Miscellaneous Poems Author:James Taylor 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: And live ?—hope lived !—to her I flew, But Death had sealed her fate ; She breathed her last, but still her hue And smile retained their seat. Ah ! just ... more »as thou, if newly shorn From thy green parent's spray, The beauty which does thee adorn Would linger ere decay. But now entombed, her dear remains Are laid in death to sleep ; At dead of night, when silence reigns, On her green grave I weep ; And on her grassy tomb I'll vent My grief, while life I have; My heart shall be her monument— My tears her epitaph. TO THE NIGHTINGALE. Hail! lonely minstrel of the midnight gloom, How soft and dulcot is thy plaintiff strain! Thou seem'st to mourn the Man of Sorrow's doom, In sweetest melody that charms the plain : Then thou must grieve, sweet Philomel, for me, If such a gift, dear bird, to thee be given, And I be pitied, but alone by thee, Save our joint grief can reach the throne of Heaven. AN ADDRESS TO SCOTLAND. Dear Scotia! though winds o'er thy mountains loud whistle, And snow seems reluctant thy rough crags to leave, And thy most esteemed flower is but a wild thistle, In thy rugged bosom rest men the most brave. Those undaunted heroes, who bravely contended Against the fierce Romans in blood-streaming fight, The thistle of freedom with courage defended, And saved by their valour their sacred birthright. When Edward thy land, with his fetters, invaded, And thy native king from his throne rudely tore, Thy Wallace—brave Wallace !—through blood how he waded Thy Bruce and thy freedom again to restore ! Whilst peace with her smiles, Scotia, sweetened thine hours, Brave Wallace, with mind scarcely ruffled with care, Was mild as the breezes that waft thy fair flowers— Like the tempest of winter he raged in t...« less