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A STUDY OF SHELLEY 
 
 Witli Spcvial KL'tiR'iKf to His Nature Poetrv. 
 
 DISSKHTATION 
 
 I'RHSKNTKI) TO Till.; HOAkl) OF I'NIVKRSITV STlDll-S 
 
 OI- THK JOHNS HOPKINS TNIVKKSITV FOR Tin.; 
 
 DIvOKIvlC OI- DOCTOR OI-' I'HH.OSOPH V. 
 
 BY 
 
 J'HLHAM HDGAR, 
 
 TORONTO: 
 
 WILLIAM B R I G G G. 
 
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PRin-ATOkN' NOTI':. 
 
 Tm; |.;i;l,'<'.s wliifli follow miv um initial {'oiitrilHitioii to the 
 stii.jy of Slu'lley'.s Nntmv |.o..tiy. in .■staMisliin.r tj... .■xistin-,' 
 eritieisiii on the subject, I liuvc ivlniiiK',! iVoni coimiinit .'xc-pt 
 with ivrciviuT to the .|U.'stion of i,lrali/.!itioii. An ext.'iisinn 
 of this criticism in any tJK.rounh seiisi" woiiM have cai-n.-.l mc 
 niuch Ix'von.l the ordinary limits of an invrsti-ration of this 
 km.]. It was, therefore, possible merely to imlicatr the 
 .lirection which the stu.ly will take (pa^v '20). an.l to stat.- my 
 intention ..f puhli hin<r the results at some futun- dat.-. I ner.l 
 liiake noapolo^ry for the importance which J have attache.l to 
 Shelley's simih-s as throwincr li^rht upon his poetic metho-ls of 
 treating' Nature: and in this connection 1 tak.- *tlie w.-lc.mc 
 opportunity of thankin<r Professor Hri>,dit for many valual)!.- 
 su<,f<;estions and much kin-llv aid. 
 
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r.\P>LI-: ()!• CONTI'NTS. 
 
 I'MIH 
 
 . II 
 
 !.•{. I.-. 
 
 I'AI:T I. HXTANT CltlTIClSM. 
 tirowth ..t luv tn. Natm.' (DuwW.'ii. •' Lit,. „t SlM.||,.y.- Kir./') 
 TorMl..n.-v i.. i-i.-aii/ali.,., (SfplMMi, i,. Comlnll, xx\,x. ; Whi,,,,!,.. hU.nj. 
 
 II II' I Iti I'll //•«! . 
 
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 r.ov.,of l„.lrliMit,.,„..sai,.lC|,;,„j,.. (|{r..oko, in .lA,o„;//,„/. mj,.) . 9 
 
 {^wi-r\, ill "Slii'llt.y Socioty Pa|HM's,'" 
 
 I.. I 'ill I II |.^ 
 
 I'ow.-r to IsHJair Xaiur,. (Mn.ok.-l ' ,,, 
 
 .Subth'iu'.s.s lif Oliscivatiori lUri.okiM , ,,. 
 
 • • .III 
 
 (•^'■"'''•"■'■, in All'iiilir Munllihi. I.\\.) . . . I7 
 
 IViniitiv.- giialily .,1 MytlM.|M,i.. l'..wtT (Mn.oke) 
 
 ** " " ■' (Sweet) . 
 
 Piitlu'tic Kailaiy (l!i-,M.kr : \h,<n-t,,lii linu.w. ciaiv. 
 lull (,hiiiih rh/, l.xwii. I . 
 
 I'lar,' ill |),.\,.l<i|,inciit uf Xatiiir I'dutry iSw. ■(■!). 
 Sliellry and Woidswm tji i>u,.,.t) 
 
 ()lij»M;tivily (Sweet I 
 
 (kiHinie Syinpalliies (Sweet I 
 
 VjustlU'ss of Ivaiid.seapf (Sweet I 
 
 (Si (iddell 
 
 ('Oloiir Sense, Analysis ot (Sweet) 
 
 i>eiid,le|) .... 
 
 Shiilley and ('oleiid;i,'e (Sweet ) 
 
 Slielley and Keats (Seuddei) 
 
 Power to Vitalize -M.-stiaetions (i'al^i.av.., " Lands, a,,e in Poetry- 
 
 Lack of II iiniaii Feeling (I'alynive) 
 
 lioden Xoel, in Brif- 
 
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 IN 
 
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 IS 
 
 I'ART FI. 
 
 1. Analysis of Similes . 
 
 2. KxkMision of Kxi.stin>,' ("ritieisni 
 Arraiij^ement of Similes 
 
 1!», --'I Wl 
 
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 KXTAXT CKITICIS.M OX SlIKLLKVs NATriiK 
 
 POETRY. 
 
 (iroiith o/ hit f.ort' for Ntttnrf! 
 
 PffOKKssuK |)(.\\i)|.;\, in liis " Life of Shflley," n-tVr.s to Shelley "s 
 curly iiKliUfrciice for niitui-fil iHiJiuty. 
 
 hi tlif midst of tlio luouiitaiiis of Cwm Hlfiii, in ls||, Shcllcv 
 writes to his friend Wuy^^^^ " ' Tliis is most divine seeiierv, hut all very 
 dull, stale, tint, and unpi'olitahip ; indeed, the place is"a vfrv U''t'nt 
 bore." The poet in Shelley at this linio was traunn.11,.,1 and tJiken 
 in the toils Uy the i)sycholo;,Mst and metaphysieian. " (''Life of 
 Shelley," I. Ki;-).) ' 
 
 "In the summer of ISII his delij,dil in m..untain and vale and 
 stream was tracked and hunted down and done to death by his 
 passion for p.syeholo^deal analysis, 'This country of Wales ' (writing 
 to .Miss Hitchener) 'is exceedingly i^rand ; rocks piled on each other 
 to tremendous hei<,dit.s, rivers formed into cataracts l>y their projec 
 tioiis, and vallevs clothed with wood.s, present an appearance of 
 enchantment. IJut why do they enchant / Why is it more aHectinj,' 
 than a plain.' It cannot he innate; is it ac(|uired ? Thus does 
 knowledge lose all the pleasure which involuntaiily arises hv 
 attem[)ting to arrest the lleetin- phantom as it pa.sses. Vaiii 
 attemi)t; like the chemist's ether, it evaporates under our observa 
 tion ; It tlies from all but the slaves of passion and sickly sensibility 
 who will not analyze a feelinu.' And again, ' Nature is here marked 
 with the most impressiv(« characters of loveline.ss and grandeur. 
 Once I was tr.'uiulously alive to tones and sc(uies ; the''hai)it of 
 analyzing feelings, I fear, does not agree with this. It is 
 spontaneous, and when it becomes subject to consi.Ieration, cea.ses to 
 exist.'" (" Life of Shelley," L 1G7.) 
 
 " ' T am more astoni.shed at the grandeur of the scenery' (letter to 
 Hogg) 'than I e.xpected. I do not /toi-t'niuch regard it. I hav(> other 
 things to think of.' " (" Life of Shelley," I. 168.) 
 
 Contrast with these letters those which he wrote frr»in Keswick 
 
8 
 
 .iftrr' liis luarriii^c. (T^cttcrs (if N'o\ . iiml hcc., |sl| ) Urn- at 
 last Wf l)(';,'iii to st'c th»' ;;('tiuiin' Slu-llry. 
 
 A;,'aiii, III |X| "J \vc have cv idt'iicc of the opposit** bxcj'hs of iiieiiniii^' 
 N'ss and (Iplirioiis lajitiin', as in tin- Iftici- to Miss llitclioncr wIumj 
 )i<>i- morality li'id Imtii put in 'piestion. 
 
 " N'ou art' to my faiu-y as a tliuiidtT riven pinnarii' of rock, linn 
 amid t ho rusliiii}^' ttMiipt'st and tint boiling surj,'p. Ay, stand forever 
 finii, and whon our ship anchors close to thee, the citw will cover 
 thee with (lowers. " 
 
 Teixkuiii to Kri'engire Idvalizalion, 
 
 This forms the suhstance of Lksmk Sri:i'iiK\s contrihiition to the 
 Cornhitl Manazinr, \ \ X I X. ( 'ompare (^lutrtfirli/ litr'ipw, LX 1 \'., and 
 Shaihi' in FruKer's Afayuzine, N. S. L'O. To exemplify their extreme 
 position I <|Uote fr(»m Mr. licslie Stephen. "The materials with 
 which he works are impalpable abstractions, where other poets use 
 c(»nureto inia;(es. . When he speaks of natural .scenery the 
 
 solid earth seems to be dissolved, and we are in presence of nothinj; 
 but the shiftini^ phantasmaj,'(»ria of clouilland, the j^dow of moonlight 
 on eternal snow, or the 'j^(»lden li^ditnin<^ of the settinj; sun.' ' 
 
 While admittin;^ that the <,'eneral temper of Shelley's poeli , is 
 distinctly ideal, it is necessary to make a pr«»test against tluit jiartial 
 view which lemoves his work entirely from the sphere of human 
 interest, and regards it merely as the meteoric display of an over- 
 charged imagination wliich has never fed upon the concrete realities 
 of life. 
 
 Wiiii'I'm: (Kssdi/s uml lieru'ir^) makes the folhtwing plea on 
 Shelley's behalf against the charges of unreality and lack of human 
 sympathy; ''The predominance of his spiritual over his animal 
 nature; the velocity with wliich his mind, looser! from the 'grasp of 
 gravitation,' darted upwards into regions whither slower-pacing 
 imaginations could not follow ; the ama/ing fertility with which he 
 })oured out crowds of magnificent images, and the profuse tiood of 
 dazzling radiance, blinding the eye with excess of light, whicli they 
 shed over his compositions, his love of idealizing the world of sense, 
 until it became instinct with thought, and infusing into things dull 
 and lifeless to the sight and toucli the (|ualities of individual 
 existence; the marvellous keenness of insight with which he pierced 
 beneath even the refinements of thought, and evolved new materials 
 of wonder and delight from a seem.' igly exhausted subject — ^all these, 
 to a superficial observer, carry with them the appearance of 
 unreality."' 
 
 It is important to adjust ourselves aright towards this (juestion of 
 idealism in Shelley's poetry. We must frankly admit at the outset 
 that the tendency towards idealism exists in a very marked manner 
 in the j)oems. We find, therefore, that criticism ranges itself into 
 two opposing camps. On the one hand, positive common-sense 
 
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 <>|tiiii<>ii, us n'|»it'M'iit»'tl liy l<»'>lir Stf|ilii'n, will timl t|i;ii S|ic||cv 
 iKiiii'islifil liis iiiitiiriiialinii with suhsluiicf too rare utid iiiirmiii-riHl lo 
 t'onii llit> t'ooil wliicli II hc'iltliy and rolmsl iniiiil >lioiilil nuxc as its 
 riiiliii'iil diet. On tin* uihi'i' hand, iikon> critliti^iiast ic critics likt* 
 \N hii'i'lf Of ItodcM Noel (sec p. I "J ) assert that his idcahsiii con 
 stitutc^ the «'hict' and enduring charm of iiis poetry. Jt is well here 
 to hold a inidille posilioM. \N •• may con^^ratiilate oiiiselvcs as lo\ers 
 of I'iiiLjIish literature thai our poetry w ilii Shelley's advent received 
 an ima;;inative impulse into ethen-al re^'ions wh«re wini; of poet 
 lievj-r beat hefore. Ihit is ht', tiiert'for«*. tho " heaaliful atid inellec- 
 liial ani/el, Iteatin^' in the void his luminous \\inj,'s in vain, " of Mat 
 ihevv ArnoM's perverse 'reatiii;;.' Shelh«y s Imrnin;,' zeal forliumatiity 
 would of itself forhid the acceptance of that view in its sweeping 
 entirety. In the pu s Vitutli we must admit that his concept ion of 
 huuianity is v isionarv atui false, and that his shadow, portraits are 
 evasively delusive !in(l vaj,'ue in outline. l?Mt with ;^'rowini,' years the 
 concrete eleme^ • , of iiis pot'iy ;,'atiien'd stren;,'th. and ipialities of 
 Hrmness an<' pr-ecision l»e-an to show themselves in such .ihundance 
 as to alloid the assm net* in his future wor!< of a more harmonious 
 ami ('(jualjle rclalioii Ix'tvvoen tlm ideal and the real word. In 
 Octol)^r, IS'Jl, Slieliey wiote to .Mr. (iishirne, referrin<4 to the most 
 idealistic of his poems: "'The lOpipsychidion ' is a mystery; as to 
 real llesh anil blood, you know that I do not deal in those .irtu'lcs ; 
 you mii^ht as well j;o to a <,'inshop for a let,' of iiiuttun, as ex- 
 pect anythinj,' human or eai'lhly f'vun me." Ihit let us (irst 
 eliminate the sportiv- fun from this st.itement, uhI remi'mber that 
 within the h'ss than two years that remained to him of life, he had 
 pr(nluced those admirably human poems. '"To Jane," and conceived 
 and in part written a |)lay upon the thorouj^hly hinnan sul)ject of 
 " Chailes I. ' In cimclusion, we must bear in mind th.'t in .i larj,'e 
 measure the impression of excessive idealism arises from the subtle 
 charactei- of the poetic imai,'ory which Shelley emjiloys to li,lit up 
 hidden atlinities between human emotion and processes of beauty in 
 the natural world. In this r(?j;ird Shelley does not sin alone, and 
 might sheltei' himself, did he re<piire refui^e from criticism, behind 
 the accepted names of Laniartine or N'ictor Hugo, whose splendid 
 imagery is conceived in a similar spirit, and employed for a similar end. 
 
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 fi' II 
 
 /' Indijinitt'npss nnd Chanye (rf. in/ra Svvi;i:t). 
 Ukv. .Siiii'niKii Dkookk. Munnillun, .\LII. 
 
 'I'o the love of indetiniteness and the love of change, (jualities 
 embedded in Shelley's temperament, Stoi'Kouh Bijookk attributes the 
 leading characteristics of his Nature poetry. " His love of that 
 which is indefinite and changeful made him enjoy and describe better 
 than any other Ejiglish poet that scenery of the clouds and sky which 
 is indefinite owing to intinite change of appearance. The incessant 
 
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 forniin;,' und imforining of the vapours wliicli \w doscrih(>.s in the last 
 verse of ' 'I'lie Cloud, is that \vlii(.:h h«! most caivd to paint. Words- 
 worth often draws, and with j^reat forte, the aspect of the sky, and 
 twice, with j^reat elaboration, in 'The Kxcuision": liut it is only a 
 niomeiitary aspx-ot, and it is mixed up with illustrations taken from 
 the works of men, with the landscape of the earth Ixlow where men 
 are movinjj;, with his own feelings about the scene, and with moral or 
 imaginative lessons. Shelley, when he is at woik on the 
 Power to j^i^y^ troubles it with none of th(\se human matters,* and 
 Natur^ he describes not only the momentary aspect, but also the 
 
 change and progress of the sunset or tiie storm. And he 
 does this with the greatest care, and with a characteristic attention 
 to tliose delicate tones and half-tones of colour which resemble the 
 subtle imaginations and feelings he liked to disco\er in human 
 nature, and to which he gave form in poetry. " 
 
 There follow references in detail to the more celebrated cloud 
 studies at dawn or sunset or during storm to be found in the poems. 
 Of the dawn in the opening of ''Prometheus. II.," he says: "The 
 changes of colour, as the light increa.ses in the sjiaces of pure sky 
 and in the clouds, are watched nnd described with 
 Subtle precise truth ; the slow progress of the dawn, during a 
 
 long time, is noted down line by line, and ail tiie move- 
 ment of the mists and of the clouds ' shephei'ded In* the 
 slow, unwilling wind.' Nor is that minuteness of obser\ation want- 
 ing which is the proof of careful love. Shelleys imaginative study 
 of beauty is i'e\eal(Ml in the way the growth of the dawn is set before 
 us by the waxing and waning of the light of the stai', as the vapours 
 rise and melt befoi'e the morn. The storms are even better than the 
 sunsets and dawns. . . . Criticism has no voice when it thinks 
 that n(j other jioet has ever attempted to render, with the same 
 absolute loss of himself, the successive chnnges, minute by minute, 
 of such an hour of tempest and of sunrise, ^^'e are alone with 
 Nature ; T might even say, we see Natuie alone w ith herself." 
 Tlien folI(»ws an enthusiastic analvsis of the " ( >de to the West 
 Wiml.'' 
 
 Also, to his love of the indefinite and changeful, Stopford Urooke 
 attributes Shelley'spower of describing vast iandscajies(»'.y.. " Huganean 
 ilills,' !)([//': " Alastoi'," o;")!)//"), and his delight in the intricacy of 
 forest scenerv (" liecollection," 9//; " Alastor," 420//; '• Uosalind," 
 9")//; "Prometheus," Tl. ii. and TV. 194//: 
 
 /'ii/rcr 1(1 Isulitte Nature (<'/'. infra Swk.kt). 
 
 Sto[)ford Brooke proceeds to discuss Slielleys treatment of Nature 
 in as far as it was all'ected by his lack of a definite idea concerning 
 th<> source of Nature. " Again, just because Shelley had no wish to 
 
 Observa 
 tion. 
 
 Viih Sweet. "Shelley Society Papers," I. Pt. II. 
 
II 
 
 I'onceivc of Natiiiv as iinolvcd in our drlinitc thouirlit. lie had the 
 power of coiifciviii;,' the lif.- of separate things in Nature witli 
 ustonisliiinr iii(li\iduality. W'lieii lie wrote of the Cloud, or of 
 Arethusa. or of the .Moon, or of the Martli, as distinct pxisteiices, he 
 was not h>d away from their solitary itersonality l.y any universal 
 «'\istenee in which they were inei-,LC('d, or l)y t' e iif eesshv of adding to 
 these any tinire of humanity, any elements of tln»u,<,dit or love, sueii as 
 the Panthoist is almost sure to add. His imai,'iiiation was free to 
 realize pure Nature, and the power hy which he docs this, as well as 
 the svork done, are (juite uniiiue in modern poetry. Thcolouy. with 
 its one CVeator of the universe; Tantheism, with its 'oih' spirit's 
 plastic stress' ; Science, with it.s one Knergy, forbid the modern poet, 
 whose mind is setth-d into any one of th<'se three views, to see an\- 
 thing in Nature as having a separate life of its own. He caniKtt. as 
 ;i (Jrcek could do, <livide the life of the air from that of the earth, of 
 tlu" (-loud from that of the stream. iUit Shelley, al.le to loosen him- 
 self from all these modern conceptions whicli unite the various 
 universe, couM ajid did, when he pleased, divide and subdivide tht; 
 life of Nature in the same way as a Greek. And this is the cause 
 why, even in the midst of wholly modern imagery and a modern 
 manner, one is conscious <»f a (Jrcek note in many passages of his 
 poetry of Nature. The following little poem on the Dawirmight he 
 conceived hy a primitive Aryan. Ft is a Nature myth. 
 
 Primitive 
 Quality. 
 
 " • 'i'iie pale stars are i,'()iic ! 
 
 For tiic sun, tiicir swift slicplicnl. 
 'i'o tlieir t'ojiis lliciii (■uiiipclliiiLr, 
 In the (leptiis of tiic dawn. 
 Hastes, in MK'teoicilipsin;.' array, and tiicy tloe 
 Hcvnnd Ills hluc dwelling" 
 * As fawns tlec the icoitard." 
 
 " iUit Shelley's conceptions of the life of these natural things are 
 less human than even the HouKM-ic CJreek or early Indian poet would 
 have made them. They describe the work of nature in terms of 
 hinnan^ act. Shelley's spirits of the earth and moon are utterly 
 apart from our world (.f thought ;ind from our life. Of this class o'f 
 poems, 'The CI(»u«r is the most perfect example. ft describes the 
 life of the Cloud as it nn'ght have been a million years before man 
 came on earth. The 'sanguine sunrise' and the 'orbed maiden," the 
 moon, who are the playmates of the cloud, are pure element;d 
 beings. . . . In Wordsworth's poems we touch the human 
 heart of (loweis and birrls. Tn Shelley's, wt> touch 'Shapes that 
 haunt Thoughts wildernesses.' Y.-t it "is (piite possible, though we 
 cannot feel afFection for Shelley's Cloud or Bird, that they are both 
 
 •Coniparc also Sweet's consifh'i'ation of SlioUey in liis nivlli niakinu 
 capacity (" Sl.clicy Society I'apcrs," I. Pt. II., ,•/-/. /,,/mi. and ^vr i)wut, rh, 
 f(en< ir, ( I A IV. . I . 
 
1^ 
 
 ti-iicr to the Jictual fact of tliin<,'s than Wordswortli nuulc his birds 
 uiul clouds.* Strip oii" the imaginative ch)tliing from ' The Cloud,' 
 and science will siij)port every word of it. Let the sky-lark sing, 
 let the flowers grow, for their own joy alone. In truth, what sym- 
 pathy have they, what sympathy has nature with man .' 
 
 77i(' /'al/ietic Fallanj. 
 
 "The other side <^f Shelley's relation to nature is a remarkable 
 contrast to this statement. When he was absorbed in his own 
 i)eing, a)id writing poems which concerned himself alone, he makes 
 nature the mere image of his own feelings, the creature of his mood." 
 In this connection reference must be made to the Quarterhi lie- 
 view, CLXIV., and to the BrhUh (jnartp.rly, LXXXII. (Hon. Uoden 
 Noel). 
 
 Quarb'rbj Review, CLXTW ; 
 
 His own moods . . . formed no permanent essential part of 
 himself: he could, without effort, transfer them to Nature. 
 The identity oi feeling, which he thus establishes between himself 
 and Nature, is a^ fascinating as it is peculiar. Vet it is certainly a 
 sign of wt'akness. Jn " Alastor,' for instance, he reads into his sur- 
 roundings his own pciisivc ;'."d melancholy life. Autumn sighs in 
 the sere woods, the grass shivers at the touch of the poet's foot; 
 his own hair sings dirges in the wind. No man whose personality is 
 ■strongly marked, can thus transfer himself to the natural world. 
 In Shelley, tlie sense of personality was dimmed l)y the absence of 
 will. He never learned to distinguish between his own feelings and 
 those ()f others ; but in his later poetry he shakes off the excessive 
 morbidity of "Alastor," . . . and no longer reads his own misery 
 into the aeiial merriment of the wind, the wave and the bird. The 
 contrast offers a significant proof of the steady development of the 
 strongei- sides of his character. 
 
 Ih-itis^h Qiiarterlt), LXXXFl. (Hon. Roden Noel): 
 Proceeding from the assertion that, in order to arrive at a satis- 
 factory idea of nature, science and poetry are alike necessary, the 
 essayist continues to oppose lluskins effort "to distinguish the 
 repre.sentation of Nature as she is, which he ascribes to Homer and 
 to Scott among ourselves, and the representation of her as she only 
 appears to our distorting emotions. That seems to me a misleading 
 distinction, because what Nature in herself, apart from our minds is, 
 we ilo not accurately know ; we can see her only as .she appears to 
 us by virtue of the constitution of our faculties, "senses, understand- 
 ing, emotion, and imagination. Therefore, J cannot admit that 
 there is a true nature, which the man of science and the land-sur- 
 veyor see, but a false nature, which the person of delicate suscepti- 
 
 * Vhio, infra (p. 12) Roileu Noel on the distinction between scientific and 
 poetic triitli. 
 
hilitios iuid the; poet suppose tliemselvps to see. . . . There is no 
 iiioi(! reason why tliose higher faculties should he excluded from their 
 share and function in the revelation of truth than there is why the 
 senses and the understand injjf should i)e (\\clude(l. . . . Hence, 
 I cannot enter into .Mr. Kuskin s preference of Scott over Shelley 
 as a poet, v*hicli is founded on this distinction between them.* . . . 
 What would Shelley's ' Alastor ' he without the maf,'niticent 
 scenery of mountain and stieani amid which he moves onward to the 
 close '. They are one. They have joined hands and interjiret one 
 another. The result <^f the jioet's meditation is neither man 
 alone, nor iiatun^ alone, but some fair spiritual child of their 
 espousals. This, I maintain, is somewhat distinctively new and 
 precious added to our intellectual and emotional treasure. 
 
 SwKET. "Shelley Society Papers," 1. Pt. I J. 
 
 This is the most elaborate study of Shelley's nature j)o(>try that 
 has hitherto appeared. 
 
 Shellei/'s Place in the Dei't'/o/unenf of Xdlnre Poetry, 
 
 The author briefly surveys the wide held of woild literatures 
 
 where the natui'e idea finds its inception and development, The 
 
 The Vedic natun; poetry is important in connection with 
 
 Vedas. Shelley's mythology; "nor in a consideration of Shelley's 
 
 attitude towards nature must we disregard the Teutotiic and the 
 
 Celtic elements in his poetry. To the former wt; 
 
 Teutonic and relate his feeling for mysterv, and to tlie latter 
 
 Celtic Elements. i- ^i ? ^■ " \' e \ ■ \ 
 
 we refer the extraordinary keenness or Ins colour 
 
 faculty. Shelley's tlesciiption of the imagined ruins of N'enice in the 
 ' Euganean Hill.s,' witli the sea-mew tlying above, and the palace gate 
 ' toppling o'er the abandoned sea,' recalls . . . that as[»ect of < )ld 
 English lyric j)oetry lepresented by 'The Wanderer,' and the im- 
 pressive fragment known as 'The Kuin.' . . . Shelley heightens. 
 the eti'ect, almost as in ' Jk'owulf,' Ijy 
 
 " ' Tiie fisher on his watery w.-iy. 
 Wandering at tlie clo.se of day,' 
 
 hastening to pass the gloomy shore 
 
 " ■ Ia'.-^I tliy di'ad shoulil. from their sleep 
 liufsling o'ei' the stailigiit deep, 
 Lead a rapid nia.s(nio ot deatli 
 O'er the waters of his ])atli 1 ' 
 
 "The * natural magic' of such a description as this is, or, at least, 
 might be, wholly Knglish, wholly Teutonic strange as such an 
 a.s.sertion may seem to a critic like Mr. Arnold, wliose ideas of the 
 
 * See Ruskin's " Modern Painters, '' I't. IN'., Vol. III. 
 
14 
 
 Tfutoiiic spirit are j,Miiu'(l fnmi a one-sided <;(iiiterjij)lation of modern 
 (Jenuaii literalure at a period wlieii it was still stiuuirliii'' for the 
 mastery of the rudiiiieiits of style and technit|ue, lost in the barharism 
 of the Thirty Y'ears' W'ai-. 
 
 " Shelley's jxHTji ' The Ijuestion.' is . . . as purely Celtic both 
 in its colour pictures, . . . and its ethereal unreality and delicate, 
 fanciful sentiment. It need hardly be said that this ' Celtic note' in 
 Shelley no more proves Celtic race-intluence than the '(ireek note' in 
 Keats pi'uves that Keats wasof Cireek descent. Shelley looks at nature 
 with the same eyes as an old Celtic j»oet, becausi- Ijoth weic inspired 
 by The sam« sky and earth, Ixjth loved the same flowers, fields and 
 foi'ests.' 
 
 After tracing' I'higlish naturi; jxietry to tlu; fii-st truly modern 
 concei)ti(ni in Milton, the wi'iter swiftly passes the inttMveiiing {)eriod 
 and prticet'ds to a discussion of Shelley's work in closer detail. 
 
 ShrJlf'i/ nml Woiultorortli, 
 
 "Shelley's real sympathies are with inanimate nature. Here; he 
 is at home. Here he is Mniijue and supreme. He is indeed 'the poet 
 of nature' in a truer sense than Woi'dsworih is. Woi'dswottii is 
 really llie jioe! of the lionn'ly, the connnon-plaee in nature as in man. 
 Whatever in nature harm(»ni/,es with his own narrow sympathies he 
 assimilates and reproiluces with a power all his own. . . . Sheljev, 
 on the other luoid, seeks to peneti-ate ii\to the \ery heait of nature in 
 all her manifestations, without rei^^ard to their association with human 
 feelini,'. \Vhih' in his treatment of man he is all subjecti\ity, in his 
 . . . ticatment of nature he is often pureiv ol)jeeti\-e. In 
 jec ivi y. ^y^^.\^ ;^ j„„v|,, ;,s ''p),,. C'loiid ' lln-re is not on I v no ti'ace 
 of W'oi'dswoi'thiaii e;^i)tism. but the whole description ... is ;ts 
 I'cinote from human feelin,;;- as it could well be, eoiisistent with tlu> 
 poetic necessity for j)ersonitication.''* 
 
 (/osiinr (Dili KIcinoitdl SiimjtiitliK'K.y 
 
 'The ran^c of Shelley's synipatliies is bounded onlv 1)V ihe 
 
 unixerse itself, lie combines forests, mountains, rivers and seas 
 
 into \ ast ideal l.-indscapes : he dives into the depth.s of 
 
 N/astness of ihe earth, soars anions clouds and storms, and com- 
 
 Lundscape. uiunes ' with the sphere of sun and moon." " 
 
 f.oro of Iii(li't'uiUi')i>'ss Kiiil CIkukji'.I 
 
 " Shelley's love of the chani^ini,' and tleetiiiijf aspect.s f)f nature — 
 the interest with which he watclK^l the formation of mist and cloud 
 
 * Cf. ■^ii/,i-f(, Stdpt'ord iJiooke. 
 
 t Sec iilso ItiMMilcs" " llMMptstKinnin.'cii," IV., pp. 24^/', mid Clicvrilloii in 
 /,'i nil tir I'lirls, .luiic 1st. j.SilS. 
 ';. <'/. sii/i)-ii. Stopford iiiniiko 
 
15 
 
 aiul the shiftinj^ hues of dawn and sunset — is, like his sensf <.f 
 stiuctuic, a natural lesult of tlic half-scicntitic spiiit with which he 
 rPi,Mi'dc(l nature, toe it is in the chanxint; plifnuniena of natuic that 
 real lite lies. According,' to Mr. JJrooke, ShcUcy s Idve for the chanj^eful 
 in nature is the result of tlie inherent (•lian<fefuln<'ss of his teuiiierainent. 
 But of this I eaii see hut littk^ in iiis hfe. He was ini])ulsi\e enough 
 — foi' witliout impulsiveness he would hardly have been a poet — Ijut 
 not liekle oi- undeciih^d in his feeling's and [irineiples. 
 
 Slielh'ys M iilli')l<)f/ij mid Jf>/l/i(>j>n ir Faciiltij. 
 
 (CY. sil/int, STul'KMltll IJliOOKK.) 
 
 '•Shelley's love of natural phenomena sometimes sIkiws itself in 
 naive expressions (»f delii^'ht, and simple eoniparisons whieh r<'mind us 
 of the natuie poetry of the Veda" {>;.;/., "Witch of Atlas," XXVII.) 
 
 After refeii'in^ to the employment of a conventional nivtholoirv 
 by other poets, the essayist notes it as a chai'acteristic of Shejlcv that 
 he is without a tract; of that conventionalism. "'lie m'\ci' iirinijs in 
 the lii^'ures of classical mytholoify incidentally, hut (tnly when tliev are 
 the sultject of his poetry, and his liandlinLC of them in such cases is 
 always fiesh and original, as in his 'llvniii to Apnjlo' the most 
 peifect repi'odiiction of the s])irit of (Jreek m\'tholo<fv that we ha\i' in 
 modern litei'ature. His conception of Ju|)iter in his ' Proniet lleu^' is 
 <iuite new and oriijinal he makes him the personitication of all that 
 hinders the fret; development of the human nun<l, which lattei' is 
 personilied hy Prometheus. 
 
 "We see, then, that even where Shelley is trauuneled liv tra- 
 ditional mytholoiiy, he reveals something of that niyth-niaking faculty 
 in which lie stands alone among modern poets— the oidv <in'' 
 who at all appioaclies him in this respect licing his contemporary, 
 tlie Swedish pmt, Stagnelius. When Shelley is fi'ce to follow his 
 own fancy, he instinctively creates iiat ure myt lis of a strangely 
 l)rimitive type, unlike anything in (ireek or the other full v-developed 
 mythologies, hut showing maiked similarity to the personilications of 
 Vedas. ... It is not oidy Shelley critics who iiavc been struck 
 l)y this characteristic. .Mr. Taylor, in his 'Anthropology' (page L'UU), 
 after remark iiiLt tha.t the niodein poet 'still uses for piciuresipu'ness the 
 metaphors which to the l>aibarian were real helps to express his 
 sen.se,' goes on to (piote as an instance the opening lines of '(^)ueen 
 Mab,' . . and analyzes them as follows: •lleie tin- likeness of 
 
 death and sleep is expressed liy the inetaj)hor of calling tlu-m 
 brothers: the ino(»n is brought in to illiistrat(! the notion of [laleness, 
 the ilawn of redness; while to convey the idea of dawn shining on the 
 sea, the simile of its sitting on a throne is introduced, and its 
 reddening is compared on the one hand to a rose, and on the 
 other to blushing. Now, this is the very way in which i-ai'ly Itar- 
 baric man, not for poetic atlectation, but simply to find the plainest 
 
16 
 
 words tu coiiNoy liis tlicuglits, u„ul(l t;ilk in metaphors tHl«.|i from 
 nature. ' 
 
 "One of the l)est •'xuniplos of Shelley's myth-niakinj,' faculty is the 
 little )M)(.m, 'I'he World's Wanderers' (I V/.-)l), . . . as remote 
 as any thin-,' can well he from mo.lern thou,i,dil an<l sentiment. Its 
 nnagery and its stranfj;e unhnnian pathos are alike primitive and 
 elemental. Th.' .same symi)athy with the heavenlv hodies in their 
 wanderings through space has Ijeen expressed hy sonu' of the older 
 (Jreek lyiic poets, hut the conception of tlie star'.s ravs as wintjs can 
 hardly he paralleled outside of the 'N'eda.'" 
 
 Cloud J/yMo/oy//-See " J,aon," II. \ , and l.\. .wxv. ■ ••('loud " 
 73; Prom. II. i. 14;"). 
 
 CliHt'l Cota/xn-iiiinis—Heii " Summiir and Winter''' '■ Hlleas " 
 9.->7 ; "Witch," XLVIII., LII., LV. ; MlMity, 5. 
 
 SlIKI.LKv's (JOLOUK SknsK. 
 ( r/'A in/ra. Allniilir .]f<iii//i/i/, I.W.) 
 Quotations and references are made under a variety of rul.ries. 
 F/us/ihif/ and i/ifeniiitlent liylit.. 
 
 "Pn.m." JJ. iii. :\0 and IV. \&1 ■ "P:pips." .-)4G : "Dejection" 
 II. : "()rpheus, " oil. 
 
 A/lmitifioiis (if li(jlit (tiid nlinde. 
 
 "Laon.- II. xli.x. and XII. xxxvi. ; "Athanase." JI. xiii and 
 
 II. 1.: "Hosal." 102: "Prom.'' I. l'7 and I. G7S ; -Sens 
 Plant," II. IT).- " Alast.' .'UO. ^ - • 
 
 Afnios/>heri(' njfh'ts. 
 
 "Pnmi." I. S2, II. i. 10 and II. iii. 74; " Laon," III ii, • 
 " liosal," 7lM) ; " Dejection,"' I. ; •• Witch,'' XXXV II. 
 Liyht seen thrnmjk u-ater. 
 "Witch," XXVIII. 
 Lujht xeen thro'iyli /ullage. 
 
 "Laon," n. i., VII. xi., VIII. xxx. and XII. xviii. ; ' Prom" 
 ri. 11. 75; "Sens. Plant," I. l>;3 and I. 43 ; " Kpips.'' -)&1. 
 l^ransniitted light. 
 
 " Letter to Maria Ciishorne," 123. 
 Refrarted light. 
 
 " Alast." 334; "Laon," VII. 20. 
 Reflected liyht or colour. 
 
 " Alast." 352; "Laon," I. xx,, III. xii. and XII. xviii ; "Prom " 
 1.46/, T. (43 and II. iii. 28; "Witch," XXV.: "Recollec- 
 tion," \'. 
 
17 
 
 (thjectn rejiei-ted in nater. 
 
 "Ahist." 200, -IV.S, lOti, \:u, nt4 ; " I.aoii," III. xi. and VI. 
 xx.viii. : "Prom." III. iv. 78 and l\'. 193; " Simis. Plant," 
 I. IS ; " West Wind," III. '.Vi-\S') ; "Invitation," r)0 
 
 lection,"");*. Alsoronipaii' *• l'iH)ni. ~ 
 
 "IVele Castle, ' and rf. Sliellev, " 
 VI : "Witch," LIX.' 
 
 Cohmr Contrast. 
 
 " Alast." l;!7, nst : " Uosal." 7; 
 " Laon.' I. xi. 
 
 Kecoi- 
 
 II. i. 17. witli Wordsworth, 
 Kvening," III. ; 'Liberty," 
 
 Si.>; "Prom." I IT. iii. 139; 
 "Witch,' X.; "Marcn-hi," XIII. 
 
 Sliilley (1)1(1 C(>l>'r'iil(ie. 
 
 " Coleridj^'e's atlinily to Shelley is shown especially in his <lescrip- 
 tions of transmitted light and col 
 pictures of reflection in water. 
 
 and in his elaborate 
 
 J -....„ iJut Coleridge does not 
 
 appear to have, any more than Wordsworth or Milton, any example's 
 of I'etlected light or colour as distinguished from the reflection of 
 definite ol)iects : Shelley s picture of the 'lake-reflected sun" illumin- 
 ing the 'yellow bees in the ivy l)loom ' seems to be entirely his own. 
 The similarity between the two poets (Coleri<)gr and S. ) 
 in tlieii' treatment of light does not seem to be the result of imita- 
 tion on the part of the younger poet : the agreement is in spirit, not 
 in detail. The love (jf light was instinctive in both, and was fostered 
 Ijy their surrouncjings. Coleridge learnt to observe and love the 
 effects of transmitted and reflected light in the; shady lanes, and l)y 
 the rivulets and jiools of his native Devon, while Shelley learnt the 
 same lessons in the woods of Marlowe and in his boat on the Thames." 
 
 Colozir Sense— {Continued). 
 
 An admira!)le study of Shelley's artistic use of c(jlour is contained 
 in Atliintic Mouthlij, LXX. (V. \). Scudder). Tlie analysis follows. 
 
