow'rs he lov'd ! 
 Ah ! why was I so weak and vain 
 
 When he the wreath approved ? 
 I'll never wear that sparkling stone 
 
 He said my eyes made dim ; 
 'Twas flattery ! and yet I own 
 
 It seernd not so from him ! 
 
 The page whereon he bade me look 
 
 I hastily throw by ; 
 Yet, when I close that little book, 
 
 How heavily I sigh ! 
 The melodies — the books— the flow'rs — 
 
 Which by-gone joys recall. 
 Bring back sad dreams of those bright hours ! 
 
 I must reject them all ! 
 
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180 i'll never braid my hair again. 
 
 Ah ! never more shall each fond word 
 
 Lie treasured in my heart ! 
 I must forget I ever heard 
 
 Tones, in which love had part. 
 I will not court more flow'rs to twine — 
 
 More hopes my course to deck ! 
 A lonely path in life be mine — 
 
 My bosom is a wreck ! 
 
 And did'stthou know, unthinking one, 
 
 How bitterly they grieve, 
 Who trust in one dear hope alone — 
 
 And find that trust deceive ! 
 How, when the heart's first hope is gone 
 
 All other pleasures fade ; 
 Thou would'st not lightly triumph on 
 
 The ruin thou hast made ! 
 
181 
 
 WHERE ART THOU NOW ? 
 
 Where art thou now ? in festal halls, 
 Where rich light o'er the scene is shining- ? 
 While melody thy heart enthralls, 
 And pleasure round each sense is shining ? 
 Where art thou now ? 
 
 Is the low murmur of thy love 
 To beauty's listening ear appealing ? 
 Is her soft chain about thee wove ? 
 And is there triumph in that feeling ? 
 Where art thou now ? 
 
 Or art thou, where the red wine pour'd 
 In gay forgetfulness is steeping 
 Each guest, at lux'ry's courtly board, 
 Who noisy vigils late are keeping ? 
 Where art thou now ? 
 
182 WHERE ART THOU NOW? 
 
 Perhaps thy low, sweet voice is heard 
 Where listening circles near, are praising 
 Tones, by rich harmony conferr'd? 
 Are there not bright eyes on thee gazing ? 
 Where art thou now ? 
 
 I know not what thy fate may be, 
 Nor what thy young life's stirring part ; 
 But the heart's blessing dwells with thee — 
 Its fond, deep pray 'rs, where er thou art 
 Ever !— and now ! 
 
183 
 
 A SUMMER FAREWELL. 
 
 Summer ! farewell ! with a reluctant gaze 
 I watch thy graceful steps' receding tread — 
 Thy bright hues bring me thoughts of other days — 
 Thoughts of the lov'd — the distant — and the dead! 
 
 The dead ! can aught that savours of decay 
 Be waken'd by such loveliness as thine ? 
 While yet thou lingerest, summer, on thy way, 
 Shall we heap mournful ofTrings on thy shrine ? 
 
 Sweet communings, and aspirations high, 
 Towards that heav'n which is our spirit's home ; 
 And the rich treasures of fond memory 
 Thrill me, as thro' this glorious world I roam. 
 
 There was a time when gladder thoughts would rise, 
 And transport glow'd within the sanguine breast ; 
 There dwelt a power in thy azure skies 
 Could lull each pang of wild regret to rest ! 
 
184 A SUMMER FAREWELL. 
 
 But never more for me — ah ! never more ! 
 
 Com'st thou with song, with laughter, and with 
 
 mirth; 
 These may be with thee — but not as of yore, 
 When hope and fancy deified the earth ! 
 
 There is a sadness in the summer's bloom — 
 An omen in its waning glory dwells — 
 To beauty and to bliss the common doom : 
 And what that doom, the mourner's bosom tells ! 
 
 Where are the graceful forms that used to spring 
 O'er the green turf, and hail each opening rose ? 
 Where the sweet voices which were wont to sing 
 In the cool shades which tempted our repose ? 
 
 O ! some are hush'd for ever — one is gone 
 Far, far away from suffering and care ; 
 And still, the cherish' d image of that one 
 Throws its deep shadow over all things fair, 
 
 He is — where earth's bright sunshine would look dim ; 
 He is— where never fading flowers bloom ; 
 
A SUMMER FAREWELL. 185 
 
 He joins with angels in their ceaseless hymn; 
 He is — (be still my heart!) — within the tomb ! 
 
 But ever, while the gorgeous sun is shining, 
 And like a festal scene the earth appears, 
 All light and beauty ! then, weak nature pining, 
 Fills my sad soul with grief— my eyes with tears ! 
 
 'Tis not for thee I weep — thou blessed one ! 
 I would not, if I might, recall thee back ! 
 'Tis joy to think thy pilgrimage is done — 
 Yet O ! we miss thee in our pilgrim track ! 
 
