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TO EVA.

O FAIR and stately maid, whose eyes
Were kindled in the upper skies

At the same torch that lighted mine; For so I must interpret still

Thy sweet dominion o'er my will,

A sympathy divine.

Ah! let me blameless gaze upon

Features that seem at heart my own;

Nor fear those watchful sentinels, Who charm the more their glance forbids, Chaste-glowing, underneath their lids,

With fire that draws while it repels.

THE AMULET.

YOUR picture smiles as first it smiled;

The ring you gave is still the same;

Your letter tells, O changing child!
No tidings since it came.

Give me an amulet

That keeps intelligence with you, —

Red when you love, and rosier red,

And when you love not, pale and blue.

Alas! that neither bonds nor vows

Can certify possession ;

Torments me still the fear that love

Died in its last expression.

THINE EYES STILL SHINED.

THINE eyes still shined for me, though far

I lonely roved the land or sea:

As I behold yon evening star,

Which yet beholds not me.

This morn I climbed the misty hill,
And roamed the pastures through;
How danced thy form before my path
Amidst the deep-eyed dew!

When the redbird spread his sable wing,
And showed his side of flame;

When the rosebud ripened to the rose,

In both I read thy name.

EROS.

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THE sense of the world is short,

Long and various the report,

To love and be beloved;

Men and gods have not outlearned it; And, how oft soe'er they've turned it,

"Tis not to be improved.

HERMIONE.

ON a mound an Arab lay,

And sung his sweet regrets,

And told his amulets:

The summer bird

His sorrow heard,

And, when he heaved a sigh profound,
The sympathetic swallow swept the ground.

'If it be, as they said, she was not fair,
Beauty's not beautiful to me,

But sceptred genius, aye inorbed,
Culminating in her sphere.

This Hermione absorbed

The lustre of the land and ocean,
Hills and islands, cloud and tree,
In her form and motion.

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