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Sb'xxX]) CFDition CAMBRIDGE DEIGHTON BELL AND CO LONDON BELL AND DALDY 1871 Z332 /sir CAMBRIDGE : PRINTED BY C. J. CLAV, M.A, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, V J nPHE second Edition of the Collecflion entitled Foliorum Sihnila is not an cxa(fl republication of the first. It is formed, however, on the same plan, and cannot fail to possess, apart from its fitness for the main purpose of its publication, the same kind of value and interest as its pre- decessor, containing as it does a variety of choice passages culled by several hands, and exhibiting specimens of the taste and judgment of many eminent Scholars. But while the original features of the Book, to which alone it owed a certain amount of popularity, have been preserved, an endeavour has been made to render it more generally serviceable for the use of Schools as well as academical Students, by the incorporation of a Forest of shorter and easier sele(flions chiefly from English' poets v.ith Passages given as subje, 803, 806 Antijacobin, Poetry of, 280 Antipater Sidomus (B.C. 200), 34, 41, 81 (4), 150. 151 Antiphilus (a.d. ioo\ 42 Archilochus (b.c. 714 — 676), 185, 804 Ariphron, 153 Armstrong, John (a.d. 1709 — 1779), 969, 1278, 1288 Arnold, Matthew, 483, 718, 1048, 1115. iiiC, 1 1 22, 1 1 26, 1287 Ayion, Sir R. (a.d. 1570 — 1638), 176, 177 Aytoun, \V. E. (a.d. 1813—1865), 344, 345, 452. 731, 732, 733 Bailey, Philip James, 1248 liampfylde, John, 282 Beattie, James (a.d. 1735— 1803), 798, 838, 1068 Beddoes, T.L. (a.d. 1760— 1808), 491 Bel!, Currer (a.d. 1816— 1855), 510 Bode, J. E., 163, 741 Booth, Barton (a.d. 1681 — 1733). ^7 Bowles, William Lisle (a.d. 1762— 1850), 466 Bradstreet, Anne, 984 Browne, William (a.d. 1590— 1645), 99°. 1006, 1067, 1179 Bruce, Michael (a.d. 1746—1767), 320, 321, 322 Bryant, William Cullen, 138, 461, 4S5, 519, 546, 592, 615, 640, 666, 762, 771, 854, 1062 Burgon, J. W., 898, 899 Burns, Robert (a.d. 1759— 1796). 299. 301. 304, 306, 317, 318, 319, 335, 338, 386, 4". 455, 464, 479, 484, 498, 602, 753, 785, 786 Butler (Kemble), Frances Anne, 287 Byron, Lord (a.d. 1788—1824), 26, 73, 156, 199, 215, 310. 314. 347. 366, 367. 371—373. 392, 393. 467. 529. 551. 575, 581. 583, 614. 626, 667,687, 719, 720, 721, 722, 738, 766, 768, 769, 799, 809, 810, 811, 812, 813, 814, 1047, 1050, 1060, 1066, 1173, 1 197 Callimachus (fl. B. C. 260), 28, 102, 285 Campbell, Thomas (a.d. 1777—1844), 27, 165, 317, 228, 567, 610, 611, 684, 698, 714, 715, 843, 844, 872, 922, 1053 Canning, George (a.d. 1770—1827), 11 18 Index of Authors Carew, Thomas (a.d. 1589 — 1639), 7°2, 977 Carlyle, J. D. (a.d. 1759 — 1804), 182, 334 Chaucer, Geoffrey (a.d. 1328 — 1400), 1015, 1289 Gibber, Golley (a.d. 1671 — 1757), 668 Glark, William George, b. 1822, 471 Coleridge, Hartley (a.d. 1796 — 1849), 107, 148, 703 Coleridge, SamuelTaylor(A.D. 1772 — 1834), 5, 203, 218, 422, 497, 569, 758, 864, 940, 941, 117s, 1176, 1284 Collins, William (a.d. 1721 — 1756), 169, 508, 509, 710 Congreve, William (a.d. 1670 — 1729), 327, 417 Corbet, Richard (a.d. 1582 — 1635), 579 Cornwall, Barry, Tnde Prodler Cotton, Charles (a.d. 1630 — 1687), 307 Cowley, Abraham (a.d. 161S — 1677), 7, 129, 472, 682, 778, 839, 963, 964, 1013, 1097, iiSi Cowper, William (a.d. 1731 — 1800), 294,410, 633, 644, 656, 657, 662, 681, 692, 694, 704, 754. 774. 856, 908, 909, 927, 951, 958, 978, 1057,1058,1071,1143,1192, 1211, 1233, 1290 Crabbe, George (a.d. 1754—1832), 132, 133, 378, 400, 527, 962 Crawford, Robert (a.d. —1733). 793 Croxall, R., 340 Cunningham, John (a.d. 1729 — 1773}, 713 Cyrus, 805 Dante (a.d. 1265 — 1321), 1102 Daniel, Samuel (a.d. 1562 — 1619), 271, 272, 273, 683 Darlton, Dr, 75 Darwin, Erasmus (a.d. 1731 — 1802), 324, 929, 1 1 10 D'Avenant, Sir William (a.d. 1605 — 1668), 66 Davies, Sir John (a.d. 1570 — 1626), 669, 1216, 1236 Denham, Sir John (a.d. 1615 — 1668), 658, 866, 912, 1008 — ion, 1025, 1026, 1027, 105.5. 1056 Doddridge, John (a.d. 1555 — 1628), 21 Drayton, Michael (a.d. 1563 — 1631), 252, 253. 254. 570. .599 Drummond, William (a.d. 1585 — 1649}, 255 — 263, 820, 1226 Dryden, John (a.d. 1631 — 1700), 22, 92. 147. 359> 402. 697. 730. 821, 822, 848, 869, 874, 881, 914, 920, 939, 952, 985, 988, 993, 998, 1007, 1019, 1049, 1094, 1095, 1 100, 1 101, 1148, 1259 Dunlop, J., 286, 1223 D'Urfey, Thomas (a.d. 1628 — 1723), 463 Dyer, John (a.d. 1700^1758). 624, 625, 999, 1088 Dyer, Sir E., 560, 561, 562 E Euripides (b.c. 480 — 406), 190 Evans, W. E., qi Fairfax, E. ( — 1632), 995, 996, 1220 Fletcher, Giles (a.d. 1585—1623), 836, 865, I022, 1023, 1030, 1032, 1224, 1225 Fletcher, John (a.d. 1576 — 1625), 77 Fletcher, Phineas (a.d. 1584 — 1650), 907 G Gascoigne, George (a.d. 1540 — 1577), 52, 141, 142 Gay, John (a.d. 1688—1732), 777, 875, 910, 919, 992, 1182 Gifford, William (a.d. 1756 — 1826), 468 Glynn, Dr (a.d. 1718 — 1800), 994 Goldsmith, Oliver (a.d. 1728 — 1774), 51, 54, 70, 122, 123, 181, 213, 226, 227, 590, 634. 63s, 746, 747, 846, 850 Graves, Richard (a.d. 1763 — 1829), 432, 433 Gray, Thomas (a.d. 1716 — 1771), 113, 167, 208, 346, 776, 789, 863 Greene, Robert (a.d. 1560 — 1592), 580 H Habington, William (a.d. 1605 — 1645), 155, 267, 268, 752, 1202 Hardinge, Nicholas (a.d. 1700 — 1758), 1130 Harington, John (a.d. 1534 — 1582), 548 Hawkesworth, John (a.d. 1715 — 1773). 303 Headley, Henry (a.d. 1766 — 1788), 605 Hedderwick, James, 296 Heber, Reginald (a.d. 1783—1826), 737, 742, 968, II 14, 1 164 Heine, Heinrich (a.d. 1799—1856), 94 Hemans, Felicia (a.d. 1794— 1835), 68, 69, 168, 414, 458, 473, 507, 549, 582, 596, 597, 665, 676, 677, 767, 791, 860, 950 Index of Auihors XI Herbert, George (a.d. 1593—1632), 2, 349 Herbert, William (Earl of Pembroke) (a.d. 1580 — 1630}, 210 Herrick, Robert (a.d. 1591— i674\ 67, 76, 90. 93. 139. 330. 348. 390. 415. 493i 743> 744. 749 Homeric Hymn, 1146 Hood, Thomas (a.d. 1798 — 184^), 62, 109, 341, 429, 636, 712 Jenyns, Soame (a.d. 1704—1787), 876, 887, 905, 96s, 1051 Johnson, Samuel (a.d. 1709 — 1784), 71, 343, 394, 409, 571, 572, 638, 699, 1285 Jones, Sir William (a.d. 1746— 1794), 4, 412 Jouson, Ben (a.d. 1574—1637), 16, 49, 120, 154, 221, 328, 362, 538, 1089, 1265 K Keats, John (a.d. 1795—1821), 724, 725, 857, 1000, 1072, 1073, 10S2, 1083, 1152 — 1x62, 1189 Keble, John (a.d. 1792— 1866), 325, 374, 375. 463. 539. 632. 643. 647. 7" King, Dr Henry (a.d. 1591-1669^ 97 Kingsley, Rev. Charles, b. 1819, 11 19 Kyd, Thomas (circa 1588), 265 I,andon, Laetitia Elizabeth (Mrs Maclean) (A.D. 1802— 1838), 352, 663 Landor, W. S. (a.u. 1775—1864), 526, 609, 967, 1074 Langhome, John [a.d. i735— ^779). ^4. 3°S Lansdowne, Lord (a.d. 1780—1863), 164, 416 Leonidas of Tarentum [inceriae aetatis), 85(3), 85(41. 184,188 Leopardi, Giacomo, 486 Lewis, M. G. (a.d. 1775— 1818), 603, 604 Leyden, John (a.d. 1775—18x1), 759 Lodge, Thomas ( A. D. 1560—1625), 178, 231 Logan, John(A.D. 1748— 1788), 29s, 674, 675, 770, 842 Longfellow, H. W., h. 1807, 94, loi, 225, 43'. 494. 499. 516, 755. 868, 107s, 1076 Lovelace, Sir Richard vA.d. 1618— 1658), n8, 782 Lovibond, Edward ( — i77S}. 323 Lowe, Alexander, 792 Lucianus (a.d. 200), 58 Lyly, John (a.d. 1553 — 1600), 219 Lyra Apostolica, 112, 175, 179, 180 Lyttelton, Lord (a.d. 1709— 1773}, 170, 171, 586, 119s M Macedonius, 81 (2), 81 (3), 84 (3) Macaulay, Lord(A.D. 1800—1859), 890, 1078 Mallet, David (.VD. 1714—1765), 198, 365, 1046, 1 129 Marianus Scholasticus, 104 Marlowe, Christopher (a.d. 1562— 1593), 645, 1227 Marvell, Andrew (a.d. 1620— 1678),553, 554, 587. 588, 739. io°4 Mason, William (a.d. 1725-1797), 436 Massinger, Philip (a.d. 1584— 1640} , 1260' Meleager (B.C. 60), 30, 44, 59, 82, 85 (2), 149, 152, 700 Menecrates, 35 Meredith, George, 450 Metrodoras [incertae aetatis], 87 Mickle, William Julius (a.d. 1734—1788), 489, 902 — 4 Middleton, Thomas Fanshaw (a.d. 1769— 1822), 406 Milman, Henr>- Hart, 518, 1077, 1272 Milnes, R. Monckton, 454 Milton, John (a.d. 1608— 1674), 269, 274, 816, 845, 847, 853, 870, 871, 877, 888, 889, 9". 915. 971. 972. 973. i°i2, 1014, 1016, 1017, 1028, 1052, 1061, 1079, 1091, 1092, 1104, 1105, 1109, 1121, 1124, 1145, ii49» 1165, 1166, 1167, 1184, 1194, 1198. "99. 1200, i2o6, 1209, 1210, 1217, 1221, 1222, 1228, 1231, 1237, 1240, 1241, 1242, 1243, 1244, 124s, 1246, 1247, 1261, 1267, 1268, 1275, 1276, 1277 Mimncrmus (fl. 634—600 B.C.), 192 Moir, D. M. (a.d. 1798—1851), 281 Montgomery, James (a.d. 1771— 1854), 98, 99. 369, 370. 381. 660, 661, 1020, 102X, IOS4, 1090, 1138, 1139, 1140. 1207, 1274 Moore, Thomas (a.d. 1779—1852), 46, 48, 55, 60, 74, 108, 131, 161, 289, 312, 315. 329, 331. 377. 382, 395. 396, 397. 398. 4i3. Xll Index of Atithors 418, 426, 442, 446, 481, 305, 520, 545, 593, 613, 862, 1183 Moschus, 37, 1266 Moss, Thomas, 157 Moultrie, John, 353— 35S N Newman, John Henry, h. 1801, iia Newton, John {a.d. 1722 — 1807), 8oi Norton, CaioHne, 130, 689, 690, 790 o Oldys, William (a.d. 16S7— 1761}, 114 Palladas (a.d. 400), 11, 187 Parnell, Thomas (a.d. 1679— 1718;, 502, 639. 775. 1141. 1142 Paulus Silentiarius (a.d. 6oo\ 31, 84 (2) Peacham, H. ( — 1640), 534 Peele, George (a.d. 1552—1590), 140 Percy, Thomas (a.d. 1728— 181 i), 126 Phillips, Ambrose (a.d. 1671— 1749), 959 — 961 Philips, John (a.d. 1676 — 1708), 975 Pilkington, Lsetitia (a.d. 1712— 1750), 401 Plato (B.C. 430 — 347), 36 Poliziano, A. (a.d. 1454 — 1494), 127 Pope, Alexander (a.d. 1688 — 1744), i, 3, 10, 13, IS, 78, 89, 212, 230, 292, 339, 379, S3S, 543. 544. 552, 591. 649—655.706,707,748, 794. 795. 817, 818, 824, 827, 891, 892, 926, 928, 933, 954, 974, 1018, 1059, 1070, 1085 —7, 1131— 5, 1163. "So, 1235, 1238, 1249, 1270, 1273 Posidippus (ol. 130), 86, 103 Phanias {incertae aetatis), 81 (5) Praed, W. M. (a.d. 1802— 1839), 631 Prior, Matthew (a.d. 1664 — 1721), 216, 222, 284, 293, 427, 428, 547, 823, 947, 949, 1084, 1120, 1136, 1137, 1144, 1174, 118S, 1205, I2i8, 1257 Procter, Adelaide Ann ( — 1864), 433 Procfler, Bi-yan Waller, 342, 424 Quillinan, Edward, 63 Raleigh, Sir Walter (a.d. 1332 — 1618), 39, 646 Rochester, Earl of (a.d. 1647 — 1680), 944 Rogers, Samuel (a.d. 1763 — 1855), 23, 72, 143, 162, 308, 332, 364, 514, 531, 366, 740, 8ig, 841, 849, 858, 921, 1029, 1196 Roscoe, William Stanley (A.D.1781 — 1843), 436, 457 Ruiinus, 33 Rugby Magazine, 637 Sannazaro, lacopo (a.d. 1458 — 1530], 207 Sackville, Thomas (a.d. 1527— 1608), 879, 894. "77. 1201 Schiller, J. C. F. (a.d. 1739—1805), 57, 71S Scott, John (a.d. 1730 — 1783), 430 Scott, Sir Walter (a.d. 1771 — 1832), 12, 19, no. III, 174, 196, 302, 333, 350, 384, 385, 434, 438, 443, 469, 470, 303, 511, 528, 340, 623, 627, 628, 664, 680, 734, 733, 736, 750, 756, 764. 779. 7S4. 803 Scrope, W., 128 Sedley, Sir Charles (a.d. 1639 — 1701), 476 Seward, Thomas (a.d. 1708 — 1790), 391 Shakespeare (a.d. 1364 — 1616), 96, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251. 477, 521, 589, 861, 897, 930, 1065, 12S0 Shelley, Percy Bysshe (a.d. 1792—1822), 18, 93, 105, 106, 121, 211, 300, 475, 500, 550, 584, 585, 670, 671, 695, 802, 880, 918, 976, 986, 987, 1031, 1282 Shenstone, William (a.d. 1714 — 1763), 100, 116, 117, 337, 363, 492, 504, 536, 537, 620, 685, 760, 763 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (a.d. 1751 — 1816), 443, 480 Simmias (b.c. 300), 38 Simonides of Ceos (b.c. 356—467). Si(i), 85 (i). 88, 191, 642 Simpkinson, John Nassau, 637 Singer, Mrs Elizabeth Rowe (a.d. 1674— 1737). 943 Smart, Christopher (a.d. 1722— 1779), 25 Smedley, Edward A. (a.d. 1789—1836), 20 Smith, Alexander (a.d. 1820 — 1866), 1203 Smith, Charlotte (a.d. 1749— 1806), 277, 278, 279, 696 Index of A nthors Xlll Smollett, Tobias George (a.d. 1721 — 1771), 437, 691 Solomon (B.C. 1033 — 975), 40s Somerville, William (a,d. 1682 — 1742), 1190 Sophocles (B.C. 495 — 405], 530 Sotheby, William (a.d. 1757^1833}, 1230 Southey, Caroline (Bowles) (a.d. 1787 — 1854.;, 788 Southey, Robert (a.d. 1774— 1843), 283, 533, 607, 708, 840, 934, 942, 1003, 1 1 12, 1 113, 1191, 1279 Southwell, R. (a.d. 1560 — 1595}, 524, 525, 683 Spenser, Edmund (a.d. 1553 — 1599), 124, 125, 234. 235. 236, 237, 238, 678, 679, 815, 826, 832, 833, 834, 835, 873, 883, 916, 917, 983. 997i 1033. i°34. 1035, 1036, 1037, 1038, 1039, 1040, 1041, 1042, 1043, io.;4, 1147, 1185, 1214, 1232, 1239, 1250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1281 Stanley, Thomas (a.d. 1625 — 1678), 506 Steele, Sir Richard (a.d. 1675 — 1729), 336 Stewart, Mrs Dugald (Miss Cranstoun}, 787 Strangford, Lord (.\.d. 17S0 — 1855}, 9, 298, 629 Suckling, Sir John (a.d. 1609 — 1641), 4.^9 Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of (a.d. 1517 — 1547). 232. 233 Sylvester, Joshua (a.d. 1563 — 1618), 144, 145 Swift, Jonathan (a. D. 1667 — 174SI. i255, 1256 Swinburne, Algernon, 1212 Tannahill, Robert (a.d. 1774 — i8io\ 44S Tasso, Torquato (a.d. 1544— 1595), 995,996 Tennyson, Alfred, b. 1809, 115, 146, 158, '59. 195. 204, 291, 351, 361, 387, 425, 496, 542, 618, 729, 773, 797, 855, 895, 896, 906, 932, 937, 938, 1001, 1002, 1080, 1081, 1106, 1107, 1127, 1168, 1169, 1170, 1171, 1286 Tennyson, Frederic, 61 Theocritus (fl. B.C. 280), 43 Thomson, James (a.d. 1700 — 1748), 56, 326, 368, 404, 421, 444, 594, 595, 82S, 829, 830, 831, 867, 893, 924, 935, 93&, 955, 956, 057, 966, 979, 980, 981, 982, 1024, 1063, 1064, 1096, 1103, mi, H17, it2S, 1128, 1172, 1186, 1193, 1254, 1263, 1291 Thurston, J., 288 Tickell, Thomas (a.d. 16S6 — 1740J, 577, 578, 825, 837 Townsend, Chauncy Hare (a.d. 179S — 1S68;, 47 Trench, Richard ChenevLx, 1215 U Uhland (a.d. 1787 — 1862], 755 W Walker, William Sidney (a.d. 1795 — 1S45,', 399 Waller, Edmund (a.d. 1605 — 16S7I, 40, 135, 136, 137, 383, 490. 532. 601, 808, 859, 1130 Warton, Joseph {a.d. 1722 — 1770), 745, 772 Warton, Thomas (a.d. 1728 — 1790), 945 Watson, Thomas (.\.D. 1560 — 1591), 568, 576 AVhewell, William (.\.D. 1795 — 1866J, 57 ^Vhite, Henry Kirke (a.d. 1785 — 1806J, 376, 616, 617, 619, 765, 925 Wilson, John (a.d. 1785 — 1854), 7G1 Wither, George (a.d. 1588 — 1667), 266, 751, 1258 Wolfe, Charles (a.d. 1791 — 1823), 780, 783 Wordsworth, William {.■^.D. 1770 — 1850), 119, 166, 205, 214, 290, 380, 388, 389,403, 407, 408, 419, 459, 517, 556, 557, 558, 559, 563, 564, 565. 621, 757, 882, 883, 970, 991, 1069, 1093, 1151, 1178, 1208, 1269, 1283, 1292, 1293 Wotton, Sir Henry (.\.d. 1568 — 1639), 31J, 598 Wrangham, Francis (a.d. 1770 — 184S), 197, 224 Y Young, Dr Edward (a,d. 1681 — 1765], 900, 901 Anonymous and uncertain, 6, 8, 24, 29, 50, 53.64. 65, 80, 126, 134, 160,172, 173, 193, 200, 201, 202, 206, 209, 220, 223, 229, 264, 270, 275, 276, 297, 311, 360, 420, 423, 439. 441. 447. 451, 453. 460, 462, 478, 482, 487, 488, 495, 501, 512, 513, 515, 522, 523, 541. 555. 600, 606, 608, 612, 622, 630, 648, 672, 673, 686, 705, 709, 716, 723, 727, 728, 781, 796, 800, 807, 851, 852, 878, 886, 923, 931, 948,953. 989. looS. 1098, 1099, 1187, 1213, 1229, 1262, 1264, 1271 PASSAGES FOR TRANSLATION INTO LATIN ELEGIAC VERSE 1 HAPPY INSENSIBILITY THE lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, had he thy reason, would he skip and play? pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food and licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. A. POPE 2 CHARMS AND KNOTS I WHO read a chapter when they rise shall ne'er be troubled with ill eyes. II A poor man's rod, when thou dost ride, is both a weapon and a guide. Ill Who shuts his hand hath lost his gold, who opens it hath it twice told. IV Who goes to bed and does not pray maketh two nights to every day. V Who by aspersions throw a stone at the head of others, hit their own. VI Who looks on ground with humble eyes, finds himself there and seeks to rise. VII When the hair is sweet through pride or lust, the powder doth forget the dust. VIII In shaipr]86v acipei, Tous S' aTTo Tcoi/ ve(j>eXwv tis 'AiSv^v Karayei. PALLAPAS 12 THE SORROWS OF CHILDHOOD THE tear down childhood's cheek that flows is like the dewdrop on the rose; when next the summer breeze comes by and waves the bush, the flower is dry. SIR W. SCOTT I \ FILIAL PIETY E let the tender office long engage to rock the cradle of reposing age, with lenient art extend a mother's breath, make languor smile and smoothe the bed of death, explore the thought, explain the asking eye, and save awhile one parent from the sky. A. POPE 