Art poems

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To Simplicity

© Mary Darby Robinson

[Inscribed to Lady Duncannon.]
SWEET blushing Nymph, who loves to dwell
In the dark forest's silent gloom;
Who smiles within the Hermit's cell,

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The Granny Grey, a Love Tale

© Mary Darby Robinson

The DAME was silent; for the Lover
Would, when she spoke,
She fear'd, discover
Her envious joke:
And she was too much charm'd to be
In haste,--to end the Comedy!

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The Fortune-Teller, a Gypsy Tale

© Mary Darby Robinson

STEPHEN had long in secret sigh'd;
And STEPHEN never was deny'd:
Now, LUBIN was a modest swain,
And therefore, treated with disdain:
For, it is said, in Love and War ,--
The boldest, most successful are!

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Sur Un Groupe De Jupiter Et D’Europe

© André Marie de Chénier

_Des nymphes et des satyres chantent dans une grotte qu'il faut peindre
bien romantique, pittoresque, divine, en soupant, avec des coupes
ciselées; chacun chante le sujet représenté sur sa coupe. L'un_:
Étranger, ce taureau, _etc._; _l'autre_: Pasiphaé; _d'autres,
d'autres_...

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The Alien Boy

© Mary Darby Robinson

'Twas on a Mountain, near the Western Main
An ALIEN dwelt. A solitary Hut
Built on a jutting crag, o'erhung with weeds,
Mark'd the poor Exile's home. Full ten long years

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The Adieu to Love

© Mary Darby Robinson

Nor do I dread thy vengeful wiles,
Thy soothing voice, thy winning smiles,
Thy trick'ling tear, thy mien forlorn,
Thy pray'r, thy sighs, thy oaths I scorn;
No more on ME thy arrows show'r,
Capricious Love­! I BRAVE THY POW'R.

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Stanzas Written under an Oak in Windsor Forest

© Mary Darby Robinson

"HERE POPE FIRST SUNG!" O, hallow'd Tree !
Such is the boast thy bark displays;
Thy branches, like thy Patron's lays,
Shall ever, ever, sacred be;
Nor with'ring storm, nor woodman's stroke,
Shall harm the POET'S favourite Oak.

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The Dream of Man

© William Watson

To the eye and the ear of the Dreamer
 This Dream out of darkness flew,
Through the horn or the ivory portal,
 But he wist not which of the two.

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Ode to Health

© Mary Darby Robinson

O, mem'ry! busy barb'rous foe,
At thy fell touch I wake to woe:
Alas! the flatt'ring dream is o'er,
From thee the bright illusions fly,
Thou bidst the glitt'ring phantoms die,
And hope, and youth, and fancy, charm no more.

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January, 1795

© Mary Darby Robinson

Pavement slipp'ry, people sneezing,
Lords in ermine, beggars freezing ;
Titled gluttons dainties carving,
Genius in a garret starving.

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Elegy to the Memory of David Garrick, Esq.

© Mary Darby Robinson

DEAR SHADE OF HIM, who grac'd the mimick scene,
And charm'd attention with resistless pow'r;
Whose wond'rous art, whose fascinating mien,
Gave glowing rapture to the short-liv'd hour!

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All Alone

© Mary Darby Robinson

Ah! wherefore by the Church-yard side,
Poor little LORN ONE, dost thou stray?
Thy wavy locks but thinly hide
The tears that dim thy blue-eye's ray;
And wherefore dost thou sigh, and moan,
And weep, that thou art left alone?

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Orlando Furioso Canto 4

© Ludovico Ariosto

ARGUMENT


The old Atlantes suffers fatal wreck,

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Ainsi Va le Monde

© Mary Darby Robinson

While motley mumm'ry holds her tinsel reign,
SHAKSPERE might write, and GARRICK act in vain:
True Wit recedes, when blushing Reason views
This spurious offspring of the banish'd Muse.

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Parisian Dream

© Charles Baudelaire

Á Constantine Guys
I
The vague and distant image
of this landscape, so terrifying,

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The Ring And The Book - Chapter VIII - Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis

© Robert Browning

(Virgil, now, should not be too difficult
To Cinoncino,—say the early books . . .
Pen, truce to further gambols! Poscimur!)

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How A Beauty Was Waked And Her Suitor Was Suited

© Guy Wetmore Carryl

Albeit wholly penniless,

Prince Charming wasn't any less

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The Needless Alarm. A Tale

© William Cowper

Moral
Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,
Live till to-morrow, will have pass’d away.

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Motel Seedy

© Thomas Lux

The artisans of this room, who designed the lamp base
(a huge red slug with a hole
where its heart should be) or chose this print
of a butterscotch sunset,

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A Voice From The Factories

© Caroline Norton

WHEN fallen man from Paradise was driven,
Forth to a world of labour, death, and care;
Still, of his native Eden, bounteous Heaven
Resolved one brief memorial to spare,