And chequered as the heavy branches sway
To and fro' with the wind, I stay to listen,

And fancy to myself that a sad voice,

Praying, comes moaning thro' the leaves, as 'twere
For some misdeed."

We may select the following, too, from a little fragment called "Portraits."

"Behind her followed an Athenian dame,

(The pale and elegant Aspasia)

Like some fair marble carved by Phidias' hand,
And meant to imitate the nymph or muse.

Then came a dark-brow'd spirit, on whose head
Laurel and withering roses loosely hung;
She held a harp, amongst whose chords her hand
Wandered for music-and it came: She sang
A song despairing, and the whispering winds
Seem'd envious of her melody, and streamed
Amidst the wires to rival her, in vain.

Short was the strain, but sweet: Methought it spoke
Of broken hearts, and still and moonlight seas,
Of love, and loneliness, and fancy gone,
And hopes decayed for ever: and my ear

Caught well remember'd names, 'Leucadia's rock'

At times, and 'faithless Phaon:' Then the form
Pass'd not, but seem'd to melt in air away:
This was the Lesbian Sappho.

At last, came one whom none could e'er mistake
Amidst a million: Egypt's dark-ey'd Queen:
The love, the spell, the bane of Antony.

O, Cleopatra! who shall speak of thee?
Gaily, but like the Empress of a land

She moved, and light as a wood nymph in her prime,
And crowned with costly gems, whose single price
Might buy a kingdom, yet how dim they shone
Beneath the magic of her eye, whose beam

Flash'd love and languishment: Of varying humours
She seem'd, yet subtle in her wildest mood,

As guile were to her passions ministrant.

At last she sank as dead. A noxious worm

Fed on those blue and wandering veins that lac'd
Her rising bosom: ay, did sleep upon

The pillow of Antony, and left behind,

In dark requital for its banquet-death."

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The last poem, called "Diego de Montilla," is, like Gyges, an imitation of Don Juan, and is liable to the same remarks. It is the longest piece, we think, in the collection; extending to some eighty or ninety stanzas; and though it makes no great figure in the way of sarcasm, or lofty and energetic sentiment, it comes nearer, perhaps, than its immediate prototype, to the weaker and more innocent pleasantry of the Italian ottava rima-and may fairly match with either, as to the better qualities of elegance, delicacy, and tenderness. There is, as usual, not much of a story. Don Diego falls in love with a scornful lady, and pines on her re

And, like the Thracian Shepherd, as we read,
Drew, with the music of his stringed lute,

Behind him winged things, and many a tread
And tramp of animal: and in his hall
He was a Lord indeed, belov'd by all.

In a high solitary turret where

None were admitted would he muse, when first
The young day broke, perhaps because he there
Had in his early infancy been nurs'd,
Or that he felt more pure the morning air,
Or lov'd to see the great Apollo burst
From out his cloudy bondage, and the night
Hurry away before the conquering light.
But oftener to a gentle lake that lay

Cradled within a forest's bosom, he,

Would, shunning kind reproaches, steal away,
And, when the inland breeze was fresh and free,.
There would he loiter all the livelong day,
Tossing upon the waters listlessly.

The swallow dash'd beside him, and the deer
Drank by his boat and eyed him without fear.
It was a soothing place: the summer hours
Pass'd there in quiet beauty, and at night

The moon ran searching through the woodbine bowers;
And shook o'er all the leaves her kisses bright,

O'er lemon blossoms and faint myrtle flowers,

And there the west wind often took his flight

When heaven's clear eye was closing, while above
Pale Hesper 'rose, the evening light of love."
"He comes more lovely than the Hours: his look
Sheds calm refreshing light, and eyes that burn
With glancing at the sun's so radiant book,
Unto his softer page with pleasure turn:
'Tis like the murmur of some shaded brook,
Or the soft welling of a Naiad's urn.
After the sounding of the vast sea-waves."
[—" But it hath passed away, and there remains
Scarcely the shadow of his name: the sun,
The soft breeze, and the fierce autumnal rains
Fall now alike upon him: he hath done
With Life, and cast away its heavy chains,
And in his place another spirit may run
Its course, (thus live, love, languish, and thus die,)
Through every maze of dim mortality."]

We have quoted more of this than we intended, and must now turn us to our sterner work again. We hope, however, that this is not to be our last meeting with Mr. Cornwall. We are glad to see a new edition of his Dramatic Scenes advertised. We ought to have noticed that pleasing little volume before, and should have made a few extracts from it here, if we had not mislaid our copy. As it is, we can safely recommend it to all who are pleased with what has now been extracted.

[Mr. Cornwall, in a dedicatory sonnet to a lady, young and beautiful, almost insinuates that these lays may be his last. He has done nothing-and he

has done much,-nothing that he may not easily excel, much that not many will easily equal. We must not, therefore, hear him speaking seriously of giving over before he has fairly begun-every body seems to think kindly and hopefully of him--he has smoothed the raven face of periodical criticism till it has smiledhe has done more than that, he has acquired the friendship of all true lovers of poetry. We must not be unreasonable-let him write when, what, and how he chooses-but he must remember, that as the gift of inspiration has been won, so can it be retained and strengthened only by constant, devout, and severe worship.] Blackwood's Ed. Mag. March,

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