That gently brooding o'er my spirit rest, And there thy gentle memory shineth fair As yon lone star in twilight's upper air. V. THE EVENING-STAR. Above, with keen sharp light and pointed ray, Steadfast and beautiful, the evening star I gaze upon the slowly fading skies, THE keen north wind hath blown the clouds In the smooth river, while I dream of riven, The sweetest tales of human weal and sorrow, Hang o'er me when the chord of life is The fairest trophies of the limner's fame, To my fond fancy, MARY, seem to borrow Celestial halos from thy gentle name: Be my dear household word, and my last accent here. ALONE ONCE MORE. ALONE once more! ALL HEARTS ARE NOT DISLOYAL. but with such deep ALL hearts are not disloyal: let thy trust emotion, Be deep, and clear, and all-confiding still, Waking to life a thousand hopes and fears, For though Love's fruit turn on the lips to Such wild distrust such absolute devotion, dust, My bosom seems a dreary lake of tears: Tears that stern manhood long restrain'd from gushing, As mountains keep a river from the sea, Until Spring's floods, impetuously rushing, Channel a bed, and set its waters free! What mockery to all true and earnest feeling, vealing, She ne'er betrays her child to lasting ill: Through leagues of desert must the pilgrim go Ere on his gaze the holy turrets rise; Through the long, sultry day the stream must flow Ere it can mirror twilight's purple skies. Fall back unscathed from contact with the vain, Keep thy robes white, thy spirit bold and And calmly launch Affection's bark again, With hearts whose lightness fills us with Though lone the way as that already trod, despair! O God! some sorrows of our wondrous being But to what end this waste of noble passion? Come home, fond heart, cease all instinctive As the dread fever of insane desire, Though wonted glory from the earth will vanish, And life seem desolate, and hope beguile, Love's cherish'd dream learn steadfastly to banish, Till death thy spirit's conflict reconcile! FREEDOM. FREEDOM! beneath thy banner I was born And to be free from passion's bitter strife; Nourish'd by lofty aims and genial truth, INDIAN SUMMER. LIGHT as love's smiles, the silvery mist at morn Each felt that the past we could never recover, Each felt that the future no hope could restore; Floats in loose flakes along the limpid river; She shudder'd at wringing the heart of her The blue bird's notes upon the soft breeze borne, As high in air he carols, faintly quiver; Beaded with dew, the witch-elm's tassels The timid rabbit from the furze is peeping, And from the springy spray the squirrel's gaily leaping. Long years have gone by, and the spring- As o'er our young loves it first smiled in Can it be forgotten by either on earth. The note of each wild bird that carols toward heaven, Must tell her of swift-winged hopes that were mine, I love thee, Autumn, for thy scenery ere too, brief; I love the note of each wild bird that flies, O, Nature! still I fondly turn to thee, were; Though wild and passion-toss'd my youth may be, Tells me of the tear-drop that wept their at even, decline. TO AN AUTUMN ROSE. Toward thee I still the same devotion bear; TELL her I love her no more Life's wasted verdure may to me restore- WE PARTED IN SADNESS. WE parted in sadness, but spoke not of parting; We talk'd not of hopes that we both must resign, I saw not her eyes, and but one tear-drop starting, Fell down on her hand as it trembled in mine: Herrig, American. Literatur. II. love her for those eyes Now soft with feeling, radiant now with Which, like a lake reflecting autumn skies, Go to my lady ere the season flies, Go! and with all of eloquence thou hast, Tell her when youth's gay budding-time is And summer's gaudy flowering is over, SHE had been told that God made all the Stole on with its deep shadows, and she That twinkled up in heaven; and now she Stood looking at the west with that half stood Watching the coming of the twilight on, smile, As if a pleasant thought were at her heart. Her simple thought broke forth expressively; Half parted with the new and strange delight |