*_Floating Island_.

[VII.] My poor sister takes a pleasure in repeating these Verses, which she composed not long before the beginning of her sad illness.
470.

*_Once I could hail, &c._ [VIII.] 'No faculty yet given me to espy the dusky shape.' Afterwards, when I could not avoid seeing it, I wondered at this, and the more so because, like most children, I had been in the habit of watching the moon thro' all her changes, and had often continued to gaze at it while at the full, till half-blinded.
471.

*_The Gleaner (suggested by a Picture)_.
This poem was first printed in the Annual called 'The Keep-sake.' The Painter's name I am not sure of, but I think it was Holmes.
472._Nightshade_.

[IX.