 Colour ill Kudtfi and Shell I'll . 
 
 Ft is only in the nineteenth centuiy that the poets have become 
 great colourists : and no one but Keats can in this respect rival the 
 greatness of Shelley. Jf Keats has more force of colour, Shelley has 
 more purity. Keats' colouring is opacjue, though brilliant, like that 
 of a butterfly's wing; Shelley's is translucent, like an opal. Ruskin 
 tells us that nature always paints her loveliest hues on acjueous or 
 crystalline matter ; and the very law of nature seems to be the 
 instinct of Shellev. 
 
 higher 
 
 Colour in " I'romethens Unbound'^ 
 
 " IJut the colour in ' Prometheus ddj<jund ' has a 
 function than to vivify the detail of the poem, or to give us a series 
 of extjuisite vignettes. The drama, by the use of light and colour, 
 is shaped to aH organic whole. It shows the harmonious evolution 
 
IS 
 
 of a LM'iitral tliciiit'; anil this ex oluiion is syiiilxtlically |iit'.st'iiUM| 
 tliroiiyli the |in»i;r<'.ss of t\n) new cosmic day.' Ilic writer ficvclops 
 this thesis skilfully and at souk; lenj,'th in the remainder (jf the 
 essay. KeferriiiL; in more L,'eneral terms to Shelley s nature poetry — 
 "It is in the treatment of nature that the distinetixe iiowcrs of 
 Shelley's jxx'try are most clearly seen. 'i'lie ' I'rometheus " is in one 
 sense a natm'e-drama. The Soul of Natine is herself one of the 
 per.sona;,'es. We are transjiortcMl from the wildest mountain scenery 
 to tlie lu.Kuriance of tropical valleys. Sky cleaving peaks, glacier.s, 
 precipices, vast rivers, lakes, forests, me((t us on every page. WehaNc 
 a sense that tin; drama is foi- the most part enacted on \\\o heights, 
 where, the air is pui'e fr'onr earthly taint, and heaven and earth seem 
 to blend, 'i'he sky scenery, ahove all, with its pomp aird glooiir of 
 stornr, its sutn'ise and sutrset, its ' llocks of clouds in spring s delight 
 fid weathei',' is as great as eair he founil in l^nglish poetry : yet the 
 hold outline work, the strong and hroad tr-eatment of 
 Vastness the vaster aspects of nature, reveal tht; pttet less tharr 
 
 and 
 Delicacy. 
 
 the renderings of delicate detail, of Meeting sights arrd 
 sounds lost on a grosser' per'cept ion. 
 See "Prom." I. U 17: 11. i. S.', SC, ; II. v. 11 11: III. ii. 1-9; 
 III. ii. -Jo-liS ; IV. 180-lSl : IV. I.'M-IMC. 
 
 Th(! sensitiveness and passiorr for chairge wliich we have seen to he 
 th(; notes of Slujlley's temper'ament, are evident in evtM-y one; of these 
 passages. (('/. .siipni, Stopford lli-ooke.) "It is doubtful whether 
 any poet before our century, whatever his eipriprrrrnt, could so 
 closely and finely have rendered the nrinulia- of rratur-e." 
 
 The latest systematic i)r"esentat ion in Knglish ci'iticism of Shelley's 
 
 nature poetr-y is contained itr KtiANcis l'.\L(;i!AVt:'s ' Landscape in 
 
 Poetr-y,' Macmillan iV: Co., 1S97. The treatnuMit is sketchy and 
 
 unsatisfactory, and, if anything, hostile in tone. He ol)jects that 
 
 Shelley's landscape "is inevitably limited and d3'e(l l)y the colours of 
 
 his miiul ; . . . that no true poet of any age has left us so gigantic 
 
 a mass of wasted eih)r't, exuberance so Asiatic, such oceans (to speak 
 
 out) of lluent, well-intend(>d platitude" His shorter- and chietly 
 
 his later lyrics show him to the best advantage. " Yet even her-e at 
 
 times the matter is attenuated as the Jilm of the soap-bubble, gaining 
 
 through its very thinness its marvellous iridescent beauty. ' Shelley 
 
 seems to go up and bui-st,' was Tennyson's remark on a passage of 
 
 this character. 
 
 "In his best moods, wliere he has focussed his eye 
 
 Vivifying ,),^ jjj^ subject, it has that strange power of vitalizing 
 Power. . , . 
 
 abstr-actions and things of nature on which Macaulay 
 
 has commented in his br-illiant manner-. 
 
 " AVe must not look in his landscape for liuman feeling 
 
 Lack of interfused as in Coleridge's, for the chord of true passion, 
 
 uman ^^^, ^^ ^j^^ humaidy pathetic, Shelley could scat-cely strike ; 
 
 nor again for Nature moralized and spiritualized, as by 
 
10 
 
 AV..r.l>NS(..tIi ; Slii'llcys landscupp is ."ssentiallv (Icscriptivc. l)iit i;iis,<l 
 t.. u iitV ot Its own l.y fin inwiyiiiativc }u)w,.r of immIi.ij.s imsurnassoti 
 luiiv Mvi.lness, iin.j il,,u iK;rsoi,ifvint,' h.ihit wliidi w,. haw just 
 noticed." 
 
 Liti-iiil tiutliand lidplity ,,f <|(..scTi|)tion is iiccordcd (o ih,- hind- 
 scap.. in tli.^ •• Kuu.in.'.'in Hills.' and fo a few pas.sa.^'c.s from Ids later 
 
 Ivrics. 
 
 II. 
 
 r have now i,dven the suhstance of the most in.|)ortant studies on 
 til.- sul.jeet ot Shelley s nature poetrv, and in the ,•„».•«,. of this 
 pres.-ntation have found it necessary to .onihat oidv the •■xtrenie 
 wens which ol.taui with reference to the poet's i.leali^tic tendencies 
 lo ..l.tain a satisfactorily complete idea of Shelh-y's nature poetry 
 the existing criticism has to he ..xtend..,! an.l suppl.Mi.cnted in many 
 (hrections. W ith this end in view, I have endeavoured 
 
 1. To hrini; to hear upon the prol)l,.m an entirely new method of 
 examiiiation (namely, the study of the Similes). 
 
 Tn supi)lement investi-,'a"tions such a.s Sweets, whose only faidt 
 
 their incompleteness. 
 
 lies 111 
 
 I. A STL'DY OF SHELLEY S SLMLLES. 
 
 I here advance a lar-e amount of material, arranged in such a 
 manner as to throw abundant light upon Shelley's treatment of 
 beauty in the external world, to illustrate his preferenoe.s and the 
 iiu ividual peculiarities of his genius, and to exhibit his marNellous 
 skill 111 adapting the world of nature to the elucidation of subtle 
 intellectual states. 
 
 The wealth of Slu'lley's figurative language, and the extraordinary 
 range (,t his .similes have stirred the wonder of critics, and led them 
 to afhnn m his poetry a brilliancy that blinds and dazzles with 
 excess. I wish, on the contrary, to alHrin their artistic perfection 
 as constantly subordinated to some dstined and conscious a-sthetic 
 impulse. 
 
 Shelley's own opinion of the nature of his powers \vill serve 
 as a valuable initial commentary upon this portion of my work 
 "And in this r liave long believed that my power consi.sts in sym- 
 pathy, and that part of the imagination which relates to sympatliy 
 and contemplation. I am formed, if for anything not in common 
 
80 
 
 with (lif herd of inaiikind, In ti/ipre/icud minnfe and rnnotf ili.^fiiic- 
 lions It/ fft'liiKj, ii-lii'tliif rr/iifin; tn p.ilinidl niitiir>' nr tliP. lirin;/ lirini/ii 
 u'hiih xnrrouhd itn, and to coiimiuniciiU' the fonccpt ions wliidi result 
 from considcrini,' citlH-r tlin moral or tin- iiifitcrial universe as a 
 y/hoU'."— Li'/frr /n (,'odiri7i, Dccfnilu'r lltli, Ii^l7. 
 
 It is clear, then, that we have in a systematic presentation ot' the 
 similes an important factor which has never entered iirto the con- 
 sideration of Shelley's Nature poetry; and in the liuht of his fi-jriir-a- 
 tive lan,i,'ua<;e we may r-ead the sul)tler' operations of his mind, and 
 set! the paths upon which it was prone to run, in as far as human 
 limitatioirs •'rant us such air insi'dit. 
 
 •2. KXTKXSION OF KXISTIN(i CKITIC'ISM.* 
 
 The foUowinij investigations are e.\t 'nded : 
 
 (ii) Lore oj I inh'ji nifi'iii'ss aiid tlir Lon: of Clm in/i'. 
 
 Tn these characteristics of .Shelley's genius, Stopfitid I'.rooke 
 iissumes to discover' the key to his philosophy oi Nature, 'i'he 
 analysis is skilfully conducted, and it is im|)ossil)le to dispute the fact 
 that Shelley's changeful temi)ei'ament is miri'ored faithfully in his 
 poetry. iiut while not actually challenging these results, it is 
 possible to show that they are misapplied. It seemed necessary, 
 ther-efoce, to investigate afresh Shelley's philosophy of Nature, to 
 connecc it with his theor-y of Meauty, and to point at least to some 
 peiriianent and al)i(iing ideas which give chai'acter- an(] solidity to 
 Sh"lley's woi'k in this direction. 
 
 (h) Shelh'ijs I'liu'i- in f/ie Derelopmejit of Naturi' I'oi'fri/. 
 
 Sweet lias made a genei-al apj)roach to this subject. Jn connec- 
 tion with Shelley's philosojihy of Nature, more special r-efeience than 
 in J)r-. Sweet's essay must be made to Shelley in his relation to 
 Wordsworth, and in a lesser degree to Coleridge, Scott, Byi-on, and 
 Keats. 
 
 {c) Colour ill She/le/f's Poetrij. 
 
 This has already received ti'eatment in Section I. It only 
 i-emauis, after the analysis of the colour similes given below, ti> 
 supplement the categories which Sweet has established. 
 
 * NoTK.— Tills second seotion of the study, compfislug II. '1 {a), (//). and 
 ((•), will l)e shortly jiuhlislied. 
 
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 1. ANALYSIS OF TIIK SI MILKS. 
 
 'I'lir total mmilM'f of similes in Slidlcy's poctrv is 1 OSO. TIm^ 
 al)<)\f fullcctidii contains IT'JO, all of wliii-h liavo a ht'aritii,' tipoii 
 apiM-aianres of the extciiial world, wlictlici' developed for the sake of 
 theii- own beauty of sulxd'dinated to the illumination of sulttle 
 mental operations. This faet is in itself sij^nitieant. 
 
 I now pass to a consideiat ion of the \arious classes of simile in 
 some detail. The basis of arrangement is not a merelv art ilicial clas- 
 sitication, but is founded upon the most prominent chai'acteiistic in 
 every case; tiiou;,di all are l)roadly included within the generic title 
 of Natun; Similes. 
 
 (1) SlMM,KS OF COLOUK.* 
 
 The similes in which colour is the most prominent feature numlier 
 ll.'.>, whereas colour as a more sulxlue*] element may be obseived in 
 many moie. (Jom{)aring this result proportionately with the similes 
 arisinj,' from other senses tiian that of si<,'ht, we find that Similes of 
 Soutid amount to 210, while Similes of Odour naturally sink to I 'J. 
 I'^xaminiiii^ th(^ Similes of (!olour more closely they fall into various 
 natural subdivisions. 
 
 (^0 Cl-Ol! COLOl'K. 
 
 It satisfies our preconceived idea of Shelley's po(;try to discover 
 
 that 5!) similes involve more or- less careful aiul beautiful cloud 
 
 tlescri))tions (always bearinj,' in mind that many aduurable cloud 
 
 similes occur in other cate«,'ories). \\y reference to •_', ','>, 4, 9, II, 1 .'5, 
 
 . . •"»-, •")y, w(! <fain an insi<,dit into Shelley's habitual 
 
 Descriptions ,„ethod of describiii'' human (or spiritual) forms. 
 
 of men and ,, , . ^ , .^ • i i- .• , 
 
 women. Here lus tendency to ideal ':'.ation mars the concrete; 
 
 presentation of form and feature. His women are 
 filmy shapes of dia])hanous vapour, and even his men are eft'eminate 
 creations entirely wanting in masculine vi<i;our, and impelled alone by 
 the fierce unrest of the spiritual flame within. To confirm this 
 statement further reference should be made to tlu; following pas- 
 sages in the poems. 
 
 Desrrij)/i(in.-: of Wouicn. 
 
 See '' Alastor," IT-y'; " L'lon," 1 1. .\.xiii.,'I I. xxix., V. \\\\\t\ V. xliv. 
 
 Di'scriptioiis of M''n (or male spirits). 
 
 " Laon,'" I. xlii., I. Ivii., IV. xxix.; "IJosalind," 90'.»//; lOO'.)/'; 
 "Prince Ath." passim. 
 
 Shelley's descriptions of men are certainly vitiated by this ex- 
 cessive idealism. Contrast, for example, the brawn and muscle of 
 Goethe's "Prometheus," or of Tennyson's "Oeraint" — 
 
 * Tie analyj'is wiiic-ii follows is in part an extension of SweotV categories 
 (see pp. It), 17). 
 
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 » 
 
 " WIk., moviriy, (list ill,, (dvcrlfl Msi.l.., 
 
 .Aii.l l.iitf.l til., kiinttrd ('..liiiiiii ut Ins tinual, 
 I In- iiiiiMsivu .i|iiiir.. of his liniii). liccaMt, 
 AiMJaitiis on whi.li th.. Htan.liiiK iniisrl.' s1o|h..I 
 •As Nl<i|>osa wil.l l.rook (I'mi littirHtoM.., 
 luifimiig too vt.li..|ii,.ntl,v to liirak u|ion it. 
 And ImikI \voki. ami sat' lusid.. |||,. .oii.li 
 
 .Admiring liiiii, aiKJ tlioMj.'lit xNitliiii h.-iscit. 
 \N (IN (.v..r man so grandly madt. us lif'/ '-. 
 
 or Ki,.liM;;s ......uns,.i..us Ium.k's with Inmcst swout ..f toil nn thnr 
 
 ba'MMH.i ,u.,.s. Tin. .nu.|.M„ svuH.I l.Hs ,|u,M. .,tl, ,„..... l,ow..v,.r 
 
 <'NM,n,.nt tl.o.r eyos un.l ^^-stums. wl.o wr..,, ,uul fuint will, w,.;uiM.-ss 
 M'.v un- u s.Mv.val uf .s..v..nt.-..„tj, century Fn.,.,-!, .s,.nti.n..t.tHlity, 
 utt. ,lv u i.'M to tin. h,,.hsl. IrmiH'vnmvut, u,i,| ,,s ha,.,.ilv hini.-.l in the 
 l-ast us he .SutHiMs.n .,t Jiynm's hm-.l .d' .li'stinv liraininl hemes 
 . M.'ahs.n. SN hnh was the weakness of ShelN'-ys n.asculine li-ures, 
 IS an ele.nent that uitc-nsiHes th." h.-auty of his women. They are .lo^ 
 who! y ahslraeUons ot ,loml an-l vapour. The ^enerai in'.pression 
 h.eh their < esenj.t.on •■ouveys may he hewil.ierinu'. hut omIv heeause 
 tlie iina-es whieh .len.de it an- i..er-e.| in the Meal of Ueauty,- 
 
 "Tiil tli(.y iiio lo.st, and in i|,at Mt.aiitv tinl(.(l 
 U hK.li iK'nctiatcs and clasps and tills i lu. woild 
 Sfarco visihir troin i.\tr(.|iK. lo\(.|ini.ss." 
 
 Clouds ill, ropo.s, ,„• s/ow-)ii(>riii(/ (or yapours). 
 
 ]'\r{ U-<r' ^'' "*'' '^^^'' '^" '^'•'**' "' ^l-''^'!' L-itegories L'!'."), j i>!M), \-2<tQ^ 
 
 C/oiuis i?i siri/y iiiofio)! (or ytiiMiuvs). 
 
 ii^i, 1491. 149r, l..;U, 1.0(i7, ir,7S, I7()(j. 
 
 A pre-nant contrast between Shelley and Wordsworth is afl'orded 
 by the.r resj.ectiy,. ,leseriptions of elouds, Shelley p.-eferriny habilu- 
 ally to reyel m their sw.ftnes.s, and Wordsworth to rejoiee in their 
 <I«'«'I> n'pos.>. I he strenuous palpitating' swiftness of Shellev is 
 .vrtamly never attained by the elder i.o,.t, thou-h he has his niou'ients 
 of keen participation in the ardours of rapid motion, as witness his 
 noble po.'iii, "To the Clouds." 
 
 The loye of speed xyas root.-d in Shelley's temperament (as the 
 similes of swiftness attest), an.l the elouds he paints are suHused also 
 with an intensity and purity of colour which no K.nrlish poet has 
 cvor approached. or 
 
 Intnisiti/ of Cofour in C/ond Similes. 
 n, 18, I!), L'G, .SO, 4;?, 50. 
 
 Co/ our Confrnsf, ,'"), 12, l.'i, 21. 
 
 Tmitmiittcd r/ujhf, •.V^, 3?, 3S, 40, 45, 40, 51, 55. 
 
{/i} W A I i;ii ( 'oi.iii II .'Ui similt's, 
 
 Trims, nith,/ /J,,/,/, *',:>, 71 ; AV/ArVv/, 71, \Kt ■ IntinHil,/, (;i, !Mj • 
 Cnntranf, <1|, Ci.i, 71, '.•!. 
 
 ('•) Till-: Si N ;{1 similes. 
 
 Triiiisniiffrii, r_'| ; J,iti;n.iit,/, |()(». lis, |-_'(». I'Jl ; Cnntmst, IfM. 
 
 ('/) TiiK .M(»(..\ — 'I'l Himilcs. 
 
 Ti-ansmitte'l, l;{:», |;5ti, I H, IIS; li,il,,t,;l, 1l>!i, I J-J ; liitnisiti 
 13.% \:V.\ ll.'i; Cnnfnisf, I I'S. 
 
 («) Tin; SiAits -;i7 similes, and sec under (J). 
 
 Tniiisiiiiffeii, !.")!(, 1(17, MIS; Hrlln-tnl, 1 I'.l, I o I ; Int.Hsih,^ I'HS 
 (in context), Kll, Kiii, 17<i: Cnntni.sf, lOS; Motioti, 17M, 
 
 17s (lesei'scs attention, wlieic the li<,'lit of a stai' is compared to 
 the scent of a jon<niil. One sense intei|.reie(| l»y another. 
 
 (/) lj<iiiTMN(; II similes. 
 
 Tnnis.iillt,:,!, lS7: R'jl.ch,!, \W1 ■ C<n,lni.sf, Is7, I 'J I. 
 (i7) .Mktkous, C'o\ii;ts,-I I similes. 
 (A) Tin: Skv 111 similes. 
 
 I!i'j!'il,'(l, -l-l't \ /iifrN.il/;/, -21:). 
 (I) Vinv. -L';{ similes. 
 
 /n/«;t«tVy, •j:57, L»:;!», L'll. L'17, l»48. 
 (j) KvKs— ."50 similes. 
 Iiasis of (•(impaiison : 
 
 Fin; i>.j;{: Sfars. '2:>{, 'jrut, l'.jS, l>»;.",, L>(i | (N.f5.), l'70, 277, 
 L'S-J ; Mrt.'orx, •_'.")(■.; .IA,o// (-li^'lit), L'r)7, l'7;') ; Sinisff, 2(u ; 
 Dain,,'l(\-1\ Xi'jht, ii7l, •J7S; Li;/htnin(/, '2r)0: Sky, •-'(;'», i>7;'. ; 
 
 A»JV, •_'(■)(;; .S'Av'yy, L'ClJ ; Ihatll, L'lil. 
 
 ///^'/^s(7//, L'(i7 (N.l'..); rf>;,/m,s^ St).'}, L'C.7. 
 (X) I )AitKNKss, Shadow .'51' similes. 
 
 Note especially for their i'oldness, 2l)"t and L"J7. 
 (/) WiiiTK j.K.iiT IS similes. 
 
 |]asis of comparison : 
 
 .S'Ho/r, .".lo, 3i»;, 317, :ns, ;5l'|, ;vj^ :iL>!). :53i 
 
 Silver, 319; Froxt, '.Vl'l. 
 
 (irni'Komr in charactei-. Wl'.S, 3l!7. ' 
 
 {m) (jiKNEUAL Cf)i,ori{ SiMiLi:.s — 9:5 similes. 
 
 J'ransmitfi'il or ,s'^///ks'ef/ colours, :]'y2, :]:>[), odl, 391, 393, ;}9:), 
 107, i\'2, 417. In othei' cate«,'ories, 548. 
 Rfjlected, 334, '.\^r2 : /ufpusitt/, 413 (N.P,.) 
 Contrast, 335, 33S, 347, 3G;j, ;377, 412, 413 (X.IJ.) 
 Zt<//i< ej'pres,sed m ^e>v/<A' of music, 307 (<;/! supra, 178). 
 
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 {2} SiMiLKs OF 80UN1:) — 210 similes. 
 
 Many points of interest arise in this cate^'orv to a(lniinil)lv illustrate 
 the r.iw^r of Shelley's sympathies. As .Sweet''in his su-j,'estive study 
 observes: "The rani,'e of Shelley's sympathies is hounded oidy hy 
 the universe itself. He combines forests, mountains, rivers, and seas 
 into vast ideal landscai)es ; he dives into tlie depths of the earth, 
 soais anions clouds and storms, and communes with th<" sphere of sun 
 and nux.n." So here we find a IJyronic exultation in the stormy 
 symphonies wliich are tlie xoice of natures unrest, and a subtle 
 penetratini,' sympathy, to which l5yron's coarser-fibred .spirit was not 
 attuned, for tlie delicate eddies of sound that steal upon the sense in 
 an hour of calm. 
 
 Thundfr tilYordi^ the basis of comparison in tlnve unremarkable 
 similes, 4G0, 462, 'MVJ, 
 
 Earth,,,(ak.; 4:59, 47(i, and 474, where the hush between two 
 eartlupiakes symbolizes the awed silence of a multitude. 
 
 Volcano. The cry of a multitude bursts like a volrano's voice 
 in 4()4. 
 
 Ti'mpest; and wild outbursts of .sound are comi.aivd in 504 to a 
 tempestuous wind tearin.i;- the slu.ygish clouds, and less successfully in 
 4;3U (fiom an early poem) to the weii'd notes of a wind amont;"the 
 trees. 440. 40(), G;M, describe the silence in the pauses of tempest. 
 H-.^an ,.'^''^ similes descriptive of the hnmxn roice abound in 
 Voice. 'l^'l'^-'ite pei'ception. The bases of comparison for the 
 human voice are as follows : /y/n/, 43(), G02 : Wind in trees, 
 4:?S, (-I4G): Wind amomj Jlowers, 481; Di/ln,/ Wind, 4.^)S 471- 
 Wind on n-afrr, 427 : Wmd in rnins, 42i), G 1 2, G2G, {rf. 873) :' Wind, 
 428; I</nnn', 482; (Words=Fire, r)G3 ; EniUrs, r,72) ; Av. 47tJ ; 
 Sfream, irii, 4:).'), 457; Wares on mm/, ^SO ; A/nsi.- 434 4:)-'> 483* 
 484, .)0o, oOG, 587; Wafer/a//s, 133; /.;,,/>(, Gl!); S/n>nf J Sea '477- 
 bound ~ Sea, 478. ' 
 
 The characteristic manner, already illusti'ate.l. of expressing one 
 sense in terms of anothei' is illustrated as follows: Sonnd = l>ight 
 with -enerally l)right light superadded, 441, 441), 533, 548, 549, 557* 
 0/4, o7o, and see above where lo;,v= Flame, Fire, Light' etc' 
 Sonnd.= Odonvs. 4G7, 488(X.|{.), 53(; (N,I5.); d rnesonte, U\, .m, 
 020, 022. 
 
 (3) SniiLKs OK Odouk— 12 similes. 
 
 Tlie sense of smell, as lovvei- on the intellectual plane, contains 
 naturally few similes. A few additional ones are contained in the 
 preceding category. 
 
 641 and G42 are more luxuriantly sensuous in character than is 
 usiial with Shelley, and remind one rather of Keats, or of Tennyson 
 111 ins studiously .sensuous mood as in the "Lotos Haters."' 
 
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 (1; SiMiLi: AM) Mi;taj'iioh-1S4 similes. 
 
 Ill this category siinilc and metaphor are conibitiod with hi<;li 
 poetic effect, the simile, as a rule, rising out of the body of the 
 nietaplKjr. This gives to the figurative expression, as a "whole, a 
 volume of sustained power, which is frequently lacking in the lighter 
 individual similes. Occasionally, as in G4!>, the simile seiuiis to 
 inspire the metaphor which follows as its natural con'i)letion. So 
 also 704, 7lL'-13, 714, 71G, 717, 81'.'). 
 
 Examples of the reverse process where the metaphor is completed 
 l>y a simile : 
 
 Go;3. Hope dbujs like ice. (In cases like this it is, however, 
 almost impossible to say whether the metaphorical idea of "hope 
 clinging" came first into the port's mind, and the simile expression 
 " like ice " came as a natural complement to the idea, or whetlier, as 
 the order' of words in the original suggests, the simile inspired the 
 metaphor. The former would be tlu^ more natural j)oetic setjuence of 
 ideas. ) 
 
 660. Agony is mini like a robe. 
 
 661. In the icihli'rnoss of years her memory appears like a green 
 home. 
 
 Notetvorfhii similes ia this cateyury. 
 
 690-1. (Imitated from "Calderon."" See Shelley's note.) Mere a 
 
 condition in Nature is elucidated and amplified by human analogy, 
 
 This reversal of the natural process of simile (fi'om human to naturaF 
 
 is not uncommon in Shelley, though rai-.' in othei' poets. 
 
 Observe, as I'epresenting manv others, the ma!i;nificent sinules, 
 7 1 •)„■{ 
 
 I) 
 
 I -i-w. 
 
 le 
 
 Oth(>r fine similes in this category are 717, 7 IS, 719, 7:?1, I'-Vl 
 745, 746, 7r)l, 761-2 (note the vigour and intensity, and also tin 
 element of colour), 76.") (cloud imagery), 766, 7S5, 791 (cloud imagery). 
 813 contains the gruesome element so common in Shelle\. 
 
 The similes in this category almosu al! repay study for the jtene- 
 trating insight wliich they reveal into beautiful processes in nature, 
 presented not alone for their own sake, but as revealing the significance 
 of human conditions. 
 
 In 73S the simile and metaphor are not in harmony— 'a blot upon 
 the page of fame' being likened to a 'serpent's path.' The analogy 
 is too remote to be successful. 
 
 (o) DorHi.E SiMii.Ks — 183 similes. 
 
 It will at once be evident that .some of these i)artake of the 
 characteristics of other categoi'ies, as for e\amj)le, 885, 887, which 
 might have been classified under Siinili- ami Mi'tophoi'. 
 
 P>ut taking even a doubtful example like 885, it will be seen 
 that theie is a certain parallelism of structure which justifies its 
 insertion among double similes. " As a golden chalice catches the 
 
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 bri-ht vyin,. which dse hml sunk i.ito tho thirstv .lust so is mv 
 overiloun.. love authored into thee." (as) Asia : cLl!;: (sc^j T ^ Ihl 
 
 This r-ntllelism o. double-thread of simile will be revealed by an 
 
 G'l-Kcsiime Shnl./es, S'M], S'jQ 1)39. 
 
 Accumnljitire Shnih's, S59/; 8S1/; 1)10/, ^d^-?„\ 1)89/; 998/' 
 
 "Trl^lavl^.v^i'1!'' ^'n>"'''lr' •^^""•'^?<^«'-i«tic of'sheliey" Readers of 
 
 irdawnys Jiecord will remember his interestin-/ relation of the 
 
 poet s own account of his nu.thods of composition. '' Whe^ Ty br vi^ 
 
 gets heated with thought it soon boils. 'and throws off in lis a S 
 
 z^ oi^^if T ' r r'^'i '•'"" ""''■ ^^ ^''^^ "-■•-^' -1- -^ed 
 
 •u^'n" " T •' '■" f^ ■^•<^tcl, .ts you justly call it, T shall attempt a 
 
 le Md>]. ^ '.'^^^''^' succession of imagery is also fou.ul apart from 
 
 uTHmm^ofT-f '^"^■'•"•'' l'^'^ '^""^ ^-^eed throughout the 
 
 090/ .75 ^/' - 7l'f: r- '' •"•''' •'^"^^^'^■^■^i^" of accunmlaf'l similes), 
 
 ^M, h/ .51,s/, ol.?/ this IS of the tvpe Double Simile but in 
 
 of i u ^ti e h"^ ^. W '"' "V^ ''^'"°'^'* "^^^^"^^^ ^^f ^''^ ^^^'^^^ rush 
 ^chklio;!;' ^fj; '' • "'"" ''" --umulatecl n.etaphors in <' Epip- 
 
 (6) HoMEKic 81MILE.S— 49 simile.s. 
 
 chapter '''' J:''''^^^'^^^ ^mW.. ai a more extende.i an,! pictorial 
 oha.acte,. As ,n the Honienc snnile proj.er, the analo-n' is not 
 Ha.ntamed through every detail of Jlu^ c.'m.parison. °'o le 
 contrary, there ne.-d be <,nly one essential point 'i contact, but e 
 a.tist.c in.pulse contmu.s to develop a sustained poeti . ima<.e 
 wrought out seemingly for the sake of its own beautv.'^^ind rati eJt 
 an in.a.-,nat.ve than as an intelh^ctual stimulus. The type is a fa i i' r 
 one to the student of the classical poets, or even of our own a^ 'X^ 
 nnnded poets, Milton, Tennvson, Arnold. I-:,, ''Iliad IV '"l 
 when on the c^huHig beach tl.e sea wave lifteth' itself up in 'serri^.d 
 array be ore the driving west wind : out on the mid deep doth it first 
 ra..s,.i,s head and then breaketh upon the land, and ruareth loud 
 
 afa Ul^f "" '7'"' '""' ''T'''' '''" P-.nontones,an<lspevet; 
 afai he oan.mg brine: even thus in close array moved the h .sts of 
 the (Ji-eeks without pans,, to battle." ' 
 
 As an example of finely-wrought similes of (his ord.-r in Shelley's 
 poetjy, reference slxnild be ma.ie to 10 in, 10;U), 1050, lO-VS, 1059, 
 
 TlH>se are very successful similes in their kin<i, thou-di not 
 
 ^Z^ ^ ^n'^'^f'''' ^^'^ ^■'^^^'^'^' "-''••'' - -'t-n famous 
 examples n Milton, lennyson, or Arnold. Some, as 1018, mi-dit 
 easily have been classiHed as Donhk Simile.. 
 Gruesome, 10(iO. 
 
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 (7) Human to Xatukai,— 14.") similes. 
 
 "The ima.yery which I have employc<l will he fouii<I. in many 
 instances, to have heen diuwii from the operations of the human 
 raind, ()r from those external actions by whicli they are expressed. 
 This IS unusual in moflern i)oetry, although Dante and Shakespeare 
 are full of nistances of the same kind : Dante indeed more than any 
 (Jther poet, and with greater success. Jiut the (Jreek poets, as 
 writers to whom no resource of awakeiiiiiir th(> sympathy of their 
 contempoi-aries was urd<no\vn, were in the habitual use of this power ; 
 and It is the study of their works (since a higher merit would' 
 I.robably be denied me), to which 1 am willing that'my readers should 
 iraimte this singularity." {Sln-Jleij, Pn'Jnre to '' PrumHlwns rnhnuml") 
 
 Die similes in this category recjuii'c no special comment. 
 
 (.^) Human to Hi-ma.\—1 12 similes. 
 
 Of these I reserve only seven as ccjntaining an element of Nature 
 description. 
 
 (i») Human to Animal (or the reverse) — 7l> similes. 
 
 llomanticism implies foi' Knglish ])oetry primarily a vast widening 
 of the sympathies which embrace now not only man in all tli(> hidden 
 recesses of his nature, but extend to a C(.mpassionate pity for the 
 dumb creation, and an emotional love for the inanimate world of 
 natural beauty. In all these resp(>cts Shakespeare had foreshadowed 
 the modern attitude of mind, but after his death until Thomson, or 
 even until Cowper, we do not find these qualities again united. 
 
 Shelley's treatment of the animal world is not entirely synqia- 
 thetic. His attitude of compassion or the revers.' is determined by 
 the one significant fact as to whether the animal in <|uestion is 
 carnivorous or not. This fact in itself (-xpresses Shelley's deep- 
 rooted disgust for tlesh-eatiiig in man or beast. 
 
 !'ius he sj)eaks of chxjs hai)itually in a tone of loathing, iind 
 makes them the symbol of a base and treacherous charact(-r" <■ ,, 
 
 122:K iL'1'9, ii>or,, 1271. ' ■•^■' 
 
 Kven ill ]2ol, 1 2Sl>, w here his sympathies for the oppressed in 
 any^ form might have inlluenccd him. he abates nothing of his 
 habitual loathing for the fiiciid of man. A reference to KllTs' "Con- 
 cordancoy will give other (vxamples of Sh.'ll.'v's antipjithetic feeling for 
 dogs. (See also llomtdx.) The onlv notable excenlion occurs in 
 "Rosalind," 1060/: " i 
 
 This same reason for his hatred of dogs inspires his sentiments 
 towards the fiercer wild animals, ,'.<i.^ IIW/v.^.^ 122G, li:»7, (.see Ellis), 
 T'ujers, (see Ellis). This hostile treatm.-nt of beast's of prey need not| 
 however, astonish us. It is only within the last few years that the 
 si)lendid creatures of the jungje or the desert have entered as an 
 element of beauty into artistic creation, and Leconte de Eisle and 
 
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 Hiulyaid Kipliii;; havt; alone soui^lit to oiitcf syinpatlietically into the 
 UKianing that lurks within tlicir savage and unshaped intelligence. 
 
 With Fhh the same princii)l(' holds. Shark, Do<i-jhh, rJ79. 
 
 Snrpeiifs. Jlerothe syMihi)li(;al idea attaching to the soi-pent in- 
 tervenes, and hy a ca|)i'icious reversal of IJihlicji.l teaching, Shelley 
 id(!ntifies in " I^acjii and Cythna' the Serpent with the Spirit of Good. 
 On the whole, however, he regards the serpent as insj)iring loathing 
 or disgust, 'v/., 1210, 1l>1S, li>i>0, 12lM, 12l>7, I'iSl. 
 
 Turning now to atdnials foi' which Shelley manifests compassion 
 oi' ati'ection, we find that 7'//'' J/i>rse is never harshly mentioned, ^'i 
 l'J40 and I'JGO a sympathetic feeling for the hors(; sulVering oppr(;. n 
 is shown (contrast Dogs above), and readers of "Laon and Cythna" will 
 not forget the vigorous description of tht; Tartarean horse that hears 
 Cvthna and Ihm- lover to a i-efuge from the disasti'ous hattle. ("L. i*c C." 
 YI. xi.v/:) 
 
 Aiite/dpi's^ Dut'f, Fdiciix, etc. These animals as representing at 
 once the claims of grace and swiftness, and innocency trembling 
 beneath the harsh oppression of the strong, are treated by the poet 
 with comi)assionate sympathy. 1211, 124 (J, (and see Ellis). 
 
 Binls. Here only the more grossly cai'nivorous are subjects of 
 a\ ersioii. 
 
 VaUurt'x. 123.3, 12.")2, 12").^), 12SI, (and Rar>'n^). 
 
 Eaf/li'x. The Eagle is saved by his verv sublimitv, as evident from 
 1218, 1272, 127.}. 
 
 IWu in '• Laon and Cythna" he is i-egarded as the synd)ol of the 
 Evil Spirit, and other passages in tlu^ |)oems refer to him in his 
 rapacious character, rjj., " .\rethusa,'' III. IG; "' Hellas," .■}U7 ; "Laon 
 and Cythna." VIL xxvii. 4. 
 
 (10) TTiMAV TO AnsTi{A('Tio\s. icTC. — 40 similes. 
 
 Of these three (»nly are retained. 12S8 aiul 12S1J are subtly 
 imaginative, and reveal Shelley's primitive tendency to create living 
 essences, as it were the presiding spirits or di\inities of beautiful 
 places. 
 
 (11) Xatihai, to Xatikal — 119 similes. 
 
 (•'I'lii'sonie, I'J.'V). 
 
 Rejlpxl''d Li'jlit, l.'UC) ; ReflertKil Form, 1378. 
 
 Colour, 13S2, 1383. 
 
 Clou'l or V,innnr Ima'/.'nj, 1290, 1292, 129.3, 129G, 130.J, 1342, 
 1347. 1548, 1349, 13(53, 13()L 1373, 1403. 
 
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 29 
 
 (12) Natiual to IIlmav on Natthai, 1*iiknomi;\a to Mkntai, 
 PiiEVOMKVA, SiMUirs, ETC. —40 similes. 
 
 Shairp insisted that .Shelley was ineajiahle of direct forciljle 
 description, because, while conteniplating a landscape, his thoughts 
 evaporated into fantastic and unreal conceptions. 
 
 "So entifely at home is he in this abstract shadowv world of his 
 own making, that when he would dcscril;e common \isible tliin<'s he 
 does so by likening them to those j)hintonis of the brain, as though 
 with these last alone he was familial N'ii'gil likens the <,diosts by 
 the banks of Styx to falling leaves — Shelley likens falling leaves to 
 gliosis : The dead lea\es ' Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter 
 Heeing.' We see thus that natui'e as it actually e.xists has little place 
 in Shelley's poetiy.'' (Shairp in J'fistu-'s, N. s"., XX.) 
 