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 We miss thy tones of warm affection greeting — 
 
 The calm benignity upon thy brow — 
 
 Thy voice — thy smile ! but O ! we shall be meeting 
 
 Where thou — beloved spirit ! — dwellest now ! 
 
186 
 
 LEAVE ME ! 
 
 Leave me, O ! leave me! thou who coldly 
 
 Gazest on my grief and tears ; 
 Turn from me now — forget me wholly — 
 
 What to thy mind are former years ? 
 Thou seest I still can smile, and borrow 
 
 Fashion's mask, and mirth's light tone ; 
 
 ! well they know their part, whom sorrow 
 Long has destin'd for her own ! 
 
 Tempt me no more — forbear ! though kindly 
 Those deep earnest eyes may look 
 
 On the worn heart which lov'd so blindly — 
 Think'st thou their calmness I can brook ? 
 
 Withdraw that mournful' glance, whose sadness 
 Tells of the vanish'd dreams of yore — 
 
 1 would not dim thy spirit's gladness- 
 Leave me ! and let us meet no more. 
 
LEAVE ME. 187 
 
 If, where the merry laugh is ringing, 
 
 My forc'd glee sound hoarse and strange — 
 Think of the pangs my memory wringing: 
 
 Sigh ! but mock not at the change ! 
 Let other lips upbraid my weakness, 
 
 From their taunts I may not flee ! 
 O ! I can bear reproach with meekness — 
 
 But 'twould madden me from thee ! 
 
188 
 
 THE GYPSY'S GRAVE. 
 
 The custom of strewing flowers on the graves of their dead is very pre- 
 valent among the Gypsies to this day. 
 
 We bear thee to thy rest — 
 
 Wild heart ! be still ! 
 Brother — above thy breast 
 The daffodil 
 And violet's sweet breath shall bloom ! 
 Bring flow'rs to deck the Gypsy's tomb ! 
 
 In thy soft mother earth, 
 
 Now sweetly sleep ! 
 Wand'rer, who from thy birth 
 With love (as deep 
 As woman feels) did'st fondly hold 
 Fair nature's realm — sleep ! calm and cold ! 
 
THE GYPSY S GRAVE. 1$9 
 
 No formal rites are ours — 
 
 We give thee tears — 
 We strew thy grave with flow rs ! 
 And through long years, 
 Till each shall meet his hour of doom, 
 We'll hang bright garlands on thy tomb ! 
 
 Farewell ! bold heart and true ! 
 
 Thy course is sped ; 
 Bring blossoms bath/d in dew ! 
 Turf for thy bed! 
 May peace with thy freed spirit dwell ! 
 Now to our tents ! — farewell ! farewell ! 
 
190 
 
 THY NAME IS A FORGOTTEN SOUND. 
 
 Thy name is a forgotten sound, 
 
 (Thy name which was a household tone !) 
 Amidst the happy forms around, 
 
 One sad heart thinks of thee alone. 
 With downcast eye and burning cheek, 
 
 That " name 9 from stranger tongues she hears ; 
 Blesses the lips thy praise which speak — 
 
 Then turns away to hide her tears ! 
 
 Mark they the joy which flush'd her brow — 
 
 Her quick and agitated start ? 
 Unconsciously, they leave her now, 
 
 Whose words breath'd rapture to her heart I 
 Bright tho' her sudden smiles may gleam, 
 
 Like sunshine on a drooping flow'r, 
 Reviving its faint hues — none dream 
 
 The secret charm of that sweet hour ! 
 
THY NAME IS A FORGOTTEN SOUND. 191 
 
 Ah no ! for none remember thee ! 
 
 Thou ! who in each familiar scene 
 Wert wont to share our grief or glee — 
 
 Thou art ! as if thou ne'er hacTst been ! 
 But deep as sealed waters sleep, 
 
 Mysterious,, bound in rocky chains — 
 So sacredly one heart will keep 
 
 Thy memory while life remains ! 
 
192 
 
 THE BRIDAL DAY. 
 
 Now strew bright flow'rs along their path !— the rose 
 
 and myrtle wreath — 
 And let the young bride's fairy foot feel no sharp 
 
 thorns beneath ! 
 Her fondest hopes are all fulfilled ! — the lov'd one by 
 
 her side ! 
 Are they not beautiful and blest— the bridegroom 
 
 and his bride ? 
 
 Rich jewels glitter through her veil, and deck her 
 
 braided hair, 
 And tears are glist'ning in her eyes — but tears of joy 
 
 they are ! 
 And timidly she clings to him with meek affection's 
 
 pride ; 
 Are they not beautiful and blest — the bridegroom 
 
 and his bride ? 
 