14 APOLOGY FOR VAGRANTS COLD on Canadian hills or Minden's plaiiv perhaps that parent mourned her soldier slain; bent o'er her babe, her eyes dissolved in dew, the big drops mingling with the milk he drew gave the sad presage of his future years-— the child of misery baptized in tears. J. LANCHORNE I — 2 M Passages for Translation 15 EPITAPH ON yAMES CRAGGS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY STATESMAN, yet friend to truth, of soul sincere; in adlion faithful and in honour clear: who broke no promise, served no private end; who gained no title and who lost no friend; ennobled by himself, by all approved; praised wept and honoured by the Muse he loved. A. POPE 16 EPITAPH ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE SISTER TO SIR PHILIP SIDNEY UNDERNEATH this sable herse lies the subjefl of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother: Death, ere thou hast slain another learned and fair and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee. B. JONSON 17 LOVE OUTLIVES TIME DEVOURING Time with stealing pace makes lofty oaks and cedars bow; and marble towers and gates of brass in his rude march he levels low: but Time destroying far and wide Love from the soul can ne'er divide. B. BOOTH 18 SPIRIT OF PLATO EAGLE, why soarest thou above that tomb? to what sublime and star-y-paven home floatest thou? I am the image of swift Plato's spirit ascending heaven: Athens does inherit his corpse below. P. B, SHELLEY into Latin Elesriac Verse is' o 19 JVOMAN'S LOVE WOMAN in our hours of ease uncertain coy and hard to please and variable as the shade by the light quivering aspen made, when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou. SIR W. SCOTT 20 VENICE WHEN Neptune towering o'er her Adrian wave saw Venice rise and Ocean's rage enslave, 'Boast as thou wilt of Rome' to Jove he cried *her rock Tarpeian and thy Mars her guide,* yet own, though Tiber lure thee from the seas, that mortals reared those walls, immortals these. E. A. SMEDLEY 21 DUM VI VIM US VIVAMUS ' T IVE while you live' the Epicure would say J—v 'and snatch the pleasures of the present day;' * Live while you live' the sacred preacher cries ' and give to God each moment as it flies.' Lord, in my view let both united be ! — I live in pleasure when I live to Thee! J. DODDRIDGE 2 2 EPIGRAM ON MILTON THREE poets, in three distant ages born, Greece Italy and England did adorn: the first in loftiness of thought surpassed, the next in majesty, in both the last : the force of nature could no further go; to make a third she joined the other two. J. DRYDEN 23 THE MOTHER'S STRATAGEM WH I LE on the cliff with calm delight she kneels, and the blue vales a thousand joys recall, see to the last, last verge her infant steals! O fly!— yet stir not, speak not, lest it fall. Far bcctcr thought,— she lays her bosom bare, and the fond boy springs back to nestle there. S. ROGERS 6 i'assages for Translatiofi ON THOMAS MOORE'S DAUGHTER SWEET child, when on thy beauteous face the bhish of innocence I view, thy gentle mother's features trace, thy father's look of genius too; if envy wake a moment's sigh, thy face is my apology. 25 IXSCRIPTION ON AN AEOLIAN HARP HAIL heavenly harp where Memnon's skill is shewn, that charm'st the ear with music all thine own, which though untouched canst rapturous strains impart, O rich of genuine nature, free from art! Such the wild warblings of the sylvan throng, so simply sweet the untaught virgin's song. C. SMART 26 THE DEW-DROP A PEARLY dew-drop see some flower adorn and grace with tender beam the rising morn ; but soon the sun permits a fiercer ray, and the fair fabric rushes to decay : lo, in the dust the beauteous ruin lies ; and the pure vapour seeks its native skies, a fate like this to thee, sweet boy, was given : to sparkle, bloom and be exhaled to heaven. LORD BYRON 27 LOVE LOVE he comes, and Love he tarries, ■^ just as fate or fancy carries ; longest stays, when sorest chidden ; laughs and flies, when pressed and bidden. Love's a fire that needs renewal of fresh beauty for its fuel: love's wing moults when caged and captured; only free, he soars enraptured. T. CAMPBELL into Latin Elc;r:ac Va'se b ' 28 TO HIS DEPARTED FRIEND HERACLITUS EinE Tts 'HpaK-XciTe reov fxopov, h 8i fxe BaKpv rjyaytv, ip.vr'j(T6r]V 8 oacra/cts a{X(}iOT€poL rjiXiov Xi(T)(r) KareSvaajxev o.AAa crv jj.ei' ttov ^elv ' AXiKapinrjcrcrev T€(f>pa irdXai cm-ooiiy al Se real ^ojovtrtv az/Sofcs, fitrtv d ttolvtwv dpiraKT-Qp 'AiS?;? ovK Itti x^~P°'- iSaXet. CALLIMACHVS 29 30 31 TO MENANDER AYTAT (TOt CTTOjuaTeo-crtv avT/pct'i/'avro fiiXicraai TTOLKiXa INIovcrawv av^ea Speij/ajxeraL' avTol Kol ^a/Dires o"ot eowpT^o'avTo jNIei-avSpe CTTcu/xvXoj/ £UTr;^«;v, hpap-aaiv cvpe'/xevat. ^toets CIS aioCva* to 8e KXiopov aTro 7rXoKa/;ia)v. awat vvv Ipiovcriv 'AOrjvaLr) re koX "Hprj *0VKeTi croi fxopds €ts cptv ipxoiJ-^Oa' ANTIPATER SIDONIVS ON A REED 'HIMHN axpetor KaXa/to? (jiVTov Ik yap t/AcTo ou ctvk' ov fiTJXov ^uerai ou (TratjivXrj. dXXd IM dvrjp ifivrja eXiKwvtSa Xctttci Topvaav TrcTrcSTy/xeVos VTrvw cvBev ixdBiowv ^ovdal 8' e(j>v7rep6e ixeXiacrai Kripo)(yTOi!cr' ivTOS Xayapots cttI ;(£tA£crt (Balvov. PLATO 37 CUPID TURNED PLOUGHMAN AA'MTIAAA ^ets Kai ro'^a fSorjXaTiv eiXero pa'^Sov ovXos "Epws irrjpyjv 8' etxe KaTwp-aStT^v Kat ^tu^as TaXacpyov vtto C^oi' auxe'va ravpoov IcTTTctpev Atjovs auAttKa ■7Tvpo(^opov. eiTTC 8' avcj )8\€i/'as aurw Att 'ttX^ctov apovpa<;, fXTJ l (re Kuraos dfipa. re Xnynavmv TTOpcjivpcwv TreraAa' Trrjyat 8' dpyLv6cvT0<; avadXt/SoLVTO yaAaKTOS, euwoes o avro 7775 r]ov )^colto fXi.Uv, ucf)pa KC TOt ctttoSit; re kol oorea ripif/LV aprjTai, ci Sr] Tts (^Oip.ivoi'i xpLjXTrT€Tat evtppocrvva, o TO (J)lXov CTepfas ^t'Ae jSapfSiTOv, tS crvv aotSa irdvTa StaTrXcjcras koI €Tai.' dpKet 8' a fxiXXr](TL<;, £<^a cto<^os' atjua 8e tekvuv tTrpcTre MrjSeta kou ;)(€pt Ti/xo/xa;i^ou. ANTIPHILVS 43 CUPID STUNG BY A BEE TON kXctttcv TroK* "E/Dwra KciKa Kevrace fiiXiarau KrjpLOV Ik cri/x;8Xwv cruXev/xevov, awpa 8e )^€ipi2v ddKTvXa Trdvd' VTrevv^ev 6 8' aXyee kol xep icfivcrt} KOL rdv ydv cTrara^e kuI aXaTO, Ta 8' A' tear that mourns thy exit from a world like this ; forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, and staid thy progress to the seats of bliss. No more confined to groveling scenes of night, no more a tenant pent in mortal clay, now should we rather hail thy glorious flight and trace thy journey to the realms of day. ANON. TO MEMORY O MEMORY! thou fond deceiver, still importunate and vain, to former joys recurring ever and turning all the past to pain ; thou like the world th' oppress'd oppressing, thy smiles increase the wretch's woe; and he who wants each other blessing in thee must ever find a foe. O. GOLDSMITH MODESTY OF GENIUS AS streams that run o'er golden mines ■ with modest murmur glide, nor seem to know the wealth that shines within their gentle tide, Mary! 14 Passages for Translaiion So veiled beneath a simple guise thy radiant genius shone, and that which charmed all other eyes seemed worthless in thy own, Mary! r5 LOSS OF FRIENDS T. MOORE AS those we love decay, we die in part; L string after string is severed from the heart ; till loosened life no more than breathing clay without one pang is glad to fall away. Unhappy he who latest feels the blow, whose eyes have wept o'er every friend laid low, still lingering on from partial death to death, till dying all he can resign is breath. J. THOMSON 57 COLUMBUS STILL steer on, brave heart! though witlings laugh at thy emprize, and though the helmsmen drop weary and nerveless their hands ; westward, westward still! there land must emerge to the vision ; there it lies in its light, dear to the eye of thy mind ; trust in the power that guides: press on o'er the con- vex of ocean : what thou seekst — were it not — yet it would rise from the wave. Nature with Genius holds a pact that is fixt and eternal: all which is promised by iliis, that never fails to perform. w. -wn^^-EH. from Schiller ^58 TRUE RICHES IIA0YT02 o T77? ij/vxV'^ ttXovtos fiovos Icttiv d\r]6i]i- TttXAa 8 €>(et XvTTTjv irXciova rdv KTedvoiV. Tov Se