SELECT POEMS, &c. W1 I. TO HIS MUSE. HITHER, mad maiden, wilt thou roam? Far safer 'twere to stay at home; Where thou may'st sit, and piping please The poor and private cottages: Since cotes, and hamlets best agree There, with the reed, thou may'st express And with thy eclogues intermix POEM I.] William Cleland, a poet of no small merit, though not very generally known, who wrote a short time after Herrick, and whose poems were first printed 1658, then again after his death 1697, has a beautiful ode to Fancy, where he speaks and advises in a similar tone: Hollo, my Fancy, whither would'st thou go? In melancholy fancy Out of thyself? All the world surveying, Just like a fairy elf? * * Hollo, my Fancy, hollo! Stay, stay at home with me; I can no longer follow, For thou hast betray'd me! Scott, in the notes to his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Bor der, vol. 3, page 201, mentions this writer, as a rigid nonconformist at the time of the revolution. the field, 1689. He was slain in Or to a girl that keeps the neat, But for the court, the country wit *Stay then at home; and do not go, By no one tongue there censured. That man's unwise will search for ill, II. UPON JULIA'S RECOVERY. DROOP, droop no more, nor hang the head, Ye roses almost withered; Now strength, and newer purple get, Each here-declining violet. O primroses! let this day be A resurrection unto ye; And to all flowers allied in blood, *Thus too Petrarch addresses, and concludes his twentysixth Canzone: O poverella mia, come se rozza; Credo che tel conoschi; Rimanti in questi boschi. III. THE PARLIAMENT OF ROSES. TO JULIA. I dreamt the roses one time went IV. TO PERILLA. Ан, my Perilla! dost thou grieve to see Me, day by day, to steal away from thee? Age calls me hence; and my grey hairs bid come, And haste away to mine eternal home: 'Twill not be long, Perilla, after this, That I must give thee the supremest kiss : The gods protection, but the night before; Let fall a primrose, and with it a tear; Then shall my ghost not walk about; but keep V. A SONG TO THE MASKERS. COME down, and dance ye in the toil Of roses be your sweat. Not only to yourselves assume These sweets, but let them fly From this to that; and so perfume E'en all the standers by.. As goddess Isis, when she went, Or glided through the street, Made all that touch'd her with her scent, And whom she touch'd, turn sweet. VI. TO HIS MISTRESS. HELP me! help me! now I call To my pretty witchcrafts all: Old I am, and cannot do That I was accustom❜d to: Bring your magics, spells, and charms, To enflesh my thighs, and arms. Is there no way to beget In my limbs their former heat? Eson had, as poets feign,. Baths to make him young again : Find that med'cine, if you can, |