She shrouds her troubled brows in ev’ry glade
And craves the mercy of the soft removing shade.
Emb. 14. Book IV.
The first, will probably remind you of Shakspeare’s description of the wounded stag in As you like it; which it may do, and not suffer by the comparison. The second, is very original in the expression—the circumstance of
——thinks every shade doth part
Her absent love and her——
is I believe new, and exquisitely tender. There are others not much inferior to these.
The following verses allude to the print prefixed, where a bubble is represented as heavier than the globe. It is necessary to observe, that the prints were designed first, and the poems are in a great measure explanatory of them.
Lord! what a world is this, which day and night
Men seek with so much toil, with so much trouble,