THE BRIDAL DAY. 193 
 
 The brilliant train have all swept by — the graceful 
 
 pair are gone — 
 The loud acclaim is hush'd, yet still those merry 
 
 bells ring on ; 
 And as the gather' d crowd disperse, how many turn 
 
 aside 
 To praise the beautiful and blest — the bridegroom 
 
 and his bride ! 
 
 But he ! his thoughts are far away ! with one he lov'd 
 of yore. 
 
 Whose wasted heart made desolate, can never blos- 
 som more ! 
 
 And sorrow wrings his bosom now — a pang which 
 he must hide — 
 
 Yet the " Forsaken" prays for them — the bridegroom 
 and his bride ! 
 
194 
 
 THE DESERTED ITALIAN. 
 
 A young Englishman travelling abroad, secretly married a beautiful 
 Italian singer; brought her to England, and after a time forsook her, 
 leaving her to support herself by the exercise of her native talent. 
 
 When eager circling crowds come round me 
 
 To listen to my voice and lute, 
 How spiritless of late they've found me ! 
 
 Alas! my stricken heart is mute. 
 Not thus it was, when he was near me, 
 
 To cheer me with his ardent gaze ; 
 I heeded not who came to hear me — 
 
 I only heard his whisper'd praise ! 
 
 But, dear one ! thou'rt away, who only 
 Could'st wake the magic of my song — 
 
 Thou'rt gone — and I am sad and lonely ! 
 / cannot charm yon list'ning throng, 
 
THE DESERTED ITALIAN. 195 
 
 Their ilatt'ring words fall now unnoted, 
 
 Upon my cold and careless ear — 
 Those accents soft on which it doted, 
 
 Alas ! — I never more shall hear ! 
 
 For, oh ! by many a mournful token 
 
 I know the dream of hope is gone ! 
 I feel that lovely spell is broken, 
 
 Yet must life heavily wear on — 
 Forgetting that I ever saw thee — 
 
 Forgetting that I was thine own, 
 I must perform my weary journey 
 
 And tread my joyless path alone! 
 
 The melodies which once, so gladly, 
 
 We used to warble in our glee 
 Are records, now, alas ! too sadly, 
 
 Reminding me of love— and thee ! 
 When shall our voices mingle ? — never ! 
 
 When shall thy blessed form be nigh ? 
 
 I fear that thou art gone for ever, 
 
 And all my music is — a sigh. 
 
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196 THE DESERTED ITALIAN. 
 
 Proudly the English stranger bore me 
 
 From Italy's sweet sunny clime ; 
 He came ! — would he might now restore me 
 
 The freshness of that happy time ! 
 Ere I had known neglect or sorrow — 
 
 So fondly woo'd — so dearly won ! 
 Cold northern hearts ! how well ye borrow 
 
 The faint tints of your wintry sun ! 
 
 Too like your climate's transient glory, 
 The fleeting splendour of your noon, 
 As brief with you, is passion's story — 
 
 'Tis told, and all forgot as soon. 
 And thoUy who in thy truth could'st falter — 
 
 Thou, who hast coldly left my side- 
 Teach me, (like thee !) to change and alter — 
 To spurn thee — and thyself deride ! 
 
 When I am number'd with the dying, 
 Where will my fondest yearnings be ? 
 
 When, pale and cold, my form is lying, 
 Will not my last thoughts be of thee ? 
 
THE DESERTED ITALIAN. 197 
 
 Of thee — of thee — who left me lonely, 
 Ev'n in the spring-time of my youth ! 
 
 Yet who wert still ador'd, as only 
 
 Those may have known, whose love is truth. 
 
 Thou wert mine own !— why didst thou leave me, 
 
 Whose being blest my spirit's life ? 
 Of its sweet light thou didst bereave me — 
 
 And hope expir'd in sorrow's strife. 
 Thou didst condemn me to the anguish 
 
 Of a dark, blasted, joyless course — 
 Still in the chains of grief to languish, 
 
 And death alone those bonds may force. 
 
 Star of my fate — ah, then — how fading 
 
 Will thy dim, worshipp'd radiance seem, 
 Through mists my closing eyelids shading, 
 
 When life appears one brief wild dream — 
 But changeless the deep recollection 
 
 Of the long-past which seal'd my doom- 
 Surely the records of affection, 
 
 Triumph o'er death — survive the tomb ! 
 
198 THE DESERTED ITALIAN. 
 
 Return ! — where wilt thou e'er discover 
 
 A faith like mine, so sorely tried ? 
 Return — return ! — inconstant lover ! 
 
 Poor Agnes will forget to chide. 
 Her soul, though wrung by thy unkindness, 
 
 And well nigh madden'd by its pain, 
 Shall yet look on thy guilt with blindness; 
 
 Return — beloved one— again ! 
 
