W THE SIXTH SENSE. HO loves not music doth possess his senses Accent's rich Divisions, light and shade of pause and rhythm, His love's pulsations, when he sits beside her, The poetry of form: nor can I think That the moss-rose, crushed grass, or fresh-ploughed earth, Breathe out as much of balmy joy for him, As for the man with ears tuned to sweet sounds, That sorts divinely with the five in turn. F PAINS AND PLEASURES. ROM things around 'tis good to borrow Would'st thou shun misfortune's shocks, Whilst fools for massive ingots pine, Of the rich grains thither rolled Wouldst thou fragrant hopes embosom? Blossom intertwine with blossom; Here a little, there a little, Culling in the thymy mead; Stoop unwearied; spare no tittle Of their sweetness; some must fade Ere sunset: thus shall For many a flower many a day adorn thy bower. Images, or grave or gay, Wouldst thou sit and summon? They Come not to you: you must follow O'er the plain and down the hollow; grasses. So in this world of smooth and rough Evil may be warded off: And o'er a not inglorious issue Mortals hold a certain sway, If in one enduring tissue They weave all good things day by day. Happiness shall woo the wooer Who will step by step pursue her. X 307 NOTES TO MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. Note 1. Page 188, line 21. And parching hollows and volcanic rocks, "W HOEVER compares a well-executed map of the moon with a similar map of the Phlegræan fields near Naples, cannot fail to be struck with their general resemblance, and will readily acknowledge that an Aristarchus, an Hipparchus, an Aristillus, and a Regiomontanus (lunar inequalities so named), may lay claim to a relationship with an Astruni, a Monte Barbaro, an Avernus, and a Solfatara. Most of the lunar volcanoes, it should seem, are extinct; but there are observations on record which render it highly probable that many of them are in a state of activity; nay, that their eruptions have actually been witnessed by human eyes not long since."-From a Journal of a Tour in 1841, printed in 1842, for private distribution, by the Author of the present volume. |