214 66 TRUTH MAKES TRUE LOVE DOUBLY SWEET TO KNOW."-HUNT. LEIGH HUNT. About the light; then, when he saw the face, The Sultan said, with a benignant eye,— Must be some lord of mine-ay, e'en, perhaps, a son. [From Leigh Hunt's "Miscellaneous Poems."] "LESSONS RATHER, AND BROTHERLY PLEA; REVERENCE THE PAST, O BROTHERS, QUOTH HE; 666 REVERENCE THE STRUGGLE AND MYSTERY, AND FACES HUMAN, IN THEIR PAIN."-HUNT. THE WARRIORS OF CAPTAIN PEN. ALL' Were the souls of the line of Captain Pen; Going to the stake, as child Of its wealth in good and fair; Of metal and of element; Of fame the enlightener, beauteous; And steam, that bursteth his iron house; POTENT IS A CUSTOM EARLY TAUGHT."-LEIGH HUNT. "GOOD IS AS HUNDREDS, EVIL AS ONE; ROUND ABOUT GOETH THE GOLDEN SUN!"-JAMES H. LEIGH HUNT. "TRUTH IS FOR EVER TRUTH, AND LOVE IS LOVE;-(HUNT) ON A LOCK OF MILTON'S HAIR. And adamantine giants blind, That, without master, have no mind. Heir to these, and all their store, Pause, as when the thunders wake, Forth sprang they in air, down raining like dew, ON A LOCK OF MILTON'S HAIR. |T lies before me there, and my own breath The living head I stood in honoured pride, THE BIRD OF VENUS IS THE LIVING DOVE."-LEIGH HUNT. 215 "ALAS! TO PLEAD LOVE TO LOVING EYES, AND TO BEG FOR ITS LEAVE OF THE WORLDLY WISE."-HUNT. OH, LITTLENESS GIVES HALF THEIR WORTH TO THE RAREST THINGS ON EARTH: 216 THE LARK DWELLS LOWLY, READER, ON THE GROUND; LEIGH HUNT. Perhaps he pressed it once, or underneath With their rich locks, or his own Delphic wreath. Behold affectionate eternity. [From Leigh Hunt's "Poetical Works."] PEARLS ARE OCEAN'S PRETTIEST BIRTH. BUT THE BIG ARE ROCKS."-LEIGH HUNT. * Catching your heart up at the feel of June, * "When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead: KEATS. + This alludes to the swarming of bees, when, under the leadership of a new queen, a part of the old hive set forth to found a new colony. Formerly, the bees were supposed to be assisted in this task by the clanging of cymbals or vessels of brass. To this custom Virgil refers in the Georgics, book iv., 64-66 : Tinnitusque cie, et Matris quate cymbala circum. Intima more suo sese in cunabula undent." AND YET HIS SONG WITHIN THE HEAVENS IS FOUND. "LITTLE PEOPLE, HEAR MY SONG: BEAUTY SHOWS MOST ART AND GRACE (LEIGH HUNT) 'FANCY'S THE WEALTH OF WEALTH, THE TOILER'S HOPE,-(HUNT) Oh, sweet and tiny cousins, that belong, One to the fields, the other to the hearth, Both have your sunshine; both, though small, are strong Indoors and out, summer and winter, Mirth. WHEN SHE WORKS IN LITTLE SPACE; 'TIS HER MOST PRAISEWORTHY CASE."-LEIGH HUNT. A LEGEND OF FLORENCE. [Agolanti, the husband of Ginevra, loves her with a jealous love, which SCENE.-A chamber hung with purple, and containing a Ago. Enter AGOLANTI. VERY way she opposes me, even with arms From this deserted room. Can she have had it Brought back this instant, knowing how my anger, From our discourse, and look another way. [During this speech GINEVRA comes forward, and Gin. [Cheerfully] The world seems glad after its hearty drink THE POOR MAN'S PIECER-OUT; THE ART OF NATURE."-LEIGH HUNT. "THERE IS NO SORROW GREATER, ANSWERED SHE, THAN CALLING TO MIND JOY IN MISERY."-JAMES H. LEIGH HUNT. 218 WHERE'S THE MEAN SOUL SHALL HONOUR NOT THE TEARS LEIGH HUNT. Ago. You feared! You hoped! What fear you that I fear, Gin. Ago. Or hope for that I hope for? A truce, madam, Whose only shallow intent is delay, Soh! you would see the spectacle! you, who start Trumpets and drums quiet a lady's nerves; Equals burnt feathers or hartshorn for a stimulus I expressed No wish to see the tournament, nor indeed Oh, of course not. Wishes Are never expressed for, or by, contraries; To say I will not go; and I will not. Gin. Ago. Gin. The more easily, As 'tis expected I should go, is it not? How many? Three. Ago. You are correct, as to those three. How many SHED FOR A LOVER'S HOPES, A MOTHER'S FEARS?"-HUNT. "HAD WE A FRIEND IN HEAVEN'S ETERNAL KING, WE WOULD BESEECH HIM KEEP THY CONSCIENCE CLEAR."-HUNT. |