something From the side of some hoar hill, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Where the great Sun begins his state, 55 60 iven at afhe clouds in thousand liveries dight, deche, arranged. While the ploughman near at hand, Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures 65 70 Russet lawns, and fallows gray, light-brown, as in Gray Frias. et words, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, trimmed Shallow brooks, and rivers wide. Towers, and battlements it sees Where perhaps some beauty lies, reside 75 The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes, coutellation f80 the Little To the tann'd haycock in the mead. 85 90 Home of the words (ill-stars, disastrous, accendancy) which still testify to the nece prevalent belief in astrology. EARLY POEMS, 1624-1637. 32 When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound fiddles Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, 4 plenty of may. Where throngs of knights and barons bold, 125 130 Married to immortal verse; Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout old or Of linked sweetness long drawn out; With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; The hidden soul of harmony. 33 135 twist 140 but HENCE vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly without father bred, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys; And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, 5 The fickle pensioners of Morpheus train. +10 plent But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, dressed Hail divinest Melancholy, "Cassiope, wife to bephens, King of 8 thiskin, the mother of Andromeda. 34 EARLY POEMS, 1624-1637. Whose saintly visage is too bright meet, Touch To hit the sense of human sight; norf. becoming and And therefore to our weaker view, Prince Memnon's sister might beseem; 15 made a 20 f Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove costellatio The sea nymphs, and their powers offended. Thee bright-hair'd Vesta long of yore, daw of Saturne. To solitary Saturn bore; His daughter she (in Saturn's reign, Sober, stedfast, and demure, grave, son. 25 30 All in a robe of darkest grain, car, v. Comus 750. And sable stole of cipres lawn, rope. our sense of With ev'n step, and musing gait, propriety. And looks commércing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes: 35 40 trimoned There held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast, Thou fix them on the earth as fast. And join with thee calm Peace, and Quiet, 45 Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring, Aye round about Jove's altar sing. 50 But first, and chiefest, with thee bring, 55 Gently o'er th' accustom'd oak: The oak from 60 Thee chauntress oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy even-song; And missing thee, I walk unseen пишу 65 70 which her. at & or at 9 o'clock, Over some wide-water'd shore, het commernest 5 at 8. . Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, remote Where glowing embers through the room To bless the doors from nightly harm: studying Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, 80 by right 85 |