vii It seem'd, alone its beauty:-to and fro, 'Fit spot,' I cried, 'for Grecian bard to feign [clin'd; Just stealing from her timid covert, hears Young Zephyr breathe his vow.-The day was clos'd; The morning's roseate glow-The golden blaze Meridian, and the eve's purpureal sky. viii Oh day! as innocent, as fair!—and thou, Thy evening footsteps shall be seen) wilt call To where the fountains of the Ocean lie. J. M. BENHALL, 20th September, 1835. CONTENTS. i LIFE OF MATTHEW PRIOR. By the Rev. J. Mitford..... Dedication; To the Right Honourable Lionel, Earl of On Exod. iii. 14-"I am that I am."-An Ode, writ- 19 the Earl of Exeter's, Burleigh House..... 52 To the Author of the foregoing Pastoral.. To a Lady: she refusing to continue a dispute with me, and leaving me in the Argument. An Ode..... An Ode presented to the King, on his Majesty's Arri- ..... An Ode, "The merchant, to secure his treasure ". Ode sur la prise de Namur, par les Armes du Roy, l'année 1692, par Monsieur Boileau Despreaux...... An English Ballad on the taking of Namur by the King The Dove.... A Lover's Anger. Mercury and Cupid.... On Beauty. A Riddle. The Question, to Lisetta. Lisetta's Reply.. ....... |