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.