Tis silent all!-but on my ear
The well-remember'd echoes thrill;
hear a voice I would not hear,

A voice that now might well be still,
"et oft my doubting soul 'twill shake:
Even slumber owns its gentle tone,
ill consciousness will vainly wake
To listen, though the dream be flown.

weet Thyrza! waking as in sleep,
Thou art but now a lovely dream;

star that trembled o'er the deep,
Then turn'd from earth its tender beam.

But he, who through life's dreary way
Must pass, when heaven is veil'd in wrath,
Vill long lament the vanish'd ray

That scatter'd gladness o'er his path.

TO THYRZA.

1.

heart in twain ;

ONE struggle more, and I am free
From pangs that rend my
One last long sigh to love and thee,

Then back to busy life again.

It suits me well to mingle now

With things that never pleased before: Though every joy is fled below,

What future grief can touch me more?

2.

Then bring me wine, the banquet bring;

Man was not form'd to live alone: I'll be that light unmeaning thing That smiles with all,

and weeps with none.

It was not thus in days more dear,
It never would have been, but thou
Hast fled, and left me lonely here;
Thou'rt nothing, all are nothing now.

vain my lyre would lightly breathe!

The smile that sorrow fain would wear ut mocks the woe that lurks beneath, Like roses o'er a sepulchre.

hough gay companions o'er the bowl Dispel awhile the sense of ill;

hough pleasure fires the maddening soul, The heart-the heart is lonely still!

n many a lone and lovely night

It sooth'd to gaze upon the sky; or then I deem'd the heavenly light Shone sweetly on thy pensive eye: nd oft I thought at Cynthia's noon, When sailing o'er the Ægean wave, Now Thyrza gazes on that moon-' Alas, it gleam'd upon her grave!

Like freedom to the time-worn slave,

A boon 'tis idle then to give, Relenting Nature vainly gave

My life, when Thyrza ceased to live!

6.

My Thyrza's pledge in better days,
When love and life alike were new!
How different now thou meet'st my gaze!
How tinged by time with sorrow's hue!
The heart that gave itself with thee
Is silent-ah, were mine as still!
Though cold as e'en the dead can be,
It feels, it sickens with the chill.

7.

Thou bitter pledge! thou mournful token!
Though painful, welcome to my breast!
Still, still, preserve that love unbroken,
Or break the heart to which thou'rt prest!
Time tempers love, but not removes,
More hallow'd when its hope is fled:
Oh! what are thousand living loves

To that which cannot quit the dead?

WHEN Time, or soon or late, shall bring The dreamless sleep that lulls the dead, Oblivion! may thy languid wing

Wave gently o'er my dying bed!

No band of friends or heirs be there,
To weep, or wish, the coming blow:
No maiden, with dishevell'd hair,

To feel, or feign, decorous woe.

But silent let me sink to Earth,
With no officious mourners near:
I would not mar one hour of mirth,
Nor startle friendship with a fear.