Brilliants.

HAIR.

As glossy now

As when, in hours of gentle dalliance, bathing
The snowy fingers of Ludea's girls.

WILLIS.

FAREWELL.

When eyes are beaming

What never tongue may tell;

When tears are streaming

From their crystal cell;

When hands are link'd that dread to part,
And heart is met by throbbing heart-
Oh! bitter, bitter! is the smart

Of them that bid "farewell!"

When hope is chidden,

That fain of bliss would tell,
And love forbidden

In the heart to dwell;

When, fetter'd by a viewless chain,
We turn and gaze, and turn again,-
Oh! death were mercy to the pain,
Of them that bid "farewell!"

BISHOP HEBER.

DEVOTED LOVE.

Oh, if thou willest it, love,

If thou but speak it with thy natural voice,
And smile upon me,-I'll not think it pain,
But cheerfully I'll seek me out a grave,
And sleep as sweetly as on Hesperus' breast.
He will not smile; he will not listen to me.
Why dost thou thrust thy fingers in thy bosom?
Oh search it, search it; see if there remain
One little remnant of thy former love,
To dry my tears with.

BEDDOES.

ADELPHE.

She look'd across my face into the blue,
And watch'd the pleasant lights arise and move
Along its waters, rippling to the shore,
And smiled to see how beautiful the Earth
Did make herself, smoothing and silencing
Her ruffled charms, and rising through her soil'd
Hot robes against the coming of the Night.

A CITY FESTIVAL.

ANON.

There's not a candle lit to-night at home;
And for the cups,-they'll be less wet with wine
Than is the inmost grain of all this earth
With the now-falling dew. None sit in doors,
Except the babe, and his forgotten grandsire,
And such as, out of life, each side do lie
Against the shutter of the grave or womb.
The rest that build up the great hill of life,
From the crutch-riding boy to his sweet mother,
The deer-eyed girl, and the brown fellow of war,
To the grey head and grandest sire of all
That's half in heaven,-all these are forth to-night;
And there they throng upon both sides the river,
Which, guessing at its hidden banks, flows on,
A water-stream betwixt two tides of flesh :-
And still the streets pour on.

BEDDOES.

THE STARS.

The Moon, methinks, is but the paramour
Of the bright glorious sun-but coldly shining
With a reflected light, born of his rays.
The stars are holy virgins, calm and fair;
Each in her own sweet sphere dwelling apart;
Not great as men count greatness-and yet grand
In their simplicity; like childhood's brow!
Stars, lovely stars! perennial flowers of heaven;
Asking no culture from the hand of time,
Nor drooping 'neath his sickle; bloom ye on!
Till o'er the night of earth the day-star rise,
And in the effulgence pouring from the beams
Of God's eternity, your soft light pale!

ANON.

ACTION AND THOUGHT.

Alas! we make

A ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,
But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolves
Look down upon our slumbering acts.

MISS LANDON.

POETS.

Poets are all who love-who feel great truths
And tell them--and the truth of truths is love.
There was a time-Oh, I remember well!
When like a sea-shell with its sea-born strain,
My soul aye rang with music of the lyre;
And my heart shed its love as leaves their dew-
As honey-dew, and throve on what it shed.

BAILEY.

A DREAM OF LOVE.

He is in love with an ideal,

A creature of his own imagination,
A child of air, and echo of his heart;
And like a lily on a river floating,

She floats upon the river of his thoughts.

Life is like a tear

TEARS.

LONGFELLOW.

Born in the sad depths of a woman's eyes—

That brims up slowly through them, and then lies
And rocks as in a cradle, warmly hid

In the rich brown shadow of her glossy lid:
And then peeps out beneath it warily,
Quivering in tremulous uncertainty,
And rainbow'd like a bubble in the sun
Upon the twinkling verge--until, with one
Wild leap and gush of ripe intensity,

It darts away.

ANON.

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