TToXvKTeavov kol TrXovcnov iari Si/catov KXry^etv, os XprjaOai Toi? dya^ots Suvarai. ci oe Tis Iv {l/i]' 59 UPOiV A MAID THAT DIED THE DAY SHE WAS MARRIED OY ydjxov a/W 'AiSav cTrivtyx^tStoi/ KXeapicrra Sefaro TrapOevias u/xp-ara Xvofxiva' apTL yap iairepiot vv/x^as ctti SlkXictlv a^€vv XwTol KOI Oakafioiv iirXaTayevvTO Otpo.L' r-^ LOVE AND FOLLY LOVE and Folly were at play, ^ when a quarrel chanced to rise; blows ensued, and in the fray hapless Cupid lost his eyes. Venus loudly then from Jove claiming vengeance, he replied 'since mad Folly blinded Love, let her serve him as a guide.' E. QUILLINAN- 64 GOD FORGETS NOT HIM WHO FORGETS NOT GOD BOY! ere the cares of life lie dim on thy young spirit's wings, now in thy mom forget not Him from whom each pure thought springs. So, in the onward vale of tears where'er thy path may be, when strength hath bowed to evil years He will remember thee. 6^ LOCAL ATTACHMENT AS the fond bird through night and morn x\. still flutters round the rifled nest, and loves the scene, though now forlorn, where once her brooding heart was blessed: so do I love to hover here where dreams of bliss I once enjoyed, and haunt the spot, though fate severe has all my brood of hope destroyed. B' into Latin Elegiac Verse \-j 66 THE HARM OF LIBERTV IRDS that are long in cages aw'd, if they get out, awhile will roam ; but straight want skill to live abroad, then pine and hover near their home. And to the ocean rivers run from being pent in banks of flowers ; not knowing that the exhaling sun will send them back in weeping showers. SIR W. D'aVENANT ^l TO COD Oy HIS SICKNESSE WHAT though my harp and -violl bc both hung upon the willow-tree ? what though my bed be now my grave, and for my house I darknesse have? what though my healthfuU days are fled, and I lie numbred with the dead? Yet I have hope, by Thy great power, to spring, though now a withered flower. R. HERRICK 63 MISFORTUXE THE SCHOOL OF FORTITUDE E shall not dread Misfortune's angry mien, nor feebly sink beneath her tempest rude, whose soul hath learned, through many a trying scene, to smile at fate and suffer unsubdued. In the rough school of billows, clouds and storms, nursed and matured the pilot learns his art: thus Fate's dread ire by many a conflidl forms the lofty spirit and enduring heart. F. IIEMANS Og THE OAK NEENDIXG 'midst the wintry skies rears the firm oak his vigorous form, and stern in rugged strength defies the rushing of the storm. Then severed from his native shore, o'er ocean worlds the sail to bear, still with those winds he braved before he proudly struggles there. F, IIEMANS H U^ 1 5 Passages for T7'a7islation 70 FALLEN WOMAN WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly and finds too late that men betray, what charms can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, to hide her shame from every eye, to give repentance to her lover and wring his bosom is— to die. O. GOLDSMITH 71 -]% n E VENING EVENING now from purple wings sheds the grateful gifts she brings; brilliant drops bedeck the mead; cooling breezes shake the reed, shake the reed and curl the stream silvered o'er with Cynthia's beam; near the chequered lonely grove hears and keeps thy secrets love. S. JOHNSON DEATH -BED RETROSPECT WHEN thy last breath, ere Nature sunk to rest, thy meek submission to thy God expressed; when thy last look, ere thought and feeling fled, a mingled gleam of hope and triumph shed; what to thy soul its glad assurance gave, its hope in death, its triumph o'er the grave? The sweet remembrance of unblemished youth, the still inspiring voice of innocence and truth! S. ROGERS SILENT GRIEF WHEN from the heart, where Sorrow sits, her dusky shadow mounts too high, and o'er the changing aspe6l flits, and clouds the brow or fills the eye : heed not that gloom, which soon shall sink; my thoughts their dungeon know too well: back to my breast the wanderers shrink, and droop within their silent cell. LORD BYRON into Latin Elegiac Verse 19 74 THE JOURNEY ONWARDS AS slow our ship her foaming track • against the wind was cleaving, her trembling pennant still looked back to that dear isle 'twas leaving, so loth we part from all we love, from all the links that bind us, so turn our hearts as on we rove to those we leave behind us. T. MOORE 'rvt TRUE PLEASURE NOR on beds of fading flowers shedding soon their gaudy pride, nor with swains in siren bowers, will true Pleasure long reside. On awful Virtue's hill sublime enthroned sits the immortal fair: who wins her height must patient climb ; the steps are Peril, Toil and Care. So from the first did Jove ordain eternal bliss for transient pain. DR DARLTON 5 TO DIANEME SWEET, be not proud of those two eyes which star-like sparkle in their skies; nor be you proud, that you can see all hearts your captives ; yours, yet free ; be you not proud of that rich haire, which wantons with the love-sick aire; when as that ruble, which you wearc sunk from the tip of your soft care, will last to be a precious stone, when all your world of beautie's gone. R. HERRICK 77 A SAD SONG WEEP no more nor sigh nor groan; sorrow calls no time that's gone; violets plucked the sweetest rain makes not fresh nor grow again: / 20 Passages for Tfanslaiion trim thy locks, look chearfully; fate's hid ends eyes cannot see: joys as winged dreams fly fast; v.'hy should sadness longer last? Grief is but a wound to woe ; gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no mo. J. FLETCHER ^8 HAPPINESS MUST BE SOCIAL THERE'S not a blessing individuals find, but some way leans and hearkens to the kind; no bandit fierce, no tyrant mad with pride, no cavern'd hermit, rests self-satisfied: who most to shun or hate mankind pretend, seek an admirer or would fix a friend: abstracft what others feel, what others think, all pleasures sicken and all glories sink: each has his share: and w-ho would mere obtain shall find, the pleasure pays not half the pain. A. POPE 79 INGRATAM VENERI PONE SUPERBIAM '11 pa ye koX crv, ^tXtwa, (f)ipeL<; ttoOov ; ^ pa kcu avrrj Ktt^vets avaXeots o[ji[J.acn TqKoixivq ; 9* (TV jJ-iV VTTVOV ^X^'-^ y\vKCp(j'}TaTOV, 7;/i.eTep7J5 8e ^fjpoFTtSo? orT€ Xoyos yt'i'crat ovr' dpiOjxos ', cvp-i'](T€L<; Ta^ op-oia, Tirjv 8', dfiiyapre, Trapeir}]/ dOpTjCTUi 6ajXLVol% BaKpvcn Teyyofxivrjv. KvTTpis yap Ta p-ev aXXa TraXtyKOTOS* ev 8e Ti KaXou £Xy\ap(€r, i\6aLpav ras uoyjapevo/Aei/as. AGATHIAS So THE CICALA'S COMPLAINT TIITTE p.e Tov ({nXiprjp.ov dvaLol'L, -r-oijiivf;, ayprj TCTTtya Spocrepwv eX/ceT qtt aKpep-ovuiv, T^v Nv/x(^£u)V TTopcStrtv drj^uva, K^/pari piaraoi ovpi.cn Kai aKupat'; ^ov6d XaXivvTa vaVats ; ■t]vihe Kttt KL)(Xrjv KoX Kocrcrvcjiov, tJvlSs Toccrovs j/'upas apovpaLr]<; apTrayas ev7ropL7]<;. KopTrdlv 8r]Xi-jTfjpa<; cXctv Oipi^' oXXvt iK€ivov<;. (jiVAXwv Kal xXoepij^ Tt's (fiOovo's icrrl Bpoaov ; AXON. into Latin Elegiac Verse 21 <^I VOTIVE INSCRIPTIONS I THE ARMS OF THE WARRIOR TO;=A TaSe tttoXIjxolo TrcTrav/jieVa SaK/>vo'evTOS vr)^ 'Ad-qvaLr]<; KCirai vVwpo^ta, TToXXaVt 8r} o-TovoevTa Kara kXoVoi/ eV oat ^coto^i/ Xle/jo-wi' lTnro[x.a.^(j)v aL/j-aTi Kovadjj.cia. SIMONIDES IT T//E POETS LYRE THN KiOap-qv Eu/xoXtto? eVt rpnr^Swv irore ^oij^o} avOcTO, yrjpaXirjv x^V iTniJ.eiJ.M2 o a-vpiKTvi^ Tpo//.epw Trept yT^'pat Kajj.vwv Xetpos depyyjXd7 Kat ttot' Ic^iTnacjOai fxiv, E/dwtc?, otoar , aTTOTTT'^vat 8' oij8' ocrov ta^vere ; MELEAGER 83 PICTURE OF MAN'S LIFE 110,% Tis avev Bavdrov ere ^vyoi, fiU ; p-vpia yap acv Xvypa, Kttt ovre (jyvyelv €vp.apk^ ovre cf^epciv. i^Sia fxlv yap aov rd cjivcrei KaXd, yata, daXaaaa, acrrpa, aeXrjvaLr]^ icvKXa Kat rjeXiov rdXXa Se TrdvTa <}i6j3oL re Kat aXyea* ktjv Tt TraOrj Tts eo-^Xov, dixoL^ai-qv cK8€p(€Tat Ne/xecrii'. AESOPVS 84 DEDICATORY INSCRIPTIONS ^ BRAZEN FROG TON Nv/X(^(3i' OepdTTOVTa, cjnX6fJ-/3pLov, vypov aoiSov, Tov Xt^daiv Kovi^ots Tcpnofxevov fiarpa^ov into Latin Elegiac Verse 23 ^aXfCw jj-opcfiwcTas rts oSoiTropo? €v)(0<; WrjKeVf Kav/xaTOS ixdpoTaTrjv Sti/^av aKeacraixevo?. TrXa^o/ieVfa) yap eSei^ev vSwp, evKaipov actcras KOt\a8os £K Spo(xepr]<; ap-cjufSLca (XTop.aTf ^(1)1171/ S' rjyrjTeipav oSotTiopos ovk aTroXenrwv erpe Tzoaiv yXvKep(2v u)V liroQu Xi/3aSuv. 11 r^5 CICALA TON ^aX/coui' TeTTiya AvKWpi'i Aofcpos avaTrret Evi/0^05, d^Xocruva? p.vajxa (^iKoare^avov. ^v yap aywv (^upjXLyyos' 6 8' arrtos icrTaTo Ilap^t?