Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 Excerpt: ...safe from infant harms;--Whose pious care and guardian love Taught me to soar for worlds above; Thy voice I hear, thy smile I see Through all the tomb's obscurity; Reflected thence thy virtues bum As up the tide of time wc turn, With worth as bright, and truth as clear As mortal man can image here. For yet 'twas mine, with filial woe, When pain and anguish bow'd thee low, To charm, ah me! thy parting breath, And strew the wilderness of death, And hang upon thy last embrace, And catch the kindling triumph of thy face, ODE TO JULIANA. O, IF the living tints were mine That Ouido's heavenly pencil knew, When warm from every touch divine. To life and love the colours grew; Then had the bard thine image chose In tropic suns, or polar snows! And O! if mine the Theban's fire, To love alone the harp should tune; Or stealing Sappho's silver lyre To serenade the listening moon; Sweet as the honey's racy dew, Be all the magic song for you. Nor old shall ever be the morn, When first I met thy conquering eye; And soft surprise that moment born, Was usher'd in by many a sigh; And as I gazed upon thy face, Adored the playful smile, the arch expressive grace. I deem'd thine eyes that won me so, Some twins that ruled the starry sphere, To charm a gazing world below, And gem the zodiac of the year; Lost, as I gazed, in wonder and delight, They open'd on the soul in trembling streams of light. And to thy pouting lips that stole Two tulips Flora flush'd with bloom, I found had flown my truant soul, And linger'd on the soft perfume; Ah! there I smiled to find it stay, And o'er their sweets nectareous play. I saw the glossy ringlets twine A neck, as foam of ocean white; And o'er thy bosom's swell divine, Redundant float in waves of light; While all thy mind a charm convey'd To ma...