SONG SUNG BY GLYCINE IN ZAPULYA, ACT II. SCENE 2. A SUNNY shaft did I behold, From sky to earth it slanted: And poised therein a bird so bold— Sweet bird, thou wert enchanted! He sunk, he rose, he twinkled, he trolled And thus he sang: Adieu! adieu ! We must away; Far, far away! To-day! to-day! HUNTING SONG. [ZAPOLYA, ACT IV. scene 2. •] Up, up! ye dames, and lasses gay ! 'Tis you must tend the flocks this morn, And scare the small birds from the corn. For the shepherds must go To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day. Leave the hearth and leave the house To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day. THE KNIGHT'S TOMB. WHERE is the grave of Sir Arthur O'Kellyn? The oak that in summer was sweet to hear, And his good sword rust;— His soul is with the saints, I trust. ? 1817. FANCY IN NUBIBUS; OR, THE POET IN THE CLOUDS. O! IT is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Own each quaint likeness issuing from the mould Of a friend's fancy; or with head bent low And cheek aslant see rivers flow of gold "Twixt crimson banks; and then, a traveller, go From mount to mount through Cloudland, gorgeous land! Or list'ning to the tide, with closed sight, Be that blind bard, who on the Chia strand By those deep sounds possessed wit inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssee Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. CATULLIAN HENDECASYLLABLES. HEAR, my beloved, an old Milesian story!— Oft did a priestess, as lovely as a vision, ? 1799 TIME, REAL AND IMAGINARY. AN ALLEGORY. On the wide level of a mountain's head, A sister and a brother! This far outstript the other; O'er rough and smooth with even step he passed, Sister-purpose leading which is a vidite. Brother - real time pusint. M |