Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-06-20
MOORE'S NEW POEM.
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rFrom the ". Y. american
-For June had
Set in with all his usual rigor.
Y ung Zephyr yet scarce knowing now
To nurse bud or fan bough,
But Eurus in perpetual vigor
1t would be a shame to apply these lines. so
applicable to the weather day or two since, to
the fresh skies and elastic temperature OF this
morning. But the little book from which they
are taken, Moore's "Summer Fete," just pub.
lished by Carey 4 Lea, has lain open on our ia.
bic for two or three DAYS just at this place; and
a summary examination Of its contents affords
hardly any thing better as specimen OF the
whole. II reads more like a clever parody on
the STYLE Of the author Of Lsllah Rookh. than
poem By Moore himself; though occasionally
some delicately chiselled conceit. like ''chip'
pings from the workshop Of Phidas Z" use
one Of his own strained but still happy hsures)-
il thrown off with grace aud spirit that shows
the presence OF the real SImon Pure. Who, Tor
instance. bu, Tom Moore, in calling for blue
satin bail dress, would say
Bring forth the robe whose hue of Heaven,
From thee derives such light.
That IRIS would give all her seven
To boast but 50 bright.
piece Of barter this. by the way, that unless we
wish the late wet skies 'slong to reign over u.s."
" ould make any man look blue indeed. 1t is Ia be
hoped that Iris will make no such exchange
| for the Heavens will weep forever should she
! haul down her cOlors.
| Smiles for Sunset are exhausted-though no
one, that we are aware OF, has yet asslmilated
the ruddy face Of Phebus, at the moment hs
stoops his head to drink from '.the western
man," to the plethoric phiz Of an Alderman
bending over bowl Of turtle. Hear Moore.
SUNSET
Now in his palace of the West,
! Sinking to siumber, the bright Day,
I Like tired monarch fann'd to rest
| Mid the cool airs of evening la,;
While round his COUGHS golden rim
| The gsudy cl ,uds, like courtiers crept-
| Struggling each others sight to dim,
| and catch his asst smile ere he slept
II would be an anacbronsm to suppose the Irish
Poet could have meant any alluson here to the
jealous and fortunate few, who chung SO closely
around the person Of the city's late illustfIous
guest that, though they did not, like clouds, catch
much reflected glory. like them, they served to
shut out the light Of the lumlnary not a little
| from others:
| FADING SKIS.
| And there was still where Day had set
| A flush that spoke him 10th to die
| last link of his glory yet,
| Binding together earth and sky.
The sun, by the above, seems not to like being
reformed out Of office. And who. with all the go.
~ that attends him, would care for his holiday
show, when he has to give it up for such nights
IN June as Moore describes:
| N,eHrs JUNE.
| Whose light 50 gladstone shines aloft,
That ev'n the dew refrains from weeping,
| Ana every breath that comes is soft
And pure as that of infants sieeping;-
| Nights, such as Eden's calm recall,
In it, first lonely hour.--when all
So silent is helIw. on high,
! That if a star falls down the sky,
You almost think you hear it fall!
| Milton would call this 'silence audible One
is disposed to think. however, that man whose
hearing was so acute as to detect the phenomenon
described in the last line, If he did not have
perpetual ear ache, would at least be somewhat
IN the condition of that worthy in Kentucky,
whose sense of touch was so exquisite, that it set
his teeth on edge to feel the atmosphere grit be-
tween his fingers But who quarrel with
the extravaganza Of the pencil that traced this
beautiful Portrait:
A PoRrRAIT
And first, dark eyed nymph,-arayed
Like her, whom Art hath deathless made,
Bright Mons Lisa, with that braid
of hair across the brow, and one
Small gen that in the centre shone,-
With face. too. in ITS form resembling
Da Vihci's beauties the dark eyes
Now lucid. as through crystal trembling.
Now soft, as If snffused with tears.
"A Card.
noCTOR A. II. SANDERS, having located him.
IL self at Occoquan. Prince william County, yir.
nia respectfully offers his profes sional services to