HAWTHORN .

Fair Hope, with light and buoyant form,
Came smiling through the clouds of Care,
Glanced bright defiance on the storm,
And hung her bow of promise there.

DAHLIA .

The light, the grace, the brilliant bloom,
Of Beauty, unendowed with heart,
Resemble flowers without perfume,
And just as little joy impart.

IVY .

Thou art a friend indeed,
Most truly true and kind;
Thou givest me, in my spirit-need,
Thy wealth of heart and mind!

COLUMBINE .

Folly of old, with gay deceit,
When Love was seeking Virtue's bower,
Led the bright boy to Beauty's feet;
And she, in that one fatal hour,
Enwove a chain so strong, so fair,
It bound them both for ever there!

BUCKBEAN .

There's danger in the dazzling eye,
That woos thee with its witching smile;
Another , when thou art not by,
Those beaming looks would fain beguile.

CIRCÆA, OR, ENCHANTER'S NIGHTSHADE .

You 'll speed your conquering way I trow,
Through hearts, however narrow;
Those lips are Cupid's graceful bow,
That smile his sunlit arrow;

NIGHT-BLOWING CEREUS .

O'er a blossom of Thought gay Fancy plays,
And lights, with her smile, its leaves;
Till they gleam with a myriad teinted rays,
As the sun, in a diamond, weaves
His braid of resplendent rainbow bloom,
That changes and glows, like a fairy's plume.

BLUE-BOTTLE CENTAURY

Her love is pure and glad and true,
As yonder heaven of stainless blue.

NETTLE .

More cruel far than murder's self is he,
Who, having kindled once love's Eden-bloom,
With warm Persuasion's spell, in some young heart,
E'er lets Indifference blight it or Neglect; —
For Love — true Love can flower but once in life,
In woman's life — the Aloe of her heart!

If, thus, the Tuneful Bard his Voice can raise,
When England 's Mars , expiring , damps his Lays,
How! could he sing, and in what rapturous Rhimes
Describe the Living V ENUS of our Times?