ac veluti dubiis sub lucem aestate tenebris fit vigilum male nidorum vagitus; at aegro auscultat sensu moriens, cui lumina cernunt sublustrem iam stare magis magis aegra fenestram ; tam lapsi subit aegra die, tam tristis imago. STANZAS. IN a drear-nighted December, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity; The north cannot undo them, With a sleety whistle through them, Nor frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime. In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember CARMEN. Horreant, arbos, tenebrae Decembris ; at, quater fausto love, te vietam nulla fortunae speciosioris cura remordet. sibilans tutis aquilo minatur grandinem ramis: male pertinaci stringit amplexu glacialis umor vere novandos. rive, contristet fera bruma noctes; tu tamen, dulci nimis use fato, immemor spumas calido decori sidere Phoebi: But with a sweet forgetting They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time. Ah! would 'twere so with many A gentle girl and boy! But were there ever any To know the change and feel it, When there is none to heal it, Nor numbéd sense to steal it Was never said in rhyme. KEATS. tu remulcentis patiens veterni vitrea parcis trepidare lympha, nescius pigrae vicis insolenter ferre catenam. virgines o si iuvenesque nuper fervidi Lethen biberent eandem! sed quis angori moderetur orbus deliciarum? 'unde quo veni?' dolor ingementis, nulla quem vincit medicina, nullus decipit torpor, quibus exprimatur carmina quaerit. |