CHOICE

DESCRIPTIVE POETRY;

INTENDED FOR THE USE OF

SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES.

Selected by a Lady.

LONDON:

WHITTAKER & CO., AVE MARIA LANE.

1852.

380. 5.93.

This Selection may be obtained of Mr. T. WATTON, Monument Lane,

Edgbaston, Birmingham.

Poetry tends to elevate the soul and invigorate

the mind."

DESCRIPTIVE POETRY.

CHANGE OF SEASONS.

WHO loves not spring's voluptuous hours,
The carnival of birds and flowers?
Yet who would choose, however dear,
That spring should revel all the year?

Who loves not summer's splendid reign,
The bridal of the earth and main?
Yet who would choose, however bright,
A dog-day noon without a night?

Who loves not autumn's joyous round,
When corn, and wine, and oil abound?
Yet who would choose, however gay,
of unrenew'd decay?

A

year

Who loves not winter's awful form,
The sphere-born music of the storm?
Yet who would choose, how grand soever,
The shortest day to last for ever?

B

MONTGOMERY.