SONNET, TO GEORGE ROMNEY, ESQ. ON HIS Picture of me in Crayons, drawn at Eartham in the 61st year of my age, and in the months of August and September 1792. [ОСТОВЕК 1792.] ROMNEY, expert infallibly to trace On chart or canvas, not the form alone And semblance, but, however faintly shown, The mind's impression too on every faceWith strokes that time ought never to erase Thou hast so pencill'd mine, that though I own The subject worthless, I have never known The artist shining with superior grace. But this I mark-that symptoms none of wo Well-I am satisfied it should be so, Since, on maturer thought, the cause is clear; For in my looks what sorrow couldst thou see ON RECEIVING HAYLEY'S PICTURE. [JANUARY 1793.] IN language warm as could be breath'd or penn'd That Friend of all a partial Friend to me. ЕРІТАРН ON MR. CHESTER, OF CHICHELEY. [APRIL 1793.] TEARS flow, and cease not, where the good man lies, Till all who know him follow to the skies. Tears therefore fall where Chester's ashes sleep; Him wife, friends, brothers, children, servants, weep And justly—few shall ever him transcend As husband, parent, brother, master, friend. ON A PLANT OF VIRGIN'S-BOWER, DESIGNED TO COVER A GARDEN-SEAT. [SPRING OF 1793.] THRIVE, gentle plant! and weave a bow'r And deck with many a splendid flow'r Thou cam'st from Eartham, and wilt shade (If truly I divine) Some future day th' illustrious head Should Daphne show a jealous frown, And Envy seize the Bay, Affirming none so fit to crown Such honour'd brows as they, Thy cause with zeal we shall defend, And with convincing pow'r; For why should not the Virgin's Friend TO MY COUSIN, ANNE BODHAM, ON Receiving from her a Network Purse, made by herself. [MAY 4, 1798.] My gentle Anne, whom heretofore, When I was young, and thou no more Than plaything for a nurse, I danced and fondled on my knee, A kitten both in size and glee, I thank thee for my purse. |