University of Virginia Library

previous section The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir
next section
22

II.

[Not lovelier to the bard's enamoured gaze]

Not lovelier to the bard's enamoured gaze,
Winded Italian Mincio o'er its bed,
By whispering reeds o'erhung,
Hic virides tenera prætexit arundine ripas
Mincius.

Mel. Bucolic, vii.

when calmly led
To meditate what rural life displays;
Trees statelier do not canopy with gloom
The brooks of Valombrosa;
Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks
In Valombrosa.
—

Paradise Lost.

nor do flowers,
Beneath Ausonia's sky that seldom lowers,
Empurple deep-dyed Brenta's
Gently flows
The deep-dyed Brenta.

Childe Harold, c. iv.

banks with bloom
Fairer than thine at sweet Lasswade: so bright
Thou gleam'st, a mirror for the cooing dove,
That sidelong eyes its purpling form with love
Well pleased; 'mid blossomy brakes, with bosom light,
All day the linnet carols; and, from grove,
The blackbird sings to thee at fall of night.
previous section The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir
next section