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Sonnet.

TO THE MOON.

Queen of the silver bow! by thy pale beam,
Alone and pensive, I delight to stray,
And watch thy shadow trembling in the stream,
Or mark the floating clouds that cross thy way.
And while I gaze, thy mild and placid light
Sheds a soft calm upon my troubled breast;
And oft I think, fair planet of the night,

That in thy orb the wretched may have rest;
The sufferers of the earth perhaps may go,
Released by death, to thy benignant sphere,
And the sad children of despair and woe

Forget in thee their cup of sorrow here.
Oh! that I soon may reach thy world serene,
Poor wearied pilgrim in this toiling scene!

CHARLOTTE SMITH.

Sonnet Ixxi.

No longer mourn for me when I am dead,
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell;
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so,

That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O if, I say, you look upon this verse,
When I, perhaps, compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse;
But let your love even with my life decay:
Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
And mock you with me after I am gone.

SHAKSPEARE.

Sonnet.

COME, Sleep, O Sleep, the certain knot of peace,
The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe,
Tho poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
The indifferent judge between the high and low;
With shield of proof shield me from out the prease
Of those fierce darts despair at me doth throw;
O make in me those civil wars to cease:
I will good tribute pay, if thou do so.

Take thou of me sweet pillows, sweetest bed;
A chamber deaf to noise, and blind to light;
A rosy garland, and a weary head.
And if these things, as being thine by right,
Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me,
Livelier than elsewhere, STELLA's image see.

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY,

Lines

WRITTEN IN PASSING THROUGH VALE CRUCIS, IN OCTOBER,

1806.

VALE of the cross, the shepherds tell
"T is sweet within thy woods to dwell!
For there are sainted shadows seen
That frequent haunt thy dewy green;
In wandering winds the dirge is sung,
The convent bell by spirits rung,
And matin hymns and vesper prayer
Break softly on the tranquil air!

Vale of the cross, the shepherds tell
'T is sweet within thy woods to dwell!
For Peace hath there her spotless throne,
And pleasures to the world unknown;
The murmur of the distant rills,
The sabbath silence of the hills,
And all the quiet God hath given
Without the golden gates of heaven!

WILLIAM STANLEY ROSCOE.

Song

OF THE SHEPHERDS, IN PRAISE OF PAN.

SING his praises that doth keep

Our flocks from harm,

Pan, the father of our sheep;

And arm in arm

Tread we softly in a round,

While the hollow neighbouring ground

Fills the music with her sound.

Pan, oh, great god Pan, to thee

Thus do we sing:

Thou that keepst us chaste and free,

As the young spring,

Ever be thy honour spoke,

From that place the morn is broke,

To that place day doth unyoke!

FLETCHER.

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