Around its unexpanded buds;

Like many a voice of one delightThe winds, the birds, the ocean floods; The city's voice itself is soft, like solitude's.

2.

I see the Deep's untrampled floor

With green and purple sea-weeds strown;

I see the waves upon the shore

Like light dissolv'd in star-showers, thrown;

I sit upon the sands alone,

The lightning of ths noon-tide ocean

Is flashing round me, and a tone

Arises from its measured motion:

How sweet, did any heart now share in my emotion!

3.

Alas! I have nor hope, nor health,
Nor peace within, nor calm around,
Nor that content, surpassing wealth,
The sage in meditation found,

And walk'd with inward glory crown'd

Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure : Others I see whom these surround,

Smiling they live, and call life pleasure;

To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.

4.

Yet now despair itself is mild,

Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child,

And weep away the life of care

Which I have borne, and yet must bear,
Till death like sleep might steal on me,
And I might feel in the warm air

My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea
Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.

5.

Some might lament that I were cold,
As I, when this sweet day is gone,
Which my lost heart, too soon grown old,
Insults with this untimely moan;

They might lament, for I am one

Whom men love not, and yet regret;

Unlike this day, which, when the sun
Shall on its stainless glory set,

Will linger, though enjoyed, like joy in memory yet.

32. HECTOR MACNEIL.

Died at Edinburgh, about spring 1818. His Poetical works were published at Edinburgh, 2 vols. in-8.9, 18011812. See Gent. Mag. July 1818, p. 89.

33. MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS.

Died in July 1818, on his voyage home from Jamaica. He was born 1773, son of M. Lewis Esq. Deputy Secretary of War. In 1796, he was returned to Parliament for Hindon. In 1795, he published his Monk, a novel, 2 vols. His Tales of Terror also were popular.

His sister married Sir Henry Lushington Bart. now Consul General of Italy. See Gent. Mag. Aug. 1819. p. 183.

34. ANNE RADCLIFFE.

Was born 1762, and died 7 Feb. 1823, æt. 62. Her Mysteries of Udolpho were published 1794. The Italian, 1795. &c., &c. Poetry is mixed in most of her Novels.

Her husband had been Editor and Proprietor of The English Chronicle.

35. JOHN WOLCOT, M.D.

Better known under the name of Peter Pindar, died 13 Jan. 1819; at an advanced age; a man of eccentric wit, and much ribaldry.

He was of Cornish birth.

36. JOHN KEATS.

Died at Rome, 23 Feb. 1821, aged 25.

He is said to have been killed by the vexation of a severe review of his Poems in the Quarterly Rev.

37. WILLIAM HAYLEY.

Was born 1744, at Chichester; and died 12 Nov. 1820. He was educated at Cambridge. He outlived his fame.

NOTE XIV.

POETICAL OBITUARY FROM 1818.

HECTOR MACNEIL Esq. ob. May, 1818.

MATHEW GREGORY LEWIS Esq. ob. July, 1818,

æt 48.

DR. JOHN WOLCOT, ob. Jan. 1819.

REV. HENRY ROWE, ob. Sept. 1819.

5 REV. ANTHONY FRESTON, ob Dec. 1819.
REV. JOSIAH THOMAS, ob May, 1820.

WM. HAYLEY, Esq. ob. 12 Nov. 1820, aged 75.
WM. PARNELL, Esq. ob. April, 1820

MRS. JOHN HUNTER, ob. Jan. 1821, æt. 79.

10 MRS. GEORGE SEWEL, ob. Dec. 1820.

DR. THOMAS BROWN, ob Mar. 1820, æt. 42.
JOHN KEATS ob. 23 Feb. 1821, at Rome.

SIR ALEXANDER BOSWELL, BART. ob. 1822.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, ob. July, 1822, off Leg-
horn.

15 WM. ERSKINE, LD. KINEDER, ob. Aug. 1823, æt. 53.

DR. JOHN AIKIN, ob. Nov. 1822.