SONG,

THE SENTIMENTS BORROWED FROM SHAKSPEARE.

1 YOUNG Damon of the vale is dead,

Ye lowly hamlets, moan;

A dewy turf lies o'er his head,

And at his feet a stone.

2 His shroud, which Death's cold damps destroy, Of snow-white threads was made:

All mourn'd to see so sweet a boy
In earth for ever laid.

3 Pale pansies o'er his corpse were placed,
Which, pluck'd before their time,
Bestrew'd the boy, like him to waste
And wither in their prime.

4 But will he ne'er return, whose tongue

Could tune the rural lay?

Ah, no! his bell of peace is
His lips are cold as clay.

rung,

5 They bore him out at twilight hour,
The youth who loved so well:
Ah me! how many a true-love shower
Of kind remembrance fell!

6 Each maid was woe-but Lucy chief,
Her grief o'er all was tried ;
Within his grave she dropp'd in grief,
And o'er her loved one died.

TO MISS AURELIA CR,

ON HER WEEPING AT HER SISTER'S WEDDING.

CEASE, fair Aurelia, cease to mourn,
Lament not Hannah's happy state;
You may be happy in your turn,
And seize the treasure you regret.
With Love united Hymen stands,
And softly whispers to your charms,
"Meet but your lover in my bands,
You'll find your sister in his arms.

SONNET.

WHEN Phoebe form'd a wanton smile,
My soul! it reach'd not here:

Strange, that thy peace, thou trembler, flies

Before a rising tear!

From 'midst the drops, my love is born,

That o'er those eyelids rove: Thus issued from a teeming wave The fabled queen of love.

END OF COLLINS' POEMS.

T. WARTON'S

POETICAL WORKS.

THE LIFE OF THOMAS WARTON.

THOMAS WARTON was born at Basingstoke, in the year 1728. His father was Vicar of Basingstoke, Fellow of Magdalen College, and for ten years Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford. He died in 1745. His family consisted of three;-Joseph, the well known head-master of Winchester School; Thomas, the subject of this sketch; and Jane, who died unmarried. Thomas was remarkable in boyhood for his fondness for study, and the premature development of his powers. At the age of nine, he translated very neatly one of Martial's epigrams, and sent it to his sister. Two years later, during a very cold winter, he used to leave the family fireside, and pursue his studies in his own chamber. His father superintended his education till his sixteenth year, when he was admitted a commoner, and soon after became a scholar, in Trinity College, Oxford. In 1745, while not quite seventeen, he wrote "The Pleasures of Melancholy "-a fine poem for one so young—and published it, two years afterwards, without his name. In the following year, Mason published his "Isis," an elegy, which alluded pointedly to the Jacobite principles and dissipated practices of the Oxonians of that day. This roused our young bard, and he came forth, in 1749, with "The Triumph of Isis," containing a spirited defence of Oxford, and glowing poetic notices of her illustrious children. It was received with enthusiasm, and the author became at once famous in his university. Shortly after, an

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