...pace Dost thou, wan moon ! upon thy way advance In the blue welkin's vault ! — Pale wanderer ! * With how sad steps, O Moon ! thou climb'st the skies, How silently, and with how wan a face ! Hast them too felt the pangs of hopeless love, That thus, with such a melancholy grace, Thou dost...

...silver clouds Fantastic pillow'd thee, and the dim night, Obsequious to thy will, encurtain'd round With how sad steps, O Moon! thou climb'st the skies, How silently, and with how wan a face! With its thick fringe thy couch ?—"Wan traveller, How like thy fate to mine !—Yet I have still...

...moon ! upon thy way advance In the blue welkin's vault ! — Pale wanderer ! * With how sad steps, 0 Moon ! thou climb'st the skies. How silently, and with how wan a face ! SIB P. SIDNIT. Hast thou too felt the pangs of hopeless love, That thus, with such a melancholy grace,...

...poetry of his day was generally; but the pening lines are moat harmonious : — With how sad steps, 0 Moon, thou climb'st the skies ! How silently, and with how wan a face! What ! may it be, that e'en in heav'nly place That busy areher his sharp arrows tries? Sure, if that long-with-love-acauainted...

...takes leave to adopt the pale Dian into a fellowship with his mortal passions. " With how sad steps, oh moon, thou climb'st the skies; How silently ; and with how wan a face ' What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy archer bis sharp arrows tries? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted...

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...felt the pangs of hopeless love, That thus, with such a melancholy grace, 1 ' With how sad steps, 0 moon ! thou climb'st the skies, How silently, and with how wan a face ! '—Sir P. Sidney. Thou dost pursue thy solitary course ? 99 Has thy Endymion, smooth-faced boy !...

...with whom he wrote his Arcadia. Sidney was born in 1554, and died in 1586, at the age of thirty-two. With how sad steps, O Moon ! thou climb'st the skies,...silently, and with how wan a face ! What may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy archer his sharp arrows tries ? Sure, if that long with love acquainted...

...manner ; Witness these two commencements, and the two sonnets which follow : — With how sad steps, 0 moon, thou climb'st the skies ! How silently and with how wan a face ! When far-spent night persuades each mortal eye, To whom nor art nor nature granteth light, To lay...

...songster, thou my mind dost raise To airs of spheres, yes, and to angels' lays. WILLIAM DRUMMOND. SONNET. WITH how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies...silently, and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that e'en in heav'nly place That busy archer his sharp arrows tries? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted...