Excerpt from Poems The author of the following Ode is one of those whom Misery has long since marked for her own, and exercised with the severest form of physical suffering. Afflicted with a chronic disease of many years' duration (in the seat of thought itself), for which there is no remedy, and which must fatally terminate through slow and protracted degrees of pain and distress; never Wholly losing her cons cious ness of present evil, in the balm of sleep, the author has yet been able briefly to forget her condition, and to find momentary consolation, in dictating to her friends several poetical effusions; from which the present has been selected as one of the most finished. Though secluded from the face of' Nature, the mem ory of its various and beautiful forms 'is quickened, in her solitude, by a poet's imagination. There is a pathos in some of her pieces, a strength of soul strug gling against the doom of its decaying tenement, in the agony of deferred and expiring hope, that excite in us, as we lay them down, a feeling of melancholy regret, that another mind is destined to pass away, and leave so imperfect a record of its origin;-a regret that is but partially alleviated by the convic tion, however sincere, that, as well in the universe of mind, as of matter, through all their endless chan ges, nothing is lost, and all is safe in the hands of its Maker. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.