199 
 
 THE LONELY HEART. 
 
 Dare they condemn thee ? — must my spirit's life 
 Be wither'd by the cold world's careless blame ? 
 
 love and scorn ! yours is a fearful strife. 
 And dark and sad the victory ye claim ! 
 
 Leave — leave in peace affection's ruin'd shrine ! 
 
 Spare the fond relics which may still remain ; 
 The treasur'd gems which now so dimly shine, 
 
 Tarnish'd and soil'd by time, and sorrow's stain ! 
 
 1 do not blame thee ! though my faint heart sink 
 Beneath the weight of censure heap'd on thee — 
 
 Though thou hast cast aside each broken link 
 Which bound thee ere thy chained heart was free 
 
 I will not blame thee ! — 'tis my mournful pride 
 To keep thy fame untouch'd by idle breath ! 
 
 All may upbraid— and thy light errors chide ! 
 'Tis mine to bless thee still in life or death I 
 
200 THE LONELY HEART. 
 
 O ! let me weep awhile ! My lonely heart 
 
 Is haunted by sad thoughts of other days, 
 When those who lov'd me, dwelt upon thy worth, 
 
 And brought me gladness, speaking in thy praise ! 
 Round thy bright form a holy spell was thrown 
 
 By hope and love — the guardians of our youth ! 
 But now, for ever, their sweet light is flown ! 
 
 They faded, when Fate wreck'd thy bosom's truth ! 
 
 And thou art chang'd ! — thy reckless heart is gay ; 
 
 'Tis well ! — the bitter past should be forgot; 
 'Tis wise ! — thy stern resolve should cast away 
 
 All memories which may shade thy coming lot ! 
 Yet, if perchance, in pleasure's giddy maze 
 
 Some sudden check arrest thy light career; — 
 If disappointment cloud thy future days 
 Think there is one who still esteems thee dear ! 
 
 One, who is stifling back the heavy sigh, 
 And smother' d anguish of regret in vain — 
 
 The storm is past^-the tempest has swept 
 But their wild signs of havoc still remain ! 
 
THE LONELY HEART. 201 
 
 Whilst thou ! escaping from dark sorrow's thrall, 
 Hast woo'd new ties — new pleasures to thy breast ; 
 
 On thee no scathing influence shall fall — 
 O ! let it crush my soul — so thou art blest ! 
 
 And if hereafter, in thy happy home, 
 
 When fair young children cluster round thy knee, 
 (Whose tones like music to thine ear shall come,) 
 
 Some passing echo wake a thought of me — 
 Think ! — (though we ne'er may meet this side the 
 
 grave — 
 Though our divided path lie far apart,) 
 
 Thy grief, my woe— thy joy, my gladness gave I 
 And deal thou gently by the " Lonely Heart !" 
 
202 
 
 THE PERISHING AT SEA. 
 
 It is a fearful sight ! — the ocean waves toss wild and 
 
 high ! 
 The winds are howling in their rage, and tempest fills 
 
 the sky ! 
 Alas ! — full many a gallant bark must low engulfed 
 
 be— 
 Pray for the wand'rer on the deep !— the perishing at 
 
 sea! 
 
 From distant lands, the exil'd come — for home they 
 
 fondly yearn — 
 O'er the wide watery waste, the lov'd of many hearts 
 
 return ! 
 O ! anxious mothers ! — sisters ! — wives ! — this night I 
 
 pity ye ! 
 Pray for the wand'rer on the deep !— -the perishing at 
 
 sea ! 
 
THE PERISHING AT SEA. 203 
 
 " Woman ! what dost thou here ? amidst the fury of 
 
 the storm ? 
 Back to thy cottage hearth-fire's blaze — there guard 
 
 thy shrinking form \" 
 t€ Away ! — dost think that / can rest — / softly sleep, 
 
 while he — 
 My sailor-love is on the deep ?■— he's perishing at sea !" 
 
 Hark ! — a wild shriek is rising now above the wailing 
 
 blast — 
 A vessel sinks — God ! their knell — their drowning 
 
 cry is past ! 
 Hundreds have found a wat'ry grave !-now ; on each 
 
 bended knee, 
 Pray for the wand'rer on the deep ! — the perishing at 
 
 sea ! 
 
204 
 
 THE WIDOWED MOTHER'S PARTING WITH 
 HER SON. 
 
 And must I part from thee so soon ?— my beautiful— 
 
 my own ! 
 Life will have slender charms to boast, when thou, the 
 
 chief, art gone : 
 Where shall I hide my loneliness ? — where rest my 
 
 aching head- 
 How brush away the bitter tears for thee, I vainly 
 
 shed ? 
 
