Slow Spondée stalks; strong foot! yet ill able Iambics march from short to long ; : With ǎ leap and ǎ bound the swift Anăpăsts throng; One syllable long, with one short at each side, Amphibrǎchys hastes with ǎ stately stride; macer First and last being lõng, middle shōrt, Amphi[bred Racer. Strikes his thundering hoofs like ǎ proud highIf Derwent be innocent, steady, and wise, And delight in the things of earth, water, and skies; Tender warmth at his heart, with these metres to 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 you stand upon Skiddaw, would not from See a man who so loves you as your fond S. T. TRANSLATED FROM SCHILLER.* I. THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER DESCRIBED AND STRO 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 AND EXEMPLIFIED. N the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; IN 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! Ev'n thy own youthful beauty, and artless grace, 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— ON A VOLUNTEER SINGER. WANS sing before they die: 'twere no bad thing, SWA they ON AN INSIGNIFICANT. IS Cypher lies beneath this crust, TIS PROFUSE KINDNESS. Νήπιοι, οὐκ ἴσασιν ὅσῳ πλέον ἡμισυ πάντος.—Hesiod. HAT a spring-tide of Love to dear friends WHA in a Half of it to one were worth double the whole ! CHARITY IN THOUGHT. O praise men as good, and to take them for such, T° Is a grace, which no soul can mete out to a tittle;— Of which he who has not a little too much, Will by Charity's gage surely have much too little. HUMILITY THE MOTHER OF CHARITY. F RAIL creatures are we all! To be the best, Look thou then to thyself, and leave the rest ON AN INFANT WHICH DIED BEFORE BAPTISM. 97 BE, rather than be called, a child of God," Death whispered!—with assenting nod, Its head upon its mother's breast, The Baby bowed, without demur Of the kingdom of the Blest Possessor, not inheritor. ON BERKELEY AND FLORENCE WHO DIED ON THE 16TH. OF JANUARY, 1834.1 OFRAIL as sweet! twin buds, too rathe to bear The Winter's unkind air; O gifts beyond all price, no sooner given Untainted from the earth, as Christ's, to soar To that dread band seraphic, that doth lie Glorious the thought-yet ah! my babes, ah! still Though cold ye lie in earth-though gentle death Hath suck'd your balmy breath, And the last kiss which your fair cheeks I gave Is buried in yon grave. No tears-no tears-I wish them not again; To die for them was gain, Ere Doubt, or Fear, or Woe, or act of Sin Had marred God's light within. PSYCHE. HE butterfly the ancient Grecians made TH The soul's fair emblem, and its only name But of the soul, escaped the slavish trade Of mortal life!-For in this earthly frame |