 This is weak and insipid criticism with l)ut a grain of truth in it. 
 The similes, for e.xample, wherein Shelley exj)resses nature in tei-m.s 
 of the human or spiritual world, are rare indeed by comjiarison w ith 
 those in which human conditions ai'e illustrated by a reference to the 
 external world, descriptions of the last-named kind jx'ove, nioi'eover, 
 that Shelley could write when he would with his ■• eye upon the 
 object'": and many detailed descriptions besides would ;i.ttest his 
 powei-s of a concrete and definite presentation of beauty. ISearing 
 this i-eservation in mind, we may admit that the (Jiairferli/ Rcrv'V), 
 Vol. CLXIV., makes a nearer hit at thcs truth. •• l-'.xcept in the 
 distinct descriptions contained in '.Julian and Maddalo,' or the 
 distinct studies of atmospheric eil'ects, eveiything is allegorized and 
 idealized. Substance fa(les when the characteristics of nature clianire 
 with his moods, and the 'orbed maiden with white fire laden' becomes 
 a "dying lady, hniii and pale.' Shelley, with his quixering sensibility, 
 his fresh imagination, his intense and simjjle nature, treats stream 
 and fountain cloud and bird, in the trut? spirit of a mythological 
 poet, lie associates inanimate matter with the attributes of sentient 
 mind ; endows it with his own passions ; tinges it with the hues of 
 his own life. His pictures are so charged with supernatural life that 
 he seems unable to observe without personifving. . . .'' 
 
 In point of fact, Shelley in this figurati\-e type merely conforms to 
 the usage of the great idealistic poets. He represents Nature as a 
 living .symbol. And whereas the majority of p(jets materialize their 
 ideas by images drawn from the external world, Shelley spiritualizes 
 inanimate nature by a vivid .symbolical interpretation of natuial 
 phenomena translated into the language of the intellect. Lamartine. 
 the great idealist in French literature, as Shelley in English 
 literature, atlbrds iniuimerat)le exami)les of this faculty. 
 
 He speaks of a white corolla — 
 
 " Kilo est pule coiiuue iinc jimo 
 l)i»nt r<iinour a Im Ifs couleurri."' 
 
" !)(■ Tiistro (U- la niiit wii ruyoii solilaiie, 
 A travors k-s vitiaiix dii soiiihrc saiicluaifi.', 
 (Jlissait (((1111110 IV'spoir a travel's Ic iiiallii-ur, 
 (Jii (UiMs la unit do rame uii regard dii Soignour." 
 
 (ji'ueNuiae Simlli's. Shelley's inevitable tendency to revel in 
 gruesome ideas in the midst of heauty (c/! Hugo's employment of the 
 grotes(iuo) shows itself in the following similes: 14:"2G, 14:^8, l-I^U), 
 1432. 
 
 (13) Natiual I'o Animal — 2~ similes. 
 
 Gruesome., 1497. 
 
 Number 1474, and the whole poem from which it is taken, 
 admirably reveal Shelley's mythop(eic power. 
 
 (14) HiMiLKs OK Swiftness and Evankscence — 45 similes. 
 
 These similes are of great value for the characteristic expression 
 which they give to an important side <jf Shelley's genius. Endowed 
 with faculties of perciqttion attuned to the highest pitch of intensity, 
 and with emotional desires ever lleeting beyond the reach of attain- 
 ment, his poetry vibrates with an eager vehemence of speed, 
 incomjiarable surely within the range of literature ; antl there is 
 always present amid ail the ardours of emotional pursuit an ineffable 
 sense of loss or unattained desire, poignantly expressed again and 
 aurain bv the confession cjf the ti'ansiencv of earthly iovs, and l)v the 
 evanescence of those insecure delights which crumble in the hand 
 sti-etched out to seize them. T have therefore classed together the 
 similes of speed and of evanescence as I'cpresenting two closely 
 related expressions of the same (|ualities of inind. 
 
 In his similes of swiftness Shelley stands alone. His similes of 
 evanescences are at one with the traditions of poetry in all ages and 
 in every land. No great poet has ever been blind to the lleeting 
 character of earthly beauty, nor to the perilous tenure by which we 
 hold ,the transient gifts of time. Isaiah was not the first to give 
 utterance to this confession of human impotence in that splendid 
 passage in the thirty-fourth cliapter : 
 
 " And all the host of lu'avo'i shall waste away : 
 And tlio heavens shall ho rolled np like a seroll ; 
 And all their host shall witlier ; 
 As the withered leaf falleth from the vine, 
 And as the tilighted tig from the fig-tree ; " 
 
 and while poetry exists there will be heard this human cry voicing 
 the dumb protest of the world against the relentless march of change. 
 An analysis of these similes wdll show us Shelley's favourite 
 comparisons. 
 
31 
 
 S/ri/hiess I'cprcsontod hv 
 
 loo^'ls^^'isti"' "''■''"'•"""• '^"' '"»■ '^^''- '"^. '^^«. 
 
 S/mdo,>is), 1510, 15.-,!', 1571, 1571), 1581, 15S7 ICM 
 
 ir'-^i^ss!^''*' ^'°^' ^^"^' ^'^^' ^^^■'' ^'^*^' ''•^-- "''""^ ^^•^'' 
 
 Whirlwind, 1503; Tempest-vapimr, 1502, 151-> 
 .S-^n., ]571>, IGOl ; Z.«r.. m /...^..^ 14S7: L.-Hs in yah im 
 Misf, 1G21; Valrano-smoke, U'JO ; Earthquah', 159!). 
 River-foam, 1479; Foam from ship, 1550: <rV,syo//.r 1517 
 Z/r//.^ 1518, 1005; JAomi^y, 1515; /■',>., 1537, Kill 
 J/o.>.., 1523; Meteor, 1561; iVar, 15S0 ; Dream, 1563, 1590 
 ^^^^.y., 1498, 1505, 1581; Anf.loj.e, 1597; T.^.., 1582; Jlorse, 
 
 Eranescence rept-esented l)y 
 
 Cloud{s), 1482, 1485, 1508, 1509, 1528, 1553, 1558, 1564 1013 
 
 Deio, USX, 1488, 1536, 1540, 1560, 1576, 1009 
 
 Ms^, 1495, 1510, 1531, 1542, 1595, 1014. 
 
 Shadow(s), 1499, 1.506, 1511, 1514, 1539, 1565, 1575 
 
 Smoke, 1486, 1507, 1512; Foam, 1588; Ware 'l615 
 
 River (in Sand), 1501, 1549, 1570. BuhhL on Fiver 156"^ 
 
 V-«3/, 1540. JFmr^, 1513, 1620, 1593. 7 Vr, 1.554 ' 
 
 Dream, 1569, 1574. Moonlight, 1594. Emhers, 1604 
 
 Corpse, 1591. i>^,.7, 1577. Insect, 1555. 
 
 C'/it/cfJ's Zeye/if/fM ,SVn«^/, 1585 (iiiid r/; 1589). 
 
 (15) SiMiLKs OF Lovp:— 55 similes. 
 Of these 41 hear upon Nature, and are retained. Shelley usually 
 approaches loye after the manner of the mystics, re^ardi ./it . the 
 vital creatiye principle and the indissoluble band whieh\ i t e 
 uniyerse. Love and beauty in Shelley's half formless phi Why are 
 •so merged one in the other, that it is frequently dilHcuft t<, Zia^^^ 
 them, and a discussion of the one topic ^vould inyolye an iny !^^^^' " ,' 
 
 mt'ieso. ' ' ' ^'-^' ^*^-'' ^*^^"^'^' ^^•^-' 1^^'^'' 1646, 
 
 Is this a reflection of the Neo-Platonic philosophy? Plotinus it 
 will be remembered, attached mystical significance to light ' 
 
 ■ (16) '^i^'iLEs OP Dream— 51 similes. 
 
 (Five retained.) 
 
n 
 
 1(573, 1676. 
 
 (Note tlie (lif- 
 Cloiids, 1695, 
 
 (17) SlMILKS OF TlIOLMJIlT — 30 siiuik's. 
 (Twenty n^taincd.) 
 Compared to Shudows, 1668, 1671, 1672. Liijht, 
 
 (18) SiMiLKs OF Number — 25 similes. 
 
 (To denote a multitude.) 
 IJasis of Comparison. 
 
 L,'are>^, 1688, 1689, 1699, 1701, 1705, 1711. 
 ference in presentation in each case.) 
 
 Sand, 1690, 1693. Waves, 1691, 1692, 1702. 
 1697, 1706. Summer jUes, 1700, 1709. Gntifs, 1701, 1703, 1708. 
 Ants, 1712. Mist, 1721. 
 
 This category on examination will show how Shelley's originality 
 enal)led him to escape the bounds of conventionality. For no class 
 of similes has sucli an artificial array of examples estahlished by 
 literary tradition, since Homer first numbered the hosts of well- 
 greaved Achaians. 
 
 "So stood they in the Howery Scamandrian plain, unnumbered as 
 are leaves and flowers in their season. Even as the many tribes of 
 thick flies that hover about a herdsman's steading in the spring 
 season, when milk drencheth the pails, even in like number stood the 
 flowing-haired Achaians upon the plain in face of the Trojans, eager 
 to rend them asunder" ... or the following, — "Of a truth 
 have 1 oft ere now entered into battles of the warriors, yet ha\e I 
 never seen so goodly a host, and so great ; for in the very likeness of 
 the leaves of the forest or the sands of the .sea, are they marcliing 
 along the plain to fight against the city."' The Bible also is a 
 treasure-house for such similes, and the danger of conventional usage 
 is therefore evident. The following only may be considered con- 
 venticmal, 1688, 1689, 1690, 1691, 1693, 1699, 1700, 1703; whereas 
 in the other examples the poet's subtle powers of perception are ex- 
 ercised to derive the appropriate imagery from the field of Nature. 
 
 Flower Similks. 
 
 It only now remains to refer to the numerous flower similes or 
 references that are scattered through tlie various categories. Many 
 of these are extremely careful and delicate studies. 
 
 Flowers in G'eneral,~]D, 75, 132, 164, 165, 169, 174, 190, 243, 
 333, 353, 378, 391, 396, 400, 401-2-3-4, 559, 593, 636, 639, 640, ()43, 
 683, 684, 747, 754, 825, 852, 906, 908, 968, 980, 986, 1006, 1016, 
 1020, 1022, 1031, 1042, 1065, 1075, 1103, 1109, 1112, 1114, 1130, 
 1135, 1148, 1149, 1195, 1312, 1392, 1401, 1405, 1424, 1436, 1444, 
 l649. 
 
 Jioses, 33, 341, 362, 370, 397, 605, 646, 753, 1089, 1090, 1423. 
 
 Lilies, 352, 393, 729, 1178, 1332, 1422. Hyacinth, 536, 554, 886. 
 
 Violet, 624, 637, 638, 1023. Snowdrop, 638. Daisy, 1333. 
 
 Lemonjloxver, 641. Maynolia, 1380. Sensitive Plant, 1454. 
 
88 
 
 SIMILES OF COLOUR AND LIGHT. 
 
 (rt) Cloud Colour (and Mist). 
 
 <« .1 . 1, , ""■ pyramids 
 
 ' >t the tall cedar overarching, frauu' 
 Nlost solemn domes within, and far l)elow, 
 Like clouds suspended in an emerald skv,' 
 The ash and the acaeia floating hang " ' 
 Tremulous and pale. 
 
 2 Kven as a vapour fed with golden beams 
 That ministered on sunlight, ere the west 
 hclipses It, was now that wondrous frame— 
 
 •S Its shape reposed within : slight as some cloud 
 J hat catches but the jjalest tinge of day 
 
 When evening yields to night, 
 Bright as that fibrous woof when stars indue 
 Its transitory robe. 
 
 —A fas/. 433/. 
 
 -A/(i.sf. 63.3/. 
 
 Human eye hath ne'er beheld 
 A shai)e so wild, so bright, so beautiful, 
 As that which o'er the maiden's charmed sleep, 
 
 Waving a starry wand. 
 
 Hung like a mist of ligjit 
 
 -Jj. W. .59. 
 
 — />». W. 70. 
 
 5 Thou must have marked the billowy mountain clouds, 
 J-.dged with intolerable radiancy, 
 
 Towering like rocks of jet" 
 
 Above the burning deep jj ^y jg7 
 
 6 And yet there is a moment 
 
 When those far clouds of feathery purple gleam 
 
 Like fairy lands girt by some heavenly sea : — />. IV. 201. 
 
 7 And walked as free as light the clouds among, — Z. ,(• (\ Ded. 
 
 8 Even like the dayspring, poured on vapours dank, 
 ihe beams of that one Star did shoot and quiver 
 
 Ihro my benighted mind -and were extinguished never. 
 
 ~L. .(• C. I. 41. 
 
 ® . oi. r '■** 'light, methought in dream 
 
 A bhape of speechless beauty did appear : 
 It stood like light on a careering stream 
 Of golden clouds which shook the atmosphere ; 
 
 ' -L. d- C. I. 42. 
 
34 
 
 '^ ,, . fvn'l as llie vapoui-H lie 
 
 Mright in tho outHpread morning's railiancy 
 
 N) were tlioso thoughts invested with the liyht 
 ■ ^^ lanyu'^fe'^ _A. a. C. II. l(i. 
 
 11 
 
 Slie movefj upon this eartli a shape of brightness 
 A power tliat from its oljjeots scarcely drew ' 
 One impulse of lior Ijeing in her lightness 
 Moat like some radiant cloud of morning dew 
 Which wanders thro' the waste air's pathiesH blue 
 lo nourish some far desert _/' 
 
 d- (\ II. 23. 
 
 r II . ,, ■ the twilight's gloom 
 
 Lay like a charnel's mist within the radiant dome. 
 
 — A. .(■ C. V. 22. 
 13 She stood l)eside me like a rainbow braided 
 
 Within some storm, wiien scarce its shadow.? vast 
 iTom the blue paths of the swift sun have faded, 
 
 - L. A- C. V. 24. 
 
 • , . for now 
 
 A power, a thirst, a knowledge, which below 
 All tiioughts, like light beyond the atmosphere, 
 , Uothing Its clouds with grace, doth ever How, 
 . Came on us as we sat in silence there, 
 Beneath the golden stars of the clear azure air. 
 
 —L. dC. VI. 30. 
 
 •* „., . , , as an autumnal blossom 
 
 Which spreads its shrunk leaves in the sunny air. 
 After cold showers, like rainbows woven there 
 Ihus in her lips and cheeks the vital spirit ' 
 Mantled, and in her eyes, an atmosphere 
 Of health and hope ; —L.dC VI 15 
 
 16 And the white clouds of noon which oft were sleeping 
 In the blue heaven so beautiful and fair. 
 Like hosts of ghastly shadows hovering there ; 
 
 —L. d- C. VII. 15. 
 
 
 17 
 
 18 
 
 My eye and voice grew firm, calm was my mind, 
 
 And piercing, like the morn, now it has darted 
 
 Its lustre on all hidden things, beiiind 
 
 Yon dim and fading clouds which load the weary wind. 
 
 ~L. d' d VII. 30. 
 
 the day was dying : — 
 Sudden, the sun shone forth, its beams were lyin^' 
 Like boiling gold on Ocean, strange to .see, ° 
 
 And on the shattered vapours, which defying 
 The power of light in vain, tossed restlessly . 
 
 In the red Heaven, like wrecks in a tempestuous sea. 
 
 —L. d- a XI. 2. 
 
 19 It was a stream of living beams, whose bank 
 On either side by the cloud's cleft was made, 
 And where its chasms that flood of glory drank. 
 Its waves gushed forth like fire, —L.dC XI 3 
 
35 
 
 20 
 
 *il 
 
 Tl... SptTtre of the IMague l.oforo mu How. *' A.' .,. 
 
 n,. II I , , , '""' '"*P*' 'I'""' peace 
 Oil all who hnml him .lid ahido 
 
 Kaimng likt- .lew tVoni hi.s swcft talk 
 
 /\s whero th,; ..veiling .star inav walk,' 
 
 Al..ng the l.riiik .,f the gl„.„„v .sea8. 
 
 Lkjui.1 nn.vita of splemlou,' .juiVer 
 
 C. XII. •_>.- 
 
 2'1 Ari.l in tha!, dark and evil day 
 
 I).d all deHir.,.s and thoughtH, that claim 
 
 .Men .s .-are. a.nbiti.,n, fiien.Uhip, fame, 
 
 ^ove, hope, though hope wa.s n.,w .le.sp'vir 
 
 Indue tie eolor.s of thi.s change 
 
 As from the all-.surroun.liiig air 
 
 n.e t.irth take.s hues .,i..seuie and Htrango, 
 
 When Ht.,rm ami earthquake linger there. 
 
 23 On my faint eyes and limbs did dwell 
 1 hat spirit a.s it passed, till soon 
 As a fiail elou.l wandering o'er the moon, 
 Beneath its light invisible, 
 Is .seen when it fol.ls its grey wings again 
 lo alight on ini.lnighfs dusky plain, 
 1 live, aiul .saw, an.l the gathering .soul, 
 lassed from beneath that strong cntrol, 
 
 ■24 There is no lament for him 
 Like a shunless vapour, dim 
 Who once el.,thed with life and thought 
 What now moves nor murmurs not. 
 
 2.-) Gathering n.un.l with wings all hoar, 
 Ihro the dewy mist they soar 
 Like grey .sha.les, till the Eastern heaven 
 26 Bursts, an.l then, as elouds of even 
 flecked with fire and azure, lie 
 In the unfathomable skv, 
 So their plumes of purple grain, 
 Marred with .Irops of golden rain, 
 <»leam above the sunlight woods 
 As in silent mnltitu.les ' 
 
 On the morning's fitful gale 
 Thro' the broken mist they .sail, 
 An.l the vapours cloven and gleaming 
 follow .lown the .lark steep streaming, 
 Iill all is bright, an.l clear, and still, 
 Kound the solitary hill. 
 
 27 From the sea a mist has spread, 
 An.l the beams of morn lie dead 
 On the towers of Venice now, 
 Like its glory long ago, 
 
 28 Noon descends around me now : 
 Tis the noon of autumn's glow. 
 When a soft and purple mist 
 Like a vaporous amethyst, 
 
 — /.'. <i //. 1)41, 
 
 /•'■ •'• //. 721. 
 
 -A', d- H. 1039. 
 
 —EiKj. II. 01. 
 
 — Euij. H. 74. 
 
 -Ku<j. II. 210. 
 
sa 
 
 2!» Or an iiir«li.sHolv<''(l Htar 
 
 Mingling light unil fiagratirc 
 
 .SO The awful shaih.Nv <.f .sunio unse.-ri iV.wrr 
 Floats tlio" iiMMccn amongst us ■- 
 
 Lik<- clourls in starlight wiilolyHpieiid. 
 .'U Spirit of Heaiity 
 
 'I'liy light alono likd niisl 
 
 <iiv.>s gra-.' and trnij, f,, |'if,.'s ,nH,iiiH -Iream. 
 
 .'{•2 Look, sister, i-ro tho vapour .lini thy l)rain • 
 Hciimth IS a wi.i.> plain of l.jllowy mist 
 Ah a lake, paving in the morning sky, 
 U ith a/.uro wavns which l.urst in silver liuht 
 NMue Induvn vale. ' 
 
 — h'll;/. II. -JH,'). 
 
 -//. /. /.'. I. 
 
 niiMintanis driven 
 
 -//. /. li. 111. 
 
 /''•"/«. II. iii. IS. 
 
 o« ,,T, . , ,.,, ., . ii'i'l the light 
 
 M \\\nvh hlls this vapour, as the aerial huo 
 j: i"""t<i"'-K'i/.ing roses tills (ho water, 
 Mows from thy mighty sister _/: 
 
 34 Chihl of Light ! thy limhs are burning 
 I hro the veil which seems to hide them ; 
 As the radiant lines of morning 
 
 Thro' the clouds ere they divide them ; 
 AtKi tins atmosphere divines't 
 Shrouds thee wherosoe'ei thou shiuest 
 
 'mm. II. V, II. 
 
 .T) The elements obey me not. I sink 
 Dizzily down, evcV, for evei', down. 
 An.l like a cloud, mine enemy abovt^ 
 Darkens my fall with victory ."^ 
 
 — Prom. II. V. 54, 
 
 .i() Us wheels are solid clouds, azure and .'old 
 Such as the genii of the thunder storm ' 
 I lie on the floor of the illumined sea 
 \V hen the sun rushes uiuler it ; they roll 
 And niov.. ;.,nd grow as with an inward wind • 
 
 —Prom. III. ii. SO. 
 
 -Prom. IV. 214. 
 
 38 
 
 1 he joy, tije Irnimph, the delight, «Jie madness ! 
 
 he bo,;i„,),.Hs, overHowing, bursting gladne.ss, 
 J he viijiorous exultation not to be conHned ' 
 Ha ! ha ! the animation of delight 
 Which wraps me, like an atmosphere of liyht 
 And bears me as a clou<l is borne by its own wind! 
 
 —Prom. IV. 319. 
 l)rinking from thy sense and sight 
 Beauty, majesty, and might 
 
 As a grey and watery mi.st 
 (Jlows like solid > .nethyet 
 Athwart the western mountain it enfolds, 
 When the sun.set sleeps 
 
 Upon its snow _p,.^,„ ^y ^gj^ 
 
87 
 
 'M Tlif wifcks of tilt! tcnuM'Ht, likt' va|H»urH of ^oM, 
 
 Aif coiiMuniiiiir in minrisf — I'm. o/' Sm |-J7, 
 
 4'* Tliou lu'aror of till' (|niTt>r, 
 
 U'liosc siinlikf sliiiftH pi. ■Ml- lfiii|n-.sl winj^tMl Knor, 
 Ah lij^ht imiv |»ii>i(t' tin- clou.ls wlion tl.isy diiiHuvcf' 
 III tli«« ciilni regions of tlio orient (lav —Oii" /o l.ih. \. 
 
 -0(1, I o Lili. Will. 
 
 -(K<1. Tyr. K.l 
 
 ■^' I ln'ftr tin* pi'iuionM of licr car 
 
 Self nK.vin^;. like cloii.l clnuiotcd l»y thinic ; 
 
 4'J How >,'lorioiiM it will lie to see her MiijeHty 
 riyiiij; aliove our iieads, lier petticoatH 
 Streaming like . . . . , 
 
 Or like a clond dyetl in the dyiiij,' day 
 Unravelled on the hla.st from'a wliile mountain ; 
 
 *•' . one intenHe 
 
 Ddlusion, one serene Onniipre.senee 
 Whose flowing outlines mingle in their (lowing 
 Around her cheeks and utmost fingers glowing 
 With the uninterniitt(-d iilood, which tiiere 
 Quivers (as in a fleece of snow like air 
 The criinaon p\dse of living morning (|uiver) 
 
 ** tlie moving poniji might seen- 
 
 Like pageantry of mist on an autumnal stream. 
 
 45 His cold palo limba and pidseless arteries 
 Are like the fibres of a cloud instinct 
 With light, 
 
 40 A mortal shape to him 
 
 Was like the vapour dim 
 Which the orient planet animates with light ; 
 
 47 The Anarchies of Afrii:a mdeash 
 Their tempest-winged cities of the sea, 
 To speak in thunder to the reliel world. 
 Like sulphurous clouds, half shattered liv the storm. 
 They sweep the pale .Kgean, 
 
 48 In the death hues of agony 
 Lamhently flashing from a fish, 
 Now Peter felt amused to see 
 Shades like a rainbow's rise and flee, 
 
 iVIixed with a certain hungry wish. — /'. />'. \XVI. 
 
 "*•' the thunder smoke 
 
 Is gathering on the mountains, like a chmk 
 Folded across their shouldei's broad and bai'c ; 
 
 — L,-tt. to M. G. lit!. 
 
 ■^0 Such clouds as Hit, 
 
 Like splendour-winged moths abimt a taper. 
 Round the red west when the sun dies in it — Witrh, \\\. 
 
 -A<h,i. XIII. 
 
 —Hdl. 142. 
 
 —/A//. 21-) 
 
 //.//. 209. 
 
■"''■/./(, LiiL 
 
 '*' A * *^"'' ^" t-J'e water foi- lier f ,,..„] 
 
 ''" W ule^'^onT '^"l'^' ^""•'"^^ '"«l-ly 
 '-'J me south wind in «itii(.,r ,.,,1 • r 
 
 ~^>'a!/»t. of Dmm. 21." 
 
 n„i • 1 ;• . i'"""-c i;iouas 
 Behind their solemn steeds 
 
 —Gha.s. /., I, J3(j 
 
 Touched 0, departing hope, they gleanf;'"^ -_C'/... / JV 00 
 55 • i ' . — . 
 
 Of hope through her line texture did sumir"' 
 
 •'^A?^;:aorLSr-;i-'-' 
 
 Whicl like spectres wrapt in shrou.Is 
 Pass o er nigiit in multitudes 
 
 -/A ir. 36. 
 
 57 
 
 ///ror. /o J//.V. XII 
 Th.. T f'atTyphaen mount. Inarime 
 
 A Ho „„st like aerial gossamer, ' 
 
 (/>) AVatkh Colour. 
 
 (iO With the sun's dondiess orh, 
 Whose rays of rapid light 
 
 )ashed from the boiling surie '^ 
 iiefore a vessel's i)row. 
 
 —Ori.h. 18. 
 
 — V. ^. 94. 
 
 -A "'. 15.3. 
 
 — A. ,(• V. I. 4.. 
 
89 
 
 62 Only 'twas strange to see the red commotion 
 Of waves like mountains o'er the sinkinc sphere 
 
 Of sunset sweep, ._^ ,^ ^ j jg_ 
 
 63 Beside that Image then I sate, while she 
 
 Stood mill ihe throngs which ever ebbed and flowed 
 
 Like light amid the shadows of the sea 
 
 Cast from one cloudless star, /^, ^.(. q y gj 
 
 '^^ ,, , , , while tears pursued 
 
 hach other down her fair and listenincr cheek 
 Past as the thoughts that fed them, like a flood 
 *rom sunbright dales; _/^ ^^.^^ yjj ^ 
 
 65 And in that roof of crags a space was riven 
 
 Thro' which there shone the emerald beams of heaven, 
 
 .>hot thro the lines of many waves inwoven, 
 
 Like sunlight thro' acacia woods at even, ~L. ,(• (\ VII. Ij. 
 
 66 Below the fountain's brink was richly paven 
 
 V\ ith the deep's wet^lth, coral and pearl, and sand 
 
 Like spangling gold, __.j^ ,f. ^j yj, ,.^^ 
 
 67 When the summer wind faint odours brought 
 trom mountain flowers, even as it passed 
 His cheek would change, as the noon-da}- sea 
 
 W hich the dying breeze sweeps fltfully. —A'. ,t. //. 1015. 
 
 68 Beneath is spread like a green sea 
 The waveless plain of Lombardv, 
 Bounded by the vaporous air, 
 
 Islanded by cities fair ; _^„,^ jf j,^ 
 
 69 And far on high the keen skv-cleaving mountains 
 trom icy spires of sun like radiance flint' 
 
 The dawn, as lifted Ocean's dazzling spray. 
 Prom some Atlantic islet scattered up 
 /O Spangles the wind with lamp-like water drops, 
 
 — Prom. II. iii. 7K 
 
 „r.,, . f . . ^ '"'1 myself 
 
 Within a fountain m the publi.; square. 
 Where I lay like a reflex of the moon 
 Seen in a wave under green leaves ; 
 
 72 With mighty whirl tiie multitudinous orb 
 (irinds the brig., ' : k into an azure mist 
 01 elemental subtiety, like l.giit : 
 
 73 The plumed inserts swift and free, 
 Like golden boats on a sunny sea. 
 
 74 And wb.crpvor \vn- airy f.iotsteps trod, 
 Her trailing h.iir froni the grassy sod 
 Hir.sed 'i:, ligi), vestige, with sluulowy sweej), 
 L'Ke a sunny Ktorni e'er the dark green deep. ~-S(„'<. I\ II. 25. 
 
 T > riii'.e (b'.vs the flowers of the garden fair, 
 Like itars when the moon is awakened, were 
 <>r ^iie wa es of Baiie, ere luminous ' 
 
 ■^' e floa-.- up throui^'h the smoke of Vesuvius. —S<ns. I\ III. ). 
 
 -Prom. in. iv. 61. 
 
 -Prom. IV. 253. 
 
 -S,ns. P. I. 82. 
 
40 
 
 In 'o„„t™li:";';||;'^;:,';',"'"' '""" " "■'"» »' p* «--■ 
 
 — Vision of Sea, 18. 
 
 And all n.y l)eing became bright or dim 
 IVn :; "'«°» « >"'age in a su,^,„,r sea 
 According as she s.niled „r frow.ied on me • 
 
 81 And many a fountain, .ivulet, an.l p..„d 
 As clear as elemental diamon.'.. ' ' 
 «- Ur serene morning air ; 
 
 83 Let there be Light ! sai.l Lil>ertv, 
 And like sunrise from the ,sea " 
 Athens arose ! 
 
 —Epips. 29,"). 
 
 —Epipsi. 4.30. 
 
 —Hell. 682. 
 
 ^* T ikoV''T.^!,"' "^f '-'' "1"'" ^'J'e shore, 
 
 Like light dissolved in star-siunver.s, tliron „ : 
 
 —S,' u:mh iif-^r Najh II, 
 85 This quicksilver no gnome has drunk-within 
 I he walnut bowl it lies, veine.l and tlii.T 
 In ccjk>ur like the wake of lighl that tains 
 
 I-till, blue heaven smile:oeS::"i;^;rse;r 
 
 — Letier (n M. (;_ (i(j 
 
 ^^ Undnff Tr ""''"' ''^'^ "n.lulating air 
 
 l/ndulates bke an ocean ; ° ... , ,^ ^, 
 
 ' -L'-.tttr to M. fl. 119 
 
 8/ An.l ,lown the earthquaking cataracts which shiver 
 
 Ihe.r snow-like waters into goMcn ah, ' ^"'^_!.'„,V./, Xl II 
 
 88 The water flashed like sunlight by the prow 
 
 Of a uoon-wandering meteor «.,„. L Heaven ; 
 
 r.gypt ai d .Lthiopia, from the steen 
 
 <)t utmost Avumc, until he spreads 
 L ke a calm (lock of si Iver-Heece,/ sheep 
 His waters on llic plain P' 
 
 90 And wie sun's image radiantly intense 
 
 Burned on the waters of the well tl,,,f ' " i 
 Like gohl and thrca.led ^^^^^^^ 
 With winding paths of emeral.l (ire • 
 
 • Wih-h, ' VII. 
 
 91 
 
 92 
 
 Like a gloomy stain 
 On the emerald main 
 Alphcus rushed behind, 
 
 And under the cave.s, 
 Where the sha.lowy waves 
 Are as green as the forest's night • 
 
 Tr. of L, .-^j-, 
 — Areth Hf. 
 
 -ArHh. iV. 
 
41 
 
 ^3 Great spirit, deepest Love 
 
 Or, with thy hairnonizing ardours rill 
 
 And raise thy sons, as o'er the prone horizon 
 
 Ihy lamp feeds every twilight wave with rire. 
 
 94 Now all the tree-tops lay asleep 
 
 Like green waves on the sea, 
 
 95 O'er the thin texture of its frame 
 
 The varying periods painted changing glows, 
 
 As on a summer evening, 
 When soul-enfolding nniaic floats around 
 I he stainless mirror of the lake 
 Re-images the eastein gloom 
 Mingling convulsively its purjilo lines 
 
 With sunset's burnished gold 
 
 (c) TiiK Sun. 
 
 90 The moon arose : and lo, the i.'therial cliflfs 
 Ut Caucasus, whose icy summits shone 
 Among the stars like sunlight 
 
 97 A speck, a clou.l, a shape, approaching grew. 
 Like a great ship in the sun's sinking sphere 
 Beheld afar at sea, and swift it came anear 
 
 9S And oft in cycles since, when -laikness gave 
 ^GW weapons to thy foe, their sun-like fame 
 Upon the combat shone— 
 
 99 Day after day the burning sun rolled on 
 Over the death-polluted land- it came 
 Out of the east like rire, 
 
 -Ode to N. 165. 
 — To Jane, 29. 
 
 -V .'/. 3. 
 
 J /as/. 352. 
 
 - L. A- a. \. fi. 
 
 -A. .t' c. I. :v>. 
 
 L. ,(■ ('. X. 13. 
 
 XI. 
 
 ^^ y ,, , , llieday vasdving:- 
 
 Sudden he sun shone forth, its beams weVe lyinu 
 
 Like l)oiling gold on Ocean, strange to .sec 
 
 And on the shattered vajKnirs. whicli dcfving 
 
 Ihe power of light in vain, tossed restlcsslv 
 
 In tlie red Heaven, like wrecks in a tempestuous sea. 
 
 ~L. .(• C 
 U»l And as the meteor's midnight flame 
 
 .Startles the dreamer, sun-like truth 
 
 Flashed on his visionary youth. __/,._ ,,. y/ ,j,- 
 
 102 Ami the light which flushed through his waxen cheek 
 t.rew faint, as tlie rose-like hues which flow 
 
 l^rom sunset o'er tiic Alpine snow : _./,.. ,,• //. luo» 
 
 103 And that eternal honour which should live 
 Sun-like, above the reek of mortal fame. 
 
 104 Pity the self-despi«ing shives of Heaven 
 Not me, within who.se mind sits peace .serene 
 As light in the sun, throned : 
 
 — Ceiici, V. iii. ;{i. 
 
 — Prom, I. 429. 
 
42 
 
 Ki5 
 
 lOf) 
 
 107 
 
 108 
 
 109 
 
 \'^ 
 
 111 
 
 112 
 
 113 
 
 And far on high the keen sky-cleaving mountains 
 
 From icv spires of sun like radiance fling 
 
 The dawn, —Prom. II. iii. 28. 
 
 Vast V)eams like spokes of some invisible wheel 
 
 Which whirl as the orb whirls, swifter than thought. 
 
 Filling the abyss with sun-like ligiitnings. — Prom. IV. 274. 
 
 thou bearer of the quiver. 
 Whose sun-like shafts pierce tempest-wingt'd Error. 
 
 —Ode to Lib. X. 
 
 When like heaven's sun girt by the exhalation 
 
 Of its own glorious light, tho i didst arise, 
 
 Chasing thy foes from nation unto nation 
 
 Like shadows. — Ode to Lib. XI. 
 
 Thou Mirror 
 In whom, as in the splendour of the sun, 
 All shapes look glorious whijh thou gazest on ! — Epip.s. 30. 
 
 Imagination I which from earth and sky, 
 
 And from the depths of human phantasy, 
 
 As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills 
 
 The Universe with glorious beams, and kills 
 
 Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow 
 
 Of its reverberated lightning. — Ejnps. 164. 
 
 Soft as an Incarnation of the Sun, 
 
 When light is changed to love, this glorious One 
 
 Floated into the cavern where 1 lay, — Epip^i. 335. 
 
 Another Athens shall arise 
 
 And to remoter time 
 
 Bequeath, like sunset to the skies, 
 
 The splendour of its prime ; - -Hdl. 1084. 
 
 Like winged stars the fire-flies flasli and glance 
 
 Pale in the open moonshine, but each one 
 
 Under t!>e dark trees seems a little sun. — Letter to M. G. 281. 
 
 1 14 And she saw princes couched under the glow 
 Of sun-like gems ;] 
 
 115 And on the right hand of the sun-like throne. 
 
 — Wltrh, LXIV 
 
 Witch. LXXIV 
 
 117 
 
 118 
 
 IHt 
 
 —Chrtx. /. 46. 
 
 For he seemed stormy, and would often seem 
 A quenchless sun masked in jiortentous clouds. 
 
 — Frmjm. of Dmm. KiT. 
 
 This Charles the First 
 
 Rose like the equinoctial sun (engirt) 
 
 By vapours 
 
 And a cold glare, intenser than tlie noon. 
 
 But icy cold, obscured with i)linding light 
 
 The sun, as he the stars. — '/')•. of L. 
 
 I arose, and for a space 
 The scene of woods and waters seemed to keep 
 Though it was now broad da\', a gentle trace 
 Of light diviner tium the common sun 
 Sheds on the common earth, — Tr. 
 
 >f L. 335. 
 
I 
 
 43 
 
 Amid the 8iin, as lie amid the hla/.e 
 Ut his own glory, on the vihratinL' 
 
 ,S48. 
 
 Wh le vet n. ''''•^f"''''«'"°''] "'""'•' »'« ^"'^ken 
 
 O. -U "nnsen sun made glow, like iron 
 
 Qunering m crimson Hre, the peaks unshaken 
 
 Of mountains and blue isles which did environ 
 
 With air-clad crags that plain of land and sea ]/„,• xxn 
 
 132 
 
 And under the water 
 
 The Earth's white daughter 
 
 Fle.l like a sunny beam ; 
 
 And leaving noblest things vacant and chidden, 
 Lold as a corpse after tiie spirit's flight, 
 lilank as the sun after the ))irth of night. 
 
 124 There lay the glade an.l neighbcniring lawn 
 And through the dark green wood ^ ' 
 
 Ihe white sun twinkling like the dawn 
 Out of a speckled cloud. 
 
 126 The sun's unclouded orb 
 
 Rolled through the black concave • 
 
 Its rays of rapid ligljt 
 Parted around the chariot's swifter course, 
 And fell, like ocean's featherv sjirav 
 
 Dashed from the boiling surge " 
 
 Before a vessel's prow. 
 
 12« And countless spheres diftiiaed 
 An ever- varying glory. 
 
 Some shone like suns, and as tiie chariot passed, 
 JKiClipsed all otiier light. 
 
 {'/) TirK Moon. 
 
 127 How wonderful is Death, 
 
 Deatii and his brotlicr Sieei) ' 
 One pale as yonder wan and Iiorncl moon, 
 W ith lips of hiriil l)lue. 
 
 12S And countless spheres difiused 
 An evei-vuryiug gloiv. 
 Jt was a sight of wonder, "some were horned 
 
 Tn 'IL 1 1 1 '""""■V'''«^"'^'"'' «'es<ent hung 
 In the dark dome of lieaven 
 
 ■Are/h. III. 
 
 —/iiirrn, IV 
 
 — Ihi'oU. fi.-,. 
 
 -V- -V. 242. 
 
 -V- M. •-V.S. 
 
 -/A I!'. 1. 
 
 -D. 
 
 ir 162. 
 C. I. 22. 
 
 129 And that strange boat, like the moon's shade did swav 
 Amid reflected stars that in tlie waters lay. ~L \. 
 
 •30 r., ,, , . , 
 
 ci fl 1 ,•■ , •'<"" t'''it night 
 
 VV hich dwell in lakes, when the red moon on ligh 
 
 Pause ere It wakens tempest; _/ % c" vil •» 
 
44 
 
 131 
 
 nil i^ "^' '"''"" '■'' '*•<« a watch-tower blazing 
 
 Over the mountains yet ; 1/^. ,(. (. ^ 1 II I 
 
 Thp ^rr,,.....) 1 1 , '''^'^ ahove was spread 
 
 U.e emeiahl lieaven of trees of unknown kiml 
 Whose nioonlike blooms an.l bright fnTit ove hea.l 
 , A aha,low, whieh was light, upo^n the waters hLcmI 
 
 -/>. .i- C. XII. IS. 
 
 Horm..l on high, like the young moon supine 
 \Vhen oer dim twilight mountains dark with pine 
 It floats upon the sunset's sea of beams, ^ '' 
 
 F^de faff HP r''"' '" '"•'"'>■ '' P»'Pl« !">« 
 l^ade fast, till borne on sunlight's ebbing streams 
 
 Delating, on earth's verge the- sunken mtteoi' gSns 
 
 Tu^ I . 1 > '0>' tliro the skv 
 
 The sphered lamps of day an.l night, revealh... 
 
 New changes and new glories, rofle.l on h S ° 
 
 Of a ,bvin'' T^ '»"o"like lamps, the progeny 
 
 Of a diviner Heaven, serene and fair :^ ^ U. .1- C. XIl :iS 
 
 135 
 
 P . , yi;t his countenance 
 
 Kaised upward, burned with radiance 
 Ot spirit-piercing joy, whose light, 
 Like the moon struggling through the nbrht 
 Of wh.rlwind-rifted clouds, did break " 
 N\ ith beams that might not be contined. 
 
 ■h\ d'ir. 11.14. 
 
 The awful shadow of some unseen Power 
 
 t.ach human heart and countenance ; __//,/ /. j 
 
 Spirit of Beauty 
 
 Thy light aione-like mist i.'er nlountains dViven' 
 
 Or music by the night wind sent 
 
 1 n-o strings of some strange instrument, 
 
 Ot moonlight on a midnight stream, 
 (^ives grace and truth to life's unquiet dream. _//. /. /y. ju. 
 
 Si^^^S.^f'r^^';rT"r'^'^^''^^^^^ 
 
 J-ike radiance from the cloud-surrounde.l moon. 
 
 137 
 139 
 
 -Prom. II. i, 120. 
 
 Blue Pn,t,.n« n. I 1 •''"!'^ ^''"?' *''"-""■ S^^'^'^y tlirones 
 
 I no sllado^v of fair ships, as mortals sec 
 
 wft.??f' ^' "'"'^ "^ ^''" li«''t-la'len moon 
 With that white star, its sightless pilot's crest 
 «orne down the rapid sunset's ebbing .sea ; 
 
 — Proiti. III. ii. 23. 
 
4-) 
 
 140 And where niy moon-like car will stand within 
 
 A temple, gazed upon by i'hidian forms — Prom. III. iv. Ill 
 
 141 the brightness 
 Of her divinest presen(;e trembles through 
 Her limbs, as underneath a cloud of dew 
 Kmbodied in the windless heaven of June 
 Amid the splendour-wingid stars, the moon 
 Burns, niextinguishably Ijeautiful : 
 
 14'J Thine eyes glowed in the glare 
 
 Of the moon's dying light ; 
 As a fenfire's beam on a sluggish stream, 
 (jileams <lindy, so the moon shone there, 
 
 14M But Peter's verse was clear, and came 
 
 Or like the sutlden moon, that stains 
 ISome gloon; y chand)er"s window j)anes 
 With a broad light like day. 
 
 144 and now she grew 
 
 Pale as that moon, lost in the watery night. 
 
 -Kpi)>.«. 77. 
 ~IAn,s, III. 
 
 -l\l<r B. XIV. 
 — Witch, LIV. 
 
 145 Like the young moon 
 When on the suidit limits of the night 
 Her white shell trembles amid crimson air. 
 And whilst the sleeping tempest gathers might 
 Doth, as the herald of its coming, bear 
 
 The ghost of its dead mother, whose dim form 
 Bends in dark ethei' from her infant's chair, 
 So came a chariot on the silent storm 
 Of its own rushing splendour, 
 
 146 And so she moved un<ler the bridal veil, 
 Which made the paleness of her cheek more pale, 
 And deepened the faint crimson of her mouth. 
 And darkened her dark locks, as moonlight doth, 
 
 147 A moonbeam in the shadow of a cloud 
 Was less heavenly fair — 
 
 148 Those lines of rainbow light 
 
 Are like the moonbeams when they fall 
 Through some cathedral window. 
 
 ■Tr. of L. 79 
 
 —Gin. 13. 
 —Gill. 21. 
 
 \ 
 
 
 —Q. M. 54. 
 
 {Xofe rhniK/e in D. W.) 
 
 (e) Thk Stahs. 
 
 149 And countless spheres diffused 
 An ever-varying glory 
 
 some did shed 
 A clear mild beam like Hesperus, while the sea 
 Yet glows with fading sunlight. 
 
 -1). W. 164. 
 
 ICO othcr.< <1;isIr'.1 
 
 Athwart tlie iiighl with tiaiiis of bickering fire, 
 Like .spherid worhls to death and ruin driven, 
 
 IJ. W. 170. 
 
40 
 
 151 Sonio hIioir' liko stars, and as tlic diariot passed 
 liediiniiied all othoi' light 
 
 152 And yet there is a moment 
 When the sun"s highest point 
 
 Peers like a star o'er ocean's western edge, 
 
 153 The city's moonlight spires and ttiyriail lamj)s 
 Like stars in a aiibliinar sky did ghjw 
 
 154 The shadow of the lingering waves did wear 
 Light, as from starry beams : 
 
 — I). W. 17.!. 
 
 — I). W. 201. 
 -A.. I' (!. V. 1. 
 
 -A. .I' C. Xir. 20. 
 
 155 And where melodious falls did hurst and shivei- 
 
 Among rocks clad with flowers, the foam ami spray 
 
 Sparkled like stars upon the sunny river, — L. »t' ('. XIL S4. 
 
 15() That ivory dome, who.se azAire night 
 
 With golden stars, like heaven, was bright 
 
 ■A'. <{• //. 1004. 
 
 157 More yet come, one by one ; the air around them 
 
 Looks radiant as the air around a star. — Prom. I. 692. 
 
 1 58 Their beauty gives me voice. See how they Hoat 
 On their sustaining wings of skiey grain 
 Orange and a/,iirc deepening into gold : 
 Their soft smiles light the air like a star's fire. 
 
 ■/'rom. I. 750. 
 
 159 Or when some star of many a one 
 
 That climbs and wanders thro' steep night. 
 
 Has found the cleft thro' which alone 
 
 Beams fall from high those depths upon, 
 
 Kre it is borne away, away, 
 
 Bj' the swift heavens that cannot stay. 
 
 It scatters drops of golden light. 
 
 Like lines of rain that ne'er unite. 
 
 — Prom. II. ii. 14. 
 
 160 Sister, it is not earthly : how it glides 
 Under the leaves ! how on its head there burns 
 A light like a green star, whose emerald beams 
 Are twined with its fair hair ! how, as it moves. 
 The splendour drops in Hakes upon the grass ! 
 
 — Prom. III. iv. 1. 
 
 161 And from a star upon its forehead, shoot, 
 
 162 Like swords of azure lire, or golden spears 
 With tyrant-(iuelling myrtle overtwined, 
 Kmblennng heaven and earth united now, 
 
 163 Vast beams like spokes of some invisible wheel 
 Whicli whirl as the orb whirls, swifter than thought, 
 Filling the abyss with sun-like lightnings, 
 
 —Prom. IV. 270. 
 
 164 Three days the flowers of the garden fair. 
 
 Like stars when the moon is awakened, were. 
 
 —Sens. PI. III. 1. 
 
47 
 
 165 The leprous corpse touuhe,! l.y this s,,irit tc.ler 
 h.xhales Itself n. flowers „f gentle lireath ; 
 Like incurnations of the stars, when splendour 
 Is change,! to fragrance, they illumine death 
 And mock the merry worm that wakes heneath • 
 
 ~ A (/(»'. XX. 
 
 ine soul of Adonaia like a star 
 
 Beacons from the al.ode where 'the eternal are. -A don. LV. 
 
 167 Though in his eyes a cloud and Inirthen lay. 
 
 Through which his soul, like Vesper's sert:^u, beam 
 Piercing the chasms of ever-rising clouds, 
 
 Shone softly burning ; 
 
 Priure. Ath. I. OO. 
 
 168 The Balearic Hsher, driven from shore, 
 Hanging upon the peaked wave afai', 
 Ihen saw their lamp from Laian's turret gleom 
 Fiercing the stormy darkness like a star 
 
 Wh!w ^n".? '^'-'^^■""'^ tl'« st'^t one stea,lfast beam, 
 Whilst all the constellations of the skv 
 
 Seemed reeling through the storm. -Princu ith U 2A 
 
 169 
 
 Mr 1 , ^ ' ''^ hoary tirove 
 
 Waxed green and flowers burst forth Tike starrv beams 
 
 170 Let the horsemen's scymitars 
 Wheel and flash like sphereless stars 
 Ihirsting to eclipse their burning 
 In a sea of death and mourning. 
 
 171 Beyond, the surface of the unsickled corn 
 Tremb es not in the slumbering air, and borne 
 In circles quamt, and ever-changing dance, 
 
 — Priiire Ath. III. 8. 
 
 — ii/«.sio/j. Lxxvin. 
 
 172 
 
 .1 ; ' ""-' ^"-i-v^uaiiging (lance, 
 
 Like w,nged stars the Hre-flies flash an.l glxnoe, 
 
 Pale in the open moonshine, but each one 
 Under the dark trees seems a little sun 
 A meteor tame.l ; a Hxed star gone astrky 
 i^rom the silver regions of the xMilky Way ; 
 
 —Letter to M. (1. '2~,^. 
 
 173 Through the green splendour of the water deeii 
 hhe saw tjie constellations reel and dance 
 
 ^''•^ '^'■"^"^ -M7../,, XXVIII. 
 
 174 Until the golden eye of the bright flower, 
 
 1 hrough the dark lashes of those veined ids, 
 Disencumbered of tlM-ir silent sleep, 
 Gazed like a star . , the morning light 
 
 —Frnijni. of Drnin. 168. 
 
 175 
 
 c, ■ . , , And thou 
 
 AHLlf!''*^'" '''T ^'""^ '"^ ^'»'' ^''<1« Atlantic. 
 Athwait Its zones of tempest and of calm, 
 Bright as the path to a beloved home, 
 Uh, light us to the isles of the evening land ! 
 
 ~Cha>i I. IV. 18. 
 
48 
 
 As veil In vol 1 the .silor.t splon.l,,,,,- .Irons ^ ' 
 l-rom Lunfer, an.icl the chrysolito ^ 
 
 Of Hunnso, ere it tinge ti.e m,.„ntain tons • 
 
 '"' / ^''.'^^ "t'l.r'H snnlo. wiu.se light is 1 ke k scent 
 
 i7'» Urn':';;" " "' •-■^■v"'"^' ••'•'-- f- ' it "" 
 
 ;■; 'p.' ^'[ «"f ""tf "1 H-hioi, his .lear lament 
 IHO I ho I resemn Shophenl I-roathes, ot" egress 
 
 That i,„.no.l h,s weary slun.l.or to ecntent ; ^y,. „^- /, 
 
 181 Tlio goMen gates of Sleep u„l,ar 
 
 Where Strength and Beauty n,ot together 
 KuKlle then' unage like a star 
 In a sea of glassy weather 
 
 1H2 Ami the smile thou wearest 
 Hraps thee like a star 
 Is wrapt in liglit 
 
 m Thou whom seen nowhere, I feel evervu hero 
 
 star — Jiiii'r. 
 
 184 , 
 
 That gems the glittering eiS^tc^'" 
 
 A at wl'"' '!^"' '" '"''•'' «" Poworful ' 
 As that which hurstnig form the Fairy's form 
 .Sprearl a i.mpureal halo roun.l the sccme ' 
 
 410. 
 
 — Brirla/ S. {/'. ]'2r'. 23/, 
 
 - Frnrjm. nf IJ,ll, iS4. 
 
 III. 
 
 ~<l M. 98, 
 
 A . ound t he Fai ry 's i)alace.gate 
 
 Lesseno.1 f^y slow .legrees and soon appeared 
 
 T at f "^' '";'"'^'r« a« the planet or// 
 
 iha there attemlant on the solar power 
 
 With borrowed hght pursued thei/ narrower way -^Q. M. 220. 
 
 if) LlGnT\l\(;. 
 
 186 i<! , X 
 
 In those flushed rhp.L-. , "\^''« ■'Strong impulse hid 
 
 Upon l„s ],f„, aa lightning i„ ^ Aol\ '^ 
 
 OnSSTorir' """■'■"'« '''""-'= 
 
 ~Ahi.'<l. 415. 
 
 1S7 
 
 VVM.r...,, . ■ ,., awful scone 
 
 m Or when free thoughts like lightnings are alive ; 
 
 B. 15. 
 
 ~L. ,(• C. I. ,33. 
 
49 
 
 1H.» \\ ii,.M mi.l sf.ft looks of pitv, Www vvonl.l ,|art 
 •A ^'lancc as keen as is tl.o liKhtiiiiiy's strokt- 
 N\ lu'i. It .loth rivc the knots of sonic aiurstial oak. 
 
 — /.. <(■ C. IV. »i. 
 
 190 Ari<I .smiles- as wl„-n tlu- lightning's l.last 
 Has paivhf.l sonic hcavciiWcli^rhij,,^, ,,,,|^ 
 111.,- next spnnj; shows l,.avcs pale and rare, 
 lint like (lowers delicate and fair, 
 On Its rent houghs, a>,'ain arravcd 
 His couiiteiiance in tender light": 
 
 191 l^il<f veiled ii-htning asleep 
 
 A sjiell is treasured hut for thee ahinc 
 
 —A'. ,f //. 787. 
 — /'roiii. II. iii, ,s;{. 
 
 Tr. ,,//,. '2m 
 -Lihir/i/, III. 
 
 1^ J^i'tlitT caught thy wakening glance 
 
 Like lightning from his leaden lance 
 Keflected. it dissolved the visions of the trail'.- 
 J"« whi.-h as in a t.,ml. the nations lay : .^0>/, h, L,U. \. 
 
 m Ave even the ,lin, wor.ls uhi.-li ..hs.urc thee .i.,vv 
 
 Masli. lightnii.gdike, with uiia.'..ii,stome.l gl.,w -Kpips. ;}.'{. 
 
 194 If Hacon's eagle .spirit ha.l ii..t leapt 
 Like lightning .mt of darkness 
 
 195 But keener thy gaze than the lightniiig-s glaiv, 
 
 196 Fairest of the Destinies, 
 IHsarray tli.\- .lazzling eves : 
 Keener far thv lightnings are 
 
 Than the winged (l.olts) thou hearesl -Fnujm. If, II. I8(». 
 
 (.'/) .Mkteou.s, CoMKT.S. 
 
 197 A luri.l earth-star, which .hopped many a spark 
 l;r..m Its hlue train an.l spreading wi.lelv, elung 
 
 lo their wil.l hair, like mist the topni..st' pines among 
 
 ~L. .1^6'. XI. 12. 
 
 198 And as the meteor's midnight flame 
 
 Startles the dreamer, sun-like truth 
 Flashed on his visionary v.iuth, 
 
 199 In thine halls the lamp of learning, 
 Padua, now no more is l)urning. 
 Like a meteor, whose wih; wsr' 
 Is lost over the grave .)f .i:iv, 
 It gleams hetraycd an.l to hetray ; 
 
 1200 I have heard those ni..re skille.l in spirits .say 
 
 Jhe huhliles, which the enchantment of the sun 
 Sucks from the pale faint water-Howers that iiave 
 
 I he oozy hottom of clear lakes and pools 
 Are the pavilions where such .Iwell an.l float 
 Under the green and g.)Iden atmosphere 
 \Vhich noon-tide kindles thro' the woven leaves • 
 And when these hurst, an.l the thin fiery air 
 'Ihe which they breathed within tho.se lucent .lomes 
 
 — /?. ii- II. Gl.-) 
 
 -Eiiij. Hills, •2r)fi. 
 
51) 
 
 201 
 
 Asct'iiils to IIdw like iiii'li'oi's tlii'i)' tlif niiilit, 
 Tlu'y ri<li' on tlu'm, aiitl rt-iii tlicii' liiinllnii;i; s|)(c(l. 
 Ainl liow llifir luniiirij^ cirsts. and yliilo in tin 
 limit!!' the watois of I lie cuitli a;,'aiii. 
 
 Their hrijiht locks 
 Stream like a cornet's llashitii,' iiaii : tliey all 
 Swoei) onward. 
 
 /• 
 
 il. 
 
 ii. 70. 
 
 '2(»2 
 
 the liriithl \ i.s' 
 
 VV'horoin thu sin;,'in^ spirits rode and shone, 
 (p'k'arn like jiale meteors through a watery ninni. 
 
 /• 
 
 'iO.'{ And the meteors of that sid)huiar htsavei 
 Like the lamps of the air when night 
 
 ks forth. 
 Laughed round her footsteps up from the eartii I 
 
 — S, 
 
 U. iv. i;ts. 
 
 IV. uU. 
 
 /v. IL 10. 
 
 204 
 
 Death, K 
 
 l^ove. lieauty are nd.\t;il in tin atmospheic ; 
 
 Which trembles and hums with the fervoui' of dread 
 
 Around hi'r w ihl eyes, her hiighl hand, and her iu-ad, 
 
 Lik(,' a meteor of light o'er the waters ! I'iflun aj' Sai, Kii. 
 
 200 her pel ticoats sti'eaining 
 
 Or like a nu-teor, or a wai-steed's maiie, —<Kil, Tijr. 95. 
 
 20(3 .Anothi'r splendour on his mouth alii. 
 
 And as a dying meteor stains a wreuth 
 
 Of moonlight vapour, uhi.-h the eold night clips, 
 
 It thished through his pak' lind)s, and pass'd to its ecli])se 
 
 AiUm. XIL 
 
 207 Like winged stars tlii' lire flies Hash and glance, 
 Pale in the open moonsiiine, hut each one 
 Under the dark trt'es seems a little sun, 
 A meteor tanuMl ; — L<lt( ,■ In M . ^'. 281. 
 
 208 And the marsh meteors, like tame beasts, at night 
 Came licking with blue tongues his veined feet ; 
 
 — Mar. \\. 
 
 20il Anil the marsh meteors 
 
 And he wnuld watch them, as, like spirits bright. 
 In many I'ntangU"! ligui'cs quaint and sweet 
 To some ciuliai: ed music thc\- would dance, 
 
 210 From l*ros))ero's enchanted cell, 
 .\s the mighty verses lell, 
 To the throne of Xa[)les, he 
 Lit you o'er the ti'ackless sea 
 Flitting on. your prow before. 
 Like a living meteor. 
 
 -Mar. W. 
 
 With (I <>'i(if(ti; 17. 
 
 (A) The Sky. 
 
 2) 1 The other glowing like the vital moin, 
 When throned on ocean's wave 
 It breathes over the world : 
 
 —U. tt\ 5. 
 
51 
 
 2lL> yotlikfHl ,.v.M.in;.'.s vault that fa,.,v i,:Ul. 
 -l.( As hvnvi'u low n.siin^, „m i1„. vavo'it >imv 
 
 Its lIuc.rN (,f llMsliiiiy lij^ht, 
 
 Its viisl iukI u/.iirc iloiiiu • 
 
 iKl 
 
 Hi 
 
 1,1 , , ••iif'itliomaKIc .Irciis 
 
 I.I.H'ast ,.. uv..rlmnL;in-l„.,.,v...,. ;l.:.| .spnM.I 
 \n<l vhm.|,.mi.,.il; Ih,. a(•^.„nwl,.tc■,l.st.■oJ..s• 
 
 l!lll 
 
 .'/"^''. /;. (it. 
 
 /'■ .!■ r \-. 50. 
 
 -!•• r was a tempi,., siu'l, as m<.r(al liaml 
 H..sm.v..rl,uilt, .,or,,,,.Mtasy. ...... .Ir,.,,.,,, 
 
 I|<'an.. in tl„-,.|tirs„rrMcliant,..l lan.l • 
 I w<i.s hkrst lu-av..,,, ,.,•,. vH, .|;.v\ p,,r,;|,. ,t,,.a„, 
 
 ,' "";ii''ii.s.'M ni.M,iiarn..M-t|„. ,1„u.Im 
 
 '■;^ ^'allici um. wl.,.,! wit I, many a k„I,|,.„ |„.am 
 
 MH-tlin.n-in,:<..mst,.|lati.,nsrnsh in rmw.ls 
 
 I avM.g with tnr tl... .sky and tlu- marmurral' ll„o,|,s. 
 
 f'. 'I ''. 1. »!». 
 
 21.; Mis ..y..s,n.r. dark ;nHl d,vp. ami tin. Hear l,,.n.v 
 \\ Mr, sl,a,lMW..,ltlK.m^^aslik,. tlu.m..n,i,.uskv. 
 I .•';;'"' •■- '-tvn nt .Sprin.. wl..,. in 11.^,. ifuw 
 lio tl..|.nul.tan..ms.,f, wimls as thev l.i..w 
 UaUc th,. .^,wu world ' /,,,,.,. 
 
 — '-I- <!• ( . I. i)}), 
 
 ill .Autumn e\('s 
 
 " '"* •■., . , , ."'"■^ ' f''"i'i m.iDv spirits 
 
 iy w.sdun, that had waked that .'.rv was IM. 
 A.Mhe l.rmf ,i,dury wl.irh dark Heaven inherits 
 .'"""'•■■''-• •.!''" n.wlneh fades ere it is Hprea.i 
 h"-. the n,,hfs dev.mring darknoss .shod :' 
 
 -'19 Theawtid sha.h.wof.s.m.e un.seeu l'„vvcr 
 Hoats till) unseen among us,— 
 
 Like hues and har nie.s of evenin>'* 
 
 •J-_'0 An.l we hreatiu'. and sicken not, 
 1 he atmosphere of Inunan thou.dit • 
 lie It (Inn and dark and grev, 
 
 lake a stormextinguisluri (lav 
 
 ri/ivelled o'er by (lying gleaiiVs ; 
 J5e It hright as all between 
 ('lou(lI(3.ss .skies and windless .streams 
 hdeiit, Ii(iui(l, and serene ' ,, 
 
 — rrom. I. ()75. 
 
 2-21 -^'"1 ^^■•'•Hen too, frank, he;iutiful. and kind 
 
 ()M the xs.de earth, pa.st; -/Vo/,^ III. iv. ir,;{. 
 
 222 I)finking from thy .sen.se and si>dit 
 He.uity, maje.sty, ami might, 
 
 Asa violet's g(;iitle eye 
 . (Jazes on the azui'e sky 
 
 L'util its hue grows like what it l)ehold.s -/V„„,. IV. 48.",. 
 
 -/'■ 'iC. l.\. 
 
 -ir. /. /;. I. 
 
52 
 
 ^ - ^^^■. O/' ,SV;(,, (j(J_ 
 
 t.24 The (.arcs we wasto upo., ,„.,• l.eavy ,,T.wn 
 \\ ..uM ...ak. ,t light a„,l glorioMH as a wmith 
 Of hc-avens beams for hisTk.ar inno.x-ut .n ' 
 
 ' . M '"' ''•":' '-■""y-'^^^y'ite.s i„ ,.,.ow<ls 
 
 I 'oni th.. lion/on -an<I tlu- stainless sky 
 <Jpons heyon.l then, like otoniity, ^ 
 
 22(i From every point of the Infinite 
 
 Like a thousand, hiwns on a single ni-dit 
 I iie splend.Hirs rise and spiead ° 
 
 227 We paused l)eside the jk.oIs tiiat lie 
 Lnder tlie forest hough, 
 Kach seemed as "twere a iTtt'le skv 
 <>ulphed m a worhl l)eh)\v ; ' 
 
 -( '/i'i-<. J. 491. 
 
 ■'<iiiiiiii< r (tilt/ ti\ ;{. 
 
 — /'/■',/. //,//. (12. 
 
 228 A tirmament ot purple light 
 
 U'hieh in the dark earth lav 
 More honn.lless than the .lepth'of nioht 
 And purer than the day 
 
 v. 1 1 1 • , rteaven s ehon vault 
 
 Su.ddod with stars unutterahly bri>d,t 
 
 I u'....gh nhieh the moon-s uuelomied gran.leur rolls 
 ;Ven,s hke a canopy wineh love had spre ' 
 
 I <) curtain her sleeping worhl ' 
 
 (0 Fire. 
 
 23(. i;hou t,,o, aerial Pile ! Mhose pinnacles 
 
 ' '""t from one shnne like pyrami.ls of Hre 
 2;^1 One seat was va.'ant in the midst, a thr.,ne 
 
 ul^UnK win'*''";"'' '''^'^ ^'-1''^--' li-^^^ 
 
 ^::i::.i;;dli.p'f;;i^^^^''^^^ '"•''' -'^••-' 
 
 — To Jam Itu-oll. y . 
 
 To Juii, I!,, -oil. \\ 
 
 V. -)/. 4. 
 
 'Suiiiiiiii- Ei-e. 1.3. 
 
 -/^•■t' C. I. .-,5. 
 
 V\ Inch ma.le the earth seem tire, ' ^' ^_/^ ,,, ^, ^.jj j . 
 
 Which ^;;ip'ih;t^;l;;r'''""'^^^-"'"-'^'j-'j._^ ^„^j. . 
 
 23/5 Aloft, her flowing hair like strings of flame did ,uiver. ^ 
 
 -/'• -!■ ('. XI. •?,. 
 
■*" ,,. ,., towers fur and m-ar 
 
 i leroe like reposing Haines tl.e trenmloiis atinospl.ore 
 
 -A. .(• C. XII. .-). 
 
 237 Vet yet , on,- I„ief relapsi., like the last hea.n 
 '>t 'lying flames tlie stai,iless air around 
 Hung silent and serene -a hlood-red gleam 
 Burst upuanlsimrling fiercely from ll,e ground 
 The gloLed smoke,- -L. ..• a XII. l(i. 
 
 238 
 239 
 
 240 
 
 And hefore tiiat cliasni of light, 
 As within a furnace hiight," 
 C'ohi-„n tower, and dome, and spire, 
 Miine like ohelisk , of fire, 
 Pointing with inconstant motion 
 >roin tliealtar of dark ocean 
 To tile sapphire-tinted skies : 
 As the Haines of sacrifice 
 From the marhle shrines did ii.se, 
 As to pierce the dome of gold 
 Where Apollo spoke of old. 
 
 — AV;/. /////.v, 104. 
 
 ~^^ ??JV!'''" ^'''' ■"•'"""' ''-^-^ ''f-'"<^ "«-to the realm 
 nt Demogorgon, and the mightv portal, 
 l^.ke a volcano-s meteord.reathn,^ chasm, ~/'ro>n. 11. iii. 1. 
 
 -*^ Any7';''V'«','rr"",'" '''■"^■- I<l"li'"i(ianvmcde, 
 
 And let it hll the Daedal .-ups like lire: ~Pro„>. III. i. 2.1 
 
 243 The un.seen clou.ls of the dew. which lie 
 
 Like hre m the Howers till the sun rides high. -^,,,., y>. j. jj(J 
 
 244 And the green lizard, and the gol.len snake 
 
 Like unimprisoned Hames, out ..f their trance awake. 
 
 A<}oi,. Win. 
 
 lit Is, like .low hre upon a hoarv hraiwl ; 
 
 An.l one keen pyramid with edge suhlime. 
 
 I avil.onmg the .hist of him who j.lanned 
 oiP T l"" IT '"*" *^'"' '''^ "it'inory, ,h,th stand 
 -40 Likeflame transformed to marhle: --~A>/on I. 
 
 247 An.l then -as if the earth an.l sea ha.l heen 
 .wv .^.'"•'"'^■^''' "it'J one lake of fire, were seen 
 
 i !"''■ •"'•""^■••i"^ t..wering as fr..m wavs .,f flame, 
 
 A oun.l the \ap..r..us sun, from wliich there ..ime 
 
 I he inmost purple spirit of light, an.l imi.le 
 
 I l.eir very peaks transparent -Jn/..lM.HO. 
 
 249 .Men .s<^arcely know how heautiful fire Is- 
 raeli Hame .,f it is as a preci.,us stone 
 
 I)is.solve.l 1,1 ever-moving light, _ ,,7,,,/,, xy VII. 
 
 250 In thy .lark eyes a power like light doth lie 
 
 Within thy l.reath an.l .,n thy"liair," like "o.hmr it is yet 
 
 An.l tr.,in thy touch like fire ,loth leap -OomL I. 
 
54 
 
 2.51 Then. ,n„,sl l,uvc lived within \huouuhi\ JH-i.t 
 "-t hre, ,„oro wann and bnght th^ uL^ll^lL,,,. 
 
 (h\,,., , ^^ hen nieniory tame 
 
 ''/"'•• .Will. 
 
 (i) Eves. 
 
 253 Life, and the h.stre that e.m.sun.eci it shone 
 As m a furnaee Imn.ing . secretly '"' ''"""^ 
 From h.s dark eye.s alone. 
 
 — Mnr. \XV. 
 
 m 
 
 ! there are spiiits of th ■ air 
 
 And genii of the evening breeze, 
 A.Hl gentle ghosts, Mith eyes as fair 
 AS star-beams among twilight trees • 
 
 A/u.-<i. 2,r2. 
 
 — To Col^r. L 
 
 -o.) I hen siie arose, an.l smile.l on me with eves 
 
 \V hiT ^f r'''7^""«' ^^^ ^^''^t i.Ianet f.iir 
 W !.>f ^'^'^ 'I'VV ight lingereth in the skies 
 Winch cleaves wuh arrowy bean.s the dark red air. 
 
 — A. <(• C. I. '2\. 
 i-ikt meteors <jn a rner's grassy shore, 
 
 257 
 
 111- a^n «V«i of blue 
 
 Looked ,nlo mine, like moonlight, soothingly 
 
 -A. .(■ ('. I. ,10. 
 
 -/- 'I' C. I. 58. 
 
 258 
 
 \Vi,i, 1, , ■ ,"'^''' '''"'k and deepening eves 
 
 Uu a din. well, move, though the star renoses 
 
 .Swam n. our nn.tc and li.p.id ecstasies' ''^'''''^:_j^ ^,, ^, ^.^ .^.^ 
 
 '^^^ With?lIe"/'''r^'I'' "^' ^";'' ^^ ''i^'^' ''i'l ^P''-''"' 
 
 U .th the ,„„.k glance ,>f eyes, like withered light.nngs shed 
 
 -'/'■ <!■ C. X. |(i. 
 
 261 Orb ^ntlnn orb deeper tlJl^i:!;;;:^;':;; •;;•■- 
 Absorbe.1 the glories of the burning skies ' 
 \ hich nnnghng „ith her hearfs deep e -'sf.sies 
 Burst from iRu looks and gestures- ^'* " ••''''^'^^- , ,• v, - 
 
 2Gii 
 
 And cal 
 
 Snul 
 
 ^11, and like the 
 
 «' on mankind 
 
 liis eyes ;ne mild 
 mora about to Itrcak 
 
 2();i 
 
 - /-. .(■ C. XII. ;{. 
 
 And his ke 
 
 Killed n 
 
 en e3es glittering througl 
 
 If with the flame d 
 
 1 nune. 
 
 Which in tli 
 Like the liyht of 
 In th 
 
 ivnie, 
 
 en' orbs was 1 
 
 >urun)g tar, 
 111 unmeasured star, 
 
 ■^ky of midnight dark and d 
 
 eep 
 
 /•'. .t //. Il.U 
 
oo 
 
 ^* .p, , , , I fi-el. I see 
 
 I.oEe eyes w n.l. burn tl.ro' smiles that fa.le i„ tears. 
 Like stars half <iiu-nche.l i„ mists of silver desv. 
 
 Prom. n. i. 27. 
 
 263 Thine eyes are like the deep, blue, boundless heaven 
 Contra,:te,l to two eircles underneath 
 Then- long, fine lashes ; dark, far, measureless. 
 Urb withni orb, and line thro' line inwoven. 
 
 — Prom. If. i. 114. 
 
 Ihat guides it has the dovelike eyes of hope ; 
 
 —Prom. II. iv., 159. 
 
 -^" ??.'.! >''''"°''^ "f h''" ^'ye illumined heaven 
 
 VVith sanguine light, through the thick ragged skirts 
 
 Of the victorious darkness as he fell • 
 
 Like the last glare of dav's red agon V, 
 
 n hieh from a rent among the fiery elouds, 
 
 Burns far along the tempest- wrinkled d,<;ep -Prom..n\. ii. 4. 
 
 268 And your eyes are as love which is veiled n.;t ? 
 269 
 
 He your wound.s like eyes 
 To weej) for the dead. " 
 
 — Pre, iV. 92. 
 -Oik :i. 
 
 270 With those clear d.-ops, which start like sa.red dew 
 K-om the twin lights thy sweet soul .larkens through, 
 
 —Eftifis. 142. 
 
 271 And then came one of sweet and earnest looks 
 
 970 w*'"'*' '°f "r'^''' t" *"« J'''l< 'in'f "ight-like eyes 
 
 272 \\ ere as the clear and ever-living br.u.ks ^ 
 Are to the obscure fountains whence tliev rise 
 
 Showing how pure they are ; ^ __, -,,... A,,on. I. 
 
 '-'^ ,,, . . ^''' speak not of her eyes 1 wiiich seem 
 twin mirrors of Italian heaven, vet gleam 
 U ith such deep meaning, as we "never see 
 liut in the human countenance ; —./«/. ,c )/ 14" 
 
 274 
 
 ,,, ,., "^"'1 fsyes whose arrowy liirht 
 
 Shone like the reflex of a thousand minds. 
 
 PriiK-, Aih. II. i. 4. 
 
 -to Hei hai W..S br,,wn, lier sphered eyes were b,„wn 
 And in their dark and li.p.i.l moisture swam 
 Like tile dim orb of the eclip^sed moon, 
 
 Fruijiii. Prim;- Alh. \, 
 
 276 Vet wheu th,, spj,. t flashed bem-atl,, there ,ame 
 Uie light from t hem, as when tears of deli<rht 
 Double the western planet's serene flame. ' 
 
 -'Frit<im. Prill,; Afh. 4. 
 
 277 When Peter heard of his promotion. 
 
 His eyes grew like two stars for bliss ; -P,t,r Ii. VII. vii. 
 
.■)(j 
 
 r,, . 'leof) lief o\ CH, lis ate 
 
 I wo openings of unfatlion.al.le niyj.t 
 .V>on throi.gli a toinple's ..l.nen roof- 
 
 — Wi/c/i, V 
 
 279 {" t'ly 'la>k oves a power like li^l.t dot), lie 
 
 5^ X;^'^:!'!^,X;: i,'tri;i:L:^ """'-- 
 
 —Const. 1. 
 
 282 
 
 -V. ^V. 38. 
 
 u-k- 1 II Tin-ills with luT lovelv eves, 
 
 VVh.ch l,ke two stars an.i.l the heavif,g Li„ 
 ^paikle through li(|iii,] hli.ss. 
 
 (^•) Daimvnkss, .Shadow. 
 
 K,o..te,lhke n.ght, -A. .f t'. III. IG. 
 
 284 I vvatrhe.l, nnl.l the shades of evening wrapt 
 
 i^^arth like an exhalation " ' r . ., r,r , 
 
 — v>. cl- 6'. III. is. 
 
 ^^^ ,, , ,., confusion, then (lesi)air 
 
 Descends like night 
 
 286 () Spirit vast and deep as Night and Heave 
 
 — A. <(• C. V. 7. 
 
 n ! 
 
 ~L. d' C. V. 51, 2. 
 
 L ko the pme s loeks upon the lingering blast 
 
 -/-'. '1' C. VI. 21. 
 
 288 The pitchy snioke of the departed lire 
 htill hung in niany a hollow dome and spire 
 
 Above the towers like night : ^ -A- a. ^ XI I. 26. 
 
 289 Sometimes through forests, .leep like night, we glode, 
 
 — /- <t' C. XII. 'Ao. 
 
 dl n'^"' tl'e «arth-s shade, or interlunar air, 
 -92 (). constellations <,uenched in murkiest cloud, 
 
 — Crnrl, II. i. ISO. 
 29;{ When its syound was ,l„sed, there stood 
 Darkness o er tlie day like bloo.l. 
 
 294 Sister. 1 hear th.- thun.ler of new winu 
 
 -I'rotn. i. 101. 
 
 rp, tl'cii' sliadows make 
 
 Ihe space within my plumes more black than night. 
 
 — I'rom. I. 521. 
 
 "'^■'' i,-M- ., ^ '^ee a mighty darkness 
 
 'lilmg the seat ot power, and rays of gloom 
 art round, as light from the meri.liarTsun 
 Ungdzed upon and shapele-s. ' ^i>,.om II iv <> 
 
-^6 Tliat tenible sluulow tli)ats 
 
 Up from its throne, as may tlu- lii:i.' smoke 
 Of eartlKiuake-riiine.l cities oer the sea. —Prom. 11. iv. I.IO. 
 
 2i/7 I'eare 1 peace ! A migiity I>..\ver which is as darkness 
 
 Js rising out of Kartli, ami from tiie skv 
 •298 Is showered like night, and from within the air 
 199 Bursts, like eclipse wliich had been gathered up 
 
 Into tiie pores of sunlight ; -Prum. IV. -,10, 
 
 300 'i'o forgive wrongs darker tiiaii death or night ; 
 
 '—Prow. IV. ,-,71. 
 
 •^01 Six the thunder has smitten, 
 
 And Ihey lie back as mummies on wiiich Time lias wiitten 
 
 H IS scorn of the eml,almer ; _ ( v,,/^,, of S. ti I . 
 
