Charles Jeremiah Wells

was born in London in 1800, and Keats and Horne were among his early friends. In 1824 appeared Joseph and his Brethren. It was received with indifference at the time, but has been declared since 'the most Shakespearian drama since Shakespeare's day.' He abandoned a literary life in England, and the profession of the law to which he had been articled had no more hold on him. He lived in retirement in South Wales; and about 1840 took up his residence on the Continent, settling latterly at Marseilles, where he died in 1879. At the death of his wife he is said to have destroyed a large body of poetry. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Mr. Swinburne, and Mr. Theodore Watts have done much to foster an interest in Wells, and give him a well-deserved place among the poets of England.

Kiss no more the Vintages

KISS no more the Vintages,

Thou hot-lipp'd sun!

Flow no more the merry wine

From the dark tun!

Above my bed hang dull nightshade,
And o'er my brow the willow!

With maiden flowers from dewy bowers

Cover my last pillow!

Away! away to the green sward!

My young heart breaks :

Break the earth, and lay me deep!

Love my breath takes.

Angels! pity, and hear this ditty
Breathed from a poor girl's lips:
O'er her lover ever hover,

Scattering earthly bliss!

Come, thou iron-crowned Death!

Into my stretched arms,

Bridegroom to my maiden breast;

End my sad alarms!

Lead on, lead on, thou Love of Bone!

Over the heath wild ;

And 'neath the grass secure fast
Thy melancholy child!

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