The sounding echo back the music flung, While heavenly spheres unto the voices play'd. But see! the day is ended with my song, And sporting bathes with that fair ocean maid: Stoop now thy wing, my muse, now stoop thee low: Hence mayst thou freely play, and rest thee now; While here I hang my pipe upon the willow bough.
So up they rose, while all the shepherds' throng With their loud pipes a country triumph blew, And led their Thirsil home with joyful song: Meantime the lovely nymphs, with garlands new His locks in bay and honour'd palm-tree bound, With lilies set, and hyacinths around, And lord of all the year and their May sportings crown'd.
SPECIMENS WITH MEMOIRS OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS.
SECOND PERIOD--FROM SPENSER TO DRYDEN. (CONTINUED.)
WILLIAM HABINGTON Epistle addressed to the Honourable W. E. To his Noblest Friend, J. C., Esq. A Description of Castara
JOSEPH HALL, BISHOP OF NORWICH Satire I. Satire VII.
RICHARD LOVELACE Song--To Althea, from Prison Song A Loose Saraband
ROBERT HERRICK Song Cherry-Ripe The Kiss: A Dialogue To Daffodils To Primroses To Blossoms Oberon's Palace Oberon's Feast The Mad Maid's Song Corinna's going a-Maying Jephthah's Daughter The Country Life
SIR RICHARD FANSHAWE The Spring, a Sonnet--From the Spanish
ABRAHAM COWLEY The Chronicle, a Ballad The Complaint The Despair Of Wit Of Solitude The Wish Upon the Shortness of Man's Life On the Praise of Poetry The Motto--'Tentanda via est,' &c Davideis-Book II Life The Plagues of Egypt
GEORGE WITHER From 'The Shepherd's Hunting' The Shepherd's Resolution The Steadfast Shepherd From 'The Shepherd's Hunting'
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT From 'Gondibert'--Canto II From 'Gondibert'--Canto IV
JOHN CHALKHILL Arcadia Thealma, a Deserted Shepherdess Priestess of Diana Thealma in Full Dress Dwelling of the Witch Orandra
MARGARET, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE Melancholy described by Mirth Melancholy describing herself
THOMAS STANLEY Celia Singing Speaking and Kissing La Belle Confidante The Loss Note on Anacreon
ANDREW MARVELL The Emigrants The Nymph complaining of the Death of her Fawn On 'Paradise Lost' Thoughts in a Garden Satire on Holland
THE EARL OP ROSCOMMON From 'An Essay on Translated Verse'
CHARLES COTTON Invitation to Izaak Walton A Voyage to Ireland in Burlesque