 Oh ! many hopes that I had fondly nurs'd, have past 
 away — 
 
 And one bright dream — life's dream of bliss, more pre- 
 cious e'en than they—: 
 
 But they were gone— and thou wast more than all to 
 me, most dear ! — 
 
 And yet— and yet, my darling boy !— thou wilt not 
 long be here. 
 
THE WIDOW'S PARTING WITH HER SON. 205 
 
 There are as noble forms 'tis true — eyes, that as 
 
 brightly shine — 
 But none that kindle with the glad intensity of thine ! 
 Not long upon that joyous face, my mournful glance 
 
 may dwell — 
 And must I part with thee, my own? — how shall I 
 
 say, farewell ? — 
 
 Yet go ! — and Heaven guide thy steps ! and glory 
 mark thy path ! 
 
 Thy heart will never own a thought, save that which 
 virtue hath — 
 
 Go forth !— the fortunate and brave ! — Go ! though 
 with thee depart 
 
 The pride of our ancestral halls — the joy of thy mo- 
 ther's heart ! 
 
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206 
 
 THE CHANGE. 
 
 Where gaily in our jasmine bowers, 
 
 We laugh'd and sung before, 
 We wander midst the summer flowers, 
 
 But feel not as of yore. 
 It may be that some baleful blight 
 
 Has paled their blossoms fair? 
 O no ! — as star-like, fresh and bright, 
 
 Those hues as once they were— 
 As merrily the blackbird sings, 
 
 And warblers fill the grove, 
 The rustle of a thousand wings 
 
 Cleaves the blue sky above ! 
 The queen-like rose hi blushing pride 
 
 Looks up to win our glance, 
 Whose buds their virgin beauties hide— 
 
 Whilst in the sun-beams dance 
 
THE CHANGE. 207 
 
 Myriads of insect revellers, 
 Who live their little day — 
 
 And not a blade of grass which stirs 
 But seems elate and gay ! 
 
 Oh ! if these spells no gladness blend- 
 No fond delight impart, 
 
 The change is in thy heart, sweet friend ! 
 The change is in thy heart ! 
 
 My heart is changed— yet do not deem 
 
 That change, or cold, or stern — 
 I would not chase one summer dream 
 
 From minds where they return. 
 Mine own ! — it was a glorious shrine, 
 
 With glowing rapture fraught — 
 Still nature's gifts as brightly shine, 
 
 Upon the world of thought. 
 But, oh ! not as in earlier years, 
 
 Such transport now is given ; 
 Time brings us chilling draughts of tears — 
 
 And vainly they have striven, 
 
208 THE CHANGE. 
 
 Who would retain the first rich glow, 
 Bathing- the soul in light — 
 
 Care's finger-mark is on our brow, 
 And dims our aching sight. 
 
 The world seem'd once too beautiful— 
 
 I worshipp'd it too much — 
 My cup of joy was all too full — 
 
 And sorrow humbles such ! 
 But think not I would now rebel — 
 
 Reject its bitter leaven ! — 
 We may not love this earth so well — 
 
 But dearer far is heaven ! 
 
209 
 
 THE MOURNER IN A FESTIVE SCENE. 
 
 The lamps are lit — and rosy garlands wreathing, 
 
 Clasp the rich hangings of the pillar'd hall ! 
 Glad strains are pealing on ! and perfumes breathing, 
 
 Fill the soft air; while Pleasure! at thy call 
 A troop of revellers are quickly thronging — 
 
 The young and lovely — to thy temple's shrine— 
 And surely, none to that gay train belonging 
 
 Have ever own'd a heavier sway than thine 9 
 
 Trust not the outward mien ! — Pride's votary — 
 
 The care-worn and the guilty may disguise 
 Their hollow glee beneath the imagery 
 
 Of words well feign'd, and smiles which are but lies ! 
 O! judge not! 'mongst the crowds thy path sur- 
 rounding, 
 
 Seek not the mysteries of their lot to scan— 
 Those hidden depths, in mortal hearts abounding, 
 
 Ne'er may be fathom'd by the mind of man ! 
 
210 THE MOURNER IN A FESTIVE SCENE. 
 
 Dimly may'st thou the bosom's weight discover, 
 
 Shrouded amid the busy multitude, 
 Where various passions, still conflicting, hover ; 
 
 ? Tis easy there th' inquiring eye t' elude ! 
 Yet, mark, where some with fairy feet are springing, 
 
 Whose bounding pulses with enchantment thrill ! 
 Their merry tones, in joyous cadence ringing, 
 
 Fresh and untir'd— Nature's glad children still ! 
 
