The Unripe Windfalls In Prose and Verse Author:James Henry General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1851 Original Publisher: University Press 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 ca... more »n select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: TO MEMORY. Wizard, begone! and let me never See thy hated face again ! Thou promisedst a round of pleasure, And hast given me nought but pain. Could thy conjuring rod not call up The dear scenes of departed years, But it must same time from my poor heart Strike a flood of scalding tears ? Could thine enchanted glass not show me The radiant forms my boyhood. knew, But it must thrust their sepulchres, At the same moment, on my view? Could not thy magic echo sing me Notes from lips of love that fell, But it must same instant bring me Their long and lingering last farewell ? Juggling wizard, how I hate thcc, With thy magic and thy spells, By black Melancholy taught thee In her silent, sunless cells ! Foul enchanter, hence ! and drown thee In the depths of Lethe's wave ! Fair is the world God spreads around me, Thou wouldst make it but a grave. Villa Stbozzi, Rome, Jan. 13, 1850. chapter{Section 4 THE PRECEDING, TRANSLATED INTO GERMAN BY B. CARNERI. AN DIE ERINNERUNG. Flieh, Zauberin, und lasse nimmer Mich dein verhasstes Antlitz schau'n ; Nur Freuden hast du mir versprochen, Und gabst mir nichts als Qualen traun! Konnt' nicht dein Zauberstab mir rufen Zuriick vergangner Jahre Lust ? Ach ! einen Strom von heissen Thranen Lockt er zugleich aus meiner Brust. Konnt' nicht dein Wunderglas mir zeigen Gestalten die mich einst entziickt? Ach! zugleich reisst 'a vor meinem Auge Die Graber auf, die sie erdriickt. Konnt' nicht den Klang dein Echo bringen Der theuern Lippen einst entquoll ? Jm selben au...« less