 302 lilack as a cormorant tiie screaming blast -^ Vision o/'.b\ 105. 
 
 303 armies mingled in ol>scure array, 
 
 Like clouds with clouds, darkening the sacred bowers 
 
 Of .serene heaven _(),/, ,,, / ;,, yjj 
 
 304 The future looks as blick as death, a cloud, 
 
 305 Dark as the frown of Hell hangs over it— 
 
 06 And others .'jaid that such mysterious giief 
 From (iod's displeasures like a darkness, fell 
 On souls like liis whi('li owned no higher law 
 
 Than love ; 
 
 \ 
 
 -(Ed. Tyr. 96. 
 
 -Priiir, A/It. I. 93. 
 
 ^"''' ,^c , , 'J"t o'er the visage wan 
 
 Ut Atiianase, a ruffling atmospheie 
 Of dark emotion, a swift shadow laii. 
 Like wind upon some forest-bosomed lake 
 (ilassy and dark,— 'Prinr, 
 
 the flagging wing 
 Of the rou.sed cormorant in the lightning tlasli 
 Looked like the wreck of some wind-wandeiiiu' 
 Fragment of inkv tiiunder-snioke ° 
 
 .Ifh. n. ii. 47. 
 
 iVi/rh, L. 
 
 309 And o er what seeme.l the head a cloud-like crane 
 W cis bent, a dim and faint ;etherial gloom 
 
 Tempering the light. _ yy. of L. 91. 
 
 310 And <;reg()ry and John and men divine 
 Who ro.se like shadows between man an<l (;od 
 
 311 And tyrants and slaves are like shadows of nighl 
 
 In the van of tiie morning light 
 
 312 A portal as of shadowy adamant 
 
 Stands yawning on the highway of the life 
 U liich we all ti'cad, a cavern linge and gaunt ; 
 Around it rages an unceasing strife 
 
 313 Of shadows, like the restless clouds that haunt 
 
 The gap of s )nie cleft mountain, lifted high 
 Into the whirlwinds of the uj)per sky. 
 
 -7V. n/ L. 288. 
 
 —/.;/'. IV. 
 
 -AlUi). \. 
 
58 
 
 314 
 
 A tirmanient of purple liglit 
 
 VVhich in the dark eaitii lay 
 More bounflless tlian the .leptli of niyht 
 
 And purer than the (lay. 
 
 (/) White Licjht, Pallor. 
 
 - To Jaiit litr. o7. 
 
 315 Like mountain snow 
 
 some, wliosc white Iiair shone 
 
 -A. .r C. I. 54. 
 
 316 Let tortures strain the truth till it be white 
 
 As snow thnce sifte.l hy the frozen wind -Cevrl, V. ii. 170. 
 
 ''' Sr;!;™';?!^'^''"^'^ ^'^^''- ---^^'^""- flowed 
 
 — rrom. II. iv. 94. 
 310 nTJn' *="''^'«^!/«"f tlie mountain's frozen tears 
 3Z0 Hung down>.ards, raising forth a doul>tful light. 
 
 — Prom. in. iii. 15. 
 
 321 Within it sits a winged infant, white 
 
 Its countenance, like the whiteness of bright snow ; 
 
 322 Its plumes are ... tiie feathers of sunny frost, 
 OfiiTvlh ^ white through the wind-flowing folds 
 V; 'l^ .^'^'."*'' ™'^^' woof of aaiierial i)earl. 
 Its hair IS whi te, the brightness of white light 
 .Vattered in strings, yet its two eyes are helvens 
 
 Of liquid darknes.". 
 
 — Prom. IV. 210. 
 
 323 The lilies we:, drooping, and white, and wan 
 
 Like the head an.l tlie skin of a dying man -Se.n.s. PI. \\\. 28. 
 
 oo< A 1 •. , ^^'-^ li'*^!'' '"in'! beard 
 
 324 Are whiter than the tempest-sifte.l snow. _//,//. 14,,. 
 
 325 O pallid as Death's dedicated bride, 
 liiou mockery which art sitting by my side. 
 
 Am T tint w>.r. 1,1,„ .!.„„ .1 O J^ .> Ciin,, 
 
 Am I not wan like thee 'i 
 
 326 
 
 —Jul. and Madd. 384. 
 
 327 
 
 Last came Anarciiy : he rode 
 
 On a white iiorse s'lilashcd witli blood • 
 
 He was pah; even to the lips 
 
 Like Deatii in tlie Apocalypse ^-MasL: xm. 
 
 From tile woikhouse and the prison, 
 
 \\ lici'e paje as corpses newly risen, 
 
 U omen, children, yf)uiig and old 
 
 Oroan for pain aiLfwcep for cold. -Mn.^k, L.XVIII. 
 
 328 Her lips an.l ,.hceks were like things .lead, so pale -_X„«.s,V. 
 
 329 His hands were claspe.l, veine.l an.l pale as snow. _ 7V/.s,v. 22. 
 33(1 Ami their mothers look ,)ale, like the white shore 
 
 Of Albion tree no m.,re -Lh>v., V.,1. IV. j. j.j. 
 
 331 The wreaths of .stony myrtle, ivy and pine, 
 
 Like winter leaves o'ergrown by'nioul.led snow 
 
 — Ode to Xap. 17. 
 
m 
 
 332 
 
 wlun tlio prow 
 Maile tlie invisible water white as snow. 
 
 -0(/f> f<> Xiip. 42. 
 
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 342 
 
 343 
 344 
 
 (m) (tK.nkhal. 
 
 '-■ike restlcs-s serpents, elritlied 
 In rainbows and in Hre, the parasites, 
 .Starred with ten tiiou.sand blossoms, flow around 
 riie grey trunks. -A/ast. 438. 
 
 Hitlier the poet eanie, his eyes belield 
 
 Tlieir own wan light through the reflected lines 
 
 Of his thin hair, distinct in the dark depth 
 
 Of that still fountain ; as the human heart 
 
 <iazing in dreams over the gloomy grave. 
 
 Sees its own treacherous likeness'there. ^A/(is(. 469. 
 
 Must that divinest form 
 
 vvhose a/ure veins 
 Steal like dark streams along a field of snow, 
 Whose outline is as fair as marble clothed 
 In light of some divi' est mind, decay ? —D. IV. ]-2. 
 
 Ardent and pure as day thou burnest —//. H^ 92. 
 
 bright scales did leap 
 Where'er the Kagle s talons made their wav, 
 Like sparks into the darkness 
 
 -/.. .(• a I. 11. 
 
 Their sun-like form 
 Upon the combat shone— a light to save 
 Like Paradise sjjread forth l)eyoiid the shadowy grave 
 
 ' --L. ,t- a r. 32. 
 
 Mountains of ice, like sapphire, ])iled on high 
 Hemming the horizon round, in silence lay" 
 On the still waters 
 
 — /v. <(• C. I. Vt 
 
 The radiance of who.se limbs rose-like and warm 
 Flowed forth 
 
 did my spirit wake 
 From sleep, as many-colouied as the snake 
 'I'hat girds eternity ? _ 
 
 ~L. .f C. I. 57. 
 
 As thus the old man spoke, his counteMance 
 Oleamed on me like a spirit's 
 
 — /.. .(■ C. IV. 4. 
 -A. <(■ r. IV. 16. 
 
 345 
 
 A glorious pageant, moie magnificent 
 
 Than kingly slaves arrayed in gold and blood. 
 
 When they return from carnage, — /,. ,[• C. V. 14. 
 
 the King witii gathered brow, and lips 
 VV reathed by long scorn, did inly sneer and frown 
 With hue like tiiat when some great painter dips 
 His pencil in the gloom of earthcpuike and ecliiise. 
 
 — /-. d- ('. V. 23. 
 
00 
 
 Id now tljo w..n,|,,,-..stri..k,.,. l.rvezes kist ' 
 
 Ukf AtlioH seen from .SaiiiotlMaeia, .In-st 
 
 In earliest light l,y vintagcM.s, ' _,,^ ,^, ^ ^. ^.^ 
 
 .'^47 .She, like a spirit through the darkness shining, 
 
 I .ist like a spark sent up out of a burning oven. 
 
 ~L.dC. V. 52. 
 
 -/- <(• C. VII. 11. 
 
 349 r • , , 
 
 I ;i.„ 1,1, , "^ 'I triend whose smile 
 
 Like ligh an. rest at morn an.l even is .sought 
 ll-tw,ldh.r.lwastome, A., .f 6^. VII. 14. 
 
 350,351 Aiul brows as bright as spring or niorniinr, ere 
 l><irk time ha.l tiiere its evil fegeiul wroTKht 
 In eharacters of elou.l wiiieh wither not ^ ^- A. ,. c. VIII. 29. 
 
 3r.2 But one was mute, her clieeks an.i lips most fair 
 Changing their hues like lilies newlv blown 
 Beneath a bright aeaeia's shadowv hair 
 Wave.l by tlie win.! ami.l the sunnv noon. 
 Showed that her soul was ,uivering ; _/.. ., c. VIII. 30. 
 
 853 Thy mother Autumn, for who.se grave th„u beiresf 
 
 H'esh lowers, and beams like ilower.s with a- t lee 
 Disturbing not the leaves whieh are her winding sheet!' 
 
 — /- <(■ C. I\. 22. 
 
 354 The light of such a joy as makes tlie stare 
 Of hungry .snakes like living en.erahls glow, 
 Mione in a liundred human eyes— 
 
 ,. . ./ ^ woman sits tliereon, 
 
 1 aner it seems than aught that earth can breed, 
 
 Calni, radiant, like the phant.mM.f the, hiwn 
 
 A spirit from the eaves of daylight wan.leringgone 
 
 ~L. <(• C. .XII. 8. 
 
 ^^^' nu "^ ?' '"r'T' '"'"^' ^^''"^^ 'iyl'l -'i-' -I'i-'t. ' 
 l^ike a hend s hojie upon liis lijis and eyne, 
 
 — A. aa XII. II. 
 
 1-ike music (,er wide waves, __/^.,i,^/ yjj 3- 
 
 358 And down my cheeks the .piiek tears ran 
 Like twinkling rain-drops from tlie caves 
 n lien warm .Spring siiowers are passing o'er ; -/.'. .c //. MG. 
 
 359 For his eheek became, not pale, but fair 
 As rose-o'ershadowed lilies are ; ' 
 
 
 -A. .(■ C. .\I. 2 
 
 25. 
 
 360 
 
 Thy light alone like mist oY-r mountains driven 
 Or music by the night wind 
 Thro' strings of .some straii" 
 
 —A". .(• H. 819. 
 
 CJives grace and tnitii to life' 
 
 strument. 
 
 iiiKpiiet dream 
 
 -ir. I. n. III. 
 
01 
 
 301 
 
 362 
 
 3()3 
 
 366 
 367 
 
 \yitl. goMfii-san.lulkMl fVot, that i-low 
 Vndvr plumes of purple dye 
 Like ro.Mc-L'iisanguiiiL'd ivory 
 
 As fn.m tho n.so wlu.,|, tlu- pak' priestess kneel.- 
 
 o gatiier tor the festal crown of (lowers 
 Hie aerial crinisoi, f„l|s, (liishiMg her .heek 
 f^o from (mr victim's desiine,! a.'onv 
 1 K' shade which is ,„ir foriii invests iis round 
 IMse we are sliapdess as our mother Night. ' 
 
 'i"«I tlin.' yon peaks of chiml-like snow 
 I no roseate sunlight (luivers 
 
 Like the spark nursed in emliers 
 
 I'ike a diamond, which shines 
 
 (->n the dark wealth of mines, 
 
 A spell is treasured i.nt for tiiee alone. 
 
 — Prom. r. 310. 
 
 Pro/ii. I. 467. 
 /''•"///. 11. i. '.'4. 
 
 How its soft smiles attract the soul ! as light 
 Lures winged insects through the lample.ss air. 
 
 lone. 
 
 ., , ^«^'t ''eel ,vou no delight 
 
 iM'om the past sweetness? 
 
 .... As the bar. green hill 
 
 U lien some soft chiud vanishes into rain 
 Laughs with a thousand drops of sunny water 
 I •» tlie uiipavilioned sky 1 
 
 -Prum. II. iii. S4. 
 
 -I'roiii. II. \. KiJ. 
 
 368 
 360 
 370 
 371 
 
 372 
 373 
 
 -J'roni. IV. ISl. 
 
 -I', 01,,. IV. 327. 
 
 - >'/'^. /'. II. 49. 
 
 — ^V«.>. /'. III. 26. 
 
 -<K<I. Tyr. 184. 
 
 374 
 
 375 
 
 Some .Spirit is darted like a l.eaiii from thee, 
 \\ Inch penetrates my frozen frame, 
 
 Mut the hec and the beam like ephemeris 
 \\ liose path is the lightning's, 
 
 The rose leaves, like flakes of crimson snow 
 \ aved the turf and moss below 
 
 V* * 111, ^ \t^<iv\\ 
 
 1 It to suck l)lood, with luhriams round rint^s 
 ( apaciously expatiative, which make " ' 
 
 His little body like a red balloon, 
 
 \yiieii, like a noon-day dawn, there shone again 
 Deliverance. ^ ., . „,,. 
 
 —E}iij,s. 276. 
 
 Athwart that wintry wihlerness of thorns 
 Hashed from her motion splendour like the Morn's 
 
 — Kpips. .S70. 
 \m\ as those married lights, whi.h iunn the towers 
 Uf Heaven look forth, and fold the wandering globe 
 In luiuid sleep and splendour, as a robe ; -Kpip.s. .3o5. 
 
 It is an isle 'twixt Heaven, Air, Earth, and Sea, 
 I nulled and hung in clear tranquillity ; 
 Bright as that wandering Kdoii r „,.;i\J 
 Washed by the .soft blue 
 
 ms of young air. 
 
 -Epiji.>\ 457. 
 
0i 
 
 ;J7(; SI.e '•<•«.. lik(. uM autumnal Nigl,!, tluit spri„j;a 
 Out <.f t ,.■ K,.st a.ul f.,ll,nv.s wil.l au.l ,uLi 
 
 ""■*-'"'''"" '"^>'> -.1'/... Win. 
 
 '^"" tho (lead livr th.MV 
 
 And move liku wiiuls „f liyht on dark and stoimy air. 
 
 -A'ion. .XLIV. 
 •MH Pas.s till llw Spirit of the sjtot shall lead 
 riiy tootstfps t.. a Hlopi; of Kpoen arci^.s 
 
 A ligiit ot laughing flowers along thi- grass is .spix-ad. 
 
 ~A>/,>ii. XI A\. 
 
 .'<7!» Thrimoinla' and Maralhon 
 
 Caught, liko mountains beaeon-lightod, 
 Thf springini.' tiro. 
 
 ■^''^" , ., ,. . l>^'i' lioaiy I'uins glow 
 
 Like Uiient mountains lost in day : 
 
 .SSI To-nioriow an.l to-niorrou- are as latni)s 
 S<^t in our path to light u.s to tlic odgc 
 
 .382 Athens arose :--^anuind hci' l)oin, 
 Shone like mountains in the nior'n 
 (ilorious states ; — 
 
 3«''i and when iheeaitti is fair 
 
 I lie shadow ot thy moving wings imhue 
 Its deserts and its moiuiiriins, till thev wear 
 
 — J/r//. .-54. 
 ~ //<//. 84. 
 
 —//'//. 044. 
 —IM/. 084. 
 
 Beauty like some bright rohe ; 
 
 ,384 Clothed witii the iJible, as with light, 
 
 380 For with ])omp to meet him eaini! 
 
 Clotlu;d in arms like bloo<l and llame, 
 The hired murderers, 
 
 386 a Shape arraved in mail 
 I.ngliter than the viper's seale, 
 
 And upborne on wings whose grain 
 
 387 Was as the light of sunny raiiZ 
 
 38S And those i)lumes tlie light rained thro" 
 Like a siiower of crimson dew, 
 
 389 But Peter's verse was ejear 
 
 Like gentle rains, on tlie dark plains, 
 jSIaking that green wliieh late was irr'ev 
 
 rriiicc Alh. II. iv. S. 
 — Mmk. VI, 
 
 ~Mn4: XV. 
 
 — J/«-X-. XXVJIl. 
 —Mask. .\XIX. 
 
 —Pder />'. V. xiv. 
 
 390 \yhen lamp-like Spain, who now relumes her lire 
 Vn l-reedom's hearth, grew dim with Kmpire :— 
 
 — Leitevto M. (;. 33. 
 
 391 Carye.l lamps and ehalices, and vials which shone 
 in then- own gohlen beams each like a flower 
 Out of whose depth a tire II v shakes his light' 
 
 Lnder a eypiess in a starlight night. _ Witch \\ 
 
 
63 
 
 392 The silver iiioon into tliat uindiiij,' dell, 
 
 Willi slant. ■(! Ixiiiu alliwart t lir tures't tops, 
 Jetiipciv.l like guM.'M evening, fVel.lv tell ; 
 ,m A gm.,, an.l Klnwing light like tliAl wlii.h .Imps 
 J" rum t..l.l..,l hlics in whirh gl,,u w,.nM.s .Iwell 
 NN lien eiirtli over her fa.e night's mantle wraj.s : 
 
 ~ IVI/r/i, XWIX. 
 :m An.l it iinfniled its heavencdoured pinions 
 
 VVith stars of fire spotting I h,- str.wn l.ehm- ; 
 Ami from al.ove into tli.' Sun's d. .minions 
 
 Mingiiig a glory, like the goiil..n glow 
 ill whi.h Spring clot h.-s her .■m.Tald.wing.d minions 
 
 All int. 'rwoveii with fine feathery sn.)\v 
 And moonlight spleiwhrnr of inteiiHest rime, 
 Uith wlii.h frost paints th.- j.ines in wint.'r time. 
 
 — IIV^-A, XLIV^ 
 395 Anil all the f..rms in whieh those spirits lay 
 \\ ere 1,, her sight lik.' the .liaphaiioiis 
 \ eis, HI which those sweet ladies oft array 
 Iheir deliiate linil.s, "^ 
 
 W'lt'h. I.W. 
 
 3!)(J 
 
 and the grave 
 
 Of siuh, when d.'ath oppressed the wearv soul, 
 \N as as a green and overarching Lower 
 Lit l.y tlie gems of many a starrv llower. 
 
 397 While the musk-ros,- hvues, like tlak.'s of ...imson snow 
 
 398 And jmured upon the earth within the vase 
 Hie element with w hiuli it overflowed, 
 
 399 Hrighter than morning light, and purJr than 
 1 he waters ut the Springs of Himalah. 
 
 — I''i'i'.li». of Drainn, 147. 
 
 400 And day l,y day, gr.'eii as a gourd in .Fuiie 
 
 i he plant grew fresh an.l thick, Fra./w. of hrnmu, 101. 
 
 ■*^^ 'l-< •■^ti'iii and ten.lrilsseenic.l 
 
 Like emerald snakes, mottled and .liam.mded 
 
 With azure mail ami streaks of woven silver ; 
 
 — Fi\i<,liii. (,/ l>,iiin<t, IG3. 
 402 And all the .sheaves that f..ld...l the so^t l.u.ls 
 
 Ro.se like the erest of c.,l.ra .li-.apel. Fr„,iw. of Dram,, l(i(i. 
 
 ^"° „„ , Vou almost saw 
 
 J ho pulses 
 
 With whieii the purple velvet flower was fed 
 
 lo overflow, and like a jjoet's heart 
 
 Changing hright faiiev to sweet s.'iitinient 
 
 Change.l half the light to fragianee. -Fraipn. of Dnunn, \1± 
 
 '*^'* and it seemed 
 
 In hue and form that it had i.een a mirror 
 
 Of all the hues and forms around it. Fm,im. of Dra/nn, 2IS. 
 
 405 What thinke.st thou of this .piaint mask which turns 
 Like morning from the shadow of the ni>dit 
 J he night t.. .lay, ° ' ~C/ms. /. I. 2. 
 
04 
 
 'MMi Until ih'iiM'n's kin^^ilniii bliiill di'srcinl on |']nrtl 
 
 407 
 
 Or Kartli !><■ like a hIiiuIow in tlic liglit 
 ( )f Heaven aWsnrliiMl. 
 
 fdi' tlif shade it sjn'ciid 
 
 -Chns. I. 111. -JH. 
 
 Was so tranHparent , lliat I lie srene came tliruugli 
 As clear as when a \eil <,( li),dit is drawn 
 O'er evening; hills tliev ;;lininier ; 
 
 40s And a cold ^lare, intenser than the noon, 
 Hill icy cold, ohscured uith lilinding light 
 
 Th 
 
 41)11 
 
 Making the night i dreai 
 
 likcd.iv si 
 
 le lanu! 
 
 4HI 
 
 t he crew 
 
 SetMned in that light, like atomics to dauco 
 Witl 
 
 nil a siiiiiicaiii 
 
 411 
 
 41: 
 
 4i:i 
 
 Ami otheiH, liki discoloured Hakes of snow 
 On fairest hosonis and the sunniest hair, 
 Fell, 
 
 J'r. oi' L. ;Ui. 
 
 7V. of /. 
 
 -/ A. :{s<». 
 
 7V. <>/' L. 44.- 
 
 — yv. »/L. oil. 
 
 'The eddy uhirled her round and round 
 
 Ik'foru a gorgeons gate which stood 
 i'lerciiig the clouds of smoke \\hich hound 
 
 Its \ei y arch with light like hlood ; Mur. /)ii>iiii, .Will. 
 
 Anil, when he saw lieiieath the sunset's planet 
 
 A hiai'k ship walk over the crimson oi'ean. 
 Its jiennants streaming fin tlit; blasts that fan it. 
 
 Its sails and rofies all tense and \\ ithout motion, 
 Like the dark ghost of the niiluiiied even 
 Striding across the oraiiLre-coloiircd heaven. —Mur. XW'II. 
 
 ■114 l'|»oii its lips and eyelids seems to lie 
 
 Lo\-elines3 like a shadow. — .1/- /"■<. I. 
 
 41.') A light such 
 
 .As ^l•cpcrs wear, hilled l>y the voice they lo\e, - Fimul. ;H8. 
 
 41() 'rhe(iiant I'owers move, 
 
 (iloomy or hrigiit as the thrones they fill. —Pro/. J/' /I. 1)9. 
 
 417 Haste thou ami till the waning crescent 
 
 With beams as keen as those which pierced the shadow 
 
 Of Christian night rolled hack upon the WcM. i '1,11. Ififl. 
 
 418 hut the wear}- glac 
 Lay like a chaos of unwelcome li;. 
 Ve.xing the sense with goigeous u glit, 
 
 Cilow-wornis went out on the river's In im, 
 Like lamps which a student forgets to trim. 
 
 4in 
 
 420 
 
 421 Tears pure as Heaven's rain. 
 
 - M/rr. IS. 
 —Serr/i. 22. 
 
 Where mighty shajies — pyramid, dome, and tower 
 
 (ileamed like a pile of crags. — Fraij. 0/ Dr«un. v. 4. 
 
 — Ziicr. X. 
 
'»'-'•-' lis li^'lit uilliiii tlir ^flouinv l.ri-HHt 
 
 Sprtwls like a stci.dil ymitli agaiti. 
 
 4J.. hcst anil l.tij,'li(cs|, ,.„n,r awtiy ! 
 !• alter fai' than tln.i fair Day, 
 
 424 \()w the last ..f maiiy .la\>, 
 
 All IxMutifiil aii<l liii'^'lit "a.s'lliuii, 
 
 4'jr) Tlinv was a jjitlr lawny islrl 
 
 My aiicniiinc ami \ inlet,' 
 
 Like iiiusaic, paxi'ii 
 
 M'i'jn. /.mil/. |\'. 
 
 -• 7" Jiiiif , I. 
 
 To Jmi, . I!, roll. I. 
 
 ~Tli> Ish, I, 
 
 SJMIIJvS oi' SO I'M). 
 
 Ml SIC — W'oKl.s - SlI.KVfK. 
 
 4'J6 Her voice was like the voi.e of l.i.s uun s..nl 
 Meanl in iho ealni of thon^lit ; its niiisie lon^, 
 
 4-< Like woven s.ainds of streams and hree/.es. iiel.l 
 Ills inmost sense suspended in its weh 
 Of niany-coioiired woof and sliifijier Jnies. 
 
 .•lA^^/. 6.S. 
 
 I)id ho resign hi.s high and holv sotii 
 
 io images of the ma jest ii; past'. 
 
 That I)aiise(l within his passive l.ciiiu now 
 
 fake winds that hear sweet niusie, when thev laeathe 
 
 lluoiigii some dim lattice ehamher. ' j/„.,y 
 
 420 Hark ! whence that wondrous sound ? 
 
 "I'is like a wondrous Htrain that sweeps 
 Around a lonely ruin 
 When west winds sigh and evening waves respond 
 
 Jn whispers from the shore. ^j, ^' 
 
 4;-i0 Hark 1 whence that rushing sound? 
 
 Tis wilder than the unmeasured notes 
 U hieh from the unseen lyres of dells and groves 
 Jiie genii of the hreeze.s swtej). 
 
 431 Such sounds as l.reathe.l around like o.lorous winds 
 Of wakening spring arose, 
 
 t;27. 
 
 4S. 
 
 D. W. r,3. 
 
 I). W. 7 
 
 /.». 
 
 T,, , , whence from secret springs 
 
 The source of human thought its tribute 1 ringy 
 
 Of waters -with a sound hut half its own 
 
 Such as a feehle hrook will oft assume 
 
 In the wild woods, among the mountains lone, 
 
 H here waterfalls around it leap for ever 
 
 Where woods and winds contend, and a 'vast river 
 
 Over Its rocks ceaselessly hursts and raves. —Afoiit R 
 
60 
 
 L. <(• C. I. 22. 
 
 -/.. .(•C. II. 28. 
 
 4.'{;{ Or wliero with .sound like many voices svvtot, 
 
 Waterfalls leap anioiij,' wild islands green, ' ~l)<,l. A. ,f C. II. 
 
 434 On(! voioe came fortii from many a might v s|)iiit 
 Which was the eclio of three thou.saiid vJars ; 
 And the tumultuous world stixxi mute to hear it. 
 As some lone man who in a desert hears 
 
 Tlie musie of his home : /;,,/ f ^^^. q v^jjj 
 
 435 Her voice was like the wildest saddest tone 
 Yet sweet, of sonie loved voice heard loni' a<'o 
 
 "•^^ „, , , suddenly 
 
 .^he would arise, and like tie .secret hird ' 
 Whom sunset wakens, Hll the shore and sky 
 With her sweet accents— a wild melody ! 
 
 437 Triumphant strains whicli,«like a spirit's tongue, 
 To the enchanted wives that child of glory sung'. 
 
 — L.,i- C. li. 28. 
 
 438 When from that stony gloom a voice arose, 
 Solenui and sweet as 'when low winds attiu'ie 
 
 The nudnight pines ; -/..d-C III '^8 
 
 ^^^ the cliain, with sound 
 
 Like earth(iuake, througii the chasm of that .steop stair did bound, 
 
 — /.. ,i-a. HI. 20. 
 
 ■^40 a trance which awes 
 
 Ihe thoughts of men with lio])e— as wlien llu- sound 
 Of whirhyind, whose fierce hlasts tlie waves and clouds confound 
 Dies suddeidy, the mariner in fear 
 Feels silence sink upon his heart- thus hound 
 The corujuerois [)ause, . L. d- C W •^' 
 
 141 Like a bright ghost from HeavtMi tliat shout did scare 
 
 I he slaves, -A. .f C\ V. 7. 
 
 442 Ah we approached a sliout of joyancc sitruny 
 At once from all the crowd, as if the vast 
 And ])eopled Kartli its boundless skies among 
 The sudden clamour of delight had cast. 
 When from before its face some general wreck had past. 
 
 — L. A- c. V. i:,. 
 
 ■*43 like a tomb 
 
 Its sculptured walls vacantly to the strokes 
 Of footfalls answered, 
 
 ■*"*'* _ It was a tone 
 
 .Such as sick fancies in .i iieM-made grave 
 Might hear. 
 
 -L. ii- C. y. 22. 
 
 ~L. A- C. V. 27. 
 
 ^^^'' like tlie rush of showers 
 Of bail in spring, pattering along the ground. 
 Their many fuotstejjs fell, else came no sound 
 From the wiile multitude: /,. ,(. fj. V. 2fl 
 
 44() Slowly the silence of tlu" multitudes 
 
 I'ast, as when far is heard in some lone dell 
 
 The gathering of a -virul amouL' the woods — —A. <(■ (\ V. 31. 
 
<1, 
 
 G7 
 
 H7 T.. hoar t ho restless imiltitu.le fcrever 
 Around the l.ase of thut great Altar Iknv 
 As on faunie islet burst and shiver 
 Atlantic waves ; 
 
 /'■ <(■(-'. V. 41. 
 
 falling HI pauses tron, tliat Altar din. 
 
 As silver-sounding tongues hreathed an aerial hynni. 
 
 — A. ,(• C. V. (I. 
 
 450 And silent, as a breathing eorpse did ';;;^''"' 
 4..1 Leaning upon my friend, till like r wind 
 
 In fevered cheeks, a voice Howe.I o'er my troubled mind. 
 
 L. .(• ('. V. 4".. 
 4.-.-J Like musie of some minstrel heavenlv-gifted 
 lo one whom friends enthral, this voiee to mo ; 
 
 — /.. ,(■ C. V. 4(5. 
 J^he like a spirit through the darkness shining 
 4 JS \s *;";''V''''"'^ -sweetness sileiu-e did prolong,^ 
 40.-; As ,t to lingering winds they di,l belong, 
 
 Poured fortii jier inmost soul ■ , .,,--. 
 
 4r.4 Mer voiee was as a mountain stream which sweeps 
 Ihe wiihe.XMl leaves of autumn to the lake ' 
 
 I,,"t ,!!'.)' '"r ''"I^' r'"' "''"■""' '"^y then sleeps 
 
 III the shadow, -.-t the stones; * _f ^^, ^y y 
 
 llie .sound as of a Spirit's tongue. 
 
 — A. .(• 6'. VJ. ;i'2. 
 4.>7 Tl'y tunes of Cythna's voice like e.dioes were 
 
 <'t tliose tar-murmuring streams. _/^ ,,, ,, ^, j ^., 
 
 -ir.S The Tyrant heard her singing to her lute 
 A wild, and sad, and spirit-thrilling lav, 
 I'lkf winds that .lie in wastes- ' /...(•(' VIJ 4 
 
 I, ,., , '»'"1 they began to breathe 
 
 I >•■'■!' ' urs,.s. hke the voice of tlames far umlerneath 
 
 —A. <f a. VII. 7. 
 
 4HII 
 4(11 
 
 a souikI arose like thun<ier. 
 
 — A. <(■ C. VIl. 10. 
 
 T f , , , , ''•'••"I ,vour hearts 
 
 feel an echo; thro' my inmost frame 
 I.Ike sweetest sound, seek.Mg its mate, it .larts 
 
 402 Th,> very -larkne.ss shook, as with a blast 
 
 »»t subterranean thunder at the civ ; — 
 
 ^''■^ , ., , . they heard the start liicr ,.,.v 
 
 Like earth. sown voiee lifted ui.conquerablv " ' 
 lo all her children, 
 
 A. <i' c. vni. 17. 
 
 A. .(• ('. Vfll. 2,S. 
 
 -A. ,f c. IX. :i. 
 
08 
 
 4(i5 
 
 4(i(» 
 
 -L. <(■ C. IX. 4, 
 
 -/.. <(• C. 1\. (i. 
 
 464 So from that civ ovor th'! I)ouii(11l'ss hills 
 Sudden was caught orio universal sound. 
 Like a volcano's voice, whose thunder fills 
 Remotest skies — 
 
 And like a nuhterranean wind that stirs 
 Some forest among caves, the hopes and fears 
 From every luunan soul, a nnnmni' strange 
 .Made as I past ; 
 
 A pause of hope and awe the city bound 
 
 Winch, like the silence of a tempest's birth 
 
 When in its awful shadow it has wound 
 
 The sun, tlie wind, the ocean, and the earth. 
 
 Hung terrible, ere yet the lightnings have leapt forth 
 
 ~L. .(• (\ I.\. 
 
 thine own wihl songs which in the air 
 Like homeless odours floated, _/^. ,(. q. {\. 
 
 fi'oni nianv a <lale 
 1 he antelopes wlio Hocked fur food have spoken 
 VV ith happy sounds, and motions, that avail 
 Like man's own s|)eech ; /^ ,,,(-> y 
 
 For. fnmi the ntniost realms of earth, came pouring 
 I he banded slaves whom every despot sent 
 At tliat tlironed traitor's summons, like tlie roarin ' 
 Of hre, whose floods the wild deer circumvent 
 In the scorched pastures of the Simth, so bent 
 I he armies of the leagued kings around 
 Their tiles of steel and flames ; - _^/^_ ,,. q \ 
 
 when from beneatli a ('owl 
 A voice came forth, wiiicli pierce.] like ice thro' cverv sod 
 
 -A. <■(■ C. \. 
 
 His voi<;e was like a blast tliat l)urst the portal 
 
 ()t tal)led hell ; j _,, (-« y 
 
 some kissed their murl)le feet, witli nio.in 
 Like love, and died, _/ ,,, ,• y 
 
 When the last echo of tliose teriibl.! cries 
 Came from a distant street like agonies 
 Stifled afar. — 
 
 467 
 
 468 
 
 4(>!) 
 
 II. 
 12. 
 
 470 
 
 471 
 472 
 47.-^ 
 
 474 
 
 47r) 
 476 
 477 
 
 •M. 
 4(». 
 4S. 
 
 — /.. a- I'. \\. i: 
 
 There was su.'h silence thnmgh tlie host, as when 
 
 An eartlnpiake trampling on some populous town 
 
 Has crusiied ten thousand witli one tread, and men 
 
 Kxpect the second ; _^ ,(. r. .\[f ( 
 
 ill that dread pause, he lav 
 As in a (jiiicl dieani — " — /.. ,(• C. Xll " 
 
 „„ they hear 
 
 I lie tramp of li,„)fs like earthcjuake, 
 
 -/.. <(• C. XIL S. 
 
 a gatheiing siiout 
 Hursts like one .sound from the ten thousand streams 
 Of a tempestuous sea : — L. ^- C Xll 
 
47M 
 
 479 
 
 ii l)l()0(l-re(] gk-ain 
 Huistuj.wa.ds hurling fiei-.-.-ly from tlio groiuul 
 I ht- gl..!,,.,] snjokf. I l.ear.l tl.o niightv som.<l 
 Hf )t.s upnso, hkf a tempestuous oceiiii ; —A. 
 
 .(• C. XII. Hi. 
 
 slowly tlicie is heard 
 1 he music of a l)reatli-suspeii(li!ig song, 
 \\ Inch, hke the kiss of h.ve when life is voung 
 Steeps the faint eyes in (hirkiiess sweet and deei) ■ 
 \\ ith ever-changing notes it floats alon-r. 
 A^i. \ "," V'^^' l'*^«sive soul there seemed tcrcreep 
 480 A melody, like waves on wrinkled sands that leap. 
 
 iw. r 1 , ~^- ''•<^- -"^II- 17. 
 
 i^ike tlie autumn wind, when it unhiiuls 
 
 I he tangled locks of the nightshade's hair 
 U hu'h is twined in the sultrv sunniier air 
 Hound the walls of an outworn sepulchre 
 1)1(1 the voice of Helen, sad anil sweet, 
 And the sound of her heart that ever heat, 
 As with sighs and words she breathed on her 
 I nlnnd the knots of her friend's despair 
 'I ill her thoughts were free to float and flow ; 
 Aiul from her labouring bosom now, 
 482 Like the bursting of a })risoned flanie, 
 i he voice of a long-pent sorrow came. 
 
 ■*^'^ bis words could bind 
 
 Like miisie the lulled crowd, 
 
 484 And said, with voice that made tliem shiver 
 And clung like music in my brain, 
 
 48.-) And light and sound e))l)ed from the eartii 
 Like the tide of the full and weary sea 
 To the depths of its own traiKiuillity 
 
 ^''^'' . till new emotions came, 
 
 U hicli seemed to make each mortal frame 
 
 One soul of interwoven flame, 
 
 A life in life, a second birth 
 
 In worhls diviner far than earth, 
 
 Which, like two strains of hariiionv 
 
 That mingle in the silent sky, 
 
 Then slowly disunite, passed bv 
 
 And left the tenderness of tears, 
 
 The soft oblivion of all fears, 
 
 A sweet sleep : > 
 
 487 The melody of an old aii 
 Softer than sleep. 
 
 488 Daylight on its last purple cloud 
 
 Was lingering grey ; and soon her strain 
 I he nightingale began, now l„iid, 
 
 Climbing m circles the windless skv, 
 
 Now dying music ; suddenly 
 
 Tis scattered in a thousand notes. 
 
 And now to the hushed ear it floats 
 
 /.'. <(• //. 207. 
 
 /.'. .1- //. (),'«). 
 
 -R. A- H. 890. 
 
 -/.'. <t- //. 970. 
 
 ~n. ,(■ //. 977. 
 -11. A- It. 1098. 
 
 Like Held smells k 
 
 lown in infancv. 
 
 Then failing, .soothes the air again 
 
 -A'. .0 //. ]iO.S. 
 
70 
 
 4S9 
 41K) 
 491 
 
 like s))iiit liis words wont 
 Throigli 1(11 my limbs with tlie speed of tire ; —A'. •(■ //. 1 1;{2. 
 
 Or the whirlwind up ami down 
 Howling, like a slaughtered town, 
 
 Eii',1. Hills, ."i(). 
 
 4!»2 
 
 493 
 494 
 495 
 '96 
 
 497 
 498 
 499 
 
 noo 
 
 501 
 ri02 
 
 and Ocean 
 Wehtomed him with such emotion 
 That its joy grew his, and sprung 
 From his lips like music flung 
 O'er a mighty thunder-tit 
 Chastening terror : 
 
 The awful shadow of some unseen Power 
 Floats, though iniseen, among us 
 
 Like meinoiy of nnisic tied 
 
 There shall he lamentation lieard in Heaven 
 As o"er an angel fallen 
 
 -EiKj. mils, ITS. 
 