 See ! yon pale girl, whose wand'ring gaze is dwelling 
 
 So mournfully upon the festive scene ! 
 Her thoughts are far away— her mem'ry telling 
 
 Of happier hours when there her step has been. 
 When the bright gems amid her ringlets twining 
 
 Shone not more brightly than her laughing glance : 
 For One, whose hand in her's was fondly twining, 
 
 Led her in triumph through the mazy dance ! 
 
 But now — what are those thoughts, whose bitterness 
 Casts a deep shadow o'er that pensive gaze ? 
 
 They speak of a wrung heart ! — of loneliness ; 
 Of yearnings sad and vain for other days ! 
 
THE MOURNER IN A FESTIVE SCENE. 211 
 
 The echo of a wild farewell is thrilling 
 Sternly upon her anguished mem'ry yet ; 
 
 Remembered tones, her eyes with tears are filling, 
 Whose gentle kindness she may ne'er forget ! 
 
 A voice has rous'd her now — see ! crimson blushing, 
 
 The tell-tale blood has mounted to her brow ; 
 Regret must slumber — pride the pang is crushing — 
 
 Ah ! what avails despair or weeping now ? 
 Go mingle with the young, and joyous-hearted ! 
 
 Go ! learn the idle jest— the ready smile ! 
 Think not upon the lov'd — the lost — the parted — 
 
 Tho' some who look on thee, may say the while— 
 
 " Thou ! with the voice of mirth ! 
 Whose startling laughter on the ear is pealing, 
 Thou canst have never known one sadden'd feeling, 
 
 Gay child of earth ! 
 
 ' • Thou ! of the haughty brow ! 
 And eyes, whose lightning splendour speak the soul 1 
 Whose eagle-spirit mocks at Care's control, 
 
 How blest art thou ! 
 
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THE MOURNER IN A 11 STIVE SCEM 
 
 " In thy cheek's fitful glow, 
 The clear light by those long dark fringe! hid. 
 So brightly flashing from the drooping lid, 
 
 I- nought of woe ! 
 
 " Sormw has cast no gloom 
 Tu dim the sunshine of thy blissful hours! 
 Still may thy patli be strewn with life's sweet flow'rs 
 
 Ev'n to the tomb !" 
 
 And thus they judge thee ! — Thou ! who hast been tried 
 
 Till reason totter'd on her shaken throne; 
 TkoUj who hast often wisli'd thou could'st have died 
 
 Ere the rich treasure of thy soul was gone ! 
 Vet now, must learn with calmness to resign 
 
 The cherish'd idol of thine ardent youth, 
 Nor think a dreary destiny is thine, 
 
 AVhile he is blest—whose fond regard was truth ! 
 " Was ?" bitter word ! — but thou must play thy part, 
 
 Suppress the murmur and the heavy sigh ; 
 Oh ! He that wounds, will heal the broken heart ! 
 
 (Though still, too dear, perchance, that sever'd tie.) 
 
THE MOURNER IN A FESTIVE SCENE. 213 
 
 Raise up thy head ! and dream not that they guess 
 
 The agony, the wild regret, and tears, 
 The hopes which have been quench'd in bitterness, 
 
 And overcast the light of thy past years ! 
 They deem that thou art hlest ! — O ! weary one ! 
 
 Is there not triumph in that thought to thee 
 That Pride can screen thy weakness? One alone 
 
 The secret joy or grief of hearts can see ! 
 And //', in meekness, it be thine to bow 
 
 To thine appointed lot, and hush to rest 
 Each wild repining that may rise — () thou ! 
 
 If such thy task — still I will call thee " Blest!" 
 
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 WITHERS FLOWERS. 
 
 Ye wither' d flowers ! emblems to me 
 
 Of hopes as faded now — 
 Why, when I idly gaze on ye, 
 
 Do tears so wildly flow ? 
 
 I think on ye when fondly priz'd 
 Rich in your beauty's pride ; — 
 
 'Tis gone! and scentless and despis'd, 
 Ye should be thrown aside. 
 
 But that deep feelings ye awake 
 
 In mem'ry's haunted cell ; 
 And though 'tis for another's sake, 
 
 I love these flowers well. 
 
 Yet 'tis a bitter love ! bereft 
 Of fragrance and of bloom, 
 
WITHERED FLOWERS. 215 
 
 A faint remembrance only left 
 Of colour and perfume ! 
 
 Link'd with a thousand cherish'd things,, 
 
 This wayward heart will keep 
 Amongst its holiest treasurings ; 
 
 I look on them and weep ! 
 
216 
 
 MUSIC AND PAIN. 
 
 Suggested by hearing a band of music, in illness. 
 
 Music and Pain ! how wildly are ye blent ! 
 
 As on my restless couch I lie reclining. 
 
 With those sweet notes, a spell by mem'ry sent, 
 
 A thousand visions round my brain are twining ; 
 
 My brow is calmer — bid the minstrel strain 
 
 Float through our halls, to soothe my soul again ! 
 