* aXX' o/ca St) TrXaKxpo) KoKp\<; iKpe^e ^eXi;?, {3pay)(ov TCTptyrta Xvpas air^Koixiracre. ^op8a* TTpiv oe fieXos (TKci^iLV cuTToSos apixovLr]<;, dPpov cTTtTpu^wv KL9dpa<; vircp e^ero Terrtf, Kttt Tov aTTOt^^o/xe'vou (^^oyyov virrjXOc jXiTOV 7a.v Be. Trapos XaXaycwav ev aXtreo-tv aypoTCV a^w Trpos vop.ov djj.(.Tlpa<; rpixpe. XvpoKTVTrLa<;. rw (re, fxaKO-p ATjrwe, tcw Terrtyt ycpaipet ^aXKe'ov iSpi'cras wSoi' UTrep KLddpa<;. PAVLVS SILENTIARIVS III NHA croi, w TTovTOU (SaaiXcv Koi KOipave your]';, avTWep-ai Kpavra?, ixrjKiTL reyyofxivrjv vPja, TToXvTrXaviwv aj/e/xtov •n'repov, ^? £7rt SetXos TToXXciKts ui'icraixrjv claeXaav AiSrj* TTavra 8' dTrenrd jxevos t^ofiov, IXiri^a, ttovtov, acXXa?, irtOTToi/ VTTep yat'/^s tp('''°^ rjSpacTdixrjv. MACEDONIVS 8 1 EPITAPHS O.V ANACREOM 'HMEPI Trav6iXKT€ipa, fxi6vTp6(j)€, fJirjrep oirwpas, ovXr]<; 7] (TKoXiov irXiyixa 24 Passages for Translation K-QV )(6ovi Tre-jTTrjijJs K€(f}aX-^<; icfivirepOe f^ipoiro ayXaov wpatwv (Sorpw air aKpe/xovoiV, Kttt iJ.LV a€6 Tcyyot voTeprj Spocrog, rys o yepaios Xaporepov fxaXaKwy tirveev Ik oTo/xaTwj/. SIMONIDES CEVS 11 07V" HELIODORA AAKPYA o-ot Kttt vep^e Sta x^°^°^i 'HXtoScopo, Bwpovfxai, (TTopyas XetiJ/avov, eis 'AtSai', oaKpva BvaSaKpvTa' TroXvKXavToi S' ctti Tv/i/Soi CTreVSoj [xvufxa tt60u>v, [xva/xa ^LXo(j)poa-vva<;. OLKTpa yap, olKTpa LXav ere Kal ev c}i9Ljj.cvoLS MeXeaypo; atci^w, Keveav eis 'A)(epovTa X'^P"'- at ai, TTou TO TTO^eivoV ep,ot 6dXo<; ; apiraaev "AtSa?, apiraaev, aKfiaLov S' avOos ecjivpe KoVt?. aAXa CTe yowoD/xat, yu Travrpo^e, rai' TravoSvproi/ ijpe/xa crots koAttoi?, /xarep, ivayKaXtaai,, MELEAGER III CiV CRETHON AYTA tTTt KpT^^wvos eyw Xl6o<:, ovvop.a kuvov BrjXovaa, KpT^^wv S' ev \Oov(.oL(€' p-optov. LEONIDAS TARENTINVS IV CiV ANTICLES A Sct'A' 'AvTi'^Aet?, SetA?; 8' eyw t; tov ev T/y'jT^s aKfjifj Koi fjiovvov TratSa 7n;pwcrap,eV?;, oKTcoKaiSeKeTT}"; 6s aTrwAeo, t€kvov eyw Se op^aviov KAai'o) yyjpas oSvpoixivr]. (Sairjv CIS AtSos (TKiepdv d6[xov ovre p,oi 7;o;s ■J^oet OUT aKTis wKCos TyeAtou. tt SetA AvTt'/cAet?, ixe[xoprjixlve, TreV^eos €i?/s IrjTTTjp, ^oji^s £« p.e KoixL(Tadfxevo<;. LEONIDAS TARENTINVS into Latin Elegiac Verse 25 86 PICTURE OF MAN'S LIFE nOIHN Tts fiioTOLO rdfJLOL rpL^ov ; dv dyopy] /ilv veiKfa Koi ^aXeTral 7rp7]^us' iv Se So/xois ^/jovTiSes* iv B' aypois Ka/xaruv a'Ats' iv 8e daXdaan rapjiov €771 idvr]<; 8', r/V jxkv ^XW* ''"'j ^^os' 7jv 8' OLTroprjs, dvtrjpov t^^i^ ydy.ov ; ovic ajxipiixvoi ecro-eaf ou ya/xeets ; ^t]s er' ip7]jj.6Tepo<;. T€KVa TTOVOl' TTT^poJCTtS UTTtttS ^tOS* at VeoTl^TE'S ac^poves* at TroXiat 8' lyxTraXtv dSpo.vec;. ijV apa Toti'Se Suotv evos atpecrig 7} to yevea^at /xi^oeTTOT ^7 TO ^avai' axniKa tikto'/xcvov. POSIDIPPVS 87 ANSWER TO THE ABOVE IIANTOIHN (SioroLo rdjxoi'i Tpi/3ov elv dycpfj jxlv KvSea KOL TTLvvral irp-q^wi' Iv Se So^uots ap.7ravp. • iv 8' aypots (fivaio? X^P'^5' ev 8e OaXdaar} KipSo^' CTTt iiLvr]^, i)v jxiv e)(r]<; tl, kAcos" 7;v 8' aTTopfJ?, /noi/os otSas* ex^''5 ydfxov ; oTkos dptaTOS (.(TcreTaL' ov yapiei.% ; ^t^S e^-' iXa^pojepov TEKva TTo^os" a^povTts aTrats /5tos. at veotj^tcs pw/xoiXeaf TToAtat 8' e)u,7raA.tv cucrcySe'es. ov/c apa Twv 8t(7(rwv li'os afpecrts, t^ to ycviaGai /vq^iTTOT 7; to ^ai/eti'* TravTa yap eo-^Xa /3tw. IMETRODORVS 83 r//£ HEROES OF TIIERMOPVLJE TQN ev ©ep/ji07ruAai9 0av6vT(Jiv cvkAc/;! p-cf tt Tv^a, KaAos 8' o ttot/io?, poj/xos 8 o Ta^os, Trpo yoojv Se ixvu.(ttl<;, 6 8' oTktos eTraij o?' ivTU(f>lOV ok TOLOVTOV OVT CVpcuS ow o TravOapdrtDp dp.avp(u(TU y(p6vo<;, (xvZpCiv dyaOwv oSe o-ukos oIkctuv evSo^'av EAAuoos ciAcTO' pap-nipa. Se Kat Acwi^tSas o ^TTupTas [i(L(TiXf.v<;, dptTd<; /xiyav AeAotTTOJS Koajxov divaov tc kAcIos. SIiMONIDES CEVS 36 Passages for Translation 89 THE SUICIDE'S GRAVE WHAT though no weeping loves thy ashes grace, nor pohshed marble emulate thy face, what though no sacred earth allow thee room, nor hallowed dirge be muttered o'er thy tomb? yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest, and the green turf lie lightly on thy breast: there shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, there the first roses of the year shall blow; while angels with their silver wings o'ershade the ground, now sacred by thy reliques made. A. POPE 50 PROTESTATION OF CONSTANCY NOONE-DAY and midnight shall at once be scene; trees, at one time, shall be both sere and greene ; fire and water shall together lye in one self-sweet conspiring sympathie ; Summer and Winter shall at one time show ripe eares of corn and up to th' eares in snow: seas shall be sandlesse ; fields devoid of grasse ; shapelesse the world, as when all Chaos was, before, my deare Perilla, I v/ill be false to my vow, or fall away from thee. R. HERRICK 91 A CHRISTIAN HOME AND now in faith our nest we've made, L to naked twigs we've bound it, for soon we know the leaves will braid their shining tresses round it. O, thus each christian home should be above the earth suspended, and built upon the heavenly tree by its sure shade defended. Truth's faultless belt around it tie, with love's strong tendrils bind it: and place it high, where sin's dark eye can ne'er look up and find it. W. E, EVANS 93 94 tnio Latin Elegiac Versi 27 ARCITE'S WELCOME TO MAY FOR thee, sweet ^lay, the groves green liveries wear, if not the first, the fairest of the year: for thee the Graces lead the dancing hours, and Nature's ready pencil paints the flowers: when thy short reign is past, the feverish sun the sultry tropic fears and moves more slowly on. So may thy tender blossoms fear no blight, nor goats with venom'd teeth thy tendrils bite, as thou shalt guide my wandering feet to find the fragrant greens I seek my brows to bind. J .' DRYDEN TO LAURELS AFUNERALL stone or verse I covet none, but onely crave of you, that I may have a sacred laurel springing from my grave : which being scon blest with perpetual grccne may grow to be not so much called a tree as the eternall monument of me. R. HERRICK THE SEA HATH ITS PEARLS THE sea hath its pearls, the heaven hath its stars; but my heart, my heart, my heart hath its love. Great are the sea and the heaven; yet greater is my heart and fairer than pearls and stars flashes and beams my love. Thou little youthful maiden, come unto my great heart ; my heart and the sea and the heaven are melting away with love. H. W. LONGFELLOW /?W« HEINE 58 Passages for Traiislatioit 95 ON A FADED VIOLET THE colour from the flower is gone, which like thy sweet eyes smiled on me; the odour from the flower is flown, which breathed of thee and only thee ! A withered, lifeless, vacant form, it lies on my abandoned breast, and mocks the heart which yet is warm with cold and silent rest. I weep — my tears revive it not : I sigh — it breathes no more on me; its mute and uncomplaining lot is such as mine should be. P. B. shell::y 95 VENUS AND ADONIS THE night of sorrow now is turned to day: her two blue windows faintly she up-heaveth, like the fair sun when in his fresh array he cheers the morn and all the earth relieveth: and as the bright sun glorifies the sky, so is her face illumined with her eye: whose beams upon his hairless face are fixed, as if from thence they borrowed all their shine; were never four such lamps together mixed, had not his clouded with his brow's repine ; but hers, which through the crystal tears gave light, shone like the moon in water seen by night. W. SHAKESPEARE 97 SIC VITA LIKE to the faUing of a star, rf or as the flights of eagles are; or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; or silver drops of morning dew; or like a wind that chafes the flood; or bubbles which on water stood; even such is man, whose borrowed light is straight called in and paid to-night. The wind blows out; the bubble dies; the spring entombed in autumn lies; the dew dries up; the star is shot; the flight is past, and man forgot. H. KING into Latiti Elegiac Verse 29 98 A' CI/A TTER TON DYING swan of Pindus sings, in