Ah! beware of Dispipsy, And nose to tail, with this gipsy The diabolus ipse, Call'd Cholery Morpus ; Who with horns, hoofs, and tail, croaks for carrion to feed him, Tho' being a Devil, no one never has seed him! Ah then my dear honies, There's no cure for you For loves nor for monies :- Och the hallabaloo ! Och och how you'll wail, As the gas-light unfragrant, That gushes in jets from beneath his own tail;— He at last brings the cramps on, So without further blethring, Wakes, unions, and rows, Hot dreams, and cold salads And don't pig in sties that would suffocate sows ! Quit Cobbett's, O'Connell's, and Beelzebub's banners, And whitewash at once bowels, rooms, hands, and manners! COLOGNE. IN Köhln, a town of monks and bones, Ye Nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, But tell me, Nymphs! what power divine ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE SAME CITY. As I am rhymer, And now at least a merry one, Mr. Mum's Rudesheimer And the church of St. Geryon Are the two things alone That deserve to be known In the body and soul-stinking town of Cologne. WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM. PARRY seeks the polar ridge; Author of works, whereof-tho' not in Dutch- TO THE AUTHOR OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. YOUR poem must eternal be, Dear Sir! it can not fail! And without head or tail. METRICAL FEET. LESSON FOR A BOY. Trochěe trips from lỏng to short ; From long to long in solemn sort Slow spondée stalks; strong foot! yet ill able Iambics march from short to long; With a leap and ǎ bound the swift Ānăpăsts thrōng; First and last being lông, middle short, Amphimăcer If Derwent be innocent, steady, and wise, And delight in the things of earth, water, and skies; My dear, dear child! Could you stand upon Skiddaw, you would not from its whole ridge See a man who so loves you as your fond S. T. Coleridge. TRANSLATED FROM SCHILLER. 1. THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED. STRONGLY it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the Ocean. II. THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED. In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; TO THE YOUNG ARTIST, KAYSER OF KASERWERTH. KAYSER! to whom, as to a second self, Nature, or Nature's next-of-kin, the Elf, Hight Genius, hath dispens'd the happy skill Turning the blank scroll to a magic glass, Well hast thou given the thoughtful Poet's face! A more delightful portrait left behind- Be wise be happy! and forget not me. 1833. JOB'S LUCK. SLY Beelzebub took all occasions And the sly Devil did not take his spouse. But Heaven that brings out good from evil, His children, camels, horses, cows- ON A VOLUNTEER SINGER. SWANS sing before they die: 'twere no bad thing, ON AN INSIGNIFICANT. 'Tis Cipher lies beneath this crust- PROFUSE KINDNESS. Νήπιοι, οὐκ ἴσασιν ὅσῳ πλέον ἡμισυ πάντος.—Hesiod. WHAT a spring-tide of Love to dear friends in a shoal! Half of it to one were worth double the whole ! CHARITY IN THOUGHT. To praise men as good, and to take them for such, Will by Charity's gage surely have much too little. HUMILITY THE MOTHER OF CHARITY. FRAIL creatures are we all! To be the best, Look thou then to thyself, and leave the rest ON AN INFANT WHICH DIED BEFORE BAPTISM. “BE, rather than be called, a child of God," Its head upon its mother's breast, The Baby bowed, without demur- ON BERKELEY AND FLORENCE COLERIDGE, WHO DIED ON THE 16TH OF JANUARY, 1834.* O FRAIL as sweet! twin buds, too rathe to bear O gifts beyond all price, no sooner given |