V.
So it is, | when the mind | is endued
With a well | -judging taste | from above;
Then, wheth | -er embel | -lish'd or rude,
'Tis na | -ture alone | that we love.
The achieve | -ments of art | may amuse,
May e | -ven our won | -der excite,
But groves, | hills, and val | -leys, diffuse
A last | -ing, a sa | -cred delight."
COWPER'S Poems, Vol. ii, p. 232.
Example III.—"A Pastoral Ballad."—Two Stanzas from Twenty-seven.
(8.)
"Not a pine | in my grove | is there seen,
But with ten | -drils of wood | -bine is bound;
Not a beech | 's more beau | -tiful green,
But a sweet | -briar twines | it around,
Not my fields | in the prime | of the year
More charms | than my cat | -tle unfold;
Not a brook | that is lim | -pid and clear,
But it glit | -ters with fish | -es of gold.
(9)
One would think | she might like | to retire
To the bow'r | I have la | -bour'd to rear;
Not a shrub | that I heard | her admire,
But I hast | -ed and plant | -ed it there.
O how sud | -den the jes | -samine strove
With the li | -lac to ren | -der it gay!
Alread | -y it calls | for my love,
To prune | the wild branch | -es away."
SHENSTONE: British Poets, Vol. vii, p. 139.
Anapestic lines of four feet and of three are sometimes alternated in a stanza, as in the following instance:—
Example IV.—"The Rose."
"The rose | had been wash'd, | just wash'd | in a show'r,
Which Ma | -ry to An | -na convey'd;
The plen | -tiful moist | -ure encum | -ber'd the flow'r,
And weigh'd | down its beau | -tiful head.
The cup | was all fill'd, | and the leaves | were all wet,
And it seem'd | to a fan | -ciful view,
To weep | for the buds | it had left, | with regret,
On the flour | -ishing bush | where it grew.
I hast | -ily seized | it, unfit | as it was
For a nose | -gay, so drip | -ping and drown'd,
And, swing | -ing it rude | -ly, too rude | -ly, alas!
I snapp'd | it,—it fell | to the ground.
And such, | I exclaim'd, | is the pit | -iless part
Some act | by the del | -icate mind,
Regard | -less of wring | -ing and break | -ing a heart
Alread | -y to sor | -row resign'd.
This el | -egant rose, | had I shak | -en it less,
Might have bloom'd | with its own | -er a while;
And the tear | that is wip'd | with a lit | -tle address,
May be fol | -low'd perhaps | by a smile."
COWPER: Poems, Vol. i, p. 216; English Reader, p. 212.
MEASURE III.—ANAPESTIC OF TWO FEET, OR DIMETER.
Example I.—Lines with Hypermeter and Double Rhyme.
"CORONACH," OR FUNERAL SONG.
1.
"He is gone | on the mount | -a~in
He is lost | to the for | -~est
Like a sum | -mer-dried foun | -ta~in
When our need | was the sor | -~est.
The font, | reappear | -~ing,
From the rain | -drops shall bor | -r~ow,
But to us | comes no cheer | -~ing,
Do Dun | -can no mor | -r~ow!
2.
The hand | of the reap | -~er
Takes the ears | that are hoar | -~y,
But the voice | of the weep | -~er
Wails man | -hood in glo | -r~y;
The au | -tumn winds rush | -~ing,
Waft the leaves | that are sear | -~est,
But our flow'r | was in flush | -~ing,
When blight | -ing was near | -~est."
WALTER SCOTT: Lady of the Lake, Canto iii, St. 16.
Example II.—Exact Lines of Two Anapests.
"Prithee, Cu | -pid, no more
Hurl thy darts | at threescore;
To thy girls | and thy boys,
Give thy pains | and thy joys;
Let Sir Trust | -y and me
From thy frol | -ics be free."
ADDISON: Rosamond, Act ii, Scene 2; Ev. Versif., p. 100.
Example III—An Ode, from the French of Malherbe.
"This An | -na so fair,
So talk'd | of by fame,
Why dont | she appear?
Indeed, | she's to blame!
Lewis sighs | for the sake
Of her charms, | as they say;
What excuse | can she make
For not com | -ing away?
If he does | not possess,
He dies | with despair;
Let's give | him redress,
And go find | out the fair"
"Cette Anne si belle,
Qu'on vante si fort,
Pourquoi ne vient elle?
Vraiment, elle a tort!
Son Louis soupire,
Après ses appas;
Que veut elle dire,
Qu'elle ne vient pas?
