The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1830-03-18
MoOREs LIFEOF BYRON

III tne same cate (sayb MI MOORE
With this melancholy letter sre the follow
pg verses, never before printed, which he
wrote in answer TO some lines received
rom friend. exhorting him TO be cheerful.
md to Danish care They will show With
what gloomy fidelity, even while under the
pressure of recent sorrow, he reverted to
he disappointment Of his early affection,
Is the chief source of all his sufferings g.
'rrors:--
NEwsrEAp ABBEy, Der. II, 1911.
'Oh, banish care'-such ever DO
The motto ofhy revelry,
Perchance oC snine, when wassail nights
Renew those riotogg delights.
Wherewith the children of despair
Lull the lone heart, and Danish care
But not in mnrn's rejecting hour,
When present, past, aud future lower,
When all loved is changed, is gone,
Mock with such taunts tie woes Of one
Whose every thoWght-b but let them pass--
Thou know st am not what was,
But, above all, j: this worlds hold
Place in heart that nc or was cCid,
BY all the powers men revere,
BY all unto thy bosom dear,
Thy Joys below, Thy hopes above,
Speak-spcsk ofany thing but love.
'Twere long to tell and vain to hear
The tale of one who scorns a toar;
And there is Ii tie in that tale
Which bettacbosons wuul Id bswsil.
But mine hsyssufered more than well
Twould suit philosophy to tell:
I've seen my bride another's BRIDE
Have seen Fer seated by his s'de--
Have seen the infant which she bore
Wear the sweet smile the mother wore,
When she and in youth have smiled,
As fond and faultlcss as her child
Have seen her eyes, in cold dsdaiD,
Ask il | felt no secret pain
And ! have acted we'll my part
And made my check belle my heart,
Reiurn'd the freezing glance she gave,
Yet felt the while that woman s slave;
Have kissd, as if without design,
The babe. which ought In have been minc,
And show'd, alas ia each caress,
Time had not made me love the less.
Blu, let this pass--Ill whine no more.
Nor seek again an Eastern shore,
The world BELTS busy brain--
III HE me 10 its haun'g again,
But ii in soms succeeding year.
When Brtains May ~ III the seFe,
Thou hearst of one whose deepening crimes
Suit with the sablest Of the tunes
Ozone, whom Love nor Pity swnys.
Nor hope Of fame, nos good mems praise;
Ono, who in stern Ambitions pride,
terehance not blood shall turn aside;
One rank'd in some recording page
With the worst anarchs of the age;
Him wilt thou know--and knowing, pause,
Nor with the effect forget the cause
"The anticipa,ions of his own future CO.
rcer in these concluding lines, arc ofa ma
ture, it must be owned, to awaken moro OF
horror than ofinterest, were we not prcpar
ed BY SO many instances of his eyageera'
ton in this respect, not 10 be startled at n
ny lengths to which the spirit Of self libel
ling would carry him. It seemed as i
with the power Of painting fierce and
gloomy persona gcs, he had also the smbl
ton to be himself the dark 'sEblime he
Drew and that in his fondness for the de
lineation Of heroic crime he endeavored tc
fancy, where he could not find, in his owr
character fit subjects for his pencil"
"The mention which he makes OF Shcri
dan, affords a fit opportunity Of producing
from one Of his Journals. some particular:
which he has noted down respecting tho
extraordinary man, for whose talents he
entertained the most unbonnded admiration
rating him in natural powers, far above oil
his great political cotcmporaries.
In society have me, Sheridan frequent
": he was superb! He had q sort Of liking
for me. and he never attacked me, at leas
to my face, and he did every body else
high names, and wits. and orators, some o
them poets also. have seen him cut ~
Whitehrcad, quiz Madame de Stnel, nnni
hila,e Colmsn, and DO little less by som'
others (whnse Manassas friends, set down,
Of good fame and ability.
"The last time | ma, him was think, q
Sir Gilbert Ellioi's when he vas "a grcs
as ever-no it wss not the last time; th,
last time wss at Douglas Kinnsird's.
IL have met him in ell plsccs and partie
al White hall with the Mclbourne's. a
the Marquis Of Tavistock's. at Robins, III,
auciiorsers. at Sir Humphrey Davy's. q
Sam Rogers'-in short. in most kinds o
company, snd always found him very con
yivial and delightful.
Of have seen Sheridan weep two ~ 'hre
times II NAV he ihet he was rnaudlin; bu
this only renders il more improper, 70
who would soc
From Marlboroughs oye the tear Of dotsg
H0w
And Swift expire driseller and 'how'
"Once 7 saw him ery At Robins the sue
tionsers. after a splendid dinner. foil q
great names snd high spirits. I had ,h
honor OF sitting next to Sheridan. Th
occasion OF his tesrs was some obsevvs,io
or other upon the subjee, Of the stu,dines
of the Wings, in resisting Office and keep
ing To their principles. Sheridan 'nrpe
roundi "sir. it is essv for my Lord O., n
Bari O.. or Marquis B.. or Lord H.. vii
thousands upon thousand year. some Q