Зображення сторінки
PDF
ePub

Miscellanies.]

1938. CLEMENCY-false.

§ With-holding Justice feeds Iniquity*.

1939. CHILDREN-Likeness to the FATHER. § Oft in the Child the Father's Image lives t. 1940. SUCCESSION natural. "

The old Bees die; the young possess their Hive. Yet oft stern Death makes Conquest of the

strong,

And leaves the faltering feeble Souls alive. 1941, SUFFERING-none unnecessarily to be inflicted on ourselves or others. Do Wounds help Wounds, or Grief heal grievous Is it Revenge to give thyself a Blow? [Deeds?

1942. CHIVALRY.

It is a meritorious fair Design To chase Injustice with defensive Arms.

1943.

T

[Harms.

Knights by their Oaths should right fair Ladies'

SONNETS AND MISCELLANIES.

1944. COMMUNICATIONS—EVIL. Wherefore should. Virtue with Infection live, And with her Presence grace Impiety?

1945. PAINT.

[ocr errors]

§ Why should false Painting imitate the Cheek,
And steal dead seeming for a living hue?
Why should pure Beauty indirectly seek
Roses of Shadow; since her Rose is true?

[blocks in formation]

1946. BEAUTY.

Miscellanies.]

Beauty in holy antique hours was seen
Without all ornament; itself, and true*.

1947.

Who can see farther than the Eye hath shewn, They look into the Beauty of the Mind.

1948. LIFE.

Like as the Waves make toward the pebbled So do our Minutes hasten to their end. [Shore, 1949. TIME.

Time doth transfix the Flourish set on Youth,

And delves his Parallels on Beauty's Brow; Feeds on the Rarities of Nature's Truth:

And nothing lives but for his Scythe to mow. 1950.

§ What powerful hand can hold Time's strong foot Or who his spoil on Beauty can forbid? [back? 1951. MIND.

[ocr errors]

The immortal Mind herself will fortify

Against confounding Age's cruel Knife, That she be never cut from Memory.

1952. BEAUTY—VIRTUE.

O, how much more doth Beauty beauteous seem By that sweet Ornament which Truth doth give!

The Rose looks fair: but fairer we it deem
For that sweet Odour which doth in it live.
The Canker-blooms have full as deep a die
As the perfumed Tincture of the Roses;

Needs not the aid of foreign Ornament;
But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
Induitur, formosa, exuitur, ipsa Forma est.

Hæres

Heredem alterius velut Unda supervenit Undam.

THOMSON.

HOR.

Miscellanies.]

Hang on such Thorns; and play as wantonly · When Summer's Breath their masked Buds discloses.

But for their Virtue's only in their show,

They live unmov'd, and unrespected fade;
Die to themselves:-sweet Roses do not so;
Of their sweet Deaths are sweetest Odours
made.

And so when Virtue graces Beauty's Youth,
When that shall fade, by Verse distills it's Truth*.
1953. LOVE.
Love thinks no Ill.

[ocr errors]

[Race. 1954. BEAUTY in all Animals favourable to the From fairest Creatures we desire Increase.

1955. LIFE and all it's Blessings-a Loan. Nature's Bequest gives nothing; but does lend t; And being frank she lends to those are free. 1956. AVARICE.

Profitless Usurer! why take to Use

So great a sum of sums;-yet can'st not live! 1957. ACCOUNT-think of the final.

Think still, when Nature calls thee to be gone, What acceptable Audit thou may'st give.

1958. USURY-Interest beneficial to both is not so. That Use is not forbidden Usury

Which happies those that pay the willing Loan |. 1959. SYMPATHY.

Sweets with Sweets war not; Joy delights in Joy.

*This Allusion is the subject of a fine Italian Sonnet. + Dedit tibi Vitæ, tanquam Pecuniæ, Usuram: nullâ præstitutâ Die.

The best Statesmen and Legislators can say nothing better on this Head.

1960. HARMONY.

Miscellanies.]

§ Mark how each String, accordant to the other, Strikes musical by mutual ordering;

Resembling Sire, and Child, and happy Mother, Who, all in one, one pleasing Note do sing*, 1961. AGE.

Age loves not that it's Years be strictly told. 1962. PRAISE.

Cautious they praise who purpose not to sell. 1963. DISCONTENT with POSSESSION. Men are oft

With best that they enjoy content the least, 1964. LOVE it's Delicacy of Perception. To hear with Eyes belongs to Love's fine Wit. 1965. POETRY sacred.

To sing Heaven's Praise requires no earthly 1966. MUSIC and POETRY,

[Tongue, As well they may ;-the Sister and the Brother. 1967. INJURY from those we love severest.

§ Well Music and sweet Poetry agree:

It is greater Grief

To bear Love's Wrong than Hate's known Injury, 1968. ABSENCE.

O Absence, what a Torment would'st thou prove, Wer't not that thy sour Leisure gave sweet leave To entertain the time with thoughts of Love.

1969. THOUGHT-Swift and Comprehensive. § The nimble Thought can jump both Sea & Land. 1970. REMEDY―worthless which saves not Honor. Well of that Remedy can no Man speak, That heals the Loss, and cures not the Disgrace.

This is the true Principle of Harmony, and of the fundamental Chord; into which every String naturally resolves itself. Vide ALEMBERT, ROUSSEAU, Diderot, &c.

Miscellanies.]

1971. REPENTANCE inadequate without Repuration. The Offender's Sorrow lends but weak Relief To Him that beareth strong Offence's Loss. 1972. FAULTS not excused by frequency in Others. That all Men have their Faults is no Excuse To authorize a Trespass by Compare.

1973. FATHER,

A Father takes delight

To see his active Child do deeds of Youth. 1974. PAINTING-it's great object Character and Expression.

+ Those Painters cunning want to grace their Art, Who draw but what they see, know not the Heart. 1975. FAVORITES-COURT.

Great Princes' Favorites their fair Leaves spread But as the Marygold in the Sun's eye; And in themselves their Pride lies buried, For at a Frown they in their Glory die. 1976. CONSTANCY-reciprocal; how happy. Happy are those that love and are belov'd, Where they may not remove or be remov'd.. 1977. LOVE when declining--cold and formal. Love once converted from the thing he was, Finds Reasons of cold settled Gravity. 1978. GENIUS immortalizes.

The Praise which Genius sings shall still find Even in the eyes of all Posterity.

And keep the Récord of Worth's Memory 'Gainst Death and all oblivious Enmity.

1979. SLANDER aims at Excellence.

[room

Slander's choice Mark was ever yet the Fair*,

*Summa petit Livor,

« НазадПродовжити »