Henry Sambrooke Leigh.

It seems wicked to travesty Wordsworth’s tender little poem, but Leigh’s verses amused us greatly when they appeared. Mark Akenside (1721-1770) is a poet now almost forgotten.

The hour, which might have been, yet might not be,

Which man’s and woman’s heart conceived and bore

Yet whereof life was barren,—on what shore

Bides it the breaking of Time’s weary sea?

D. G. Rossetti (Stillborn Love).