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STOCK IN TRADE OF MODERN POETESSES, by                    
First Line: Lonely shades, and murm'ring founts
Last Line: With which a modern poem's made.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blessington, Countess Of
Subject(s): Crichton, James (1560-1582); Poetry & Poets


Lonely shades, and murm'ring founts;
Limpid streams, and azure mounts;
Rocks and caverns, ocean's roar;
Waves whose surges lash the shore;
Moons, that silver radiance shed,
When the vulgar are "a-bed";
Stars and planets shining high,
Make one feel 'twere bliss to die;
Twilight's soft mysterious light;
Suns whose rays are "all" too bright;
Wither'd hopes, and faded flowers,
Beauties pining in their bowers;
Broken harps, and untuned lyres;
Lutes neglected, unquench'd fires;
Vultures pecking at the heart,
Leaving owners scarce a part;
Doves that, frighted from the breast,
Seek in vain some sweeter rest;
Feather'd songsters of the grove,
Warbling notes of joy and love;
Hearts a prey to dark despair,
Why, or how, we hardly care;
Pale disease feeds on the cheek,
Health how feeble—head how weak—
Bursting tear and endless sigh—
Query, can she tell us why?
Pallid nymphs with fronts of snow,
Ebon locks with graceful flow;
Lips of rose leaves' tender dyes,
Eyes that mock cerulean skies;
And a foot too which may pass
Over, yet not bend, the grass.—
Next a hero, with an air—
Half a brigand—half corsair;
Dark, mysterious in his life,
Dreadful in the battle's strife;
Vice and virtue in his breast,
War for empire—banish rest—
Raving still of glory—fame—
While dishonour marks his name;
Loving one, and only one—
Though he has that one undone;
A Macedoine of good and evil,
One part hero—three parts devil:
Quite an Admirable Crichton
Is the hero all now write on.—
This now is all the stock in trade,
With which a modern poem's made.





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