The poison, when pour'd from the chalice, But when drunk to escape from thy malice, My heart from these horrors to save: 3. As the chief who to combat advances Thus thou, with those eyes for thy lances, By pangs which a smile would dispel? Now sad is the garden of roses, Beloved but false Haidée! There Flora all wither'd reposes, And mourns o'er thine absence with me. WRITTEN BENEATH A PICTURE. 1. DEAR object of defeated care! Though now of Love and thee bereft, To reconcile me with despair Thine image and my tears are left. 2. "Tis said with Sorrow Time can cope; But this I feel can ne'er be true: For by the death-blow of my Hope My Memory immortal grew. ON PARTING. 1. THE kiss, dear maid! thy lip has left, 2. Thy parting glance, which fondly beams, An equal love may see: The tear that from thine eyelid streams Can weep no change in me. 3. I ask no pledge to make me blest Whose thoughts are all thine own. 4. Nor need I write-to tell the tale 5. By day or night, in weal or woe, Must bear the love it cannot show, TO THYRZA. WITHOUT a stone to mark the spot, And say, what Truth might well have said, By all, save one, perchance forgot, Ah, wherefore art thou lowly laid? By many a shore and many a sea Divided, yet beloved in vain; The past, the future fled to thee To bid us meet-no-ne'er again! Who held, and holds thee in his heart? Had flow'd as fast-as now they flow. Ere call'd but for a time away, Affection's mingling tears were ours? Ours too the glance none saw beside; The smile none else might understand; The whisper'd thought of hearts allied, The pressure of the thrilling hand; The kiss, so guiltless and refined That Love each warmer wish forbore; Those eyes proclaim'd so pure a mind, Even passion blush'd to plead for more. The tone, that taught me to rejoice, When prone, unlike thee, to repine; The song, celestial from thy voice, But sweet to me from none but thine; But never bent beneath till now! I would not wish thee here again; Impart some portion of thy bliss, To wean me from mine anguish here. It fain would form my hope in heaven! |