COLLEGE HARVARD MAY 29 1912 LIBRARY Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1834, BY HARPER AND BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office, of the Southern District of New-York. PRINTED BY GEORGE P. SCOTT & CO. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. Charles Maitland, or the Mess-Chest-By William Leggett The Discarded-By Fitz-Greene Halleck The Ocean-By William P. Palmer The Will and the Lawsuit-By William C. Baldwin The Repulse-By Samuel Woodworth A Night on the Banks of the Tennessee-By D. Sealfield The Indian Chief Red Bird-By William P. Palmer : Astronomical Speculations-By William Cox The Rivals; a Tale of Love and Marriage-By William 160 179 180 183 189 198 206 If earth-born beauty's fingers Around my way, around my way; Where smiles the hearth she blesses With voice and eye, with voice and eye Where binds the night her tresses, When sleep is nigh, when sleep is nigh? Is fashion's bleak cold mountain Her bosom's throne, her bosom's throne? Why ask? why seek a treasure, Like her I sing, like her I sing? Her name nor pain nor pleasure To me should bring, to me should bring. Love must not grieve or gladden My thoughts of snow, my thoughts of snow, Nor woman soothe or sadden My path below, my path below. Before a worldlier altar I've knelt too long, I've knelt too long, And if my footsteps falter, 'Tis but in song, 'tis but in song. Nor would I break the vision Young fancies frame, young fancies frame, That lights with stars elysian, A poet's name, a poet's name; For she, whose gentle spirit Such dreams sublime, such dreams sublime, Gives hues they do not merit To sons of rhyme, to sons of rhyme. But place the proudest near her, Whate'er his pen, whate'er his pen, She'll say, (be mute who hear her,) "Mere mortal men, mere mortal men !" |
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