 Music and Pain ! fit emblems of our lot ! 
 The portion given here to all the living, 
 Is there one favor'd mind which feels it not—* 
 The bitterness with joy for ever striving ? 
 For ever ! must their mingled fountains flow — 
 And well for those who taste not most of woe ! 
 
 Ye notes of beauty ! on mine ear which thrill, 
 Up to the bed of feverish suffering stealing, 
 
MUSIC AND PAIN. 21? 
 
 Let not your echoes die ! — be lengthen'd still ! 
 Ye bring with you a store of varied feeling, 
 Telling of days and nights of festal reign — 
 And yet ! a pang is waken'd by the strain ! 
 
 Now I can bear no more — away ! away ! 
 It is too much ! — this intimate communion, 
 Searching the soul's depths with divided sway, 
 So strangely sweet, yet bitter in their union ; 
 Say ! when shall music only breathe of peace ? 
 In that bright world where pain and sorrow cease ! 
 
218 
 
 THE EARLY DEAD. 
 
 Mourn not the early dead ! for they are blest 
 Far, far beyond our living shapes of clay ; 
 Nought now can trouble or disturb their rest ; 
 And, though the forms we worshipp'd, are the prey 
 Of the vile worm, (foul reveller within 
 Their low cold graves,) to wish them hack, were sin ! 
 
 Mourn not the early dead ! but weep for those 
 
 Who still existing, bear a living death — 
 
 Who wrapt in heavy, leaden-like repose, 
 
 Feel Hope's extinction, ere their parting breath 
 
 Mourn for the sorrow-stricken hearts, whose gloom 
 
 Deepens into despair, this side the tomb ! 
 
 Mourn not the faithful dead ! whose stedfast trust 
 Is blest for ever in the realms above ! 
 Whose spirits, purified from earthly 
 Soar to th' eternity of bliss and 
 
THE EARLY DEAD. 219 
 
 On seraph- wings borne through celestial air-, 
 O fondly-lov'd, and lost ! your homes are there ! 
 
 There — where no sound is heard of grief or woe, 
 And all the " former things" are past for ever ! 
 Where crystal waters from Life's river flow, 
 And no farewell can wring, or parting sever ; 
 Where endless joys repay earth's darken'd hours, 
 Your blessed homes are there ! such home be ours ! 
 
220 
 
 THERE IS NO LONELINESS. 
 
 When those we love are far away, 
 
 And darken'd is our fate — 
 When all the hues of Hope decay, 
 We feel most desolate ! 
 But there is One whose constant love 
 Is with us still — the One above ! 
 
 Truly it is a. blessed thought, 
 When earthly joys are gone, 
 That He who our salvation wrought 
 Will not leave us alone ! 
 In joy or grief — in good or ill — 
 His heav'nly power is o'er us still ! 
 
 And when at eve the shadows fall, 
 Which soothing charms impart, 
 
THERE IS NO LONELINESS. 221 
 
 Oft on his holy Name I'll call, 
 Who cheers the fainting heart ! 
 Though all most valued may be gone^ 
 Yet are we never left alone ! 
 
NOTES 
 
 SONGS OF GRANADA AND THE ALHAMBRA. 
 
NOTES 
 
 SONGS OF GRANADA AND THE ALHAMBRA. 
 
 GOLDEN RIVER. 
 
 Page 1. 
 '•* Golden river gently flowing." 
 The river Darro, said to carry with it small particles of 
 gold ; its name, derived from dat aurum, may be alleged as a 
 proof of this. — See Bourgoanne's Travels. 
 
 Page 1. 
 Thro' our Vega's smiling plains." 
 The Vega — the plain surrounding Granada, thirty miles in 
 length and fifteen in breadth. ** This enchanting vale is cul- 
 tivated even to the summit of the hills which form it. The 
 
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226 NOTES. 
 
 river and its ornamented banks continually reflecting inexpres- 
 sible beauties on each other, go on in harmony, till the silver 
 stream is interrupted by Granada. Even to this day, this 
 charming vale is called ' Val Parayso/ or the Vale of Para- 
 dise." — Udal ap Rhys's Spain. 
 
 Page 2. 
 
 " Rush from yon Sierra s height." 
 
 The Sierra Nevada, or Snowy Mountain, at the foot of which 
 Granada is situated. 
 
 THE FALLEN ZEGRI. 
 
 Page 8. 
 
 " The Zegri's noblest chief" 
 
 The Zegris were among the noblest of the Moorish tribes. 
 
 REPLY OF MULEY HASSAN. 
 Page 5. 
 Muley Hassan, or Hacem, as some writers call him, was the 
 last but one of the kings of Granada. His refusal to pay tri- 
 bute to Ferdinand was the immediate cause of the long and 
 
NOTES. 227 
 
 sanguinary war which ended in the total overthrow of the 
 Moors in Spain. 
 