wildly mournful strains; as Death's cold fingers snap the strings, his suffering l)Te complains. The Bard, to dark despair resign'd, with his expiring art, sings, 'midst the tempest of his mind, the shipwreck of his heart. If Hope still seem to linger nigh, and hover o'er his head, her pinions are too weak to fly, or Hope ere now had fled. 99 Rash minstrel! who can hear thy songs, nor seek to share thy fire? who read thine errors and thy wrongs, nor execrate the Ijtc? The l)Te, that sunk thee to the grave when bursting into bloom, that lyre, the power to Genius gave to blossom in the tomb. Yes, till his memory fail with years, shall Time thy strains recite; and while thy story swells his toars, thy song shall charm his flight. J. MONTGOMERY G' ICO TO A skylark: '0, tuneful bird, that glad'st the skies, to Daphne's window speed thy way and there on quivering pinions rise, and there thy vocal art display. And if she deign thy notes to hear, and if she praise thy matin song, tell her, the sounds that soothe her car to Damon's native plains belong. Tell her, in livelier plumes arrayed the bird from Indian groves may shine: but ask the lovely partial maid, what arc Lis notes compared to thine? w, shexsto::e 39 Fassages for Translation lOr RESIGNATION THERE is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there I there is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair! The air is full of farewells to the dying and mournings for the dead ; the heart of Rachel, for her children crying, will not be comforted! Let us be patient ! these severe affliflions not from the ground arise, but oftentimes celestial benedidtions assume this dark disguise. H. W. LONGFELLOV/ 103 ON THE VOTIVE OFFERING OF A NAUTILUS KOrXOS eyw, Zei^vpl-i, TraXatVepos* dWd cru vvv juc, K^Vptj 2e/V^vat7js avdeixa TrpCJTOV ex^'5 vavTiXov OS 7rey\aye(T(jiv cTTCTrAeoi', £t ^xXv OT^rat, T€iVas otKetW Aat^os diro TTpoTovwv €1 8e yaK-qvait], Xntaprj 6c6<;, oSAos ipicawv TTOCTui viv, wdT cpy«j) Tovvojia (TvpicjiipeTai. £K T (.Trccjov irapa Glvos lorAtSo?, ot^pa yeVw/xai (TOL Tt TrepLCTKi-Tov TTatyvLov, 'Apcnvorj, /XTjSe [xoi iv OaXafxrjCTLV t9 , ojs ■Jrapos (tt/xt yap dirvovi) TLKTTJTai VOTep^S WeOV aXKVOVT]^, KAeat'oi) aAAtt Ovyarpl BlSov ^aptv oTSe yap iadXd pit^^LV, /cat 'S.p.vpvrj'i iarlv aTr AtoAtoo?. CALLIMACHVS 103 ON A STATUE OF TIME TIS TToOev 6 7rAao-Tr;s; 2t'epfi? ti'p°^; dvSpacn csiy/xa, ws dKp.ij<; 7rda-7]<; oCureprr; reXeOw. 7] 8e Ko/^i; Tt Kar' ot^'tv; UTrai'Tido-avTt Xa{3iadai vr} Ata. Ta'^'oTTi^cj/ 0* es Tt aXaKpd Tre'Aet; into Latin Elegiac Verse 3 TOV yap uTra^ in-qvolai vafjaOpe^avTa fie TTOcralv OUTtS £^' L[X€LpWV Bpd$€TaL (.^OTVlOiV. Tovvi)^ 6 Te^vLTTj? ere SteVAacrei' ; eiveKev vfxewv, $eive, Koi Iv irpodvpoi's 6rJKe SiSacrKaAt'Tjr. POSIDIPPVS 10 < O.V A SUDUKD OF A MAS FA CALLED EROS AEYP* Wi, /Sato'v, oStra, Trecrwv vtto SdcrKiov aXo-o? afjLTravcrov Kajxarov yvia 770/\u;rA.av£0?, ^wpov oTTov TrXaTavoiv avroppvTov es fiicrov vSwp KaXa TToXvKpovvwv eKTrpopeet aTOjxaTwv ottttoOl ■TTopc^vpi-q'i virep avAa/cos etupt OdXXei vypov Lov pohiy Kipvap.evov KaXvia, TjVibe 77(05 Spoaepo'io Tredov XajxiZvo^ epei^as eK)(yTOV ev)(aLTr]^ Ktcrcros eTrAe^e KOfJirjv, ivOdSe Koi 7roTa,uos Xatjirjv 7rapa[x.eLl3eTat, o)(6-)]V, Tre'^av xnro^voiv avTO Passages for Translation and the n'inds and sunbeams with their convex gleams build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, and out of the caverns of rain, like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again. P, B. SHELLEY 107 EARLY DEA TH SHE pass'd away, like morning dew, before the sun was high ; so brief her time, she scarcely knew the meaning of a sigh. As round the rose its soft perfume, sweet love around her floated; admired she grew — while mortal doom crept on unfeared, unnoted. Love was her guardian Angel here, but love to death resigned her; tho' love was kind, why should we fear but holy death is kinder? H. COLERIDGE N' 108 AFTER THE BATTLE 'IGHT closed around the conqueror's way, and lightnings showed the distant hill, where those who lost that dreadful day stood few and faint, but fearless stilL The soldier's hope, the patriot's zeal, for ever dimmed, for ever crost, — O! who shall say what heroes feel when all but life and honour's lost? The last sad hour of freedom's dream and valour's task moved slowly by • v.'hile mute they watched, till morning's beam should rise and give them light to die. T. MOORE 109 AUTUMN' THE Autumn skies are flushed with gold, and fair and bright the rivers run ; these are but streams of winter cold, and painted mists that quench the sun. I into Latiti Elegiac Verse 33 In secret boughs no sweet birds sin?, in secret boughs no bird can shroud ; these are but leaves that take to wing, and wintry winds that pipe so loud. 'Tis not trees' shade, but cloudy glooms that on the cheerless valleys fall, the flowers are in their grassy tombs, and tears of dew are on them all T. HOCD I 10 LULLABY OF AN INFANT CHIEF OHUSH thee, my babie! thy sire was a knight,, thy mother a lady both lovely and bright; the woods and the glens, from the towers which we see, they all are belonging, dear babie, to thee. O, fear not the bugle, though loudly it blows, it calls but the warders that guard thy repose; their bows would be bended, their blades would be red, ere the step of a foeman draw near to thy bed. O hush thee, my babie, the time will soon come, when thy sleep shall be broken by trumpet and drum : then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, for strife comes with manhood and waking with day. SIR W. SCOTT I irT LOCAL ATTACHMENT T was a barren scene and wild where naked cliffs were rudely piled, but ever and anon between lay velvet tufts of loveliest green : and well the lonely infant knew recesses where the wall-flower grew, and honey-suckle loved to crawl up the low crag and ruined wall. I deemed such nooks the sweetest shade the sun in all its round surveyed ; and atill I thought that shattered tower the mightiest work of human power. SIR W. SCOTT 34 Passages for Translation ] I 2 SIREN ISLES CEASE, Stranger, cease those piercing notes, the craft of Siren choirs ; hush the sedu6live voice that floats upon the languid wires. IMusic's ethereal fire was given not to dissolve our clay, but draw Promethean beams from heaven, and purge the dross away. Weak self ! with thee the mischief lies, those throbs a tale disclose: nor age nor trial have made wise the Man of many woes. Lyra Apostolica 119 EPITAPH HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth, a youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown; fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, and Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heaven did a recompence as largely send: he gave to Misery all he had, a tear, he gain'd from Heav'n, 'twas all he wish'd, a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (there they alike in trembling hope repose) the bosom of his Father and his God. T. GRAY 1 14 TO A FLY BUSY, curious, thirsty fly, drink with me and drink as I ; freely welcome to my cup, couldst thou sip and sip it up ; make the most of life you may; life is short and wears away. Both alike are, thine and mine, hastening quick to their decline: thine's a summer, mine's no more, though repeated to threescore ; threescore summers, when they're gone, will appear as short as one. W. OLDYS into Latin Elegiac Verse 35 1 1 5 MARIANA ER tears fell with the dews at even: H her tears fell ere the dews were dried; she could not look on the sweet heaven, either at morn or eventide. Upon the middle of the night, waking she heard the night-fowl crow: the cock sung out an hour ere light: from the dark fen the oxen's low came to her : without hope of change, in sleep she seemed to walk forlorn, till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn about the lonely moated grange. A. TENNYSON 116 MUTABILITY OF LOVE LOVE is an April's doubtful day: -^ awhile we see the tempest lower; anon the radiant heaven survey, and quite forget tlae flitting shower. The flowers, that hung their languid head, are burnished by the transient rains ; the vines their wonted tendrils spread, and double verdure gilds the plains. The sprightly birds, that drooped no less beneath the power of rain and wind, in every raptured note express the joy 1 feel, — when thou art kind. \V. SHENSTONE o 117 A UTUMN PENSIVE Autumn! how I grieve tliy sorrowing face to see, when languid suns are taking leave of every drooping tree. Ah, let me not, with heavy eye, this dying scene survey! haste, Winter, haste; usurp the sky, complete my bower's decay. 