Poetry Sacred and Profane Author:John Wright General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1851 Original Publisher: Longman, Brown Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can ... more »select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: TELL ME NOT. Tell me not that Love, inditing Promises in sparkling eyes, Sheds a lustre so inviting As to captivate the wise. Gently o'er the bosom stealing, Like the softened evening rays, Love betrays the purest feeling In the faintly blushing gaze. Then the glowing, chaste emotion Lingers in the pensive eye, And the soul in sweet devotion Breathes a timid, hopeful sigh. Give me this auspicious blending Of the only charms I seek, And the pledge to heaven ascending Cannot more divinely speak. THE WIND. What is the wind, and whence its source, And whither does it then proceed; What modifies its rampant course, Or checks its speed ? Now slumbering in unseen repose, The earth and sky in mutual mirth Rejoice, as when in newness rose The world to birth. A whisper runs from hill to vale, Or breathes its utterance in a sigh, That omens of a threatening gale Bespeak it nigh. And shrinking from the fearful stroke, The leaf upon the stunted brake, And that which crowds the forest oak, With anguish shake. The firmament affrighted draws A vesture on of mournful hue, And moved by sympathetic laws, Weeps at the view. The fount of universal light, Awed through illimitable space, Reluctantly beholds the sight, And veils his face. A momentary pause occurs, -- When listening with impassive heed, Nor tender blade, nor leaflet stirs, In grove or mead. Suddenly a convulsive shock Spreads devastation far and wide, As though the Wind raged but to mock Earth in her pride. Then is the voice of Nature heard Bewailing her forlorn es...« less