Sweet basil and mignonette? Embleming love and health, which never yet In the same wreath might be. Alas! and they are wet! Is it with thy kisses or thy tears? For never rain or dew Such fragrance drew From plant or flower- the very doubt endears My sadness ever new, The sighs I breathe, the tears I shed for thee. Send the stars light, but send not love to me, In whom love ever made Health like a heap of embers soon to fade. Of the idle brain, which the world's livery wear? Oh thou quick heart which pantest to possess All that pale expectation feigneth fair! Thou vainly curious mind which wouldest Oh, whither hasten ye, that thus ye press, With such swift feet, life's green and pleasant path, Seeking, alike from happiness and woe, do you Hope to inherit in the grave below? Time NFATHOMABLE Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality! And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore; Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable Sea? and Doubt UCH hope, as is the sick despair of good, Such fear, as is the certainty of ill, Such doubt, as is pale Expectation's food Turned while she tastes to poison, when the All human things built in contempt of man,And sanguine thrones and impious altars quaked, Prisons and citadels. . The tempestuous oceans awake one another, And the ice-rocks are shaken round Winter's throne, When the clarion of the Typhoon is blown. II. From a single cloud the lightning flashes, the sound Is bellowing underground. |