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The Poetical Works of Henry Taylor, D.c.l.
The Poetical Works of Henry Taylor Dcl Author:Henry Taylor General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1864 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: To Dear Nina, how betides it that with you Sickness and sorrow, which since Time was born Were Youth's destroyers, seem but to renew The twilight softness of your dewy morn ? You days of Charlton, how you laugh'd to scorn The imminent Future ! Portion it its due ; I look in those large eyes whose tender blue The darken'd hair now deepens, and maintain That Time with all his following forlorn Sickness and sorrow, injury and pain, If a Destroyer, is an Angel too. Dante, the glorious dreamer, was he wrong The " Mount of Preparation" to. invest With sapphire hues, and people with a throng Of happy spirits ? One at his behest Sang the remember'd strain he loved the best, Whereby he knew that early loves are strong Met in the " second Region: " I so long There wandering, hear a voice when daylight fades And shines the Love-Star singly in the West, Sweeter than what was sweetest in the shades Of Purgatory, Casella'5 broken song. THE AMPHITHEATRE AT POZZUOLI. The strife, the gushing blood, the mortal throe, With scenic horrors fill'd that belt below, And where the polish'd seats were round it raised, Worse spectacle ! the pleased spectators gazed. Such were the pastimes of times past! Oh shame ! Oh infamy ! that men who drew the breath Of freedom, and who shared the Roman name, Should so corrupt their sports with pain and death. -- The pastimes of times past ? And what are thine, Thou with thy guu or greyhound, rod and line ? Pain, terror, mortal agonies, that scare Thy heart in man, to brutes thou wilt not spare. Are their's less sad and real ? Pain in m...« less