3—2 36 Passages for Tratislation 111 can I bear the motley cast yon sickening leaves retain, that speak at once of pleasures past, and bode approaching pain. W. SHENSTONE Il8 TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE IVARS TELL me not, Sweet, I am unkinde, that from the nunnerie of thy chaste breast and quiet minde to warre and armes I flee. True, a new mistresse now I chase, the first foe in the field ; and with a stronger faith imbrace a sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such as you too shall adore; I could not love thee, Deare, so much, loved 1 not Honour more. R. LOVELACE 11^ THE LOST LOVE SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways beside the springs of Dove ; a maid, whom there were none to praise, and very few to love. A violet by a mossy stone half-hidden from the eye ; — fair as a star, when only one is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know when Lucy ceased to be; but she is in her grave, and O the difference to me! W. WORDSWORTH I20 THE SWEET NEGLECT STILL to be neat, still to be drest, as you were going to a feast: still to be poud'red, still perfum'd: Lady, it is to be presum'd, though art's hid causes are not found, all is not sweet, all is not sound. i7ito Latin Elegiac Vers 2 37 Give me a look, give me a face, that makes simplicity a grace ; robes loosely flowing, hayre as free: such sweet neglecl moie taketh me, than all th' adulteries of Art ; they strike mine eyes, but not my hesrt. BEN JONSOX 121 THE SPIRIT IN 'PROMETHEUS UNBOUND' MY coursers are fed with the lightning, they drink of the whirlwind's stream, and when the red morning is bright'ning they bathe in the fresh sunbeam ; they have strength for their swiftness I deem, then ascend with me, daughter of Ocean. I desire: and their speed makes night kindle; I fear: they outstrip the Typhoon: ere the cloud piled on Atlas can dwindle we encircle the earth and the moon: we shall rest from long labours at noon: then ascend with me, daughter of Ocean. P. B. SHELLEY 1:2 ITALY *AR to the right, where Apennine ascends, bright as the summer Italy extends: its uplands sloping deck the mountain's side, woods over woods in gay theatric pride ; while oft some temple's mouldering tops between with venerable grandeur mark the scene. Could Nature's bounty satisfy the breast, the sons of Italy were surely blest. Whatever fruits in different climes are found, that proudly rise or humbly court the ground; whatever blooms in torrid tracfls appear, whose bright succession decks the varied year ; whatever sweets salute the northern sky with vernal lives, that blossom but to die; these here disporting own the kindred soil, nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; while sea-born gales tlieir gelid wings expand to winnow fragrance round the smiling land. o. GOLDSMlTli F' 3? Passages for Translation R 123 THE TAKING OF QUEBEC MIDST the clamour of exulting joys, which triumph forces from the patriot heart, grief dares to mingle her soul-piercing voice, and quells the raptures which from pleasures start. O Wolfe, to thee a streaming flood of woe, sighing, we pay, and think e'en conquest dear ; Quebec in vain shall teach our breast to glow, whilst thy sad fate extorts the heart-wrung tear. Alive the foe thy dreadful vigour fled, and saw thee fall with joy-pronouncing eyes: yet shall they know thou conquerest, though dead! since from thy tomb a thousand heroes rise! O. GOLDSMITH F' i 24 ASTROPHEL 'OR he could pipe and daunce and caroll sweet emongst the shepheards in their shearing feast; as Somers larke that with her song doth greet the dawning day forth comming from the East: and layes of love he also could compose ; thrise happie she, whom he to praise did chose! Full many Maydens often did him woo, them to vouchsafe emongst his rimes to name, or make for them, as he was wont to doo for her that did his heart with love inflame: for which they promised to dight for him gay chapelets of flowers and gyrlonds trim. 1 25 And many a Nymph, both of the wood and brooke. soone as his oaten pipe began to shrill, both christall wells and shadie groves forsooke, to heare the charmes of his enchanting skill ; and brought him presents, flowers if it were prime, or mellow fruit if it were harvest time. But he for none of them did care a whit, yet wood Gods for them often sighed sore: lie for their gifts, unworthie of his wit, yet not unworthie of the countries store: for one alone he cared, for one he sight. his lifes desire and his deare loves delight. E. SPENSER into Latin Elegiac Verse 39 1 26 Lii'E OUR life is but an idle play and various as the wind : we laugh and sport our hour away, nor think of woe behind. See the fair cheek of beauty fade, frail glory of an hour; and blooming youth with sickening head droops as the dying flower. Our pleasures like the morning sun diffuse a flattering light ; but gloomy clouds obscure their noon, and soon they sink in night. I 27 PRIMA VERA ZEFIRO gia di bei fioretti adorno avea da' monti tolta ogni pruina: avea fatto al suo nido gih. ritorno la stanca rondinclla peregrina; risonava la selva intorno intorno soavemente all' ora mattutina; e I' ingegnosa pecchia, al prime albore, giva prcdando or uno or altro fiore. A. POLIZIANO 128 THE SKOW-DROP BENEATH the chilling air when I behold thee, lovely flower, recline thy languid head : when I behold thee drooping, pale and cold, and sorrowing for thy vernal sisters dead; methinks I mark in thee the child of woe, exposed to hardship from his earliest birth, bending beneath the wintry storms that blow, his only portion a rude spot of earth ; yet sure, like thine, meek flower, his spring draws near, and heaven's sweet sunshine shall inhale each tear. W. SCROPE 40 Passages for Translation y: H 129 THE HEART FLED AGAIN 'VEN SO the gentle Tyrian dame, when neither grief nor love prevail, saw the dear objecfl of her flarae, th' ungrateful Trojan, hoist his sail: aloud she called to him to stay; the wind bore him and her lost words away The doleful Ariadne so on the wide shoi'e forsaken stood: "False Theseus, whither dost thou go?" Afar false Theseus cut the flood. But Bacchus came to her relief; Bacchus himself's too weak to ease my grief. A. COWLEY I ■50 THE SOLDIER'S FUNERAL ' ARK ! to the shrill trumpet calling, it pierceth the soft summer air! Tears from each comrade are falling, for the widow and orphan are there! The bayonets earth-ward are turning, and the drum's muffled breath rolls around, but he hears not the voice of their mourning, nor awakes to the bugle's sound. Sleep, Soldier! tho' many regret thee who stand by thy cold bier to-day, soon shall the kindest forget thee and thy name from the earth pass away. C. NORTON 131 UNFADING BEAUTY ^O not say that life is waning, or that hope's sweet day is set, while I've thee and love remaining, life is in the horizon yet. Do not think those charms are flying, tho' thy roses fade and fall; beauty hath a grace undying, which in thee survives them all. Not for charms the newest, brightest, that on other cheeks may shine, would I change the least, the slightest, D' that is lingering now on thine. T. JIQORE into Latin Elegiac Verse 41 T33 VISIONS OF FRENZY I'VE hung upon the ridg)- steep of cHffs, and held the rambhng brier; I've plunged below the billowy deep where air was sent me to respire; I've been where hungrj' wolves retire ; and (to complete my woes) I've ran v/here Bedlam's crazy crew conspire against the life of reasoning man. I've furled in storms the flapping sail, by hanging from the top-mast head, I've served the vilest slaves in jail, have picked the dunghill's spoil for bread. ^ 33 Those fiends upon a shaking fen fixed me in dark tempestuous night; there never trod the foot of men, there flocked the fowl in wintry flight. They hung me on a bough so small the rook could build her nest no higher; they fixed me on the trembling ball that crowns the steeple's quivering spire. On sand, where ebbs and flows the flood, midway they placed and bade me die ; propt on my staff, I stoutly stood when the swift waves came rolling by; and high they rose, and still more high, till my lips drank the bitter brine ; I sobbed convulsed, then cast mine eye and saw the tide's re-flowinfr sijin. *o' G. CRAECE 134 CIIERRV-RIPE THERE is a garden in her face where roses and white lilies blow; a heavenly paradise is that place, wherein all pleasant fruits do grow; there cherries grow that none may buy, till Cherry ripe themselves do cr>. 