CONTENTS. The Child and Flowers. By Mrs. Hemans Ballad from the Norman French. By J. G. Lockhart, Esq. Sonnets. By Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart. The City of the Dead. By L. E. L. Night and Death. By the Rev. Joseph Blanco White The Wanderings of Cain. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. Verses for an Album. By Charles Lamb, Esq. Lines written in the Vale of Zoar Work without Hope. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. 75 Imitation from the Persian. By Dr. Southey The Suitors Rejected. By Miss Emma Roberts, Author 114 139 144 146 148 Marie's Grave. By the Author of "The Subaltern" The Lover's Invocation. By Miss Mitford 191 The Two Founts. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. 202 Haddon Hall. By H. B. 315 THE CHILD AND FLOWERS. By Mrs, Hemans. All good and guiltless as thou art. Will breathe a more subduing grace, Than even those looks of joy that lie WILSON. HAST thou been in the woods with the honey-bee? Hast thou been with the lamb in the pastures free? With the hare through the copses and dingles wild ? With the butterfly over the heath, fair child? Yes the light fall of thy bounding feet : Hath not startled the wren from her mossy seat; Thou know'st not the sweetness, by antique song B These are old words, that have made each grove A dreary haunt for romance and love; Each sunny bank, where faint odours lie A place for the gushings of Poesy. Thou know'st not the light wherewith fairy lore And the scent by the blossoming sweet-briars shed, Oh! happy child in thy fawn-like glee! What is remembrance or thought to thee? O'er thy green pathway their colours fling; Nature hath mines of such wealth-and thou For a day is coming to quell the tone That rings in thy laughter, thou joyous one! And to tame the flash of thy cloudless eyes Into the stillness of autumn skies; And to teach thee that grief hath her needful part, Midst the hidden things of each human heart! Yet shall we mourn, gentle child! for this? Such be thy portion !-the bliss to look With a reverent spirit, through Nature's book; To track the paths of a love divine; To read its deep meanings-to see and hear God in earth's garden-and not to fear! |