 — //■. /. B. 1. 
 ('<nci, IV. i. iSo. 
 
 Hark, 'tis the castle horn ; my (ioil, it sounds 
 
 Like the last trump — Cmri. IV. iii. ")■; 
 
 Brother, lie down with me ujwn the rack. 
 And let us each be silent as a corpse ; 
 
 -Ciiiri. y. iii. 48. 
 
 — Prom. I. 1.3-_>. 
 
 rrom. I. i}-22. 
 
 -I'roiii. 1. .")•_'.'). 
 
 -Prnm. 1. ,-)4S. 
 
 m 
 
 5(14 
 505 
 
 506 
 
 Ha, what an awful whis])er liscs up 1 
 
 'Tis scarce like .sound ; it tingles thro' the frame 
 
 As lightning tingles, hovering ere it strike. 
 
 These solid mountains (luiver with the sound 
 10 veil as the tremulous air 
 
 Your call was as a winged car 
 Driven on whirlwinds fast and fai' ; 
 
 His woi'ds outlived him, like swift jxiison 
 Withering up trutii, jjoace and pity 
 
 Hark, sistei' 1 Mhat a low yet di-eadful groan 
 
 Quite unsuppressed is teaiing up the heart 
 
 <)f the good Titan, as storms tear the deep, 
 
 And beasts hear the s(!a moan in iidand caves — Prain. I. 57S. 
 
 Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes : — Prom. 1. ti.S'J. 
 
 Only a sense 
 Remains of them, like the Onniipotence 
 Of music, when tlie inspiied voice and lute 
 Languisii, ere yet tlie responses are mute, 
 Wiiicii thro" tlu' dee;> and labyrinthine soul, 
 Ijike echoes thro' long caverns, wind and roll. - Pnuii. 1. S(ll 
 
 and his v<uce fell 
 Like nuisie which makes giddy the dim brain, 
 Faint with into.xication of keen joy. 
 
 — Prom. II. i. l'(5. 
 
 I could hear 
 His V(jiee, whose accents lingered ere they died 
 Like footsteps of weak melody : — Prom. II. i. S7 
 
71 
 
 5(17 
 
 r)(t8 
 
 'I'lioii spcakest. l.ut thy words 
 Arc us tlio air ; I fool then. not. 
 
 -Prom. II. i. 1((H. 
 
 A wind arose among tlie pinos ; it shook 
 I IH^ clmgnig music from thdr houghs, and then 
 Low. sweet faint sounds, like the farewell of ghosts 
 >\ ere \\t^i\ vi\ • ~ .. 
 
 Were heard : 
 
 rm When there is heard thro' the dim air 
 I he rush of wings, and rising there 
 Like many a lake-surrounded flute 
 Sounds overflow the listener's brain 
 No sweet that joy is almost pain. 
 
 'I'here those enclianted eddies plav 
 Of eehoes, musie-tongued, wiiich draw, 
 iv Demogorgon's mightv law, 
 \\ ith melting rapture or sweet awe. 
 All spirits (m that secret way ; 
 As inland boats are driven to Ocean 
 Down streams made strong with mountain thaw 
 
 510 
 
 I'rom. II. i. 156. 
 
 — Prom. II. ii. 36. 
 
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 r.l4 
 515 
 
 516, 5 r; 
 
 518,519 
 520 
 
 .'! 
 
 52.S 
 524 
 
 51 1 The storm of sound is driven along 
 Nueked up and hurrying ; as thev fleet 
 lielmid, Its gathering billows meet 
 And to the fatal mountain bear 
 Like clouds amid the yiehling air. 
 
 512 The vale is girdled with their walls. A howl 
 Ot cataracts from their thaw-cloven ravines 
 Satiates the listening wind, continuous, vast. 
 Awful as silence. 
 
 While the sound whirls aroun.l, 
 
 Down, down ! 
 As tiie fa\\n draws tlie hound. 
 As the lightning the vaimur, 
 As a weak motli the taper : 
 Death, des{)air ; love, sorrow : 
 Time both : to-day, tomorrow : 
 As steel obeys thJ spirit (jf the stone, 
 
 Down, down ! 
 
 Hut tiiy voice sounds low and tender 
 Like the fairest, for it folds thee 
 
 P>om the sight, that liquid splen.lour 
 
 And from the flower-inwoven soil divine 
 le all-triumphant iiannonies arise. 
 As (lew from earth under the twilight stars • 
 Jrink ! be the nectar circling thro' vour veii.s 
 llic .soul of joy. ye ever-living {'vmU, 
 111 exultation burst in one wide voice 
 i^ike music from Klvsian winds. _ 
 
 Prom. II. ii. 41. 
 
 — Prnm. II. ii. r)9. 
 
 — / 
 
 'rom. If. iii. 33. 
 
 — Prom. 
 
 II. 
 
 iii. 63. 
 
 -Prom. 11. V. 61. 
 
 Prom. III. 
 
 And we will sear.^h, with looks and wor.ls of love 
 l-or hidden thoughts, each lovelier than the last 
 Our unexhausted spirits : and like lutes 
 J ouched by the skill of the enamoured wind • 
 
72 
 
 Wtsave lianiionies divine, yet ever new . 
 From (Utleionce nweet where diseonl efiiinot he. 
 And iiither eoiiie, spud on the I'luutned winds ; 
 525 Wliieh meet from all tiie points of heaven, as hees 
 From every flower aei'ial Kiiiia feeds. 
 At their known island homes in Himeia, 
 The echoes of the human woi'ld. -I'ram. III. iii. ;{4. 
 
 •">^(> this is the mystie shell ; 
 
 See the ))ale azure fading into silvei' 
 Lining it with a soft yet glowing light ; 
 Looks it not like lulled musie sleeping there ': 
 
 527 Thou hreatlie into the many-folded shell, 
 Loosening its mighty music ; it shall i)e 
 As thunder mingled with clear echoes ; 
 
 — /'ram. 111. iii. ~{), 
 
 — I'roiii. ill, iii. SO. 
 
 The pine houghs are singing 
 Old songs with new glaihiess, 
 'I'lie l)illows and fountains 
 Fresh music are Hinging 
 Like ;!i'; notes (jf a spirit from land and from sea : 
 
 — Prom. 1\'. 4S. 
 
 'y2Q See, where the Spirits of the human mind 
 
 Wrapt in sweet sounds, as in bright veils, approach. 
 
 — /'rom. IV. SI. 
 
 •">30 Listen too, 
 
 How every pause is tilled with under-notes. 
 Clear, silver, icy, keen awakening tones. 
 Which pierce the sense, and live within the soul. 
 As the sharp stars pierce winter's crystal air 
 And gaze upon themselves within the sea. 
 
 ■Prom. IV. 18S. 
 
 531 Two visions of strange radiance float upon 
 The ocean like enchantment of stnmg sound, 
 Which Hows intenser, keener, deeper yet 
 
 Under the ground and through the windless air. 
 
 from. IV. 202. 
 
 r).s2 
 
 which as they roll 
 Over the grass, and flowers, and waves^ wnke s(»unds 
 Sweet as a singing rain of silver dew. 
 
 -y'Xi 
 
 5;u 
 
 .■J35 
 
 Oil, gentle Moon, the voice of thy delight 
 B'alls on me like thy (dear and tender light 
 Soothing the seaman borne the summer night 
 Through isles forever calm : 
 
 I rise as from a bath of sparkling water, 
 A bath of azure light, among dark locks, 
 Out of the stream of sound. 
 
 — I'nnn. 1\'. 2:^.'^. 
 
 — /'ro/,i. IV. 4»."). 
 
 --Prom. IV. .lO.S. 
 
 Ah. me ! sweet sister, 
 The stream of sound has el)bed away from us. 
 And you pretend to ri.se out of its wave, 
 Because your words fall like the clear, soft dew 
 Shaken from a bathing wood-nvmph's liml)s and hair. 
 
 — Prom. IV 
 
 oO.l 
 
 
-Sfii- 
 
 /'.I. lv 
 
 —Sfiis. r. I. !)o. 
 
 < •> 
 
 536 And the liyadntl. purple, and wl.ite, and Line, 
 V\hich Hung from its l„,lls a sweet peal aiieu- 
 Uf music .so delicate, soft, and intense 
 It was felt like an odour within the sense. 
 
 Jlf .'l"',^^'"'"fe' vapours of dim noon-tide, 
 W inch like a sea o'er the warm earth glide. 
 
 ,.,- \}y "''"'-'" '-'^''-'•■y •^"•""1. rtiKl odour, and beam, 
 W/ .Move, as reeds in a single stream ; 
 
 r>.S8 He had torn tiie cataracts fio.n the iiills 
 
 And they clanked at his girdle like manacles : -S,,,,. /'. III. i)J. 
 
 ^^^ r> . . " '"'"'' '""«' li<'fii-ao crv 
 
 ^ui^ts at once from their vitals tremendously, 
 Anci tis home down the mountainous vale of tlie wave 
 Rehoundmg hke thunder, from crag to cave. -- Vis. o/S,a, »4. 
 
 ^'^^^ . , , . , the whirl and the splash 
 
 As of some hideous engine whose I.ra/.on teeth smash 
 The thin winds and soft waves into thunder ; the screams 
 And hissings crawl fast oer the smooth ocean streams, ' 
 
 .'541 Each sound hJie a centii)ede. ^y;,,/,.}- s,,, 144 
 
 542 Thou art unseen, l.ut yet J hear thy shrill delight. 
 
 Keen as are the arrows 
 Of that silver sphere, 
 Whose intense lamp narrows 
 In the white dawn dear, 
 Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. 
 
 ^■^3 All the eai'th and air 
 
 With tliy voice is loud, 
 As, when niglit is hare. 
 From one lonely cloud 
 Ihe moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overHowed. 
 
 From rainbow clouds there How not 
 Drops .so bright to .see. 
 As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. 
 
 Like a poet hidden 
 
 In the light of thought. 
 Singing hymns unbidden. 
 Till the world is w rought 
 lo sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not : 
 
 544 
 
 545 
 
 ^'"^•^ Like a high-born maiden 
 
 In a palace-tower. 
 Soothing her love-laden 
 Soul in secret hour 
 
 547 With music sweet as love, which overHows her I.ow.t : 
 
 548 Like a glow-worm golden 
 
 In a dell of dew, 
 Scattering unbeholden 
 Its aerial hue 
 Among the flowers and gra.ss, which .screen it from the view 
 
 I 
 
74 
 
 552 
 
 M0 Like a rose enibowoied ' 
 
 In itp own green leaves, 
 By warm winds doflowered, 
 Till the scent it gives 
 Makes faint with too muuii sweet tliesc iiefivy-wingeil thieves. 
 
 —Skylrtvk, 33. 
 
 r)50 My song, its pinions di -^arrayed of iiigiit, 
 
 Droojied ; o'er it closed the echoes far away 
 Of the great voice which did its (light sust.'iii'i 
 As waves whicli lately paved his watery wav 
 Hiss round a drovvnef's head in their tempestuous play. 
 
 —Oik to jjh. XIX. 
 
 551 The beast 
 
 Has a loud trumpet like the Scaraliee, 
 
 Dinging and singing. 
 
 From slumber I rung hei', 
 
 Loud as the clank of an iron-monger ; 
 
 and your cries 
 More dulcet and synijtiumious than the i)ells 
 Of village towers on suiishiiu! holiday, 
 
 And from her lips, as from a hvacintli full 
 Of honey-dew, a liquid murmur drops, 
 Killing the sense with pa.ssion ; sweet as stops 
 Of planetary music heard in trance. 
 
 Such difference without discon), as can make 
 Tho.se sweetest sounds, in which all spirits shake 
 As trembling leaves in a continuous air? 
 
 And music from her respiration spread 
 Like light, — 
 
 And every motion, odour, beam, and tone 
 With that deep music is in unison : 
 Which is a soul within the soul— thev seem 
 Like echoes of an antenatal dream. 
 
 5.J3 
 
 554 
 555 
 
 556 
 
 5">7 
 
 558 
 
 55{» 
 5(i0 
 
 561 
 562 
 
 563 
 
 --' !■:>/. Ti/r. 156. 
 -'/;//. Tyr. 236. 
 -<AV. Tj/r. 122. 
 
 — Kpipn. 83. 
 
 — Epip'i. 144, 
 —Epip.^. 329. 
 
 —Epips: 453. 
 
 Rekindled all the fading melodies. 
 With which, like flowers tluit mock the cor.se beneath, 
 He had adorned and hid the coming bulk of ileatii. 
 
 —A<inn. II. 
 
 And love taught grief to fall like music from liis tongue 
 
 —Arfoii. XXX. 
 And ever as he went he swept a Ivre 
 
 Now like the ... of impetuous tire 
 
 Which shakes the forest with its murmurings. 
 
 Now like the rush of the aerial wings 
 
 Of the enamoured win<l among the treen 
 
 Whispering uninuiginable things, —Cnur. A>fon. 1. 
 
 Breathe low, low 
 I he wcrds which, like secret fire, shall glow 
 Through the veins of the frozen earth—" — /M/. 31. 
 
76 
 
 o64 U lien ti.e tiorce shout of AlIah-illa-All.ih ' 
 
 WlMch kills the sluggish cL.u.ls, a„.l leaves a iUnk 
 Ut vMl.l swans struggling with tho naked storm 
 
 T ;i,„ V ■ 1 1 r Ilirough the citv 
 
 Like birds before a storm, the Sanlons shriek," 
 
 ''*'*' nr , ,. '''I'.V words stream like a temneBt 
 
 ^'<»/ 1 'e c-arth on whuh I stand, and hang like night 
 Un Heaven alxne me— ^ 
 
 cm And crash of brazen mail as of the wre.k 
 tJt adamantine mountains 
 
 -//'//. 21)0. 
 /f>/l. -.9(1. 
 
 -//'//. 786. 
 
 .'^(i!) The .sound of their oeeans, the light of t heir sk v, 
 Iho music and fragrance their solitu.les breathe 
 
 iiirough the walla of our [.lison ; ~J/,//. lO.r.r, 
 
 r.7() An.l, from the waves, sound like delight broke forth 
 
 Harmonizing with solitu.le, ' _j,^f ,,. J^f ._,,j_ 
 
 r.71 And those are his sweet strains which charm the weirdu 
 Froin madmen's chains, and make this Hell appear 
 A Heaven of sacred silence hushed to bear. ./„/. ,,. j/. 25!). 
 
 ' IT 1 ,1 , i '!"» but iiide 
 
 Under these words like embers, every spark 
 Ut that which has consumed me. ' __./,,/. ^^. j/ 5^3 
 
 rp, 1 ,., . their thou.santl voices rose 
 
 J hey passed like aimless arrows from his ear. 
 
 ~ Prince A. I. 52. 
 ,.M -1 ii ■ *^''® sweet enthusiasm 
 
 J^, ';:: ; ?urS^::^' "«f^« <^^ i''i"»i «iadness, 
 
 Filling the skv like light I 
 
 — /'rilirr A. II. ii. 37. 
 
 ;-)75 Then Plato's wonls of light in thee and me 
 Lingered like moonlight in the moonless east, 
 
 -Prince A. IL ii. til. 
 
 576 The waterfalls were voiceless-for their fountains 
 Were changed to mines of sunless fountains now, 
 Or I.; the curdling winds, like brazen win-'s 
 VV hich clanged ahmg the mountain's marWe brow. 
 \\ arped into adamantine fretwork, hun.' 
 And filled with frozen light the chasm below. 
 
 — Prince A. II. iii. 2r). 
 
 "'»'" Like many a voice of one delight 
 
 r,-^ r^!'® ^vinds, the birds, the ocean floods, 
 
 5/8 1 he City's voice itself is soft like Solitudes. -5^n.;rf., in Dej. I. 
 
 579 With step as soft as wind it past 
 
 rMank. XXX. 
 
70 
 
 580 Lastly front llic paliiutis 
 
 Vyii(!ri' t lie niiiniiur of (listioss 
 KcliDfs, like tlio distant wound 
 Of a wind alive around 
 Those prison halls, 
 
 r>HI Hl" your strong' and simple words 
 
 Keen to wound as Hharpcncd swords, 
 
 r)S2 Anil wide as tarj,'es let them lie 
 With their shade to cover ve. 
 
 5>S.S l^et the tyrants ])our around 
 
 Withaijuick and start linj,' somid, 
 [^ike the loosening of the sea 
 Troo])s of armed enihlazonry. 
 
 f)84 And th{!se words shall then heiome 
 liike oppression's thundered doom 
 Ringing through each heart and hrain, 
 
 5S5 And her l-w voice was heaid like love 
 
 -.!/«./•. L\X. 
 —Mad: L.\XI\'. 
 
 —Mash. LXXV. 
 
 —Mask. X(l 
 — Wilcl,, V. 
 
 SHiW AH familiar things he touched, 
 
 All common words he spoke, hecame to me ' 
 Like forms or signs of a diviner world. ^ -/>ay»/. of Dram. 35. 
 
 58H Your hreath is like soft music, youi' words ,ire 
 
 The echoes of a voice which on mv heart 
 587 Sleeps like a melody of early days. --Fraijm. of Dram. 100. 
 
 588 Soft melodies, as sweet as April rain 
 On silent leaves 
 
 —Fraijm. of Dram. 182. 
 
 589 ^ his words, like arrows 
 Which know no aim heyond the archei'"s wit, 
 Strike sometimes what eludes philosophy. 
 
 590 My ^vord is as a wall 
 Hetween thee and this world thine enemy — 
 
 •"'■•' _ and tluit Ids words 
 
 Sound like the echoes of our saddest fears? 
 
 59l' So did that shape its obscure tenour keep 
 Heside my patli, as silent as a giiost ; 
 
 Chas. I.U. 105. 
 -Ghas. /. II. 204. 
 -Chas. I. II. 46L 
 
 ~Tr. of L. \\\± 
 
 59.S Upon my heart thy accents sweet 
 Of peace and pity fell like dew 
 On rtowers half dead ;— 
 
 •^9'* thy voice is as the tone 
 
 Of my heart's echo, 
 
 595 And hark ! a rush as if the deep 
 Had hurst its bonds ; 
 
 —Lines to M. W. (,'. IV. 
 
 — To . .5. 
 
 M.'s Dream, XIII. 
 
 596 A breathless awe, like the swift change 
 
 Unseen, but felt in youthful slumbers, 
 Wild,^ sweet, but incommunicably strange. 
 
 Thou breathest now in fast ascending numbers. 
 
 - —To Co)i.'<f. II. 
 
 
7t 
 
 .'■>i»r ^^"''i'^l. '•l<,<;lho«..rl,|.snrioun.li„gair, tliv.sonu 
 
 Hn^^^„M, an.l (ill,, all! I,ii,>:.. with „H.l,!;iv ' "*' 
 
 .V.wi.stl.y v(.i.'.. ali'Mipi-st swiftaiHiHtn.iii;, 
 «'ii wliicli, Iiko oiu! iti liaiice uphonic, 
 
 Sivmo „'or r.K.Us u„.l waves 1 sweep. 
 Hcjoicmi,' likoacloud ofiiK.ii.. -Todnist IV 
 
 WS Ami li..a,,a(,f fraiul-a •inmilatcd p,|,l 
 
 I It-'a.i. loii.l as tliiin.ler, at l>estni<tiuir> tlirone. 
 
 5{M» A swcft and «rcc|iiii^' souii.l 
 
 Liki- the nisliinK of wings was lirard aiomul ; 
 
 -/'//f ,111. II. 
 
 <iOO Listen, listen, Mai y mine, 
 
 To tlie whisper of t"lie Ap nnine 
 
 ft Imrsts on the roof like the thunder's roar, 
 Wtl Or like the sea on a northern shore 
 
 Mfiird in itsraginj,' ehl. and (low 
 
 \'>\ the eaptives pent in tlie eave helow. 
 
 — I'<f. 
 
 «(»2 And your sweet voice, like a l.iid 
 SMifiini; love to its lone mate 
 In the ivy-l)ower diseonsolato 
 
 III' A/ll nil, 1, 
 
 ■'I ti M(tii/, 3. 
 
 6W And as a vale is watered l.v a (lood. 
 bOI Or as the mo(.nlight (ill the op.Mi skv 
 bO.. StruM-ling with darkness-as a tuhc.rose 
 
 eoples some Indian dell with scents whieh lie 
 I.Ike elomls al.ove the (lower' from which (hev rose 
 I he smgnig of that happv nic,d,t inhale 
 In this sweet forest, from the golden close 
 Of evening, till the star of dawn m.iv fail 
 VV as interfused upon the silentness :" L Wunihn. .(■ Xi,,hi, (i. 
 
 60(5 A silver spirit's A.rni 
 
 007 
 608 
 
 (iO!) 
 
 610 
 
 It fades, with sueh a sigh, as sedc^e 
 Mieathes o'er the hreezv streandta's ed^e 
 
 Lips touched hy seraphim 
 Breathe out the choral hymn 
 
 Sweet as if angels sang. 
 Loud as that tiunipet's clang 
 Wakening the world's dead gang 
 
 ^V^apt in sweet wild melodies 
 Like an exhalation wreathing 
 To the sound of air low l)reathing 
 Thro' .Eolian pines, which make 
 A shaile and shelter to the lake 
 Where it rises soft and slow : 
 
 She went, ever singing 
 In murmurs as soft as sleep : 
 
 Tn.-^.sn. III. 
 
 —Xnl. Aiif/i. VI. 
 
 -/iirfh of Pleas. 4. 
 —Artth. I. 
 
 611 And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls 
 
 Of spirits passing througli the street : -^Qdc to Nap. 2. 
 
 
7S 
 
 •il'i Wlmt wfmtlrKiiH soimd is that, miniriifiil iiinl fiiiiit, 
 hilt iiKii'i' iiK'lodiiiiiH I hail iIk' iiMirniiitiii^ wind 
 Wliirli ||ir(ini,'li lli(! lohiriiiis ot a Irriiplf ^iliilos? 
 
 Ornh. .1"). 
 
 (il.H lint ill their Hptunl th«fy Wt-ar aloiij: willi tlu'in 
 Till! Wfii'iiiiii; sound, suattiM'iii;:^ it like dow 
 Hpoll the stiiitli'd seiiHO. 
 
 -0-7-/1. n. 
 
 »II4 Ah in a hroi>i<, fretted willi little waves 
 
 liy tilt" \\\i\\X, airs of spring; each ripK-t makes 
 
 A niarivsided inuror for tlie sun, 
 
 While it flows nmsically tliio' )4reen lianks. 
 
 (; 
 
 easeiess ana jiauseiess, ever eleai' am 
 
 d ff.-l, 
 
 So lloweij liis Sony, li'tli'cting the deep jov 
 And tendci' love that fed tiiosu sweetest notes, 
 'I'ho heavenly otl'spiiiig of ambrosial fooil 
 
 -Orph. .'»!>. 
 
 (»!."> There rose to Heaven u sound of finf,'ry soiii;. 
 'Tis as ii iiii;,dity I'ataract tliat jiarts 
 Two sistui' rocks with waters swift and strong, 
 And easts itself with horrid roar and din 
 Adown a steeji : from a peii^tiliial source 
 It ever llows and falls, and breaks the air 
 With loud iind tierce, hut most harmonious roar. 
 And as it falls casts u|) a \'aporoiis spray 
 Which the sun clothes in hues of li'is lij^ht. 
 Tiius the tein|)estiious torrent of his yrief 
 Is clotluul in sweetest sounds and varying words 
 Of p(jesy. — Or)>h. ~rl 
 
 As I have sei-n 
 (iit) A tierce south hlast tear tiiroui,di the darkened sky, 
 Driviiii^ along a rack of wingeil clouds, 
 Which may not pause, hut ever hurry on. 
 As their wild shepherd wills them, while the stars, 
 T "inkling and dim, peep from lictwccn the plumes. 
 Anon I lie sky is cleared, and the high dome 
 Of seri'iie Ifeavcii, starrcil witii liery llowers, 
 Shuts in the shaken earth ; or the still moon 
 Swiftly, yet gracefully, begins her walk, 
 Rising all bright behind the eastern hills. 
 I talk of moon, and wind, and stars, and not 
 Of song ; but would I eciio his iiigli song 
 Nature must lend me words iieCr used liefore, 
 Or I iiiiist borrow from her perfect works. 
 To picture forth his perfect attributes. — Oipli. b" 
 
 617 Thy sweet child Sleej), the tilmy-eycd, 
 .Nluriuureii like a noonticle bee, 
 Shall 1 nestle bv tliv side? 
 
 ■To Xhiht. IV 
 
 618 Sad A/.iola 1 many an eventide 
 
 'i'liy music I iiad iicard 
 By wood and stream, meadow' and mountain-side, 
 
 And lields and inai'shes wide, 
 Su<'h as nor voice, nor lute, nor wind, nor bird. 
 
 The soul ever stirred ; 
 
 -A:.iolall. 
 
i!» 
 
 «io \\ I . ■ , "'"' ^'"'" ''" '""■ 
 
 "'•' ".'",""; ^'-'^I'l'iK fan. is stricki-n l>v tlir mii. 
 
 An. I I.M.k iipoM hisiliiv <.t lit.' uith ..V. 
 
 Uhiri, wrrpu, vain that they ca.Mlrra.M.iun.nn.. 
 
 t)-0 Will mix it.s miiMi, with tiial m.Try h,.|| 
 IJoos It nut suuri.ias if ih.-v swrH iV sai,!. 
 \> •' loll a rni-pHC ulit of its maiiii'igc hc.l •' ? 
 
 (321 AsiloMCL. f..ilu,,„Mthr^.m.stM. a paii.sc. 
 " <'X|.r(tatini., as whni lu'iuit v awcH 
 All h.-aits«ii!, itsa|.pn.a<>h, (■jiuiigh „i,l„.|„.M ; 
 
 (52--> Ami siliM,.-.., un.l a scnsr that lifts tli.. hair 
 l-n.iii tho scalp loth., ankles, as ii u,.|v 
 U-rniption h.-n. thr spirit passin.' forth 
 And giviny all it shroii.lf,! to til,, rarth. 
 
 623 Pour forth th.. soi.ml lik.- .nrhant-.l wi„,.. 
 
 624 The .lissohin- strain, through fv.rv voiri 
 lassos into my hciiit an. Ihniiri. 
 
 As the scent of a violet withered up, 
 
 U ii..|i t,'rew hy the l.rink of a silver laku • 
 
 When the hot noon has .Irained its d..\vv .iip ' 
 And mist t her., was n.,n.. its thirst "to slake- 
 
 An.l the violet lay ,lea,l n hil.- t he o.loiir (lew 
 
 625 As on.; wh.i drmks from ,i eharme.l eup 
 
 Ot toamuig an.l sparklin- an.l nn.rmuri,,.. wine 
 \\ hum a mighty eh.;hantivss inline ,n, 
 Invites t.) love with her kiss .Fivine 
 
 (iilhr. ,")((, 
 
 - -(''itur. ]•.]-,, 
 
 — (7l»fi: 152. 
 .Viisic. f. 
 
 t>26 
 
 (JliS 
 
 629 
 
 \o sf)ng hut sad dirges 
 Like th.. uinil througli a^uine.l ..ell, 
 
 Or the mouiiiful surges 
 That ring the dea.l seaman's knell. 
 
 Xowall the tree-lops lay asleep 
 
 As still as ill the silent deep 
 1 he ocean woods may he — 
 
 As the moon's soft splendour 
 Uor the faint .-old starlight ,,f heaven 
 Is thrown, 
 So your voice most tender 
 lo the strings without soul ha.l then given 
 Its own. 
 
 .l/(/v,V, 111. X- 1\'. 
 
 — Li Ill's, II. 
 
 -To Jam J\'ti'o//. •_'<). 
 
 -To Jnni . 11. 
 
 ♦)30 Thinking over ev.MV tone 
 
 Which, tiiough sileiit to th.i ear. 
 
 I he enchanted heart could hear 
 
 Like notes which .lie when horn', hut still 
 
 Haunt the .-choes „f th.. hill ; ^^„ ^^^^,^ ^,^. ^^^ ^..^ . ,^,_ 
 
 631 Hark ! whence that rushing sound ? 
 
 'Tis softer than the west winds si.rh". ' ,, ,, ,_ 
 
80 
 
 632 The lon^ nw\ IdhcIv coloniiiulcs, 
 
 Through whicli the gliost of F-'ieedoni stalks, 
 
 St'L-m like a well-known tune, 
 Which in some dear scene we have loved to hear, 
 
 flenienihered now in sadness. _lo. J/ fl IfiS 
 
 fW.S How lieautiful tins night I the l.ahniest sigh 
 U Incii vernal /ei.iiyrs l.rea Jic in evening's car, 
 U ere discord to the speaking quietude 
 That wraps this moveless scene. r) }f jy i 
 
 (VM Ail is deep silence, like the fearful cahn 
 
 That slumhers in the storm's ix.rtenlous pause. V- •'/. IV. r>:i 
 
 ''•^•"' Then dulcet nnisic swelled 
 
 Concordant with the life-strings of tiie soul • 
 
 it throhbed in sweet and languid heatings tiiere 
 
 Catching new life from trans'itoiv deathT- 
 
 Like the vague sighings of a wind at even, 
 
 i hat wakes the wavelets of the slumherin.r sea 
 
 •And dies on the creation of its hreath. " 
 
 .\.nd sinks and rises, fails and swells l)"v tits : —I) 1/ \-ijj iq 
 
 SLMILES OF ODOUR. 
 
 ti;{t) 
 
 (i:i: 
 
 (i.lS 
 
 (i3f) 
 
 (i40 
 
 <i4l 
 
 ti 12 
 «)43 
 
 liut my wings wen- faint 
 W ith tile delights of a reincmhered dream 
 .\s are the noontide plumes of summer winds 
 Satiate with sweet (lowers. _/>,.,„„ j[j o- 
 
 Wiiieh breath now ri.ses. as amongst all weeds 
 
 A violet's exhalation. -Prom. HI. iii. LSI. 
 
 The snow-drop and then thi> violet. 
 Arose from tlie ground with the warm rain wet 
 And their breath was nii.xed with fresh odour, sent 
 brom the turf, like the voice and the instrument 
 
 —Seiii. Pi. I. |;{. 
 
 The sweetness seems to satiate »iic faint wind ; 
 
 And ill the soul a wild odour is felt, 
 
 Beyond the sense, like fiery dews that melt 
 
 Into the bosom of a frozen hud, —Epips. 108 
 
 The breath of her false mouth was like faint ll(.\^cr.s, 
 
 —Epi/K!. 258. 
 
 The light clear element which the isle wears 
 
 Is heavy with the scent of lemon flowers. 
 
 Which Hoat like mist laden with unseen "showers 
 
 And falls upon the eye-lids like faint sleep : -Epips 44fi 
 
 The odour from the flower has gone 
 Which like thy kisses breathed on me ; 
 
 I 
 
 ■So)i(/, I. 
 
81 
 
 (i4;' 
 
 ^'*"* ,,,, . ^ii'l without wliom 
 
 ilns u,,rlfl W..UM sn.oll like what it is -a tcmi). ; 
 
 — Lctttrto M. <;, -ilO. 
 Anil (.(lours in a kind of aviaiv 
 
 Of ovn'-l.lonuiiag Kdcii-treas she koi)t 
 ^-lipt in a rtoatii.u; net, a lovesick Fairy 
 
 Had woven from dovv-I.eanis uhile'the „,oon vet sjcnt 
 As hats at the wired window of a dairv ' 
 
 llu.y heat their vans; '' _„•/,,/., X \- 1. 
 
 'i'* a tuhorose 
 ('0),les some Indian dell with scents u l.ieh lie 
 Like clouds ahove the flower from which they ros(>. 
 
 — Woodm. <(• Xir/lil, H. 
 
 646 
 
 (i47 
 
 Arid the Clianipak's odours fail 
 Like sweet thoughts in a dream : 
 
 -///'/. .S'r)V,l. I J. 
 
 SIMILK AXI) MKTAPHOK.. 
 
 ^^^ v^. 1111 . ''" """'"'i^'oi' I'i-^ vacant mind 
 
 riasiied like strong inspiration. —A/'tsi !•>(• 
 
 «i4{> , 
 
 r 1 1 LI sleep, 
 
 UUe a dark Hood suspended in its course. 
 
 I'oUed back its impiUse on his vacant l.rain. -~AI„.l. ISO. 
 
 '^•'^ ,, . . ,., -^nd this lore did swav 
 
 ^\l.v spint like a storm, (Contending there alnay ~^L. ,(. c;. j. :^- 
 
 <i.")l So that uhen Hope's deep source in fullest (low 
 
 Like earth(juake did uplift the stagnant ocean ' 
 Of human th.nights-mine shook I.eneath the wide emotion 
 
 1^. 'I- V. F. ;k 
 
 iM2 Till from that glorious intercourse, at last 
 As from a mine of magic store, I drew 
 \\ords which were weapons ; 
 
 'io.l And battled hope like ice still clung to me 
 
 ^'^"^ „ . , Truth its radiant stamp 
 
 Has fixed, as an in\ iilnerable charm 
 UiKin her children's brow, dark Falsehood to disarm 
 
 /^. <(• ('. IF. 44. 
 
 ^^^ ,„ "■"•' I'i^ soul-subduing tongue 
 
 Were as a lance to .iiiell the mailed crest of wrong. 
 
 — L. .(• C. IV. 17. 
 
 ^^^ .... , , , , tl'e murderer 
 
 U ho slaked his thirsting soul as from a well 
 in blood and tears with ruin ! 
 
 -L. <!• O. IF. L'O. 
 'I- <!■ C. IF. I'l. 
 
 6 
 
 -L. <{• C. X. .31. 
 
82 
 
 (;;-)'; 
 
 nr)H 
 
 A stormy night's serenest inurrow, 
 Vyiiosc shower.s aru pity's gentle tear.^. 
 W'iio.se cloiuls are smiles of those that die 
 fvike infants without hopes or fears. 
 And wliose beams are joys which lie 
 In blended hearts, 
 
 while the stream 
 Of life our hark doth on its whirlpools bear, 
 Spreading swift wings as sails tu the dim air • 
 
 ~L. .1' C. V. 5(», 4. 
 
 A. d- a. VI. 29. 
 
 »»")!> 
 
 600 
 
 6(51 
 
 6fi:i 
 6()4 
 
 <i6.j 
 (i()6 
 
 667,()(i8 
 
 669 
 
 070 
 «i71 
 
 V\ her'e knowledge from its seci'et source enchants. 
 
 Voung hearts with the fresh music of its sprin.dn-' 
 
 i<.re yet its gathered Hood feeds human wants '^ °' 
 
 As the great Nile feeds Egypt ; _/,. ,(• C. VI. 41 
 
 thus all things wevc 
 Iransformed into tlie agony which I wore 
 Kven as a poi.soned robe around"^ my iiosom's core 
 
 — L.d- C. VII. 15. 
 
 Yes, in the wilderness of years 
 Her memory, aye. like a green home appears, 
 
 — /.. .1' C. VII. I!J. 
 
 662 My mind became the book thiougii which I grew 
 Wise in all human wisdom, and its <;ave. 
 Which like a mine I rilled througli and through, 
 To me the keeping of its secrets gave— — '/.. <(• C. VII. :i\. 
 
 Thy songs were winds whei'eon I Hed at will, 
 
 As in a winged cliariot, o'er the plain 
 
 Of crystal youth ; _^_ ^. (j^ y^j .^.^ 
 
 And his red hell's undying snakes anuuig 
 
 Will bind the wretch on whom he fixed a stain. 
 
 Which, like a plague, a burthen, and a bane, 
 
 Clung to him while he lived ; /^. ,(. (j v'jjj ^^ 
 
 Falsehood, and fear, and toil, like waves have worn 
 
 Channels ujK)!! her cheek. A. <(■ C VIII. 15 
 
 ~L. <(■ a I.\. 2:1. 
 
 The tloo<l of tyranny, whose sanguine waves 
 Stagnate like ice at Faith, 
 
 And grey Priests trium|>h, and like blight or blast 
 A shade of selfish care o'er human looks is cast. 
 
 —L. .(• C. IX. 24. 
 
 Behold ! Spring comes, tho' we must pass, who made 
 
 I he promise (jf its birth, even as the shade 
 
 Which from our death, as from a mountain, flings 
 
 The future, a l)road sunrise ; — /,, ,{■ C. l.\. 25 
 
 tlius ai'rayed 
 As with the plumes of overshadowing wings, 
 From its dark giUph of chains. Karth like an eagle springs 
 
 —L. ,l' C. IX. 25. 
 
sa 
 
 '- ... , Want aii.l Pest 
 
 W.-re iK.nible, hut „„e i.u.iv fell ,l.,th voav 
 As in a hvdia s swarniini,' lair, its crost 
 iTluT- "'"""" *''*■''■ '■'^•t''"«-^'v..n the Fear 
 
 «7.-i What were his thuughls hnke.I ,n the numnu^' s„n 
 Anx'HK those reptUes, stinf^less with dehiv ' ' 
 Kven hke a tyrant's wrath ? " 
 
 !■■ .(■ C. \I. 7. 
 
 074 Which that we have ahan,l„ne,l now 
 U ng IS on the jieart like that remorse 
 \\ liieh altered friendshij) leaves. 
 
 (i?.-. Walking l.eneatli the night of life, 
 
 \ hose hours extinguished, like slow lain 
 I allnig forever, pain l.v pain 
 The very hop,. „f death's deal- rest ; 
 
 070 j'ale with the .luenehle.s.s thirst of gold 
 \\ lueh, like Herce fever, left him weak': 
 
 ^" n„ II 1 > ,, '""1 l»'>pe and peace 
 On all who heard him di,l ahide 
 
 Kaining like dew from his sweet talk. 
 
 ^^'^ ,- , . .v<--t all men loved 
 
 i oung Lionel, 
 
 All but the priests, \n hose hatred fell 
 
 Like the unseen blight of a smiling day 
 
 i he withering honey-dew, whirl, Hiiers 
 
 Under the bright green buds of Mav ^ 
 
 ^Vhllst they unfold their emerahl vvings ; 
 
 <;7!t JViiose iH.pe was like the life of vouth 
 \\ithin him, and u |,en dead, became 
 A Spirit ot unresting (lame 
 
 <5S(t And winged h.^pe, on which upborne, 
 His soul seemed hovering in his eyes 
 Like some bright spirit newlv born ' 
 Hoating amid the sunnv ski('s 
 Sprang forth from his rent hea'i t anew. 
 
