The Althorp Picture Gallery Author:Mary J Jourdan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV. Listen ! listen !—as we now must go To our coral bowers and caves below. Cur wreaths are twined and our chaplets cast On the wave's brow—so our task is pa... more »st! But come at eve—thou shall see arise The thousand rays of our meteor-eyes— Our plaintive strain shall woo thine ear Up through the deep with a cadence clear. END OF CANTO FI11ST OF THE OCEAN S OWN. P () E M S. POEMS. YOU DEEM MY SORROW FLED OR FEIGNED. You deem my sorrow fled or feigned— You deem my soul can be Forgetful of those withering hours Of more than agony. You deem thy form hath fled my sight— Thy voice passed from mine ear— That Mirth's light langh usurps the place Of the late falling tear. When Moons ne'er rise—when Suns ne'er set- Then—then, perchance, I may forget. 'Tis trae, a smile is on mv lip, r A light is in mine eye— And flashes play around my brow As of joy's ecstasy. Go—fling a jewel in the wave, Will it not sink below ? Sink, never more to rise.—Yet see ! Through the pure ripples glow Bright dancing rays with varying beam, As on the surface of the stream. Is it the brilliant gem you mark In beauty sparkling there ? Ah, no !—the semblance but appears In shadowy lustre fair ! So hopes and feelings, rudely crushed,' Sink deep within the breast, Never to glad the heart again Where they so coldly rest!— Where the taught brow appears most bright, Their ghosts arise to mock the sight! WHEN TWILIGHT BINDS HER DUSKY BRAIDS. When Twilight binds her dusky braids O'er brows where rests a musing sadness, And watching Day's deep lengthening shades, She wanders forth in silent gladness, My Brother ! then I think of thee— Of all thou hast been—art to me. One lust'rous trembling star on high Appears to joy in its own br...« less