m, I know:-Y

ngland if in t

ms a constant

lm we see an

ondon of Pla

thine knot of

es aflame with

es all yet unsp

ss'd bridge tha

harves; arcaded

rested roofs o

galliots by th

frolic air the

e music of a

ridge a mazy

ils and flame-tong

quay, a-throng

onzed beneat

ress sits one

es of watching,

rvance of an

tle gray he s

t his knees and

ll and register

attering cranes

oved and spoke

hues like Natur

magic mirror

urning homeward

do, or the ba

ove in Scythia

eyes the dancin

e near fields, a

ower in starry

raciousness

with a poet's

h, and strokes o

ge of each t

an all round, f

ghs and laught

t he grasp'd i

ide the scene

sions in their c

f the heart aga

rning o'er the

g'd by wealth a

athsome cell f

ust and fire, t

ivalry veilin

w,-to see, per

h our humour:

reshness, what

ool; the frolics

st, the laugh wi

s, the spirit

ld, and by the

d Chaucer on

d's humours; i

orm and press

ure, and delic

ard the blithe t

mind so vivi

clearly than

ght Italy, those

pages Natur

ns of song; y

f the English

en two worlds,

order of the

he masque of

omance and

ger glance that

are signs thou

ven and earth!-

thy prosperous

ough web of h

d the sin-wit

rand he stalks

, jingling like

ite knight an

urney on the b

ow in humble

woe of baffle

il that they

alvern Hill on

music of the co

cuckoo, cuck

: summer floati

elds of childho

hness on her

self within t

ead in vision

ng; not missal

hand surpass'd

k, and brillia

ungeon foul o

fever-den, or

sunbeams on the

ine the motley

ife upon the

'd; with plague

es bleach'd as

edden'd with th

hands that grope

light demon-

ildren toil and

b'd by turns, t

nding lords and

arves and folly

ss and lusts

joint, a univ

ne appear in P

lded tares and

grave and walki

d and kiss'd the

ers their Eas

rs o'er hill an

bb'd with sweetn

eam in light a

und, and saw t

visionary r

d from bonds o

ision he lay

l rude minstrel

lf-disused; and

ottage-Christ

also took hi

ght-errant on

oe were charter

zon-glimpse of

nd the messag

ong North-wind, an

blast and bit

eople in the Pl

fight, and pass

er praise, no

honours for h

nster laid wi

y-thorn gleams,

ighs o'er a fo

who is partially identified with our blessed Saviour), with some added poems, forms an allegory on life in England, in Church and State

Customs in the Port of London. See his House of Fame; and the beautiful picture

id, who died in exile at Tomi:-to both of whom Chauc

r excels. In serious and moral poetry he is frequently languid and diffuse, but he springs like Antaeus from

hwark whence the pilgri

land describes himself and his feelin

the words which the Persian nobleman at the feast in Thebes before Plataea addressed to Thersander of

the poet asleep on Malvern Hill: the last of the add

e uncouth than that of his predecessor

ied at the entrance of S. Benet

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