Poems on Various Subjects With Introductory Remarks on the present State of Science and Literature in France |
 |
|
| I. |
| II. |
| III. |
| IV. |
| V. |
| VI. |
LINES
|
 | Poems on Various Subjects |  |
277
LINES
WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF THE BARONESS D' H---, TO HER TWO DAUGHTERS.
Bright nymphs, of Newa's banks the pride,
Receive, before we part,
For you, and your maternal guide,
The wishes of my heart!
Receive, before we part,
For you, and your maternal guide,
The wishes of my heart!
Be every future good your lot!—
But what can fate do more?
Has nature any boon forgot
For you in all her store?
But what can fate do more?
Has nature any boon forgot
For you in all her store?
278
While, mids't the wreathes the arts have twin'd
Around your brows, we trace
That tender modesty of mind
That decorates the face;
Around your brows, we trace
That tender modesty of mind
That decorates the face;
Grac'd with such forms as Raphael drew
Beneath his happiest star,
What is there left to ask for you,
But wish you—what you are?
Beneath his happiest star,
What is there left to ask for you,
But wish you—what you are?
| Poems on Various Subjects | |