O ego felix, vice si (nec unquam Fallere Letho! Multa flagranti radiisque cincto Integris ah! quam nihil inviderem, Cum Dei ardentes medius quadrigas Sentit Olympus. ALCAIC FRAGMENT. O LACRYMARUM fons, tenero sacros LINES, ADDRESSED TO MR. WEST, FROM GENOA. HORRIDOS tractus, Boreæque linquens Regna Taurini fera, molliorem Advehor brumam, Genuæque amantes Litora soles. ELEGIAC VERSES, OCCASIONED BY THE SIGHT OF THE PLAINS WHERE THE BATTLE OF TREBIA WAS FOUGHT. QUA Trebie glaucas salices intersecat undâ, CARMEN AD C. FAVONIUM ZEPHYRINUM. Written immediately after his journey to Frescati and the Cascades of Tivoli, which he had described in a preceding letter to Mr. West. MATER rosarum, cui teneræ vigent Et volucrum celebrata cantu! Palladiæ superantis Albæ. Illius altum Tibur, et Æsulæ Naisin ingeminâsse rupes; Dulcè canens Venusinus ales; Mirum! canenti conticuit nemus, Sacrique fontes, et retinent adhuc (Sic Musa jussit) saxa molles Docta modos, veteresque lauri. Mirare nec tu me citharæ rudem Claudis laborantem numeris: loca Amœna, jucundumque ver incompositum docuere carmen ; Hærent sub omni nam folio nigri Phœbea lucî (credite) somnia, Argutiusque et lympha et auræ Nescio quid solito loquuntur. |