HARVAND

COLLEGE

DEC 29 1913

LIBRARY

Welsh fund

AND

QUATUORZAINS.

ON

THE PECULIAR CHARACTER

OF

THE SONNET.

"PRAIS'D be the Poet who the Sonnet's claim, Severest of the Orders that belong

Distinct and separate to Delphic Song, Shall venerate: nor its appropriate name Peculiar is its Frame;

Lawless assume.

From HIM deriv'd, who shunn'd the city throng, And warbled sweet thy rocks and streams among, Lonely Valclusa!-And, that Heir of Fame,

2.

Our greater MILTON, hath, by many a lay, Form'd on that arduous Model, fully shown That English verse may happily display Those strict energic measures which alone Deserve the name of SONNET, and convey A grandeur, gruce, and spirit, all their own.”

SEWARD. (LXIV.)

II.

SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN A CHURCHYARD OVER THE GRAVE OF A YOUNG

WOMAN OF NINETEEN.

“O THOU, who sleep'st where hazle bands entwine
The vernal grass, with paler violets drest!
I would, sweet Maid, thy humble bed were mine;
And mine thy calm and enviable rest!
For never more, by human ills opprest,
Shall thy soft Spirit fruitlessly repine:

Thou canst not now thy fondest hopes resign;

E'en in the hour that should have made thee blest.

Light lies the turf upon thy virgin breast!

And lingering here, to Love and Sorrow true,

The Youth, who once thy simple heart possest,

Shall mingle tears with April's early dew.
While still for him shall faithful Memory save
Thy Form and Virtues from the silent grave.”

NOVEL OF CELESTINA.

CHARLOTTE SMITH. (XLIX.)