Lines written at the request of the Highland Society in Lon- don, when met to commemorate the 21st of March, the Stanzas to the Memory of the Spanish Patriots latest killed Lines spoken by Mrs. Bartley at Drury-lane Theatre, on the Song. "When Love came first to Earth, the Spring" Song.- -"Earl March look'd on his dying Child" Song."When Napoleon was flying" Lines to Julia M―, sent with a Copy of the Author's Poems To Sir Francis Burdett, on his Speech delivered in Parlia- Song.-"To Love in my Heart, I exclaimed t'other morning" 184 Lines on a Picture of a Girl in the attitude of Prayer, by the Cora Linn, or the Falls of the Clyde.-Written on revisiting Song on our Queen.-Set to Music by Charles Neate, Esq. To the United States of North America THE PLEASURES OF HOPE. IN TWO PARTS. ANALYSIS OF PART I. THE poem opens with a comparison between the beauty of remote objects in a landscape, and those ideal scenes of felicity which the imagination delights to contemplate-the influence of anticipation upon the other passions is next delineated-an allusion is made to the well-known fiction in Pagan tradition, that, when all the guardian deities of mankind abandoned the world, Hope alone was left behindthe consolations of this passion in situations of danger and distressthe seaman on his watch-the soldier marching into battle-allusion to the interesting adventures of Byron. The inspiration of Hope, as it actuates the efforts of genius, whether in the department of science, or of taste-domestic felicity, how intimately connected with views of future happiness-picture of a mother watching her infant when asleep-pictures of the prisoner, the maniac, and the wanderer. From the consolations of individual misery a transition is made to prospects of political improvement in the future state of societythe wide field that is yet open for the progress of humanising arts among uncivilised nations-from these views of amelioration of society, and the extension of liberty and truth over despotic and barbarous countries, by a melancholy contrast of ideas, we are led to reflect upon the hard fate of a brave people recently conspicuous in their struggles for independence-description of the capture of Warsaw, of the last contest of the oppressors and the oppressed, and the massacre of the Polish patriots at the bridge of Prague-apostrophe to the selfinterested enemies of human improvement-the wrongs of Africa— the barbarous policy of Europeans in India-prophecy in the Hindoo mythology of the expected descent of the Deity to redress the miseries of their race, and to take vengeance on the violators of justice and mercy. B |