XL. WHEN Philoctetes in the Lemnian isle XLI. WHILE Anna's peers and early playmates tread, Rein the proud steed, or through the dance are led; Till oft her guardian Angel, to some charge More urgent called, will stretch his wings at large, XLII. TO THE CUCKOO. Nor the whole warbling grove in concert heard The captive 'mid damp vaults unsunned, unaired, That cry can reach; and to the sick man's room But, long as cock shall crow from household perch ΤΟ XLIII. [Miss not the occasion: by the forelock take "WAIT, prithee, wait!" this answer Lesbia threw But from that bondage when her thoughts were freed To old affections, had been heard to plead With flapping wing for entrance. What a shriek Forced from that voice so lately tuned to a strain Of harmony!—a shriek of terror, pain, And self-reproach! for, from aloft, a Kite Pounced, and the Dove, which from its ruthless beak She could not rescue, perished in her sight! XLIV. THE INFANT M-M UNQUIET Childhood here by special grace That one enrapt with gazing on her face Could scarcely make more placid, heaven more bright) |