ILLUSTRATIONS

ENGRAVED BY EDMUND EVANS, FROM DRAWINGS BY BIRKET FOSTER.

MILL AT LISSOY (Frontispiece).

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GOLDSMITH’S TOMB IN THE TEMPLE CHURCHYARD xvii

THE TRAVELLER.

Or where Campania’s plain forsaken lies 5

Bless’d that abode, where want and pain repair 6

Even now, where Alpine solitudes ascend 7

Ye lakes, whose vessels catch the busy gale 8

The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone 9

Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave 10

While oft some temple’s mouldering tops between 12

In florid beauty groves and fields appear 13

A mistress or a saint in every grove 14

Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread 16

With patient angle trolls the finny deep 17

How often have I led thy sportive choir 18

The willow-tufted bank, the gliding sail 21

There gentle music melts on every spray 24

Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around 27

THE DESERTED VILLAGE.

The never-failing brook, the busy mill 32

The shelter’d cot, the cultivated farm 33

And many a gambol frolick’d o’er the ground 34

The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest 35

Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew 37

The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung 38

And fill’d each pause the nightingale had made 39

To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn 40

The village preacher’s modest mansion rose 41

Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride 42

At church, with meek and unaffected grace 43

Low lies that house, where nut-brown draughts inspir’d 45

No more the farmer’s news, the barber’s tale 45

Space for his lake, his park’s extended bounds 48

Where the poor houseless, shivering female lies 50

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn 51

Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey 52

The cooling brook, the grassy-vested green 53

And left a lover’s for a father’s arms 54

Downward they move, a melancholy band 56

THE HERMIT.

Then turn, to-night, and freely share whate’er my cell bestows 58

The hermit trimm’d his little fire, and cheer’d his pensive guest 61

And when, beside me in the dale; he caroll’d lays of love 64

THE CAPTIVITY.

Ye hills of Lebanon, with cedars crown’d 69

Fierce is the tempest rolling along the furrow’d main 74

As panting flies the hunted hind, where brooks refreshing stray 80

O Babylon! how art thou fall’n 83

THE HAUNCH OF VENISON 90

THE DOUBLE TRANSFORMATION 102

AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG 109

THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS 116

ON A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH STRUCK BLIND BY LIGHTNING 125

SONG—“THE THREE PIGEONS” 130

BIRDS 142

EPILOGUE WRITTEN FOR MR. CHARLES LEE LEWES 162

The Ornamental Illustrations designed by H. Noel Humphreys