Early Affection
I lov’d thee from the earliest dawn,
When first I saw thy beauty’s ray,
And will, until life’s eve comes on, . . .
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Echo
Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright . . .
England in 1819
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring; . . .
Envy
This rose-tree is not made to bear
The violet blue, nor lily fair,
Nor the sweet mignionet: . . .
Epilogue
At the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time,
When you set your fancies free,
Will they pass to where—by death, fools think, imprisoned—
. . .
Epistle to Mrs. Tyler
It ever was allow’d, dear Madam,
Ev’n from the days of father Adam,
Of all perfection flesh is heir to, . . .
Epitaph
What on Earth deserves our trust?
Youth and Beauty both are dust.
Long we gathering are with pain,
. . .
Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villiers
This little vault, this narrow room,
Of Love, and Beauty, is the tomb;
The dawning beam that gan to clear . . .
Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the Last of Seven that Died Before
This Little, Silent, Gloomy Monument,
Contains all that was sweet and innocent ; . . .
Experience
The lords of life, the lords of life,—
I saw them pass,
In their own guise,
. . .