 081 And their swords and their s<.eptres I floating see 
 Like wrecks m t he surge of eteriiit v. *' 
 
 -L. .!• C. XU. 7. 
 -/.'. <!• //. L>7. 
 
 —11 ,(• If. :v.V2. 
 ~ll- <!■ //. 424. 
 
 — /»'. c(' //. (i4L 
 
 — A'. .(• //. ()7;{. 
 
 — /.'. <(■ //. 7;}2. 
 
 — A'. <(■ //. 7!».S. 
 
 OSL' The truth fiashe.1 o'er me l,ke .p,i,.k ma.lness 
 CH.3 Siudi flowers as in the wint'y memory l)loom 
 *'^ '""-*'■■*'"•' l^'*l-'"l"n.ed that frozen tomk 
 
 ^^"^ . , "liilr like flowers 
 
 n the waste of years and hours 
 Mom your dust new nations sp,in>' 
 Uith more kindly blossoming. 
 
 ^^'' ,,,, , , . "h, rather say 
 llKmgh thy sins and shn erics foul 
 Overcloud a sun-like sou, 
 
 A'. <(• JI. 900. 
 A'. <t' //. v.nu. 
 
 — EiKj. Hills, i(J3. 
 
 —Eii;i. Hills, liM. 
 
■s-t 
 
 ^^t) Hut a friend's Ijosom 
 
 Is as the ifiiiK)st cave of oui' own mind 
 VVhci'- we sit sliut from llic wide gaze of dav. 
 And from the all-coinimiiiicating air. ' .-Cmri, II. ii. 
 
 If I must live day after day, an<l keep 
 
 'I'hcse lind)s, tlie uuwortliy temple of lliv spiiit. 
 
 As a foul den from wliieii'wliat thou al))'iorrest 
 
 88. 
 
 G87 
 
 <)S,S 
 
 G8!) 
 
 6!M) 
 
 — Cfliri, in. i. 1-JS. 
 
 -Ci-iiri. III. i. ];}■_>. 
 
 Oh,;, III. i. 
 
 (i{»l 
 fiJt'J 
 
 694 
 695 
 
 ()!!() 
 097 
 
 698 
 
 * 
 
 699 
 
 May mock thee, unavenged- 
 Self-murder I no, that might l)e no escape, 
 Foi' thy del lee yawns like a Hell hetween' 
 Our will an<l it :■ - 
 
 And, honoured la<ly, while [ speak, I pray 
 That you put otf, as garments overworn, 
 Korhearance and respeet, remor.se and feai', 
 
 -And in its depth there is a miglity rock, 
 
 Winch lias fi'om unimaginalile yi'ars, 
 
 Sustained itself with terroi' and with toil 
 
 Oyer a gnlph, and with the agony 
 
 NVith wliicli it clings .seems slowly coming down ; 
 
 Kven as a wretched soul lumr after houi', 
 
 ("lings to the mass of life ; yot clinging, leans ; 
 
 And leaning makes more dark the dread aliyss" 
 
 In which it fears to fall : heneatli this crag' 
 
 Huge as despair, as if in weariness, 
 
 TIk! melancholy mountain yawns.— C<iii-i, 111. i. 
 
 That word parricide. 
 Although I am resolved, liaunis me like fear. 
 
 •207. 
 
 •J46, 
 
 Xo, 'lis her stuhiiorn will 
 Which liy its own consent shall sloop as low- 
 As that which drags it down. 
 
 and make liis \(iuth 
 The sepulchie of hope, wheie evil' thoughts 
 Shall gi(jw like weeds on a neglected tomh 
 
 this devil 
 Wlii.h s))rung from me as from a hell 
 
 -Cinrl, III. i. ;}4(l 
 
 — Ciliri, iV. i. 10. 
 
 —Ceiiri, IV. i. 
 — C'l'iici, l\'. i. 
 
 52. 
 119. 
 
 m. 
 
 lO.T 
 
 fi.\e, of the iniiuist soul. 
 Which weei)s within tears as of huining gall —Cenri, V. iii. 
 
 I'lead with awakening eaitluiunke, o'ei' whose couch 
 F-ven now ;i city stands, strong, fair, and free : 
 Now stench and lilackness yawn, like death. 
 
 — Cfnri, \', iv 
 
 How will thy soul, cloven to its depths wi.h terror, 
 
 (iape like a hell within I Prow. I. ,").-) 
 
 Till thine Infinity shall be 
 
 A lolie of envenomed agonv ; 
 And thine Onniipotence a crown of pain. 
 To cling like hurning gold round thy di.ssolving hrain. 
 
 — I' mm. I. -.'88. 
 
^.'j 
 
 -Prom. I. ;{.■{<). 
 
 — J'rotn. I. ;{76. 
 
 7<M) The li<,|„. „f torturing him ,s„,„lls l.k,. a Uvnn 
 Uf corpses, to ii (lealh-hinl aft or hattie 
 
 '**' '«''i'l tiiy Soul ill prayer, 
 
 -\ii(l ike a suppliant in some gorgeous fane 
 Let the will kneel within thy haughty heart : 
 
 702 For what siihmission l,ut that falal word, 
 I he death-seal of maiikiiMrs e,ij)tivit\ , 
 Like the Sicilian's hair-suspended sword, 
 Whieh trembles o'er his crown, whoiiid 1..- a<;cei)t 
 
 Or could I vield? ' ,, , 
 
 — Iriiiii. I. 
 
 703 That we will be drea.l thought beneath liiv brain 
 And blood uithiii thy labyrinthine veins ' 
 (- rawling like agony. 
 
 .'{'.Ni. 
 
 — I'rnni. I. ISS. 
 
 7<»4 Leave the hatred as in ashes 
 
 Fii'e is left for future iiiirning : 
 It will burst ill bloo(her flashes 
 
 When ye stir it soon returning 
 
 -(.. r ., .,, 'I'xl <lie present is spread 
 
 /Ui) Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumbcrless head. 
 
 'rom. I. ,")<»(). 
 
 7<I0 1 bid ascend tho.se subtle and fair spirits 
 
 V\ ho.e homes are the dim caves of human thought, 
 
 And who inlial)it, as l>irds wing the wind 
 
 Its world-srrrounding ether : ' ' Prom. \ 
 
 707. 708 From all the blasts of henvei. thou hast descended • 
 Ves, like a spirit, like a thought, which makes 
 I nwonted tears throng (o the horny eves 
 And beatings haunt the desolated heart 
 W huh slu.ul.l have learnt repose : thou hast descended 
 
 radled in tempests ; thou dost wake, Spring : 
 <> child of many winds I As su.ldenlv 
 I hou comest as the memorv of a .beam 
 
 im -in T I "•"' '" •''"' '"■'■'^"•''^- 't hath been sweet ; 
 
 /uy, / 10 Like genius, or like jov wnich ri.seth up 
 
 As from the earth, clothing with golden clou<ls 
 
 I he desert of (mr life. —/Vow II 
 
 71 J How like death-w..rms the wingless moments crawl ! 
 
 I'rom. IL i. 
 
 „ Hark I the rushing snow ! 
 
 J he sun-awakened avalanche I wjiose masv, 
 
 I ince sifte<l by the storm, lia.l gathered tlu'ie 
 
 i^lake after flake, in heavcii-dcfviim minds 
 
 A.s th.Might by tiimight is piled," till .s.uue great truth 
 
 Is loosened, and the nations echo r<uind, 
 
 Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now 
 
 — 1*1(1111. II. ijj 
 
 I. .lU-i. 
 
 tiJS. 
 
 i. 1. 
 It). 
 
 713 The snake-like Doom ,„ile.l underneath his throne 
 
 — PriDu. II iii 
 
 714 And self-c,mtempt, bitten-r to .Irink than bloo.l ; 
 
 —Prom. II. iv. 
 
 •Mi 
 97. 
 
<S(i 
 
 715 My s(tul is an (.'iicliiiiit cd Imat, 
 
 VVliicli, like a slcrpiiij,' .swan, iliuli lloal 
 lJj)oii the silvor wavi^s of thy sweet singing ; 
 
 71(i 'I'lie soul of man, like unextinguished tiie 
 
 ^'el liinns towards heaven with liene ie|)ioaiii. 
 
 -/Vr; 
 
 H. V. 7; 
 
 —i>,::i. ill. i. ;;, 
 
 717 And tlio" my curses thro" the pendulous air, 
 
 iJke snow on herhless peaks, fall Hake hy Make, 
 And fling to it ; tho" under my wrath's might 
 It elinil) the erags of life, stop after step, 
 
 71S \\'hich \\()tunl it as ice wounds iinsamlalleil feet. 
 
 I'roH). 111. i. 11. 
 
 71i( there the emulous youths 
 
 liore to thy honoui' thro' (he disine gloom 
 The lamp which was thine emhlem : (^ven as those 
 VN'ho hear tho unt ransmitted torch of hope 
 Into the grave, across tho night of life. 
 As tiiou hast borne it most triumphantly 
 'i'o this far goal of time. -/'min, 11!. ill. KiS. 
 
 7'2U Till her heait thaw like Hakes of Ajiril snow /'/-,/,/. 111. ^. Sll. 
 
 721 The painted veil, liy those who were, called life. 
 Which minncked, as with colours idly spread. 
 All men helicM'd ami hoped, is torn aside; — I'rnni. Til. iv. 100. 
 
 7"22 Onc(^ the hungry Hours were hounds 
 
 Which chased tho day like a bleeding deer. 
 And it limped and stumbled with nuiny wounds 
 
 'Ihiough tho nightly dells of the desert yvtw. -/'rcni. l\ . 7."?. 
 
 ~'2'i Wlieiever we tly we lead along 
 
 111 leashes like star beams, soft yet stiong. 
 
 The clouils that are liea\v with lo\ e"s s\\ I'ct rain. 
 
 - -/'rum. IV. 177. 
 
 724 Vi't its two eyes art? heavens 
 
 Of li(|uid darkness, which the Deity 
 Within seems ])oui'ing, as a storm is poured 
 From jagged clouds, out of their arrowy Ia.shes, 
 Tem|)ering the cold and radiiint air around 
 With lire that is not brightness ; 
 
 726 till the blue globe 
 Wra])t deluge roimd it like a cloak. 
 
 72t) Boino beside thee by a ])ower 
 Like the polai' I'aradise 
 
 727 Magnetdike of lover's eyes ; 
 
 728 Love 
 
 from the slippery steej) 
 And luirrow verge of crag-like agony, springs 
 And folds over tho world its healing wings. 
 
 729 And the wand like lily, wdiiili lifted up, 
 As a Ma'uad its moonlight -colored i up, 
 
 -Prom. 1\'. •-'•_'.■). 
 -Prnm. \\ . SI.".. 
 
 - nrnm. IV. 4(i4. 
 
 /'mm. IV. .'>.")7. 
 — .sVms /'. I .S3, 
 
S7 
 
 Oil< In Lil,. IX. 
 
 730 Thouait l.uttlu. n,in,rstiiM , hMiiil.-r 
 
 Kouii.lwliicli its. v.HM.^r fancies .lan.l.rr, / 
 
 Like weak insects in a cavi'. 
 L.gl.tr.lu,,l,ystalaHi.as: __f,,,, ,„//,„, .^j^_ 
 
 I'M Tlu.u on wl,.,se stream, 'nn.! the steep skv's ,„„,„„>, i„„ 
 
 Loose elou.is hke earth's .le..ayi„g leaves are she.l ' ■ 
 
 .Shook from the tangle.! houghs of Heaven an.l O.ean. 
 
 Angels of rain and lightning : there are spread 
 -o.> I ',','"'. '""'^'"•'■"^^'''"^'"''■V 'Surge, , 
 
 lA2 Like the hnght liair uplifte.l fn.ni tire head 
 
 (Jf some tieree .Mienad, evn fron. th.. .Jin. v,M-e 
 
 Ut the horizon to the zenith's heigjit 
 
 Ihe locks of the approaching storm. _-0,/, /„ ||-, ,, ^r ,j 
 
 733 AJy soul spurned the chains (.f its dismav 
 
 And m the rapid plumes of song, 
 (lotlied itself, suhlime and Strom' • 
 Asa young eagle .soars the morniim <'?o'uds anion. ' 
 
 Hovering in verse o'er its a.eustomed prey ; ^'n,l. /o LUk I. 
 
 I'U That niultitu.linousauarchv did sweep 
 
 And i.urst around liieir walls, like id'le f„ain, 
 
 7;r) The cage:- hours and unrelu.aant years 
 
 As on a da«n-illumined mountain .stood, ' 
 
 Iramplmg to silence their loud h.)pes and fears 
 
 ~Oil< to L,\>. XI. 
 
 \f I ., . 'i« it" <l.i\ had cloven the skies 
 
 At dreaming midnight oVr the western wave. 
 Men started, staggering with a ghid surprise 
 Under the lightnings of thine unfamiliar eye.^ 
 
 -0>/< In l.ih, XI. 
 
 7.S7 Tfow like Bac.dianals of l.lood 
 
 Hound France, the ghastly vintage, stoo.l 
 Destruction s .sceptred slaves, an.l Folly's mitre.l I.rood 
 
 — Oih In Lih, XII. 
 
 O, that the free woul.l stamp t Iw ,mpi„us name 
 
 ' V... '■"' f ;' '^n't'"'"^ I'^'th, whi..h the light air 
 Krases, au.l the fiat .san.ls clo.se hehind ! 
 Ye the oracle have hear.l : 
 , r^'ft the victorvflishing swoi.l 
 
 '3J Which, weak it.self as siuhhle, y.ft .-an hind 
 
 —(hi, /o Lih. XV\ 
 74U Sweet Lamp ! my moth-like mu.se has hurnt i,s wings ; 
 
 —Epips. r,3. 
 
 741 A well .)f seale.1 an.l secret happiness, 
 
 \\ hose watens like l.lithe light an.l musi,- an- 
 Vamiui.shing.lissomin<,'ean.lglo,mi: ' - h) r '6 
 
S8 
 
 -E/iiiis. 
 
 121, 
 
 >i;j. 
 
 -h'/)i)).'<. -Jtil. 
 
 I'^/iiji-i. 308. 
 
 '"*" ^r^''""'"" '■'''' ''""i'"'il"' April. wMriiii..', 
 wall sniik-s aii.l t.'iirH Kn.si tl„. Aiuit'omv 
 into liiis suiiiiner ^'lave. 
 
 74:{ An.l in D.al l,o,st pliilosophv, wliuse taste 
 
 Aliiko.s tlii« cold (•(.ininon hell, our life, a duoiii 
 As ;,'l(iri.)iis as a fiery niai'tyrdoiii ; 
 
 744 Ai.,1 tVoin lu.r livii.^^ .iuH.ks and l,os.„„ 11,.^ 
 A kiilmgair, uliici, ,,ioreed lijvc lion.^v-dew 
 Into the (.-ore of my green heart, and lav 
 Upon Its leaves : 
 
 74,-. What storms then shook th,. ocean of mv sh-ep 
 15 ottn.j,r that moo,,, whose pale and wan'in-r h' ps 
 
 __ Ihen sii.'ank as in the sickness of eclipse •- 
 
 /4(, An< hou n,y soul was as a lanipless sea, 
 And who was then its Tempest ; 
 
 ' ' , , Ladv ii,ii,e. 
 
 hcorn „ol ti,ese tlowe.^s of thou-ht," the fadin.^ |,i,.,l, 
 
 H ncl, n„„ ,ts hea.t of lu^uts that plant pu?s fo,th 
 
 Whose f,„,t, made perfect l,y thv su,i„v eves, 
 
 W dl he as of the t,'ees of I'aivulisc " ' —Kpip... .'iS.S 
 
 74S Till the isle's heauty, like a nak.'d l.rJd", 
 
 (ilowing at once with love and loveliness 
 
 Blushes and t,'en,l,Ies at its own excess : ' 
 /4!) N et, like a l.uried lamj), a Soul no less 
 
 Burns in the hea,'t of tl,is delicious isle, 
 
 "oO Wheie so,),e old cavc'ii hoar seoms yet to keei) 
 I he n,oonhght of the expi,ed night'ash-ei), 
 
 A veil foi' oil,- .seclusio,,, close as Xi.rin 's 
 
 ''•',,. . , , iiixl ^vhen veais heap 
 
 Ihen- witl.e,v.l hours, like leaves, on ou,' decay, 
 
 7.-.2 Or linge,', whce the pehhle-pax.-n shoi-e. 
 Under the (juick faint kisses of the sea, 
 Iremhles and s])aikles as with ecstasy,— 
 
 7");) It is a sweet thing, fi'iendship. 
 
 A Hower which, fi^esh as Lapland', 'OSes are, 
 
 J.itts Its bold head int., the woild's f,o,'e air, 
 
 An.l blooms luost .'a.liantly when ..thc^s .lie. -Cunr. /-J,,;,,,. (12. 
 7.)4 And ba,-bc.l tongues ... 
 
 Rent the s.>ft Fo,,„ thev neve,- coul.l ,e),el 
 Whose sa.'re.l bloo.l, like the y.,ung tea,'s .,f .May 
 
 Pave.l with ete,„al tl.,we,s that undeserviug way. 
 
 ' Ai/o,i. XXIV. 
 :r,r, The monste.s of lif.^s waste ha.l fled from thee lik.. .lee,-. 
 
 — A, Ion. XXVU. 
 756 An.I c.l.l hopes swarn, like worn,s within .,ui- living clay. 
 
 —A(/oii. XXXJX. 
 
 -E 
 
 hjiijis, 474. 
 
 — E/ii/is. ."),"),'i 
 — Kj)l/,s. r)3li 
 
 — E)ti /,.•<. 040. 
 
89 
 
 till 
 
 7.>8 
 
 ..., , ,., i'lid thmi Ail- 
 
 V\ Inr , l,ko a moiUMing vdl thy scarf l.a.lsi thrown 
 
 Ut-r thealiaiKluiifd Kaith, —Ai/o/i XLl 
 
 The «pkMi(l(.iirs of the Hnnaniciit of time 
 Alay he (■chpscd, hut arc cxliiijiiiislM!,! ,„)t • 
 I.Ike stars to thnr appointed height thev elirnh. 
 •Ami death ih a K)w mist which cannot h'lut 
 
 The hrightiiess it may veil. 
 
 /Oil A I'ronietiiean con(|iieior came : 
 
 Like a tiiumphal path in- trod 
 Tho thoiiis of deatii and sjiame 
 
 "^"J It has heon sown 
 
 Ami yet tlie liarvest to tiie sicklenian 
 Is as a grain to eacli. 
 
 —A'lon. WAX 
 
 -ll<ll. '2\2 
 
 Ttil 
 
 70l' 
 7G;j 
 
 7«i+ 
 7().-) 
 
 76(i 
 
 7G7 
 
 768 
 
 — thil. lMO. 
 
 Look Hassan, on yon crescent moon, emhhizoned 
 Upon that sliattered (lag of fiery eloud 
 H iiicli h-ads the rear of the .lepaiting .hiv ; 
 Wan eml)lem of an empire fading now ' " 
 See how it trenihles in the hlood",.,! air. 
 Anil, like a mighty lamp whose oil j.s spent 
 Shrinks on the horizon's edge, while, from ai.ove. 
 une star with insolent and victorious li.rht 
 Hovers above its fall, and with keen l.eams. 
 Like arrows througli a fainting antelope, 
 Strikes its weak form to death, 
 
 The sj)irit that lifts the slave before his lord 
 Stalks through the capitals of armed kimrs. 
 
 Exults in chains : and when the rebel falls 
 tries like the blood of Abel from the dust : 
 
 The coming age is shadowed on the past 
 As on a glass 
 
 The heavy fragments of the power wliich fell 
 \\ lien I arose, like siiapeless crags and clouds 
 Hang round my throne on the abyss. 
 
 The autumn iA a greener faith has come. 
 And wolhsh change, like winter, howls to strip 
 Ihe foliage in which Fame, the eagh , built 
 Her aerie, wliih^ Dominion whelj)ed below 
 rhe storm is in its branches, and the frost 
 ;f .n.'l« I»^'i\-f^. and the blank deep expects 
 Obhvion on obli\ion. spoil on spoil, 
 Ruin on ruin. 
 
 Uh, bear me to those isles of jagged cloud 
 
 Which Hoat like mountains (m the eartluiuake, mid 
 
 Ihe momentary oceans of the lightning, 
 
 ~H.li. ;{:{7. 
 
 ~Udl. :m. 
 
 —Hdl. 8(l.j. 
 ^Hdl. 8(3.1 
 
 -lldl. 871, 
 
 H<-ll. 957. 
 
 And weave into his shame, which like the dead 
 
 Shrouds me, the hopes that fn.m his glory tied -Xapolton, 39. 
 
!•() 
 
 ("BO And like lliiki liliuk and dicaiy lirll, tlic soul, 
 llun^' in a liraNcn ilhiinint'd towrr, must toll 
 Our tlioiij^lits and our disiics to nu'ct liclow 
 Hound till) ruiil heail and juay —as inadiiicn d 
 
 ,hil. .!• Ma, hi. 1-23. 
 
 and thosi' wlio li'y may lind 
 Mow stion^ tilt! cliaiiiH arf wlddi our spirits Itind 
 Brittle iK'rclianci; as straw ... 
 
 -Jill. ,(• Mnihl. 180. 
 
 '1 Month afli'r niontli, lie ciiod, to lii'ar tins load 
 
 And as a jad(\urj.;(.Ml iiy tho whip and >^oad 
 To dray life on, whiih like a licaxy chain 
 Lonj^t lii'us lii'liind uitii many a link ot pain. 
 
 Jul. .(• M'kIiI. .3(K). 
 
 '2 And as sh 
 
 Kach with th 
 
 )w years pas.s, a tuncrcal tram 
 
 il ti 
 
 ^l il 
 
 774 
 
 / <;> 
 
 'Tti 
 
 '77 
 
 I'.ach witM ilif gliosi or some losi iiopc or iricnd 
 
 {•'ollowinjj; it VAv its shadow,— ■ Jul. <(• Mmhl. 480. 
 
 hut 1ft the sih'nt years 
 Be rlosed and sered over (heir memory 
 An yon nmte marhle where tiieii' corpses lie. 
 
 .////. .f Ma-IJ. til.S. 
 Nor any could the restless griefs uiuaxel 
 
 Which liurned willdn Inm, witlieiinL,' up his |)rinie, , 
 
 And goailing him like tit-nds, from laud to land. 
 
 — /'rlin; .[til. I. '.^. 
 And (jthers said that such mysterious griet 
 From (Jod's dis})leasure, like a darkness, fidl 
 On souls like his, ^Prhu; A'li. I. !».S. 
 
 "Pis the siiadow of a dream 
 Which the \eile(l eye (jf memory nevei' saw, 
 But thi'ouj^h the soul's al>yss like some dark stream 
 'I'hroiigh shattered mines and caxeins underground 
 Rolls, sliaking its founiialiouH • — l\'ni<'< Afli. I. OS. 
 
 For like an eyeless nightmare grief did sit 
 
 Upon his being, a snak(> which fold hy fold 
 Pressed out the life of life, a clinging tiend 
 
 \\'hich clenched him if he stirred with deadlier hold - 
 
 — /•rliiri A/li. I. 121). 
 
 who with the news of death 
 Struck hodv and soul as witiia mortal hlight. 
 
 — /'rlnr. Atli. II. 2S. 
 
 / 19 
 
 779 The breath of night like death did flow 
 
 Beneath the sinking moon. 
 
 780 And that slaughter to the nation 
 Shall steam iij) like inspiration 
 
 781 Low-tide in soul, like a stagnant laguiia 
 
 782 And wit, like ocean, rose and fell ? 
 
 783 He spoke of poetry 
 
 A spirit which like wind doth ))lo\v 
 As it listeth to and fio, 
 
 — Liufs I. 
 
 —Mask. LXXXIX. 
 
 —I'ller B. IV. xiv. 
 
 — Pitir li. IV. xxii. 
 
 ~-l\t,r B. \. iv. 
 
7.SJ As tiMiil.1,.,1 . skies stain waters olcar. 
 
 IlK'sioitn ill IVtci's heart iiiid iiiiii.l 
 ^••v^• imi.lc \m verses .larii aii-l ,|u,.er: /',/,,. /;. vi, xxxi. 
 
 TH.-. TUv s|,i,ier spna.ls her uehs, whether she he 
 In |M.el slower, cellar, or harii, .,r tree ; 
 I lie silii-wnrn, i„ the ,iurk Kree.i niulheriy h-ave.s 
 Mis wiM.M.g.sheet a.i.l era.lle ever weaves : 
 ^<• I. (I tiling' whom morali-^is eall worm 
 Nt spiiinm^, still iniiml this deeavin.' h.'rm, 
 
 !;n.m the hue threa.ls of rare an.) s„h, !,. ; hought 
 
 ^o net of wonis HI ^'arish eoloms wn.u h' 
 
 lo eateh til.' i.lle hiiz/ers ot the day— ' 
 
 ISiit a soft e,.l|, wliere when that fa'.ies awav 
 
 M.'mory may elotlie in wind's my living name 
 
 An.l h'e.| ,t witli the as|,hn,h.|s nf fame, -L./f.r In M. (}, \, 
 
 7N(j It; liviiiL; win.ls the rapid e|„n.is pursue, 
 7SS -k/i '•"/^■'^^ ^•''•■'^'•.''"v.'s throu-h Ihea.therial wav. 
 788, .h.l Mi.ntsmen the nnioeent .ie.T. ami Leasts their'p.'ov, 
 
 U liy shoul.l not we rouse with the s|,irifs hlast " 
 
 Out of the torest of tlie pathless past 
 
 I In-se reeolle,.te.l ploa.su.vs •/ --A,//,,- ,o M. ^'. |H7. 
 
 7!»0 An.l there is he with his eternal puns, 
 
 NNIii.'h heat the.iuUest hrains for similes, like duns 
 "i'>"'l<'nng for nuHiey at a poei's(h)or; —h,n,ri„ 1/ ^• -'i.) 
 
 7n!»rt Their spirits shook within th.wn. as a llanie 
 Stirred l.y the air under a cavern ^aunt : 
 
 — 11'//'//, \I. 
 
 701 A haven heneath whose translucent lloor 
 
 "it' tremulous stars sparkled unfathomal.lv. 
 And ar<mnd which tin; solid vapcmrs hoar ' 
 
 Based on the level waters, tn tin; sky 
 Lifted their dreadful crags, and like a'shore 
 
 Ut wintry mountains iiiacccssihjy, 
 Hemmed in witli rifts and precipice's grey, 
 
 An.l hanging .nigs, many a cove and Imy. — HV/rA, \L1.\. 
 
 7!»2 An.l whilst the outer lake l.en.-ath the hish. 
 
 Of the win.l s scourge, foame.l like a wourul.Ml thing 
 
 H'/VrA, L. 
 
 "^^ „ .. , , ,. , There the meteor lay, 
 
 J anting forth light among the leavs an.l ilowers, 
 -n. z^"* ■ '^ ''''' '""^ ^^■'''' outworn with spee.l ; * 
 
 Liz J ': .^''",t " "^'''1- an.l passion ma.le th.^ pulse 
 /9o Oi Its l.nght life thr..h like an anxious heart. 
 
 — Fntiiii). of l)riiiii. 1,'iO. 
 
 '"'' • • • . vigilant F.^ar, 
 
 And .jpen-eyed Conspiracy lii; slo.jpin.' 
 As on Hell's thresh.jld ; ' " 
 
 '' ' V , ,, ,, 'Sxibdue thy actions 
 
 J^A-en to the .lisposition of thy purim.se, 
 An.l be that tempered as Ihe'^Khro's steel ; 
 
 ■Gh<i.<. 1. I. >27. 
 
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 799 And whether life had l>een l>efore that sleep 
 The heaven which 1 imagine, or a liell 
 
 Like this harsh world in which I wake to weep, 
 
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 8(H) An<l all the gazer's nund was strewn hcneath 
 
 Her feet like emhers ; and slie. thought by thought, 
 
 Trampled its sparks into the dust of death ; 
 
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 801 From every fiiniest linil) and fairest face 
 
 The strength and freshness fell like dust, — Triumph, 520. 
 
 802 Now is thy voi(;e a tempest swift and strong, 
 On whi<;h like one in trance uphorne, 
 
 Secure o'er rocks and waves I sweep, 
 Rejoicing like a cloud of morn. — Con-sl. IV. 
 
 803 My spirit like a charnu'd hark doth swim 
 
 Upon the Ii(juid waves of thy sweet singing, 
 Far away into the legicms dim 
 
 804 Of rapture — as a hoat with swift sails winging 
 Its way adowii some many-winding river. 
 
 —Frai/m. Vol. III., p. 394. 
 
 805 and every form 
 
 Was awed into delight, and l)y the charm 
 
 (Jirt as with an interminable zone. —Wooilmmt, 32. 
 
 800 O mighty mind, in whose deep stream the age 
 Shakes like a reed in the unlieeding storm, 
 
 807 
 
 The nightingaK''s complaint, 
 It dies upon iu-r heart : 
 As I must die on liiine. 
 Beloved as thou art. 
 
 ■Fraijm. to lii/rnn. 
 
 luil. Ser. II. 
 
 808 I iiavc unlocked the golden melodies 
 Of his deep soul, as with a masterkcy. 
 
 And loosened them and batlied myself tlierein — 
 
 809 Even as ;iii eagle in a thunder mist 
 
 Clothing his wings with lightning. — Frnijm. V<il. IV., p. 14. 
 
 810 When the ciiill wind, languid as with pain 
 Of its own licav\- moist urt;. 
 
 F mil III. Fiiful, 2 
 
 81 1 And the pure stars in their eternal bowers 
 
 Are eincturcil with my power as witii a rol)e, — Apollo, IV. 
 
 812 I went into the (b-serts of dim sleep 
 
 That world which, like an unknown wilderness. 
 Hounds this with its recesses wirle ami deep. 
 
 — Fraijin. Vol. IV. p. 04. 
 
93 
 
 HU 
 
 814 
 
 Sir. 
 
 8I() 
 
 si: 
 
 818 
 Hi!) 
 
 820 
 821 
 
 822 
 
 As an eartliquakf r<K-kK a corso 
 
 In its o()ffin in tli;- <lay, 
 So White Winter, that icugj, „„,.se. 
 
 Hocks tho (Iwitii (ol.l vi-ar to-dftv 
 Solemn hoiirs ! wail nhnid 
 K*)r your mother in her shioiHl. 
 
 As tho wild air stirs and sways 
 
 Tho treo-swung ( laiilo of a child 
 N) the breath of these rude .lavs 
 
 Rocks tho year : ' ~hir.,e,or the Y,m; II. A III. 
 
 The heart which tender thought ch.thes like a dove 
 
 V\ ith tho w.ngs of care _^v«,« .1 n,hir, II. 
 
 The sleepless l.illows on the oceans l.reast 
 iiroak like a bursting heart, an.l die in foani 
 
 — To IVi/litjiiis, VI. 
 
 . , f''""> Tymniiv wliich arms 
 
 Adverse miscroeds and enndf.us anarchies 
 I o stamp, as on a winged serpents seed 
 Upon the name of Freedom ; from the storm 
 Of factmn which like eartlu,uake shakes and si.kens 
 Ihe sol.,1 heart of enterprise : ._/>,,;. ,, //,// j^g. 
 
 J'uVr?f which, half extingnishe.l in thoi,- haste 
 
 (.loamed few and faint oer the abandoned feast 
 
 hhewed as it were within the vaulted room 
 
 A c Olid of sorrow hanging, as if gloou, 
 
 Had passed out of meirs minds into the air. -Olnn: 1G9. 
 
 vJm"i '"!•/' '"",' '"'° ''^''•'•^'- '"«''l- ""•> '^ I'L'fUt 
 
 U huh, like a dove chased by a dove, shall beat -S.rrhio, 71. 
 
 823 
 
 824 
 825 
 
 826 
 827 
 
 (.reat spirit, wluan the s.vi of boundless thought 
 
 {^•"■tiii-es within its uuimagincd caves 
 in which thou sittest s(.le, as in mv mind 
 (iiving a voice to its my.sterious waves. 
 
 ~Fnii/iii. Vol. IV. p. 122. 
 when 1 . . . 
 
 Wept oer tho beauty, which like sea retiring, 
 Had left tho earth bare as the waveworn sand 
 nt my lorn heart. 
 
 Like a cloud big with a May show ci-, 
 
 My soul weeps healing lain, 
 On thoe, thou withered flower ; _ 
 
 Tho (chains of eart'i'a immurement 
 
 Fell from larihe's spirit ; 
 They siirank and brake like bandages of straw. 
 
 Monarchs and conquerors there 
 I'roud o'er prostrate milliouH trod — 
 The earthquakes of the human race ; 
 Like them, forgotten when the ruin' 
 
 That marks their shock is jmst. 
 
 — Ziirra I. 
 
 Aid;/. LikI,/, IV. 
 
 -V- M. I. 188. 
 
 -V. M. II. 121. 
 
94 
 
 H'2H His hIuiiiIjcts are hut varied agonies, 
 
 They prey like scorpions on the springs of life. 
 
 -(/ J/. III. 77. 
 
 8'25> their influence darts 
 
 Like siil)tle ]>ois()n througli tiie hUMxlless veins 
 
 Of<le.sohite s(.ciety, ~(J. .V. IV. lOG. 
 
 830 Until jMue health-drops, from the cup of joy, 
 Fall liKe a dew of balm upon the world. 
 
 831 And life. . . . 
 
 V M. VI. 62. 
 
 Like hungry and unresting flame 
 C'urls rouml the eternal columns of its strengtii 
 
 -V. M. VI. 23r). 
 
 DOrBLE SIMILES. 
 
 H'A'2 His wan eyes 
 
 («aze on the eni[)ty scene as vacantly 
 As ocean's moon looks on the moon in heaven 
 
 -A hist. 201. 
 
 833 and, as gamesome infants' eyes. 
 With gentle meanings, and most inno(;ent wiles, 
 Fohl their heams round the hearts of those that love. 
 These twine theii' tendrils with the wedded houghs 
 
 Uniting their close union : — A/nst. 4l\S. 
 
 834 And I return to thee, mine own heart's homo ; 
 As to his (^)ue<Mi some vii'»<); Knight of Kacrv, 
 Earning Itright spoils for her enchanted dome ; 
 
 — />«/«., L. ,(■ ('. I. 
 
 835 Thou Friend, whose presence on my wintry heart 
 Fell like bright Spring upon some herhless plain ; 
 
 —Ihdn. L. ,IC'. VII. 
 
 83() These things dwelt in me even as shadows keep 
 Their watch in scmie dim eharnel's loneliness, 
 
 —L. .(• C. III. 'I'l. 
 
 837 my scorched limbs he wound 
 
 In linen moist and balmy, and as cold 
 As dew to (hooping leaves ; — 
 
 — /.. a- C. III. 2!>. 
 
 838 But Laon's name to the tumultuous throng 
 Were like the star whose beams the waves compel 
 
 And tempests, — L. <!• C. IV 
 
 839 The tyrants send their armed slaves to (juell 
 Her power ;--thev, even like a tlnindcr gust 
 Caught by some forest, bend beneath the spell 
 
 17. 
 
 Of that young maiden's speech, 
 
 840 " and let the past 
 
 Be as a grave that gives not up its dead 
 
 T 
 
 o evi 
 
 1 thought 
 
 —L. .(• C. IV. 20. 
 
 -/.. .t' C. V. 1: 
 
 
95 
 
 ^' V, ... '"'^ '"-^^'I'liglit lips weru hunt, 
 
 Men sa.,1 .„t„ a Hnnlc- which g„il„ uuvU.u,\v,\ 
 A H.,ht wuh which that chihl^ike L.po withVear was hl..„.U.l. 
 
 —A. <» a. V. ;)6. 
 
 I could sec 
 
 The rmiltitu.Ies. tii.- m...uitai..s ami the sea • 
 
 As when e.i.pse hath pass.-.l, things sinhh-n'shine 
 
 To men's astonishe.1 eyes n.ost det an.l c, " slall!ne. 
 
 — A. a- C. V. 46. 
 
 A„ ,.,i„ , to each otiier 
 
 As when some parent fondly reconoiles 
 
 >V ith her own Huslenanuu ; / . /. a- -. 
 
 A • i 'i"<' over all 
 
 A .rust was spread, the si.kt.ess of a .leop 
 
 And speechless swoon of j„y, as nnght i.efall 
 
 i «o disunited spirits when thev leap 
 
 I" union from this earth's ohscure and fading sleep 
 
 —A. a- C. VI. 34. 
 .S45 Justice or truth, or joy - those umv can 
 *rom slavery and religion's lat.vri.uh caves 
 I'Uide U8, as one clear star tlie .teaman saves, 
 
 —L. aC. VIII. 11. 
 Falsehoo,l, and fear, an.l toil, like waves have worn 
 Channels upon her cheek, whi.h smiles a.l.un 
 «46 As calm .lecks the false o.ean :- './^. .,. f,. VIII. I.'. 
 
 ^^' Eve,rwi';'irH.e'r*'7'r^^ '''''!■ ^'"•"'•' '"'^•^- i-'i'^''-j 
 
 i^jvtn \\ iti, the lu^arl it wasted, as a l.ian<l 
 
 1 ades in the dying tiame whose life it chcrishe.l, 
 
 848 , , . -''• ''• C". VIII. 24. 
 rr I ,, , 'I wide enthusiasiii, 
 
 lo clean.se the fevered world a.s with an earth.,uake-s spasm ! 
 
 -A. ao'. IX. 5. 
 
 849 Those who were sent to l.in.l m,., w.-pt and felt 
 
 m tlie white furnace ; , , /i ,,- ,, 
 
 — /^. <l' O. 1a. 11. 
 
 850 And Calumny meanwhile shall feed on u. 
 
 As worms devour the <lead, ' / , /' iv -i, 
 
 ' — /-. a- c. lA. 31 . 
 
