SAPPHIC ODE. TO MR. WEST. Mr. Mason considered this as the first original production of Gray's Muse; the former poem being imposed as an exercise, by the College. BARBARAS ædes aditure mecum Estuat agmen ! Dulcius quanto, patulis sub ulmi Fallere Musâ? Sæpe enim curis vagor expeditâ Mente; dum, blandam meditans Camænam, Cedere nocti; Et, pedes quò me'rapiunt, in omni Fertilem sylvæ, gelidamque in omni Fonte Aganippen. Risit et Ver me, facilesque Nymphæ Nare captantem, nec ineleganti, Manè quicquid de violis eundo Surripit aura: Me reclinatum teneram per herbam ; Quà leves cursus aqua cunque ducit, Et moras dulci strepitu lapillo Nectit in omni. Hæ novo nostrum ferè pectus anno Otia et campos nec adhuc relinquo, Mollior æstas). Namque, seu, lætos hominum labores Prataque et montes recreante curru, Purpurâ tractus oriens Eoos Vestit, et auro; Sedulus servo veneratus orbem Sive dilectam meditatur igne Pingere Calpen; Usque dum, fulgore magis magis jam Languido circum, variata nubes Labitur furtim, viridisque in umbras Scena recessit. O ego felix, vice si (nec unquam Fallere Letho! Multa flagranti radiisque cincto Integris ah! quam nihil inviderem, Cum Dei ardentes medius quadrigas Sentit Olympus. ALCAIC FRAGMENT. O LACRYMARUM fons, tenero sacros LINES ADDRESSED TO MR. WEST, FROM GENOA. HORRIDOS tractus, Boreæque linquens ELEGIAC VERSES, OCCASIONED BY THE SIGHT OF THE PLAINS WHERE THE BATTLE OF TREBIA WAS FOUGHT. QUA Trebie glaucas salices intersecat undâ, |