How bright that heaven-directed glance!

Poems of the Affections, 17.

Softly she treads, as if her foot were loth

To crush the mountain dew-drops,—soon to melt

On the flower's breast; as if she felt

That flowers themselves, whate'er their hue,

With all their fragrance, all their glistening,

Call to the heart for inward listening.

The Triad.

Let other bards of angels sing,