A" sigh," that's just so faintly deep When lips we love, and cheeks we prize, We talk with fingers and with eyes, A" sigh" can sever Cupid's chain A "sigh" can join its links again— 66 (A sigh," the which may blissful make- A " sigh," when lovers' bosoms meet, A " sigh's" a wish, or thought, tho' heardNot quite condens'd into a word; A " sigh's" at least so blushes teach A rosy substitute for speech; In sooth, good reader, then, a "sigh" WRITTEN THE MORNING AFTER WALTZING WITH AGNES. "The many twinkling feet, so small and sylph-like, Suggesting the more secret symmetry Of the fair forms, which terminate so well." "There is a language in the eye, The cheek, the lip, nay The foot speaks." But yesternight I lovely Agnes met At crowded ball, and by her side I sat; O glowing language, to my pen now fly, Bid nature's beauties with each other vie, To paint correctly all her charms confess'd, As through the lab'rinth of this dance divine As mutual stay, my knee to her's I press; While eyes commingle in soft, silent gaze, * Tho' oft-told circles we enraptur'd wind, To rapid finish of the varied parts, My hands alternate rove around her waist, Her half-recumbent thro' the perfum'd air. But as the waltz, by Terpsichore's high will, So is my Agnes form'd by Heav'n to prove * With reference to this matrimony of vision, I take upon myself to pronounce it a decided specific, or anti-vertigo-at least, I ever found there was a spell or charm in my partner's eye, that effectually precluded the giddiness so often complained of in waltzing. THE REJECTED! "Could'st thou, celestial beauty! view my heartView the dear image on that heart impress'd; So like thyself-and unimpassion'd read The indented motto-Love?" "O, when the heart which hath so well Then, then, around thy soul shall cling . OI have lov'd-yes, wildly lov'd, Passion within my heart has dwelt, And fed upon its core Passion which now through every vein Climbs to my hot and mad'ning brain. I've lov'd, methinks, so strangely pure So deeply, warmly, well, |