...spring, than the well-known invocation of the Poet of the seasons, " Come, gentle Spring, etherial mildness come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower, Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend." For " a cloud of shadowing roses,"...

...containing five feet and in epic poetry, there is no rhyme. EXAMPLE OF BLANK VERSE. Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come, And, from the bosom of yon...shower' Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. EXAMPLES OF RHYMES. Honor and shame from no condition rise : Act well your part — there all the honor...

...short excursions makes , But rattling nonsense in full volleys breaks. Come, gentle Spring, etheriat mildness, come, And, from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, (While music wakes around,) vailed in a shower Of shadowing roses, on the plains descend. The man, that (fares traduce, because...

...firmament, and looking upward, will you not say in Thompson's fine language — " Come, gentle spring! ethereal mildness come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music irakes around; veiled in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend ?" The invocation is answered....

...Kleist sehr vertraut. Sein Frühling beginnt ganz in Kleist'scher Manier, also: Come, gentle Spring, ethereal Mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, 'While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend! O Hartford, fitted, or to shine in courts...

...firmament, and looking upward, will you not say in Thomson's fine language — " Come, gentle spring ; ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon...music wakes around; veiled in a shower Of shadowing loses, on our plains descend !" The invocation is answered. The fair one veils herself and descends....

...and irregular passion of love opposed to that of a pure and happy kind. SPRING. COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.* O Hertford, fitted or to shine in courts...

...the trembling wretch to raise, And his last, faltering accents whispered praise. Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. Hence let me haste into the midwood shade, Where scarce a sunbeam wanders through the gloom ; And on...

...to inanimate things ; as, Come gentle Spring ! ethereal Mildness ! come, And from the bosom of your dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. Life and action are attnbuted to Spring in these line*. REMARKS. 1. Poetry owes much of its effect...

...how do poets describe the most beautiful of the seasons ? Thomson says, — " Come, gentle spring, ethereal mildness come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend." This description of spring seems borrowed...