Roman Antiquities discovered at Bishopstone, Hereford- Chatsworth! thy stately mansion, and the pride To the Planet Venus, upon its Approximation (as an Evening Star) to the Earth, Jan. 1838 Wansfell! this Household has a favored lot. While beams of orient light shoot wide and high POEMS ON THE NAMING OF PLACES. ADVERTISEMENT. By persons resident in the country and attached to rural objects, many places will be found unnamed or of unknown names, where little incidents must have occurred, or feelings been experienced, which will have given to such places a private and peculiar interest. From a wish to give some sort of record to such incidents, and renew the gratification of such feelings, names have been given to places by the Author and some of his friends, and the following Poems written in consequence. I. It was an April morning: fresh and clear Ran with a young man's speed; and yet the voice Was softened down into a vernal tone. The spirit of enjoyment and desire, Them and their object: but, meanwhile, prevailed Such an entire contentment in the air, That every naked ash, and tardy tree Were native to the Summer. Yet leafless, showed as if the countenance Or like some natural produce of the air, That could not cease to be. Green leaves were here; But 't was the foliage of the rocks, the birch, The yew, the holly, and the bright green thorn, My EMMA, I will dedicate to thee." Soon did the spot become my other home, My dwelling, and my out-of-doors abode. And, of the Shepherds who have seen me there, Have told this fancy, two or three, perhaps, II. 1800. TO JOANNA. AMID the smoke of cities did you pass The time of early youth; and there you learned, From years of quiet industry, to love The living Beings by your own fireside, With such a strong devotion, that your heart Is slow to meet the sympathies of them Who look upon the hills with tenderness, And make dear friendships with the streams and groves. Yet we, who are transgressors in this kind, Dwelling retired in our simplicity Among the woods and fields, we love you well, and I guess, since you have been So distant from us now for two long years, |