The book The Maid of Peru, With Other Poems was written by author Yellott, George, B. 1819. [from Old Catalog] Here you can read free online of The Maid of Peru, With Other Poems book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Maid of Peru, With Other Poems a good or bad book?
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Winter late rul'd, and from the icy North The angry Boreas came on frozen wings Tumultuous rushing o'er the level mead. While at his voice each stream grew mute with fear, And in the zone of silence bound its joys ; And panting zephyrs shrunk in chill dismay, And spread iheir pinions for the genial south, And where, mid yon blue rocks now swiftly rolls, The noisy river* on its foamy way. The wild-duck scarcely found a place to lave ; And o'er each snow-crown'd hill the wrestling winds Did howl ...like wrathful spirits as they pass'd, And shook the ice-balls from the vshivering trees ;•— Yet thou wert lovely still my native vale, As beautiful as Love in desolation. But now young Spring comes from the balmy South, Attended by sweet music and the birds, • The Great Gunpowder— a bold and romantic stream. THE VALE OF DULANY. 115 And strews thy meadows green with fragrant flowers, Woo'd by the gilded humming-birds that float, Like living gems, upon th' enamor'd air, And thy unfetter'd fountains pour their streams Like molten amber through ih' enamel'd meads, While from their lucid depths the spangled trout Exulting leaps and courts the beaming sun, And all around is melody and mirth ; — And thou, even to the cold and careless gaze Of stranger's eye, hast more than common charms ; — But oh !
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