O! with what eager, keen delight I trac'd a form distinct and clear, That cheated my enraptur'd sight, With the blest thought that he was near. Love still was weeping in his eyes, Upon his cheek the lingering tear Told me in absence he was true; And that pale cheek was far more dear His glistening eyes long fix'd on me, Methought they bade my sorrows cease, But ah! too soon I wake and weep! In dreams by night, in dreams by day, Alas! the rapid, conscious blush Too soon proclaim'd what then befel me! My downcast looks, my trembling frame, Told much, much more than words could tell thee. And art thou lost? for ever lost?— Ah! how I wept when it was told me That I must hear thy voice no more! That I must never more behold thee! These fruitless tears will ever fall! I will not paint for it would grieve thee. Yet faithful Memory oft shall bring Thy tender words and looks, to cheer me : Still on her treasur'd hoards I'll live, And my fond soul shall hover near thee! AMELIA OPIE. 1800. Formerly Miss Alderson, daughter of Dr. Alderson of Norwich. This lady is now wife of Mr. Opie, the painter. Mrs. Opie is not only a fascinating writer, but a highlyaccomplished and beautiful woman, She was born at Norwich. THE VOICE OF HIM I LOVE. HENCE far from me, ye senseless joys Give me my home, to quiet dear, I hate ev'n music's pleasing pow'r I love to breathe the plaintive lays The praises I from others hear From busy crowds o'erjoy'd I fly I woo the drama's magic pow'rs, Go, youth belov'd, in distant glades, Thy love, thy fate, dear youth, to share Yet should the thought of my distress But, oh! if grief thy steps attend, THOMAS MOORE. 1801. This poet, who has been appropriately styled the Carew of our age, is a native of Ireland, where he was first educated under the celebrated Whyte, whose attentions have been acknowledged in a Sonnet inserted by his pupil in the "Anthologia Hibernica." Moore was afterwards removed to Trinity College, Dublin. Since then, he has entered himself at the Middle Temple; though it is not probable that Law engaged much of his attention, whose days appear to have been devoted to the elegancies of literature, and whose evenings have not been estranged from the customary festivities of youth. Among the pieces inserted by Moore in the "Anthologia Hibernica" for 1793-1794, is a translation from Anacreon, a name with which his own promises to be inseparably associated. Mr. Moore is lately returned from a tour through the United States, after relinquishing an appointment, to which he seems to have been amicably banished, in the Bahama Islands! Tell her, that he whose living themes That Glory oft would claim the lay, And Friendship oft his numbers move; LITTLE's Poems, |