Brilliants.

THOUGHTS.

The while the thoughts rose in her eyes like stars Rising and setting in the blue of night.

ALEXANDER SMITH.

ITALIAN AUTUMN.

The day is wonderfully beautiful!

Rome's old gray ruins glisten in its light,
Like spirits glorified. Such autumn days
Are only seen in Rome. Like the old Romans
These fields in purple robes of victory

Clothe themselves ere they die. All Nature lies
Spread like a golden frame-when will thy image,
O lovely Donna Anna! step into it?

CHRISTIAN GRABBE.

INNOCENT WELCOME TO EVIL.

How thou art like the daisy in Noah's meadow,
On which the foremost drop of rain fell warm
And soft at evening; so the little flower
Wrapp'd up its leaves, and shut the treacherous water
Close to the golden welcome of its breast,—
Delighting in the touch of that which led'
The shower of oceans, in whose billowy drops
Tritons and lions of the sea were warring.

BEDDOES.

A WILFUL LITTLE LADY.

A rosebud set with little wilful thorns,
And sweet as English air could make her.

NATURE'S PITY FOR HUMAN PRIDE.

TENNYSON.

Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.

EMERSON.

A BLESSING.

Softest peace enwrap her!

Content be still the breathing of her lips!

Be tranquil ever, thou blest life of her!

And that last hour, that hangs 'tween heaven and earth, So often travell'd by her thoughts and prayers,

Be soft and yielding 'twixt her spirit's wings!

BEDDOES.

Life is a city, fiill'd with straying streets,

TENNYSON.

And Death the market-place where each one meets. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

SOLITUDE.

It was a green spot in a wilderness,

Touch'd by the river Jordan. The dark pine
Never had dropp'd its tassels on the moss
Tufting the leaning bank, nor on the grass
Of the broad circle stretching evenly
To the straight larches, had a heavier foot
Than the wild heron's trodden. Softly in,
Through a long aisle of willows, dim and cool,
Stole the clear waters with their muffled feet,
And, hushing as they spread into the light,
Circled the edges of the pebble tank
Slowly, then rippled through the woods away.
WILLIS.

A CURSE.

Set all the windows,

The doors and gates, wide open; let the wolves
Foxes, and owls, and snakes, come in and feast;
Let the bats nestle in the golden bowls,

The shaggy brutes stretch on the velvet couches,
The serpent twine him o'er and o'er the harp's
Delicate chords-to Night, and all its devils,
We do abandon this accursed house.

BEDDOES.

STARS.

Jewels five-words long,

That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time

Sparkle for ever.

MORNING.

TENNYSON.

Morn, like a maiden glancing o'er her pearls, Stream'd o'er the manna-dew, as though the ground Were sown with star-seed.

P. J. BAILEY.

THE HAUGHTY BEAUTY OF MUSIC.

Or music pours on mortals
Its beautiful disdain.

EMERSON.

HAYMAKING.

The plump wain at even

Bringing home four months' sunshine bound in sheaves.

LOWELL.

CLOUDS.

He'd lie in fields,

And through his fingers watch the changing clouds,

Those playful fancies of the mighty sky.

ALEXANDER SMITH.

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