Then fly! thou form of her I love! P 2 TO THE VIOLET. SWEET flower, that on the fountain's side, To cull thee, in thy lowly pride, The winds that bear thy sweets along Thy rural charms to all are dear IMITATION OF THE SEVENTH IDYLL OF MOSCHUS: O HESPER, golden light of love! Superior far thy lovely ray To all the stars the sky contains; The moon alone with brighter day Amid the nightly myriads reigns. But she her tardy light delays, Nor heeds the wandering lover's care: Oh shine then with a brighter blaze, And guide my footsteps to the fair. No midnight robber courts thine aid, No pallid murderer greets thee now; But led by love, I seek the maid, The object of my fervent vow. ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT SISTER. WITH raptur'd heart and smiling eye To bless her favourite's life descried. Revolving years seem'd fled away, And sooth a parent's tender cares. Ah do not thus with ardour vain Sleep, lovely innocent, in peace! Oft shall the bosom swelling high AN ANSWER To a Catalogue of Gentlemen, supposed to have been written by Miss of Annapolis. SINCE poetry lately has been much in vogue But for sake of his feelings, we'll not name the first, Most truly the auth'ress the picture did draw And that Wil*****n shuffles his feet is well known, MISS MARY LLOYD. FORM'D to fill each heart with love, With angelic grace to move, See her thro' the mazy dance With bewitching air advance, |