My task, I hear, is done. No call on me
Remains, my mighty labour to conclude.
In sickness, in calamity, in age,
And destitution;-in a foreign clime,

I have gone through my work of sanctity;
Though sometimes by my fear or toil subdued:
And sometimes, dazzled by the heavenly page,
I have sunk lifeless at its rays sublime.
Oft did I pause, and oft despondent turn'd
Ere I enter'd on the dread career;

yet

But fitfully the flame within me burn'd:
Yet now and then a spirit to mine ear

Came; and thus said, as by a voice from Heaven :

"Follow thy youthful vow, and thou shalt be forgiven !"

Geneva, October, 1835.

ib.

110

ib.

1. To the Nightingale

II. 'Donna legiadra, il cui bel nome honora'

III. Qual in colle aspro, al imbrunir di sera'

Canzone

IV. Diodati, e te'l dirò con maraviglia'

v. Per certo i bei vostr' occhi, Donna mia'

VI. 'Giovane piano, e semplicetto amante'

VII. On his being arrived to the Age of twenty-

three

111

VIII. When the Assault was intended to the city

IX. To a virtuous young Lady

x. To the Lady Margaret Ley

XI. On the Detraction which followed upon my

writing certain Treatises. .

XII. On the same

XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes, on the publishing his airs

113

ib.

On the Death of a fair Infant, dying of a Cough

On Time

An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester

Song on May Morning

188

At a Vacation Exercise in the College

An Epitaph on the admirable dramatick Poet, Wil-

On the new Forcers of Conscience under the Long

Parliament.

TRANSLATIONS

195

ib.

199

202

Ir. In Obitum Præconis Academici Cantabrigiensis 258

III. In Obitum Præsulis Wintoniensis

259