Satires—Imitations—AND Sonnets.

by Cornwall Bayley

SONNETS, Etc. “Nugae Canorae.” On reading Poems by MOORE, the translator of Anacreon, under the name of “LITTLE.” 1.
PRUD’RY perchance as here she beams Thro’ modesty’s affected veil, May blush to look on nature’s themes, And spurn the bard’s enamor’d tale!
2.
Perchance the frown of crabbed age,	5
Its soul to proferr’d bliss may steel; And mark as errors in the page, Affections which it cannot feel!
3.
But every pulse of gen’rous youth To sympathetic joys must move;	10
And life asserts it’s noblest truth, When rapture warms a mutual love!
4.
Then (far from themes of labor’d art) Be mine the soft ingenuous strain, Which stealing from the Poet’s heart,	15
Steals thro’ the Reader’s heart again! [Page 27]