Poems on various subjects - 1827 Author:John 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 let the last recording stave, Inscrib'd upon his honour'd grave, Declare, with no parade, " Here lies the man who, while his art Was seen to prop a noble... more » part, He then himself display'd." LINES ON THE FINAL PERFORMANCE OP HAMLET BY THE LATE MR. KEMBLE, THE CHARACTER IN WHICH HE FIRST APPEARED ON THE LONDON STAGE. Kemble 'twill grieve the public heart, That thou shouldst leave thy fav'rite part, The part that rais'd at once thy name, And fix'd it on the roll of fame, Gifted so well in form and mind, With all the mighty Bard design'd. For grant that Time has touch'd thy brow, And thou art not " Young Hamlet" now, Yet when the Princely Dane we see With so much grace adorn'd by thee, Writh so much spirit, force and truth, We shall not miss the charm of youth, But of our hasty loss complain, And sighing own, though trite the strain, " We ne'er shall view thy like again." ON SEEING THAT THE NAME OF THE LATE MR. KEMBLE HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM HIS LAST RESIDENCE. What though the door, on mould'ring brass No longer bears his name, That name to latest times will pass, Stamp'd by recording Fame. Yet must an anxious sigh arise, When Friendship views the dome, To think that Fortune thus denies To Genius its Wd home. That home, with modest plenty stor'd, Where learning, taste, combin'd To spread around the classic board The banquet of the mind. METEMPSYCHOSIS. The Sage of Samos held this creed, If rightly we his doctrine read— The spirit never dies, But when expell'd one mass of clay, Straight to another takes its way, And thus through nature flies. And hence, perchanc.e, Anacreok's soul Through many a diff'rent shape might roll, Extinct his tuneful strain; At length, with all h...« less