Poems (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: How will the heart, which now them trustest,' then Corrupt, yet in corruption mindful yet, Turn with sharp stings upon itself! Again, Bethink thee of the debt! ?Hast thou seen higher, holier things than these, And therefore must to these thy heart refuse ? With the true best, alack, how ill agrees That best that thou would'st choose ! The Summum Pulchrum rests in heaven above; Do thou, as best thou may'st, thy duty do: Amid the things allowed thee live and love; Some day thou shall it view. 1841 yjpvasa Kys Stti If, when in cheerless wanderings, dull and cold, A sense of human kindliness hath found us, We seem to have around us An atmosphere all gold, 'Midst darkest shades a halo rich of shine, An element, that while the bleak wind bloweth, On the rich heart bestoweth Imbreathed draughts of wine ; Heaven guide, the cup be not, as chance may be, To some vain mate given up as soon as tasted ! No, nor on thee be wasted, Thou trifler, Poesy! Heaven grant the manlier heart, that timely, ere Youth fly, with life's real tempest would be coping; The fruit of dreamy hoping Is, waking, blank despair. 1841 THE MUSIC OF THE WORLD AND OF THE SOUL. i Why should 1 say I see the things I see not ? Why be and be not? Show love for that I love not, and fear for what I fear not? And dance about to music that 1 hear not: Who standeth still i' the street Shall be hustled and justled about; And he that stops i' the dance shall be spurned by the dancers' feet,- Shall be shoved and be twisted by all he shall meet, And shall raise up an outcry and rout; And the partner, too,? What's the partner to do-? While all the while 'tis but, perchance, an humming in mine ear, That yet anon shall hear, And I anon, the music in my soul,...