Love Elegy to Laura
Too heedless friend, why thus augment the
That glows resistless in my beating breast
Why with thy praises grace his fatal name,
Who robs thy Emma's hapless heart of rest
Too heedless friend, why thus augment the
That glows resistless in my beating breast
Why with thy praises grace his fatal name,
Who robs thy Emma's hapless heart of rest
OW hung the dark clouds on Plinlimmon's tall peak,
And slowly, yet surely, the winter drew near;
When Ellen, sweet Ellen, a tear on her cheek,
Exclaimed as we parted, "In May I'll be here
What means that wild and joyful cry
Why do yon crowds in mean attire Throw thus their ragged arms on high
In want what can such joy inspire
And why on every face I meet Now beams a smile, now drops a tear
RE dost thou bide, blessed soul of my love
Is ether thy dwelling,
O whisper me where
Rapt in remembrance, while lonely I rove,
Spring
thy impatient bloom restrain, Nor wake so soon thy genial pow'r,
For, deeds of death must hail thy reign, And clouds of fate around thee low'r
Alas
LE many a fond and blooming maid Attempts thy heart to gain;
And, by thy fatal smile betrayed, Thinks not she strives in vain:
While in those eyes of tender blue They answering passion see,
And in thy sweet expression view The charm...
A Report, though false, at that time generally believed
EN are thy towers,
Byzantium
towers that
[A Report, though false, at that time generally believed
]Fallen are thy towers,
Byzantium
towers that
Stranger, that massy, mouldering pile,
Whose ivied ruins load the ground,
Reechoed once to pious
By holy sisters breathed around
Originally called the Place de Louis Seize,--next the Place de
Revolution, where the perpetual guillotine stood
UD Seine, along thy winding
Fair smiles yon plain expanding wide,
Then thou hast learnt the secret of my soul,
Officious Friendship has its trust betrayed;
No more I need the bursting sigh control,
Nor summon pride my struggling soul to aid
How dear to me the twilight hour
It breathes, it speaks of pleasures past;
When Laura sought this humble bower,
And o'er it courtly splendours cast