To my essence are the same ;- To the torrid spouts and fountains, Touch the very pulse of fire With my bare unlidded eyes. Sal. Sweet Dusketha! paradise! Frosty creatures of the sky! Dus. Breathe upon them, fiery sprite! Bre. Away! away to our delight! Sal. Go, feed on icicles, while we Bedded in tongue-flames will be. Dus. Lead me to those feverous glooms, Sprite of Fire! Bre. Me to the blooms, Blue-eyed Zephyr, of those flowers Far in the west where the May-cloud lowers; And the beams of still Vesper, when winds are all wist, Are shed through the rain and the milder mist, And twilight your floating bowers. 1819. O EXTRACTS FROM AN OPERA. ! WERE I one of the Olympian twelve That when a man doth set himself in toil Each step he took should make his lady's hand A kiss should bud upon the tree of love, DAISY'S SONG. I. The sun, with his great eye, Sees not so much as I; And the moon, all silver, proud, Might as well be in a cloud. II. And O the spring-the spring! III. I Look where no one dares, And I stare where no one stares; And when the night is nigh, FOLLY'S SONG. When wedding fiddles are a-playing, And when maidens go a-Maying, When a milk-pail is upset, Huzza, &c. Oh, I am frighten'd with most hateful thoughts Perhaps her voice is not a nightingale's, Perhaps her teeth are not the fairest pearl; SONG. The stranger lighted from his steed, II. The stranger walk'd into the hall, III. The stranger walk'd into the bower,- Aye hand in hand into the bower IV. My lady's maid had a silken scarf And a golden ring had she, And a kiss from the stranger, as off he went Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl! 1818. BALLAD. LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI. O I. WHAT can ail thee, knight-at-arms, The sedge has wither'd from the lake, II. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, So haggard and so woe-begone? And the harvest's done. III. I see a lily on thy brow With anguish moist and fever dew, Fast withereth too, |