Raptur'd with the nervous strain, And from worldly cares departed. While among the stars I wander'd, Here my heavenly Mentor left me, Through the wasteful glooms I fell, Where I heard a wild commotion ! 'Long the dun sulphureous regions, Far my wailings deep resounded; Satan, with his frantic legions, At the noise recoil'd astounded! Serpents now about me twin'd, Flaky fires sear'd all my skin; Struggling from the boiling billows, I woke, and, 'neath the weeping willows, T. C. R. Nov. 1808. MEN ANDER. QUATORZAIN. Whilst not a sound disturbs the midnight air, Alone thro' woods unvisited I'll stray, And wake the listless numbers of my lyre; Shall stop my haud, and soothe my fev'rish brain: Swept by the gale, of her I lov'd so well! Grafton-street, Nov. 1808. DOUBTFUL INTERROGATIONS RESOLVED. J.G. INSCRIBED TO MISS SARAH MORGAN, OF YATTON-COURT. Say, where can I find one to mitigate woe, To drown my complainings-to shield me from death? Alas! there is none that's incln'd to bestow, To the pangs of misfortune, the comforting breath! The delight of my life,-the promoter of bliss- Soft!-still there is Sarah! whose love-beaming eye, Then come all ye terrors of "grim-visag'd" Spleen! No more will I shrink at your tauntings at night, Then in thee my dear girl! most distinctly I trace, To the keenest misfortune relief can bestow! August 29, 1808. September,, SONNET TO THE MOON. Mild orb! that shinest so sereuely fair, HORATIO. Enthron'd aloft on some stupendous tow'r. Or, visions sporting on the distant green. Or, thro' the awful solitude of night, TO HORATIUS. When mild Aurora gilds my attic sphere, Nor wou'd I pray indulgent heaven to steel A sense of virtuous sorrow and esteem * Wigmore Castle,- -a Ruin. J. G. + Miss Sarah Morgan. THE LONDON THEATRES. DRURY-LANE. OCTOBER 27. Travellers. Koyau, Mr. BRAHAM (his 1st appearance this season)-Three and the Deuce. 29. World.-Blue Beard. 31. John Bull Dan (for that night only), Mr. De Camp.-Blue Beard. NOVEMBER 1. Cabinet. Count Curvoso, Mr. Penley.-Three Weeks after Marriage. 2. She Stoops to Conquer. Young Marlow, Mr. De Camp.Blue Beard. 3. Country Girl.-Ib. 5. Stranger.-lb. 7. Soldier's Daughter.-Ib. 8. Haunted Tower. Edward, Mr. Russell; Lady Elinor (1st time), Miss Lyon; Adela (1st time), Mrs. Mountain.-Mayor of Garrat. 9. No performance, on account of the preparations for the new play of The Siege of St. Quintin. 10. [NEVER ACTED.] THE SIEGE OF ST. QUINTIN; or, Spanish Heroism. The Overture and Music composed and selected by Mr. Hook. Spaniards. Emanuel Philip (Duke of Savoy), Mr. Putnam; Count Egmont (second in command), Mr. Elliston; Theodore (his son), Master Wallack; Everard (the military Minstrel), Mr. Braham; Bertrand, Mr. De Camp; Alvarez, Mr. RayAdriana (wife of Egmont), Mrs. H Siddons.-English. Sir Leinster Kildare, Mr. Johnstone; Captain M'Intyre, Mr. Maddocks; Jack, Mr. Penley; Serjeant Sturdy, Mr. Cooke; Soldiers, Mr. Gibbon and Mr. Dignum.-French. De Courcy (governor of the castle), Mr. Raymond; Laroche, Mr. Smith; Rosa de Valmont, Miss Ray; Margaret, Miss Tidswell-Spoil'd Child. Little Pickle (1st time), Miss Kelly. 11. Ib-Sultan. 17. Ib.-Three and the Deuce. 18. Ib.-Matrimony. 19. Ib.-Of Age To-Morrow. Mrs. Mathews, and Mrs. Mountain. 21. Sophia, and Maria (1'st time), John Bull. Sir Simon Rochdale, Mr. Penley; Dan, Mr. Mathews -Blue Beard. 22. Duenna-Mayor of Garrat. The Siege of St. Quintin, of which the following is the plot, was written, hastily of course, to benefit, aud be benefited by, the cause in which the Spanish nation is at present so gloriously engaged. We do not think that the object has been successfully attained. The Spaniards have, it is true, in this siege, the advantage over the French, but it is by a paltry stratagem, viz. by getting possession of the pass-word, and so finding their way into the VOL. IV. 31 |