S'il ne la posséde,
Il s'en va mourir;
Donnons y reméde,
Allons la quérir."
WILLIAM KING, LL. D.: Johnson's British Poets, Vol. iii, p. 590.
Example IV.—'Tis the Last Rose of Summer.
1.
"'Tis the last | rose of sum | -m~er,
Left bloom | -ing alone;
All her love | -ly compan | -i~ons
Are fad | -ed and gone;
No flow'r | of her kin | -dr~ed,
No rose | -bud is nigh,
To give | back her blush | -~es,
Or give | sigh for sigh.
2.
I'll not leave | thee, thou lone | ~one!
To pine | on the stem!
Since the love | -ly are sleep | -~ing,
Go, sleep | thou with them;
Thus kind | -ly I scat | -t~er
Thy leaves | o'er thy bed,
Where thy mates | of the gar | -d~en
Lie scent | -less and dead.
3.
So, soon | may I fol | -l~ow,
When friend | -ships decay,
And, from love's | shining cir | -cl~e,
The gems | drop away;
When true | hearts lie with | -~er'd,
And fond | ones are flown,
Oh! who | would inhab | -it
This bleak | world alone ?"
T. MOORE: Melodies, Songs, and Airs, p. 171.
Example V.—Nemesis Calling up the Dead Astarte.
"Shadow! | or spir | -~it!
Whatev | -er thou art,
Which still | doth inher | -~it
The whole | or a part
Of the form | of thy birth,
Of the mould | of thy clay,
Which return'd | to the earth,
Re-appear | to the day!
Bear what | thou bor | -~est,
The heart | and the form,
And the as | -pect thou wor | -~est
Redeem | from the worm!
Appear!—Appear!—Appear!"
LORD BYRON: Manfred, Act ii, Sc. 4.
Example VI.—Anapestic Dimeter with Trimeter.
FIRST VOICE.
"Make room | for the com | -bat, make room;
Sound the trum | -pet and drum;
A fair | -er than Ve | -nus prepares
To encoun | -ter a great | -er than Mars.
Make room | for the com | -bat, make room;
Sound the trum | -pet and drum."
SECOND VOICE.
"Give the word | to begin,
Let the com | -batants in,
The chal | -lenger en | -ters all glo | r~io~us;
But Love | has decreed,
Though Beau | -ty may bleed,
Yet Beau | -ty shall still | be vic_to | -r~io~us_."
GEORGE GRANVILLE: Johnson's British Poets, Vol. v, p. 58.
Example VII.—Anapestic Dimeter with Tetrameter.
AIR.
"Let the pipe's | merry notes | aid the skill | of the voice;
For our wish | -es are crown'd, | and our hearts | shall rejoice.
Rejoice, | and be glad;
For, sure, | he is mad,
Who, where mirth, | and good hum | -mour, and har | -mony's found,
Never catch | -es the smile, | nor lets pleas | -ure go round.
Let the stu | -pid be grave,
'Tis the vice | of the slave;
But can nev | -er agree
With a maid | -en like me,
Who is born | in a coun | -try that's hap | -py and free."
LLOYD: Johnson's British Poets, Vol. viii, p, 178.
MEASURE IV.—ANAPESTIC OF ONE FOOT, OR MONOMETER.
This measure is rarely if ever used except in connexion with longer lines. The following example has six anapestics of two feet, and two of one; but the latter, being verses of double rhyme, have each a surplus short syllable; and four of the former commence with the iambus:—
Example I.—A Song in a Drama.
"Now, mor |-tal, prepare,
For thy fate | is at hand;
Now, mor |-tal, prepare,
~And s~urr=en |-d~er.
For Love | shall arise,
Whom no pow'r | can withstand,
Who rules | from the skies
T~o th~e c=en |-tr~e."
GRANVILLE, VISCOUNT LANSDOWNE: Joh. Brit. Poets, Vol. v, p. 49.
The following extract, (which is most properly to be scanned as anapestic, though considerably diversified,) has two lines, each of which is pretty evidently composed of a single anapest:—
Example II.—A Chorus in the Same.
"Let trum |-pets and tym |-b~als,
Let at~a |—bals and cym |-b~als,
Let drums | and let haut |-boys give o |-v~er;
B~ut l~et fl=utes,
And l~et l=utes
Our pas |-sions excite
To gent |-ler delight,
And ev |-ery Mars | be a lov |-~er."
Ib., p. 56.