Lady! the fate that made me poor, Forgot to take away my heart,-- And 'tis not easy to immure The burning soul, and live apart: To meet the wildering touch of beauty, And hear her voice,--and think of _duty_: To check a thought of burning passion, When trembling on the lip like flame,-- And talk indifferently of fashion,-- A language choked till it is tame! Oh God! I know not why I'm gifted With feeling, if I may not love! I know not why my cup is lifted So far my thirsting lips above! My look on thine unchidden lingers, My hand retains thy dewy fingers, Thy smile, thy glance, thy glorious tone For hours and hours are mine alone: {301} Yet must my fervor back, and wait Till solitude can set it free,-- Yet must I not forget that fate Has locked my heart, and lost the key; These very rhymes I'm weaving now Condemn me for a broken vow! N. P. W. N. B. My friend soon recovered from this sad stroke, and he has since recovered the "key," and locked within the fate-closed casket a pearl, I learn, of great price. So much for a sophomore's Anacreontics! If this "loan" prove acceptable, I have a choice one in store for May. O. SOME ANCIENT GREEK AUTHORS. CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED. Whether Homer or Hesiod lived first has never been determined. Herodotus supposes them both to have lived at the same time, viz. B.C. 884. The Arun. marbles make them contemporaries, but place their era B.C. 907. Besides the Iliad and Odyssey, Homer wrote, according to some, a poem upon Amphiaraus' expedition against Thebes; Also, the Phoceis, the Cercopes, the small Iliad, the Epiciclides, the Batrachomyomachia, and some Hymns to the Gods. _Hesiod_ wrote a poem on Agriculture, called The Works and Days, also Theogony, which is valuable for its account of the Gods of antiquity. His Shield of Hercules, and some others, are now lost. _Archilocus_ wrote elegies, satires, odes and epigrams, and was the inventor of Iambics; these are by some ascribed to Epodes. Some fragments of his poetry remain. He is supposed to have lived B.C. 742. _Alcæus_ is the inventor of Alcaic verses. Of all his works, nothing remains but a few fragments, found in Athenæus. B.C. 600. He was contemporary with the famous Sappho. She was the inventress of the Sapphic verse, and had composed nine books in lyric verses, besides epigrams, elegies, &c. Of all these, two pieces alone remain, and a few fragments quoted by Didymus. _Theognis_ of Megara wrote several poems, of which only a few sentences are now extant, quoted by Plato and some others. B.C. 548. _Simonides_ wrote elegies, epigrams and dramatical pieces; also Epic poems--one on Cambyses, King of Persia, &c. One of his most famous compositions, The Lamentations, a beautiful fragment, is still extant. _Thespis_, supposed to be the inventor of Tragedy, lived about this time.