...heart but mine, And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men : The...because I weep in vain. EPITAPH ON MRS. JANE CLERKE. Lo! where this silent marble weeps, A friend, a wife, a mother sleeps: A heart, within whose sacred...

...but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire ; Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields...that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain,1' It will easily be perceived, that the only part of this Sonnet which is of any value is the...

...th' imperfect joys expire. Yet Morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasures bring to happier men: The fields to all their wonted tribute...And weep the more, because I weep in vain. EPITAPH OS MBS. CLARKE." Lo! where this silent marble weeps, A Friend, a Wife, a Mother sleeps: A heart within...

...heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men ; The...bear ; To warm their little loves the birds complain : . . 1 fruitless mourn to him that can not hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain." and adds...

...therefore weepe, because we weeps in Tiine.* —Fitzgeffrey't Life of Drake, 1596. " I fruitless monrn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain." — Gray'* Sonnet on the death ofilr. Wett. "Her scver'd lips seem'd cut in Grecian stone, And all...

...these Cupido winged armies led, of little loves." Luke. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, g And new-born pleasure brings to happier men : The...more, because I weep in vain. EPITAPH ON MRS. JANE CLARKE. [See Woty's Poetical Calendar, part viii. p. 121. Nicoll'* Select Poems, vol. vii. p. 331.]...

...heart but mine; And in my breast ike imperfect joys expire ; Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men ; The...; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitiest mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain.' It will easily...

...heart but mine, And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields...cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain. The treatment of grief is highly conventional (nature is beautiful, but it is no longer beautiful to...

...men: The fields to all their wonted tributes bear, To warm their little loves the birds complain. / fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain;) and adds the following remark: — "It will easily be perceived, that the only part of this Sonnet...

...heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet Morning smiles the busy race to chear, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men: The fields...bear: To warm their little loves the birds complain: / fruitless mourn to him, that cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain? The five lines...