Five Acts of Parliament 'gainst private stealing! But yet from who despairs of grace? There's no spring-gun or man-trap in that face! Let Moses then look black, and Aaron blue, That look as if they had little else to do: For - speaks, "Poor youth! he's but a waif! The spoons all right? the hen and chickens safe? Well, well, he shall not forfeit our regards— The Eighth Commandment was not made for Bards!" THE EXCHANGE. E pledged our hearts, my love and I,— WE I in my arms the maiden clasping; I could not tell the reason why, Her father's love she bade me gain ; COLOGNE. N Köhln, a town of monks and bones, 1826. I stones, And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches; All well defined, and several stinks! But tell me, Nymphs! what power divine ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM A THE SAME CITY. S I am a rhymer, And now at least a merry one, Mr. Mum's Rhudesheimer And the church of St. Geryon Are the two things alone That deserve to be known In the body and soul-stinking town of Cologne. WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM. ARRY seeks the polar ridge; PAR Rhymes seeks S. T. Coleridge, Author of works, whereof-tho' not in DutchThe public little knows-the publisher too much. TO THE AUTHOR OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. YOUR poem must eternal be, Dear it cannot fail! For 'tis incomprehensible, And without head or tail. METRICAL FEET. LESSON FOR A BOY. TROCHEE trips from löng to shört; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondée stalks; strong foot! yet ill able With ǎ leap and ǎ bound the swift Anăpăsts throng; macer First and last being long, middle short, Amphi- show it, With sound sense in his brains, may make Derwent a poet, May crown him with fame, and must win him the love Of his father on earth and his Father above. Could My dear, dear child! you stand upon Skiddaw, you would not from its whole ridge See a man who so loves you as your fond S. T. TRANSLATED FROM SCHILLER.* I. THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER DESCRIBED AND STR EXEMPLIFIED. TRONGLY it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the Ocean. * See note at the end. II. THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE DESCRIBED IN AND EXEMPLIFIED. N the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. TO THE YOUNG ARTIST, KAYSER OF K KASERWERTH. AYSER! to whom, as to a second self, Well hast thou given the thoughtful Poet's face! Yet hast thou on the tablet of his mind A more delightful portrait left behind Ev'n thy own youthful beauty, and artless grace, Thy natural gladness and eyes bright with glee! Kayser! farewell! Be wise be happy! and forget not me. 1833. JOB'S LUCK. LY Beelzebub took all occasions To try Job's constancy and patience; And the sly Devil did not take his spouse. But Heaven that brings out good from evil, His children, camels, horses, cows- S ON A VOLUNTEER SINGER. WANS sing before they die : 'twere no bad thing, T ON AN INSIGNIFICANT. IS Cypher lies beneath this crust, PROFUSE KINDNESS. Νήπιοι, οὐκ ἴσασιν ὅσῳ πλέον ἥμισυ πάντος.—Hesiod. WHAT a spring-tide of Love to dear friends a Half of it to one were worth double the whole! |