 COME TO OUR FOUNTAIN'S SIDE. 
 
 Page 7. 
 " And watch the sparkling waters flow." 
 
 " The Arabs never lost an opportunity of bestowing- an 
 eulogium upon water; there are basins and cascades in most 
 of the halls of the Alhambra, so that during summer, it 
 must have been a delightful abode."— Bourgoanne. 
 
 Page 7. 
 
 '.* Come to the Linderaxa' 's shade." 
 
 The garden upon which the windows of the hall open, called 
 Las dos Hermanos, or tC the Two Sisters/' At the entrance is 
 the following poetical inscription: — " The garden which thou 
 seest gives thee life. The harmony which proceeds from 
 these shrubs joins with the perfume of the flowers to enchant 
 the soul. And thou, charming vase, which embellishest it, 
 thou shalt be compared to a king decorated with golden chains 
 and crowns." — See Arabic Inscription — Bourgoanne. 
 
:228 
 
 ESCAPE OF ABD ALLAH. 
 
 Page 9. 
 
 u In dark Comares' Tow'r." 
 
 The Tower of Comares took its name from the Moorish 
 architect by whom it was buiit. 4< It is the highest and most 
 magnificent tower of the Alhambra, and was sometimes used 
 as a place of confinement for state criminals. There Abdallah 
 was imprisoned by his father, Muley Hassan, in whose ab- 
 sence he had usurped the throne. It was also in the Tower 
 of Comares that the wife of Abdallah (the last king of Gra- 
 nada) was imprisoned, and the iron cage which was used as 
 her dungeon, is still to be seen." — Udal ap Rhys. 
 
 Page 11. 
 " City 'midst lofty ALpuxarras" 
 The Alpuxharras are so lofty, that the coast of Barbary and 
 the cities of Tangiers and Ceuta are discovered from their 
 summits. 
 
 Pac*e 12. 
 " Wake thy reproach and tears" 
 When, after the conquest of Granada, Abn Abdallah 
 stopped on the Hill of Padul to take a last look at his city and 
 
NOTES. 229 
 
 palace, overcome by the sight, he burst into tears, and was thus 
 rebuked by his mother, the Sultana Aixa,— " Thou dost well 
 to weep like a woman for the loss of that kingdom which thou 
 knewest not how to defend like a man." 
 
 LEILA. 
 Page 16. 
 
 " They had met and parted 
 In the cypress grove." 
 
 " I sat down," says Bourgoanne, "at the feet of two 
 cypresses, of which the height and whiteness attested the 
 number of centuries they had stood there ; they are still called 
 " The Cypresses of the Queen," because it was near them the 
 perfidious Gomel impeached the virtue of that princess, and 
 the honour of the Abencerrages." 
 
 Page 17. 
 " They have slain thy lover." 
 Albin Hamet, the most powerful of the Abencerrages, with 
 thirty- five of that princely family, was slain in a fit of jealous 
 fury by King Abdallah, in the Hall of Lions, where there is 
 still a large vase of alabaster, which was quickly filled with 
 blood, and the heads of their expiring bodies."— See Bour- 
 goanne. 
 
230 
 
 XARIFFE. 
 
 Page 18. 
 " In that pillar 9 d hall of fret-work rare " 
 
 See the description, in Bourgoanne's Travels, of El Tocador, 
 or the " Queen's Toilet." It is a room of six feet square, 
 having a prospect on every side, and surrounded by a terrace 
 three feet wide • the floor of the cabinet, and that of the gallery 
 by which it is surrounded, are flagged with red marble, and 
 the terrace is supported by white marble pillars. 
 
 THE SLEEPING ARAB MAID. 
 
 Page 26. 
 
 <k Shu laves ourfam'd Alhambra and our peerless Generalise.*' 
 
 The Alhambra. This sumptuous palace was built by Maho- 
 met Mir, Kiag of Granada, in 1278. — (Udal ap Rhys.) 
 Generalife signifies in Arabic, fi the house of love, of dance 
 and pleasure." 
 
 DEPARTURE OF MUZA. 
 Page 34. 
 Muza, brother to Abdallah, who by his great actions had 
 gained the favour of the people. 
 
NOTES. C 23L 
 
 LAMENT FOR GRANADA. 
 Page 38. 
 
 The Moors are said to regret nothing but Granada amongst 
 all the losses they have sustained in Spain — they mention it 
 in all their evening prayers, and supplicate heaven to restore 
 it to their possession. 
 
 The 2nd of January, 1492, was the day of the taking of 
 Granada. — See Bourgoanne, Rhys, and other Travels in 
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