The poets and poetry of America : to the middle of the nineteenth century . you know where to seek a blessing so rare ]Go drag the lone sea, you may find him there. And heres to a brace of twin cherubs of mine,With hearts like their mothers, as pure as this wine,Who came but to see the first act of the play,Grew tired of the scene, and then both went you know where this brace of bright cherubs have hied 1Go seek them in heaven, for there they abide. A bumper, my boys ! to a gray-headed pair,Who watched oer my childhood with tenderestcare,God bless them, and keep them, and may they l
The poets and poetry of America : to the middle of the nineteenth century . you know where to seek a blessing so rare ]Go drag the lone sea, you may find him there. And heres to a brace of twin cherubs of mine,With hearts like their mothers, as pure as this wine,Who came but to see the first act of the play,Grew tired of the scene, and then both went you know where this brace of bright cherubs have hied 1Go seek them in heaven, for there they abide. A bumper, my boys ! to a gray-headed pair,Who watched oer my childhood with tenderestcare,God bless them, and keep them, and may they look down,On the head of their son, without tear, sigh, or frown!Would you know whom I drink to ? go seek mid the dead,You will find both their names on the stone at their head. And heres—but, alas ! the good wine is no more,The bottle is emptied of all its bright store;Like those we have toasted, its spirit is fled,And nothing is left of the light that it , a bumper of tears, boys! the banquet here ends,With a health to our dead, since weve no living Y Kl E §FAN3§ WASHINGTON ALLSTON [Born, 1779. Died, 1813.] Mr. Allston was born in South Carolina, of afamily which has contributed some eminent namesto our annals, though none that sheds more lustreupon the parent stock than his own. When veryyoung, by the advice of physicians, he was sent toNewport, Rhode Island, where he remained untilhe entered Harvard College in 1796. In his boy-hood he delighted to listen to the wild tales andtraditions of the negroes upon his fathers planta-tion ; and while preparing for college, and afterhis removal to Cambridge, no books gave him somuch pleasure as the most marvellous and terriblecreations of the imagination. At Newport he be-came acquainted with Malbone, the painter, andwas thus, perhaps, led to the choice of his profes-sion. He began to paint in oil before he went toCambridge, and while there divided his attentionbetween his pencil and his books. Upon beinggraduate
Size: 1361px × 1836px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1850, booksubjectamericanpoetry, booky
