The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-20 00:00:00

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SONNETS,

( From tho Scottish Monthly Sfagazi.to.)

THU SEA.
I stood alone heside-the mighty oceset.
And watched the rippling of its placid title:
For like a dying conqueror 'rett of motion.
Thou th calmed, it still pry-served its loot; of prlic.„
Far, fur it stretched. and on its 'breast did. glide
White snowy sails. that cluttered on the. breeze,
And statelier wit,iorers on more distant $e .s
Ileared their prowl hats against the evening,tky.
And searee a 11 nely Solll,lli came Murmuring by ;
Silence was on the shore. the glen, the trees ;
And calm. deep warn. slept over wood and hill ;
Lone nature sighing with d light was Still.
It seemed that hour of rest to man wths given.
As a fore-knowlelge of the peace of lotaven.

THE EILIAN HARP.
Hark ! how it rises, like the wailing tones
Of some sad spirit gliding through the sky ;
And, as in mist it unseen rushes by.
Pouring its voice amidst the hollow moans
Of the wild wind that sweeps its form away ;
While its voice, mellowed in the distance. seems
Like low sweet music heard in midnight dreams,
Or silvrry strains of moonlight—loving fay.
Now rising—softly, slow—it wildly swells
Out of the depths of music's awe-struck cells ;
Breaking like darkness from the rise of day,
Like music, that upon the ocean knells
Before a storm—heard by the watcher lone
As sad he gazes on the sea and thinks of home.

THE STUDENT'S RENTER.
Thou'rt welcome, Winter, with thy for and storms,
For on my hearth the bickering faggots blaze,
And my tr►m taper sheds its tiny rays
Oyer a pile of volumes, which informs
Fancy. at once and intellect. What forms
Seem dancing from those covers, where the plays
Of Shakspeare nestle. or sweet Spenser's lava
Sleep 'neath a multie fretted by the worms !
What }`eight of mind lies in the close knit style
Of him the Stnzyrite! What go,geous flow
Of ea4le..winged imagination beams
In Verulam ! Oh, more than summer's
smile—
More than her waving woods :ind flowery glow,
Adorn the W inter lighted by such gleams.

THE THIRTY REQUISITES.

(From' Mr. Aingworth's new Novel, " CItIC !I TON.

Thirty points of perfection, each judge understands,
The standard of feminine heauty demands.
Three white—and, without further prelude. we know
That the skin, hands and teeth should he pearly as snow .
Three black—and our standard .10parture forbids
From dark eyes, darksome tresses, and darkly-fring lids.
Three red—and the lover of comeliness seeks
For the hue of the rose in the lips. nails and cheeks.
Three long—and of this you, no houbt, are aware,
Long the body should he, long the hands, long the hair.
Three short—and herein nicest beauty appears—
Feet short as a fairy's, short teeth, and short ears.
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Three large—and remember this rule, as to size, •
Embraces the shoulders, the forehead, the eyes.
Three narrow—a maxim to every man's taste—
rircumference small in the mouth, allele and waist.
Three round—and in this l see infinite charms—
Rounded fullness apparent in leg, hip and arms.
Three fine—and can aught the enchantment eclipse,
Of fine tapering fingers, fine tresses, fine lips?
Three small—and my thirty essentials are told—
SMall head. nose, and bosom compact in its mould.
Now, the dame %via,. comprises attractions like these,
Will need not the cestus of Venus to please—
While he who has met with an union so rare,
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11.1 a had better luck than has fallen to my share.