3.
Charms you | call your | dearest | blessing,
Lips that | thrill at | your ca | -ressing,
Eyes a | mutual soul con | -fessing,
Soon you'll | make them | grow
Dim, and | worthless | your pos | -sessing,
Not with | age, but | woe!"
CAMPBELL: Everett's System of Versification, p. 91.
Example X.—"Boadicea"—Four Stanzas from Eleven.
1.
"When the | British | warrior | queen,
Bleeding | from the | Roman | rods,
Sought, with | an in | -dignant | mien,
Counsel | of her | country's | gods,
2.
Sage be | -neath the | spreading | oak,
Sat the | Druid, | hoary | chief;
Every burning | word he | spoke
Full of | rage, and | full of | grief.
3.
Princess! | if our | aged | eyes
Weep up | -on thy | matchless | wrongs,
'Tis be | -cause re | -sentment | ties
All the | terrors | of our | tongues.
4.
ROME SHALL | PERISH— | write that | word
In the | blood that | she hath | spilt;
Perish, | hopeless | and ab | -horr'd,
Deep in | ruin | as in | guilt."
WILLIAM COWPER: Poems, Vol. ii, p. 244.
Example XI—"The Thunder Storm"—Two Stanzas from Ten.
"Now in | deep and | dreadful | gloom,
Clouds on | clouds por | -tentous | spread,
Black as | if the | day of | doom
Hung o'er | Nature's | shrinking | head:
Lo! the | lightning | breaks from | high,
God is | coming! |—God is | nigh!
Hear ye | not his | chariot | wheels,
As the | mighty | thunder | rolls?
Nature, | startled | Nature | reels,
From the | centre | to the | poles:
Tremble! | —Ocean, | Earth, and | Sky!
Tremble! | —God is | passing | by!"
J. MONTGOMERY: Wanderer of Switzerland, and other Poems, p. 130.
Example XII.—"The Triumphs of Owen," King of North Wales.[513]