Poems, Chiefly Lyrical/Elegiacs
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ELEGIACS.
I.Low flowing breezes are roaming the broad valley dimmed in the gloaming:Thoro' the blackstemmed pines only the far river shines.Creeping through blossomy rushes and bowers of rose-blowing bushes,Down by the poplar tall rivulets babble and fall.Barketh the shepherd-dog cheerly; the grasshopper carolleth clearly;Deeply the turtle coos; shrilly the owlet halloos; Winds creep; dews fall chilly: in her first sleep earth breathes stilly:Over the pools in the burn watergnats murmur and mourn.Sadly the far kine loweth: the glimmering water outfloweth:Twin peaks shadowed with pine slope to the dark hyaline.Lowthroned Hesper is stayéd between the two peaks; but the NaiadThrobbing in mild unrest holds him beneath in her breast.The antient poetess singeth, that Hesperus all things bringeth,Smoothing the wearied mind: bring me my love, Rosalind.Thou comest morning and even; she cometh not morning or even.False-eyed Hesper, unkind, where is my sweet Rosalind?