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Literary Gazette, 1st June, 1822, Pages 346-347
ORIGINAL POETRY.
POETIC SKETCHES.
Second Series — Sketch the Fifth.
MR. MARTIN'S PICTURE OF CLYTIE.[1]
----------Greece,[2]
These are thy graceful memories, the dreams
That hallowed thy groves, and over things
Inanimate shed visionary life,
When every flower had some romantic tale
Linked with its sweetness, when the winds, the streams
Breathed poetry and love. ---
It was a beautiful embodied thought,
A dream of the fine painter, one of those
That pass by moonlight o'er the soul, and flit
'Mid the dim shades of twilight, when the eye
Grows tearful with its ecstasy. There stood
A dark haired Grecian girl, whose eyes were raised,
With that soft look love teaches, to the sky—
One hand pressed to her brow, as she would gaze
Upon the sun undazzled—'twas that nymph,
The slighted Clytie. May minstrel look
