How thick the shades of evening cl… How pale the sky with weight of sn… Haste, light the tapers, urge the… And bid the joyless day retire. —Alas, in vain i try within

Approach in silence. ’tis no vulga… Which I, the Dryad of this hoary… Pronounce to mortal ears. The sec… Now hasteneth to its period, since… On this fair lawn. The groves of…

AWAY! away! Tempt me no more, insidious Love: Thy soothing sway Long did my youthful bosom prove: At length thy treason is discern’d…

Whither is Europe’s ancient spiri… Where are those valiant tenants of… Who from the warrior bow the stron… Or with firm hand the rapid pole-a… Freeman and soldier was their comm…

“ Optat quietem.”—Hor . While yet the world was young, and… Nor lurking fraud, nor tyrant rapi…

What, then, is taste but those int… Active and strong, and feeling ali… To each fine impulse? a discerning… Of decent and sublime, with quick… From things deformed, or disarrang…

One effort more, one cheerful sall… Our destin’d course will finish. a… Then, for an offering sacred to th… Who lent us gracious guidance, we… Inscribe a monument of deathless p…

No, foolish youth’€”To virtuous f… If now thy early hopes be vow’d, If true ambition’s nobler flame Command thy footsteps from the cro… Lean not to love’s inchanting snar…

Such was old Chaucer. such the pl… Of him who first with harmony info… The language of our fathers. Here… For many a cheerful day. these anc… Have often heard him, while his le…

The Shape alone let others prize, The Features of the Fair; I look for Spirit in her Eyes, And Meaning in her Air. A Damask Cheek, an Iv’ry Arm,

Queen of my songs, harmonious maid… Ah why hast thou withdrawn thy aid… Ah why forsaken thus my breast With inauspicious damps oppress’d? Where is the dread prophetic heat,

BOOK I With what attractive charms this g… Of Nature touches the consenting… Of mortal men; and what the pleasi… Which beauteous imitation thence d…

Occasioned by the insults of the… Whence this unwonted transport in… Why glow my thoughts, and whither… Aspire with rapid wing? Her count… Demands her efforts: at that sacre…

Not for themselves did human kind Contrive the parts by heaven assig… On life’s wide scene to play: Not Scipio’s force, nor Cæsar’s s… Can conquer glory’s arduous hill,

Ye powers unseen, to whom, the bar… Erected altars; ye who to the mind More lofty views unfold, and promp… With more divine emotions; if erew… Not quite unpleasing have my votiv…