42 Passages for Translation Her eyes like angels watch them still, her brows like bended bows do stand ; threatening with piercing frowns to kill all that approach with eye or hand these sacred cherries to come nigh, — till Cherry ripe themselves do cry ! ANON. 135 YOUTH AND AGE THE seas are quiet when the winds are o'er, so calm are we when passions are no more! for then we know how vain it was to boast of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of aftecfUon from our younger eyes conceal that emptiness which age descries: the soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, lets in new light thi-ough chinks that time hath made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become as they draw near to their eternal home, leaving the old, both worlds at once they view that stand UDon the threshold of the new. E. WALLER 136 TO A LADY SINGING A SONG OF HIS OWN COMPOSING CHLORIS, yourself you so excel, when you vouchsafe to breathe my thought, that like a spirit with this spell of my own teaching I am caught. That eagle's fate and mine are one, which on the shaft, that made him die, espied a feather of his own wherewith he wont to soar so high. Had Echo, with so sweet a grace. Narcissus' loud complaints returned, not for reflexion of his face but of his voice the boy had burned. E, WALLER into Latin Elegiac Verse 43 137 av A GIRDLE THAT which her slender waist confined shall now my joyful temples bind : no monarch but would give his crown his arms might do what this has done. It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, the pale which held that lovely deer: my joy, my grief, my hope, my love did all within this circle move. A narrow compass! and yet there dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair: give me but what this ribband bound, take all the rest the Sun goes round, E. Y/ALLEIl 138 RETURN OF SPRING TO THE LOVER NOW May with life and music the blooming valley fills, and rears her tender arches o'er all the little rills. The minstrel bird of evening comes back on joyous wings, and, like the harp's soft murmur, is heard the gush of springs ; the rugged trees are mingling their flowery sprays in love, the ivy climbs the laurel to clasp the boughs above — they change ; but thou Liscna art cold when I complain: why to this lover only does Spring return in vain? W. C. CRYANT 139 COM I OR T TO A LADY UPON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND DRY your sweet cheek long drown'd with sorrow's raine; since clouds dispcrst, suns guild the aire again. Seas chafe and fret and beat and overboilc, but turne soon after calmc, as balmc or oilc. 44 Passages for Tratislation Winds have their time to rage ; but, when they cease, the leavie trees nod in a still-born peace. Your storme is over: Lady, now appeare Hke to the peeping spring-time of the yeare. Off then with graveclothes ; put fresh colours on ; and glow and flame in your vermillion: upon your cheek sate ysicles awhile : now let the Rose raigne like a queene and smile. R. HERRICK X40 OENONE'S COMPLAINT MELPOMENE, the muse of tragic songs, with mournful tunes, in stole of dismal hue, assist a silly nymph to wail her woe, and leave thy lusty company behind. Thou luckless wreath! becomes not me to wear the poplar tree, for triumph of my love : then as my joy, my pride of love, is left, be thou unclothed of thy lovely green; and in thy leaves my fortune written be, and them some gentle wind let blow abroad, that all the world may see how false of love false Paris hath to his CEnone been. G. TEELE 141 BASHFUL LOVE THE dewdrop, that at first of day hangs on the violet flower, although it shimmereth in the ray and trembleth at the Zephyr's power, shews not so fair nor pleasantly, as love that bursts from beauty's eye. The little bird that clear doth sing in shelter of green trees, when flowrets sweet begin to spring in dew-besprenged leas, is not so pleasant to mine ear as love that scantly speaks for fear. 142 The rose when first it doth prepare its ruddy leaves to spread, and kissed by the cold night air hangs down its coyen head, into Latin Elegiac Verse 45 is not so fair as love that speaks in unbid blush on beauty's cheeks. The pains of war, when streams of bleed are smoking on the ground where foemen breme of lustihood ymixed in death are found, yea, death itself is lightlier borne than cruel beauty's smiling scorn. G. GASCOIGNE 143 KINDRED OBJECTS KINDRED THOUGHTS INSPIRE AND hence that calm delight the portrait gives: 1\. we gaze in every feature till it lives! still the fond lover sees the absent maid; and the lost friend still lingers in his shade! Say why the pensive widow loves to weep, when on her knee she rocks her babe to sleep: tremblingly still, she lifts his veil to trace the father's features in his infant face. The hoary grandsire smiles the hour away, won by the raptures of a game at play; he bends to meet each artless burst of joy, forgets his age, and a(5ls again the boy. S. ROGERS I 144 A CONTENTED MIND WEIGH not Fortune's frown or smile, I joy not much in earthly joys; I seek not state, I reck not stile, I am not fond of fancy's toys ; I rest so plcas'd with what I have, I wish no more, no more I crave. I quake not at the thunder's crack, I tremble not at noise of war, I swoon not at the news of wrack, I shrink not at a blazing star: I fear not loss, I hope not gain ; I envy none, I none disdai-n. 145 ^ sec ambition never pleased, I see some Tantals starved in store; I see gold's dropsy seldom cased, I see e'en Midas gape for inorc. 46 Passages for Translation I neither want, nor yet abound: enough's a feast: content is crown'd. I feign not friendship where I hate, I fawn not on the great in show, I prize, I praise a mean estate, neither too lofty nor too low ; this, this is all my choice, my cheer, a mind content, a conscience clear. J. SYLVESTER 146 IVJO^'^ fades the last long streak of snow, 1 ^1 now burgeons every maze of quick about the flowering squares, and thick by ashen roots the violets blow. Now rings the woodland loud and long, the distance takes a lovelier hue, and drowned in yonder living blue the lark becomes a sightless song. Now dance the lights on lawn and lea, the flocks are whiter down the vale, and milkier every milky sail on winding stream or distant sea. A. TENNYSON 147 THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES BUT, why, alas do mortal men in vain of fortune, fate or Providence complain? God gives us what He knows our wants require, and better things than those which we desire. Some pray for riches: riches they obtain, but watched by robbers for their wealth are slain. Some pray from prison to be freed; and come, when guilty of their vows, to fall at home, murdered by those they trusted with their life, a favoured servant or a bosom-wife. Such dear-bought blessings happen every day, because we know not for what things to pray. J. DRYDEN into Latin Elegiac Verse 47 148 THE LIGHT OF LOVE SHE is not fair to outward viev/ as many maidens be ; her loveliness I never knew until she smiled on me. O then I saw her eye was bright, a well of love, a spring of light. 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