 ^"^^ «,^ , , , t'lose hosts of inaiiv a nat ■ 
 
 Trlr/r' •'':"' i"'"- -''^ "^■'■"- ""^ •-••^•'•'^ ton.., 
 
 I wo gentle sisters mourn their desolation ; _/.. ,(• C. X. 4.S. 
 
 *^^ H<. 1 1 ■ ^'' """'^' "^ ^''""^' «'i' >'<"s voung, 
 Ha<l on his eloquent accents fed and huny 
 
 i^ike bees on mountain flowers __/ { (^r ^j ,,, 
 
 853 Lo, that is mine 
 
 wn child, who in the guise 
 
 /-><■ , ^.iiiii, wiiu III Lue uuist 
 
 In lonesome wood 
 
 —L. .t- C. XII. 22. 
 
06 
 
 S')4 Sfcuii- ii8 out' oil a locklmilt tower 
 
 ()'«!r tlif \M»'i;kH wliiili tin- siii>;i' IrailH to ami fro, 
 
 Mill tlic passions wild of hiiiiiaii kind 
 
 Hi- Htood, likf a spirit calming tlu-ni ; - 
 
 /.'. d- If. t).T2. 
 
 M")'! All that others seek 
 
 He casts away, like a vile weed 
 Which the sea (;astH unreturni'iLjly. 
 
 So(> Till, like an imago in the lake 
 
 Wliicli rains disturh, my tears would Itreak 
 The shadow of that sliimiier deep : 
 
 8;")7 '>nt soon his gestures kindled 
 
 Xew power, as l>y the moving wimi 
 The waves are lifted, 
 
 S")S Perish let there ordy he 
 
 Floating f)"er thy heart hless sea 
 As the garment of thy sky 
 ('h)lhes the «(irld immortally, 
 One rememlirance, more suhlime 
 Than the tattered pall of Time 
 W'liicji scarce hides tli\ \ isage wan ; — 
 
 — /.'. .( //. fitJO. 
 
 — A'. ,(■ //. ,s;{7 
 
 — /,'. ,( //. 11 (•>(). 
 
 ■h'li;/- //"'/-. 1<)7. 
 
 That incestuous pair [■■"•. Sin an<l Death] w iin follow 
 SoH 'I'yrants as the sun the swallow , 
 .S()(l As Kepentance follows ( 'rime, 
 S(il And as cjianges follow 'I'inio — /^"".'/. //'//■••', --Vi. 
 
 86'2 Thou, that to human thought art nouiishuienl, 
 
 Like darkness to a living tiame - //. /. //. 4. 
 
 Sii'A 1 stood beside your dark and fiery youtii 
 Watching its hold and had cai'eer, as men 
 Wutcii nu-teors, l>ut it \anisheil not 
 
 .Sti4 Because lam a priest do you iielieve 
 
 Vour image, as the hunter some struck deer. 
 Follows me not whetlier I wake or sleej) ? 
 
 86.") I «ere a fool not less than if a i)aiither 
 Weic panic stricken hy tin.' antelope's eye. 
 If she escaj)cs me. 
 
 H6H I see as from a tower, the end of all 
 
 SH7 Consequence, to nu', 
 
 Is as the wind wl'.ich striki.-s the solid rock 
 Hut shakes it not. 
 
 868 She, who alone in this unnatural work, 
 Stands like (iod's angel ministered upon 
 liy fiends ; 
 
 86!) A word '! which those of this false world 
 
 Employ against each other, not themselves ; 
 As men wear daggers not for self-offence. 
 
 -Ctmi, I. i. 4!l. 
 
 -Cni,-;, I. li. II. 
 
 — Ci iiri, I. ii. s\). 
 —Cniri, II. ii. 147. 
 
 —Cniri, IV. iv. .")0. 
 
 —C>ii<-i, V. i. \± 
 
 -Cfiiri, V. i. rt9. 
 
97 
 
 H70 H.- shrinks from lir, r.^'ar.l likf iii.tuMur.s l.-af 
 Fr-.ni 111,. k.-<.n l.f.-atli of tli.- .sru-M..M iiurlli. 
 
 S7I 
 
 . , , , Al.iH I iMior Itov I 
 
 A wnH;k.r|,.v.,tc(l s.ainiin llm.s niiirlit i.niv " 
 I " Uii' (leaf sea. ' 
 
 **^ «l'i' within whom- si.my veins 
 
 ./oy ran, as I.I.kmI within a iivin-' fianii'. 
 
 ~Cnin\ V. ii. 114. 
 
 —Ctuii, \' . iv. 4'.'. 
 
 — /'rn,„. I. iri.H. 
 
 878 
 
 so the l<'Vfn;.'c 
 
 Of tlu; S.,|)r..n.o .nay su,.,.|. thro va.^u.l «ha.irs. 
 As raniy wi,..| thro.,^.h ih.^ al.aiHion.-.j .Mt,- 
 (n a faiirn |)ala<f. 
 
 •S74 A spirit s,.i/,.s inr an.) s|H,iks within : 
 It ti'ais IMC as lire t,.ars a lliiin.h'rclou.I. 
 
 87.', I see til.' .urse „n u.stiirrs ,ul,j an.l |.roiiii 
 
 Written as on a scroll. 
 
 «7« Pity the .self-despisinj; slaves of Heav.'n 
 
 .V.t nie, witliin wlio.se mind sits peace .serene 
 
 As li;,rjit in the SUM. throne.! : 
 
 ■ne, 
 
 /'niiii. I. -Ji.") 
 /'/•"//'. I. '2rt4. 
 
 - -I'n.iii. I. -JoS. 
 
 — I'n,ni. I. fJi), 
 
 ' ' ,,,, . , , , , '""I "s lean iloj;s piusno 
 
 Ihro uoo,l and lake some struck and .sol,l,i,„r f.^^ n 
 \\«' tia.k all thn.-s tint w.-p. and i.lced, and liv.-.' 
 
 "^ ftii'l tho" we can ohscure not 
 
 I IH' .^oul that hurns within, that we will ,lw.dl 
 Mfside ii, like a vain loud multitude 
 \ fxing the self content of wi.sest men : 
 
 S.il .See a di.senehanled nation 
 
 i*^|»iings like day from d. solation ; 
 
 I'l'i,,). I. ).-,4. 
 
 Pin HI. I. 4K4. 
 ~l'r,,m. I. Af^. 
 
 sso 
 
 I 
 
 SSI 
 882 
 SS3 
 
 'I'lif wise, the mild, the lofty, an<i the just. 
 
 Some hunted by foul lies from theii 'heairs home 
 
 As luKKled ounces cling to tlie driven hind : ~l'rn,n. I. 604. 
 
 And W(> l.ieathe, and sicken not. 
 'J lie atmosphere (if human thought : 
 
 As the hirds within tli" wind, 
 
 As the fish within the wave, 
 As the thoughts nf man's own mind 
 
 Float through all ahove the grave ; 
 \\ e make the.se our liipiid lair. 
 Voyaging cloud like and iinpent 
 ihro' the l,oundle.ss element : —Prom I 675 
 
SH4 Spirits I liow know _Vf lliis siiall Ix- '.' 
 
 {(J/torus.) lit tin- iiliiiosplicif we lucatiir, 
 
 As Ixiils ^lOW lt!<l when till' snowstorms tier 
 From Spring gatlioring up lu'iicalli. 
 
 HH5 Asia 1 will), wlicri my l>eiii'^ ovcillnvscd, 
 Wrrt likt; a golden dialici- to lirigiit wine 
 Whiili (ilse liad sunk into the thirsty dust. 
 
 S8tt But on t-acli leaf was stmnpcd, as the liluc licli 
 Of Hvfieinth tell Apollo's written grief, 
 () Follow, Follow ! 
 
 /'/'„/,. I. :«!». 
 
 — rrom. 1. Stty. 
 
 SS7 Ife taught to rule, as lift! directs the limits, 
 The tiMupost-winged ehariots of the ociNin, 
 
 SH8 We two will sink on the wide waves of ruin. 
 Kven as a \ulture and a snake outspent 
 Drop, twisted in inextriealile light. 
 Into a shoreless sea. 
 
 SHU And I shall gaze not on the deeds which makt 
 My mind ohseure with .soiiow , as edijjse 
 Darkens the sphere I guide ; 
 
 Prom. 11. i. i:{!t. 
 
 — I'rotii. II. iv. !»2. 
 
 — r,aiii. III. i. "I. 
 Prom. III. ii. 3;"). 
 
 M!M> And death shall he the last embrace of her 
 
 Wiio takes the life she gave, even as a motiier. 
 Folding her child, savs, " Leave me not again." 
 
 Prom. 111. ii. 10"). 
 
 SOI Thrones, altars, judgment-seats, and prisons ; wherein 
 
 And heside which hy wretched men were l)(jrne 
 
 Sceptres, tiaras, swords and chains, and tomes 
 
 Of reasoned wrong, glo/ed on by ignorance. 
 
 Were like thost; monstrous and barbarii' sha])cs. 
 
 The ghosts of a no more I'eniemberoil fame. 
 
 Which from tlu-ir unworn oiielisks, look forth 
 
 In triumph o'er the palaces and toml)s 
 
 Of tliose who witre their coiupiiTors ; mouldering round 
 
 Those imaged to the |)i'ide of kings and pi'iests, 
 
 A daik yet mighty faith, a power as wide 
 
 As is iUv world it wasted, and aie now 
 
 But :tn astowishnu'nt ; even so the tools 
 892 And eml)lems of its last captivity. 
 
 Amid the dwellings of the ]K'o|>led earth, 
 
 Stand, not o'erthrown but unregarded now. 
 
 — Prom. III. iv. 1(34. 
 H9'.i The pale stars are gone I 
 
 and they tlce 
 Beyond his blue dwelling. 
 As fawns Hee the leoi)ard. 
 
 M!>4 We j(iin the thiong 
 
 Of the dance and soTig 
 By the whiilw iiul of gladness blown along 
 
 As the llying-tish leap 
 
 From the Indian deep 
 Ami mix with the sea-birds, half asleep. 
 
 — Prom. IV. 1. 
 
 ■ Prom. IV. 8.S. 
 
!)f> 
 
 K!».'> 
 
 8<)(i 
 
 Aii.l wIkic two luriiiclM of a rivulet, 
 M<'tw....M tin. ..Jos.. moss \ iul.t iri\v.>\..n 
 
 ;IV.. ma.ir their pall. nfmrl.Mlv. like sister. 
 Ui.M part with si.u'lis that tl.eyn.av meet in .s„,i|,.s 
 I mniii;; their .lear .lisuiiinn to an isle 
 (>t Invelv K'rief. •, „,„„| of sweet sa.l thoughts; 
 
 I' mm. IV 
 
 A splar.-. whi.|h is as ,„any ihousan.l spheres 
 
 .^..li.l as .rystal. yet through all its mass 
 
 N..W. as through empty spaee, musie ami light • 
 
 mm;. 
 
 487 
 
 I'm,,,. l\\ '2:iS. 
 
 MM,. : 1 I,' '""' "^■'''' these 
 
 I le jagged alligator, and the might 
 
 < t t-arth-eoMvulsing l.eliemoth, whi.h oi,.,. 
 
 Hero moiiareh Leasts, au.l on the slimy shores 
 
 .\n<l \v«-.'(|. overgrown eontinents of rarth 
 
 Inrreased ami muliiplj,.,! like summer w.irms 
 
 uii un iihuiuloiu'd corpse, 
 
 /''■"///. I \ . ;j(),s. 
 
 8!)S 
 
 S0{» 
 
 <)IHI 
 
 1)01 
 
 r .w ...t thou sunk, with.lrawn. eovere.l, .Irunk up 
 Hy thirsty m.thing. as the l.raekish eup ' 
 
 Drained l.y a desert troop, a little .liop for all ; 
 
 ~l'r.,i„. W, ;{.-,o. 
 
 Man om- hariiKuiious soul of nianv a soul. 
 W hose nature is its own .livine elmtrol, ; 
 
 U hore all Ihir.gs flow to all. us rivers to the sea ; 
 
 — I'liini. W . 4(HI. 
 
 His will. . . 
 
 Is as a tempest-winged ship, whose helm 
 K„. ;"';■ .'•".'^•^-.''"••"'Ki' waves whieh <laro not overwhelm 
 Zoning Ides wil.le.t shores to own its sovereign swav. 
 
 — Prom. IV. 40t;. 
 
 As llie dissolving warmth of dawn mav fol.l 
 A lialt unfrozen dew-,lrop, green, and goM, 
 
 Thou art folded, thou art Ivin.' 
 In the light whieh is undving" 
 Uf thine own joy, and heaven's smile divine • 
 
 !l(t2 
 
 «03, 1)04 
 
 I, a most enamoured maiden, 
 
 . around thee move 
 
 '■iizing, an insatiate liride, 
 On thy form fioin every side 
 Like a .Maiia.l, round the lup, 
 U Inch Agave lifted up 
 In the weird Cadiiuean forest 
 
 Drinking from thy sense an.l sight 
 iieauty, majesty and might. 
 As a lover or ehanieleon 
 <irows like what it looks upon, 
 
 —Prom. IV. 4;n. 
 
 — /'row. IV. 407, 
 
 — Prom. IV. 481. 
 
100 
 
 riiotl, MiMili, wllii li pl/.('<l nil the lll^^'lilly Iviltli 
 
 With woinlcr, as it nnztn u|niii lln-c ; I'mii,. IV. .V2l, 
 
 •MMi Till- lluwiis . . . 
 
 007 
 <MIS 
 
 1)11) 
 
 •.Ml 
 
 !»l'2 
 0I.{ 
 
 ••14 
 
 •>ir> 
 <Mt; 
 
 WIk-ii llitavcn's lilitlic wjihIm liail unfnlijiil llii.iii. 
 
 Am mill)- laiii|).H inkiiiilli- a liiilijcii ^<-iii, 
 
 Slimir ^<lllililln to Htiucii, — Sni'*. P. I. <i.'{. 
 
 'riii'i'i- \va< a power in lliis swci-l |tla(r, 
 
 All V.\r ill this Kdcii : a ruling ^rari- 
 
 Wliicli to tin- tlovvi'is ilid tins waki'ii or lin-aiii. 
 
 Was as (Jod is to tin- starry sclifiiu'. 
 
 Tlir wati'i-ldoonis midor the liviih-t 
 Kill from the stalks on which tlu-y weir srt ; 
 And tlif ('(Idics droM' tlii'iii licri- and thrn- 
 As the winds did those of the ii|i|>er air. 
 
 >•'/'«. /'. II. 1. 
 
 -S. «v. /'. III. 4-2. 
 
 Tlio sa|i sliraiik to the root lliroiii;h every pore 
 
 ,\s Iduod to .1 heart tiiat will heat no more .s. //v. /', III. SS. 
 
 I hen t he e<d<l sleep 
 Crept, like l»li;ilil throiiLdi the ears of a thick field of 1 urn. 
 ( )"er the populous vessel. — \'lsi<,,i iil'^m. ,"itl. 
 
 it rent them in twain. 
 .\s a II I rends its hairiers of iiioiintainoiis era;; : 
 
 - Viliiill III Si II, III. 
 
 I.,ike a sister and hrother 
 riie child aixl the ocean still smile on each other, 
 
 — r/>/"i/ (//'.v. /(, if)7. 
 
 Othou 
 Who chaiiotest to their dark wiiiliA lied 
 The winged seeds where they lie t:old and low, 
 Kach like a corpse within its Ljrave. 0<ii ii> Wist IT. I. 
 
 Make me th\ Ivie. even as the forest is 
 
 o./i ii, ir. ^/ ir. V 
 
 !H7 
 
 ."^catte|•. as from an unextinguished hearth 
 .Ashes and sparks, mv words among mankind 1 
 
 — Oil. In Wisi \\\ V. 
 
 The s.iiiguine siiniise with his meteor eyes, 
 
 And his Imrning |iliinies outspread. 
 Leaps on the hack of my sailing rack. 
 
 When the morning star shine.s dead, 
 As on the jag of a mountain crag, 
 
 Which an eartlnpiake rocks and swings, 
 An eagle alit one moment may sit 
 
 In the light of its golden wings. — ('luinl, ,'{|. 
 
 palace and pyramid. 
 Temple and prison, to many a swarming million 
 Were, as.to mountain wolves their ragged eavi's. 
 
 JMM . . . hut o'er the populous solitude 
 Like one tierce cloud over a waste of waves 
 Hung Tyranny ; 
 
 -Ode In Lib. IIL 
 
101 
 
 921 
 
 92'J 
 
 1»2r) 
 1t2(i 
 
 !I27 
 1(28 
 
 J>30,i»;n 
 
 All.l, like linfuldod (I.)M(TS Lfhriitll the Sf;l, 
 
 Likr tip rn.iir.s (lioiiKlit .lark in tli.- infaiifs l.iaiii 
 hike aii^lit tlial jm wliiili wraps what is tu l.i-, 
 .,, ,;^':'"^ '''•''<'''•■'*« "''•'•'I'll lay \ril...| l.v ii„mv a vrin 
 Of I'aiiai. si,,!,,.; • O,/, /„/,,/,. IV. 
 
 one spirit vast 
 >\ itli lite ami love makes cjiaus ever lu-w 
 As Ath.ris .|..tli thr world witii tl.v drlij,/|,i ,•,.„,« 
 I hfii Ki.tiif was, ami from tli.v deep Imisoim fairest. 
 
 Like a W(.lfcul) from a Cadriinan Manad 
 Mm' dr.'w thr milk of gn-atiifss, _(>/, /„ /,,/,_ y^ ^ j, 
 
 (). Ilial the words wliicli mak.« tli.. thoughts obsrmc 
 
 troll, wlii.li tlic.v spring, as .louds of ^-limm.-riny .l.-w 
 hium a Willie lake Mot lii-avuii's l.lno portraiture. 
 
 —Oi/< In l.ih. Wl. 
 
 And |.owcr in thought l.u as tim tive within th.- s.-d ■■. 
 
 —Oil' tu L,l,. WII. 
 ('..me, Thrm, l.iit lead out of the iniiK.st cave 
 
 Of "hiii'h de.'p spirit, as the morning star 
 Jjeikons the Sun from the Koan wave, 
 
 ^^''^''""•- ' ~0,hl„ Lit'. Will. 
 
 For i.rophoeies when once thev get al.iv.a.l. 
 
 Like liars wh.. tell the truth to serve their ends. 
 
 Or hypocrites who. from assuming virtue 
 
 1)<> the sime acti(.ns that the virtuous dd. 
 
 Contrive their own tiiKilment. —<i:<l. Ti/r. \. l.Tj 
 
 She met me Stranger, upon Life's rough wav. 
 
 And lured me towards sweet Death ; as Xigh't l,v Dav 
 
 U inter l..v Spring, or Sorrow l.v swift Hope. 
 
 \\'M 
 
 9.S7 
 
 Led into light, life, peace 
 
 A killing air, which j.ierced like honey-dew 
 Into th(! core of my green heart. an<l I'ay 
 L'pon its leaves : until, as hair grown grey 
 O'er a young hrow. they hid its iinl.lown prime 
 *N itli ruins of unseasoiial.le time. 
 
 She hid me, as the Moon mav hide the night 
 Fr(.m its own darkness, until all was I. right 
 Between the Ifeaven and Karth of mv calm mind. 
 Ana, as a cloud charioted l.y the wind. 
 She led me to a eave in that wild place-. 
 And sat l.eside me with her downward face 
 Illuniiniiig my slumlier. like the Moon 
 Waxing and waning o'er Kndyiiiiou. 
 
 !ind the ilreaming dav 
 Was lifted l.y the thing that <lreamed I.elow 
 As smoke l.y fire. 
 
 — h'jiips. 7_>. 
 
 -h'j"'/>s. 2(1-J 
 
 ~h'/'i/><. -JST. 
 
 L'/jijjs. :m. 
 
 Ami as those married lights, which fnjni the K.wcrs 
 Of Heaven look f<.rth and f(.ld the wandoriiit; LdoI.e 
 
 In liquid sleej) and splendour, as a rol. 
 
 "« gl 
 
 And all their many- 
 
 mingled influence hend 
 
102 
 
 U'AH 
 
 If ciiniil. yv{ unlike, to one mwi ct «'iiil ; 
 
 Suyr, liii^ilif r(%'rrif«, with altfiimic sway 
 liiixfiri iiiv s|i||i'ic of Itciii^ tii;;lit aii<l ilay '. 
 
 alluring Kmii ami M<>iii 
 Will >MiiNlii|i tln'c with iiiicti!-c t>f r.iliii luciili 
 Ainl li^lits ami Hliailowx : in* llir star <it |)t',':tli 
 Ami JSlllli IS will ■.|ii|i|,ci| |i\ I liimr HiHtcis wild 
 Calli'il llii|ii ainl l''rui 
 
 riir ^'oliltiii l>as, wliii'h. oil I'ti'inal w Iiil's 
 
 Kvfii as a ^'linsl aliaiulniiiii).' a liiri'. 
 
 Mail lift th Kaitli a ii.i|isc —.-i 
 
 " Lravr iiir not s\ilil ami ilrcar ami rniiil'uitli'Hs, 
 As sili'iil lij^liliiiii;; Icavrs tlif starlf-s niyiit I " 
 
 Ami ;{i*-\ walls MHMilili I miiml. mi wliiili liiill Tiini 
 Kuc'iJH, liki- slow tii'f ii|)iin a Imaiy lu.iiiil : 
 
 Lifr, liki- a ilmiii' nf many ruluii'ii ylass. 
 Stains till- wliitc i-.nlianrr of Mti'inity 
 
 \\ III ISC HI lit sin i It's til li is I lark ami ni^^lil likr ryes 
 W'l'if as lh(! clt'iir and ever li\ in^; liiiinks 
 Ait III till- iiliMi'iiir fiiiiiilains wlii-nrr tlii'v lisi'. 
 Slmwin^ liiiw |Miir llii'V an- : 
 
 '1'Ih' wingi'd glmv 
 (hi l'liili|>|>i half uli.L'hli'd. 
 Liki' an ra;.'lr mi a iiiniiiontmy . 
 
 As ail i-a^lf fid with iiimniii>{ 
 
 Srmns tlir I'liiliat t li-d tfin|i<'>t s waiiiin;.', 
 
 \N'h('ii shf si'cks lirr anic han^ini.' 
 
 In till- tniMititain rcdar's haii', 
 
 And III'! Iiriiiid i'\|H'ct the rlan^'iii;; 
 
 Of her \\in;;s lhi(mj.'ii the wild air, 
 
 Silk witii f.iiiiiiic i-'i'i'i'diiin. sn 
 
 'I'll what III (irt'cic ifiiiaini-t h now 
 
 Hi'tui tis ; 
 
 1>46 'riiiirc has a ^rlumny vision haunted me. 
 
 It shakes me as the tempest shakes the sea. 
 Le,i\ in;; no liguie upon iiienioiy's ,i;la»s. 
 
 !M7 His iiild pale liinlis and pulseless arteries 
 Are like the tilires nf a elmid instinct 
 With lii^ht. and to the soul that i|uii'kens thcin 
 Are as tin; atoms of the nmuntiiin drift 
 To the winter w ind. 
 
 !US Kor thy sake cursed he the Imur 
 
 Kven as a father liy an evil child. 
 
 949 Hut recreant Austria loves thee as tin- ;(l'ave 
 Loves I'eslileiicCi 
 
 950 Kven as that moon 
 Ill-news itself 
 
 Muliiiiiii/. >U>ill we 111- not renewed. 
 
 •Ml) 
 941 
 94*2 
 •M.i 
 
 i»44 
 
 A'/'t/M. M.'i.'i. 
 
 /•.'/<//»«, :<77. 
 -/..». \.\III. 
 
 .\<li.„. .\\v. 
 
 — ,l'/ll//. li. 
 
 -.l./u,.. Lll. 
 
 CdlK'. I ''nil, 
 
 — It'll. .-.li 
 
 — //.//. Tii. 
 
 --//.//. I'JS 
 
 -//"'/. 14-J. 
 
 -//.//. 'IM. 
 
 -II'II. .•{!•_>. 
 
 -//.//. 347. 
 
I0.{ 
 
 M.M Tlio uliliMiicil ( russ >;liinm ml , . , 
 . . . uikI lliat fiitiil sign 
 
 Drinl Willi ilH l.cinis ih,. stimytli in Mo^Lrii li<':>rl'<. 
 As tin; hiiii ilriiikH till' ili'w. //(//. ."lOI. 
 
 I|V> 1 ' 
 
 WluTf 'I'liiimn' mill .\.Hn|iiis ^wallowtMl 
 
 I'i'isiu, iw the sand il...s ('.liuii, //,//, (jHT. 
 
 ''5.'{ they kiiiiw nut, till tin- ni^jlit ..t dciitli. 
 
 AsHiinHct, that stninnf vision, >cvcntli 
 Our inrniorv from itm-IC. anil iis fn.in ;ill 
 U'r sought and y<t wen- l.alHcd. _./„/,„„_ 127, 
 
 !>."i4 " Monih aftt r iiiuntli," I rird. ■• I.. I.car tliix load 
 
 And as a jade iiiKfd l»\ I lit' \vlii|i .md L'oad 
 
 ■''"•' 'if^'"" " .h,li;„, m\. 
 
 !»."»"» As liic ?,. \\ shadows of the pointed >,MaHs 
 Mark h^ eternal |ieriods, his |»an;.'H pass 
 SI. V, eve moving: ~.hil,n„. 4I«. 
 
 !»•>•! hut iiie, <i lio« Heart a Htraii;.'ei's tejir niiyht wear 
 
 As w.'.f-i .hops the sandy fountain stone, .hi/inii. 442. 
 
 !»'»7 Tho griiNo iH ya\vnin« . , . as its roof shall mver 
 My liiiilis with <lusl and worms iindei and over. 
 So let Ol.i.v 'Oil hide this ^rri,.f . . . -.//»//,/,/, .VMi. 
 
 it."»S But I iniayined, th.it 11 dn . '., dav 
 
 I .studied all the l)ealiiij,'s of his lieait 
 
 With zeal, as men study some si iilihoiM art 
 
 For their own L'ood, " . ./»//„,<, .ViH. 
 
 !•.■)!! As when dav hej^niis to tlii.ken 
 
 None knows a pii^eon from a viuw 
 So ;,'ood and had, sane ami mad. 
 The oppressor and the oppresseil : 
 
 All are damned. 
 
 -/'./., /;.//, ill. xxi. 
 
 !•«■»(» All thing's that I'eter .saw and felt 
 Had a peculiar aspect to iiiiii ; 
 And when they came within the I.elt 
 Of his own nature, seemed to melt, 
 Like cloud to cloud, into iiim, 
 
 9(11 And men of lenrninj^, si-icnce, wit, 
 ( 'oiisiilered him as yoa and I 
 Think of some rotten tree, .md sit 
 Louii;,'iiiK ami diniiij,' under it, 
 K\po.sed to the wide skv. 
 
 9n2 And he made .soiij,'s for all the land. 
 Sweet hoth to feel and understand. 
 
 As pipkins late to mountain cotter. 
 
 0().'J ?5ohii's translation of Kant's hook : 
 
 A vvorhl of wtu'ds, tail fotPtiiost, where 
 Kight-wrong-false true and foul and fair 
 Ah in a lottery wheel are shook. 
 
 /'<fii /,',//. IV. iii. 
 
 -/'-/', /trU. \y, xv. 
 
 — /'./'/■ /.'.//, \-. ,xii. 
 
 -J'rhr n.H, VI. xiii. 
 
104 
 
 !«»4 \V}R'ri wi- sliiill I.e as we „<) U,u"i;- arc 
 
 Like l,al.l.lii.K^.„.ssi,,s saff. wl.,7l„.ar '.lir war 
 
 Of wm.is. an,) siKh. l.ul treml.lo „ol ; _/.,//,. n, .)/. ^^ 104. 
 
 !M)-, As wat.-r ,|.u,.s a snonge, sn tl.o mo.,„|i.rl„ 
 
 Fills llir voi.l, l.ollow. universal air ./,,/,,,. ,,, .,/ ,. ._,-- 
 
 ;S I . ^\ ['" ':", 7^'-*l""« s.H.ptrv a swif, (Ia„M.- 
 !W>/ Ur 01, l.lMi.l Homer's l.oart a winL-.l tliouuh, 
 
 la joyous t'xpo,-tati..ii lav (ho l.out. " _. ||7/,./, \xxi\- 
 
 !M)S |{y Mocris and tlie Marroti.l lakes 
 
 Strewn with faint l.loon.s like l.ri.i'al rhan.l.e,' tiuo.s, 
 
 '**"• Hi- was so awfnl, vet 
 
 No l>eaiitifiil in niysterv an.l terroi-,' 
 (.'aiming me as tlie loveliness of heave,, 
 •Soothes the uiKiiiiet sea • r .„ ,• #. 
 
 •^'" As adders cast their skins 
 
 And ke..|. then- venom, so Kings often chan.ro ; 
 
 ""' , , 'Tis l.nt 
 
 I he anti-mas(|ne. an<l serves as discords .1.. 
 Ill sweetest music. 
 
 ~Ch,ts. I, I. JOfi 
 
 !l7-2 [It seems] now as the haser elements 
 
 Had mutinied against the golden su„ 
 Ihut knidles them t<. harmonv, and ,|uells 
 <r-i KfriL- ■','■ .^''-''^'-^'V-yi-'M nipine. The wil.i „,illi,.„ 
 
 Of l.ril , ■ '•'" ,* ''^S^""'- ^''^■>" = lik- as hun.o.ns 
 Uf the distemper-d l)odv that eonspi,,. 
 
 Against the spirit of life throned in the heart. 
 
 Chns. I. II. 14-, 
 "'■*,„, Tartlv-tis 
 
 Ihat our minds piece the vacant intervals 
 Ut his wild words with their own fashioniier 
 As in the imagery of summer ••louds. "" 
 
 .'..) Or eoals of the winter tire, idlers fin,l 
 
 1 he perh-ct shadows (.f their teeming thoughts : 
 
 — i'lKis. /, If. 4(j,-; 
 97(j And .,f this siutlthe car's creative rav 
 
 V\ rought all the husy phantoms that'were theiv 
 
 As the sun shapes the (douds : 'y.,, / -.,., 
 
 """ '{''e'-'' late Nvas one within wh..se suhtle hein,. 
 
 As light and wind within s.mie delicate cloud," 
 
 Ihat fades amid the l.hie noon's hurnin.-- skv 
 
 (»enius and death contended » •• 
 
 --Siinsii, I. 
 
 !»7S Two Hames that ea,'!. with .piivering ton-u.^ 
 Ueked its high domes, and overhead 
 Among those mighty towers and fanes 
 propped tire, as a volcano rains 
 Its .sulphurous ruin on the plains. -Murnvnu-. D. \\\. 
 
105 
 
 i>7i» 'I'lif pliuik wliiTfon tliiit Liulv satr 
 
 Was driv..,, tl.inugl, tlR. diiiMus, al.uut an.l alH.ut 
 
 As the tliistlf-l.rar.l on a wliirlwind sails -- 
 While the tI„o<I was tilling thosr huUou vales. 
 
 — MnrlmiKi's I). W'\. 
 
 I'SO lU- the false ,. ant Nvl,i,l, on their inn.,eent ii,,s 
 -Must hang 1,1,^ j,„j,„„ „„ ,,„ „,,^.„i„^, h\ouw\ 
 
 - 'I'll l.iiiil i '. \ 
 m\ Hewa.e, () Ma., f,,,- knowledge .nnst to thee 
 
 Like the givut Mood to Kgypt; eve.' he. ' ._ '/■„ //„ y;,, 
 
 M.S2 Let us laugh. an<l .nake (,iir iiii.th. 
 
 At till- shadows of the ea.tii, 
 
 As .logs hay the .nnunlight elo.ids _r,^ Mlsen,, \ | f. 
 
 itsa As su...set ti. the spheiwi moon 
 984 As twilight to the wester., stai". 
 
 Thou, heloved, a.t to .iie 
 
 98; 
 
 - 7V, .]fori/, 12. 
 
 m\ As winte,. to fai,' tiowe.s/uilo.igh so.„e he poison,. 
 
 So .Mo..a.ehy sne.wds to Fr..edo.n-s foi.son _.)/„,, „,,/„_ 
 
 As death to life. 
 
 <»S7 
 
 111. 
 
 .... . , , . "'"t '>iirid 
 
 ytUi-f a.1.1 glo,„ms inothe.s who had pla.ite.l 
 
 Like a gieeii isle •mid .Kthiopian s.in.l 
 
 A iiatio.i a. .lid .slaveries. 
 
 !»88 O fostei'-nmse [.r. Fln.enee) of ma.i's aha..do.,ed .do.v 
 Smee Athen.s its great n.oth.T, sunk in spk.mlou'r • 
 li.ou siKuIouest h„th tliat .nigh.v shap.. in storv 
 As oeea.. its w.eeke.i fanes, .seve.'e yet te.i<i;,' ;_ 
 
 J»89 As the suiuise to the night. 
 
 llo? . ""^1 ''"■ "'"■^'' ''■'"' '""the elolKhs, 
 9!»l As the eailh(juake"s fierv Hight, 
 Huiiiing ..lou.itaiii .solitudes, 
 
 Lvei'lasti.ig . . . hah. 
 
 He those hopes an<i fears on tliee __7.„ if^^i 
 
 }»!»•_' Alpheiis rusherl l)ehiiid. - 
 As an eagle puisui.ig 
 A dove to its .iiin 
 
 Down the strean.s of the elou.ly wind, -Ar<th 
 
 m-^ Ely.sian City whieh to ealin encjiantest 
 
 Tl.e n.utimu.s air ami sea : thev, .ou.id thee. ..ven 
 
 As sleep .-ound L..ve, a.e ^vn.nx -(J,l, to X„,,h.^ ,-4. 
 
 994 The A.ia.ehs of the Xo.th lea.j forth thei.' h-ion. 
 
 Like ehaos o er e.eatio.i, lu.e.ealinu. -l)ih fo Xn/,1. v, |;i7. 
 
 993 But, as .Syrin.x fled I'a... so night tlie^ day, 
 
 996 My fah.t spirit was sitting in the li.rht 
 Of thy looks, niv love ; "^ 
 
 Jt paiited for thee like the hind at noo.i 
 I- or tlie hrooks, mv love. 
 
 Or, .It. ];-). 
 
 -Fiiiiii Aniliic, 1. 
 
 
lOli 
 
 9<»H 
 10(H) 
 
 W7 As ii li/.fird witli tliu shade 
 Of a tiniil)ling k-af, 
 Tliou witli H(MTow art disniayed : 
 
 As tlie wood when leaves are shed, 
 As the night when sleep is lied, 
 As the heart when Joy is dead 
 I am left lone, alona. 
 
 As the fruit is tf) the tree 
 May their children ever he. 
 
 Then Hope appr.iachecl . . 
 
 And Fear withdrew, as nigiit when day 
 Deseends ii|)on the orient rav. 
 
 When, as summer hues tiie swallow, 
 Pleasure lures the iieart to follow -- 
 
 ](K)I 
 !(K>2 
 
 l(>f>3 
 )0()4 
 
 Sm,;,. Vol. IV.. p. 7s, 
 
 — Hememhrance, I. 
 Kliith. 31. 
 
 — Lore, .37. 
 -Lov(, 47. 
 
 1(1(16 
 
 1(1(17 
 
 when Power and I'leasure, 
 <!lor •. and science and securitv, 
 On Fi-ed(mi hung like fruit oii the green tree. — /Vo/. H,ll. 156. 
 
 Till, as a spirit iialf arisen 
 
 Shatters its charnel, it has rent 
 
 In the; rapture of its !nirth 
 
 'I'he thin and j)ainted garment of the earth, 
 
 ~-t'm,,. \'ol. IV. p. 10*2. 
 
 Its leaves which iiad outlived the frost, iheliiaw 
 
 Had hlighted, like a heart which hatred's eve 
 Can Idast not, hut which pity kills; ' Znrra. VI. 
 
 As music and splendour 
 Survive not the lamp and the lute, 
 
 'riie heart's echoes render 
 No .song when the spirit is mute ; — 
 
 —LiiK", Vol. i\-., p. 132. ii. 
 
 lOdN 
 KID!) 
 
 loio 
 
 Its passions will rock thee 
 .As the storms rock the ravens on high : 
 
 Mright leason \\ill mock thee 
 Like the sun from the wintry skv. 
 
 Fairer far tiian this fair Day, 
 Which, like thee to those in sorrow. 
 Conies to hid a sweet good-morrow 
 
 To the rough \ ear just awake 
 
 -/.;•»' S IV. 
 
 In it 
 
 s cradle on tlie lirake. 
 
 To J 
 
 "«' , 2. 
 
 1011 
 
 10 12 
 
 Like one heloved the scene had 1 
 
 To the dark water's hr'east, 
 Its every leaf and lineament 
 
 1 more than truth e.xprest 
 
 ent 
 
 Witl 
 
 Tl 
 
 le virtuous man. 
 
 Who, great in iiis humility, as King 
 Are little ni their grandeilr ; 
 
 -7'o ./mil , Rn-(,ll. 
 
 -V. M. III. I DO. 
 
101 
 
 ""■^ Thine the tribunal which Hiupusseth 
 
 The show of luinian justice. 
 As (iod surpasses man. 
 
 1014 
 
 These 
 
 From his laliiiiet 
 
 puppets of his sihcnes he nx.ves at will 
 Kven as the s aves hy force or faniine Wriv,.,, " 
 lieneatli a viil;;ar master, to perform 
 A task of coM and hnital .lru(lj;erv • 
 
 -V- '/ III. 223. 
 
 -V. M. V. 70. 
 
 iXJUJiLK SLMILhX 
 
 HoMKHIC. 
 
 101 T) . , 
 
 Infoh,softhe,reenserpen^f:::i:i;^|r,Sr' 
 Burn with the poi.son, an.! precipitates 
 I hrough n.^d.t a.Ml .lay. tempest, an.l calm, ainl rUnu 
 Mant c with diz/ymg anguish, Imm- hiind lliglit 
 )er the wide aery wilderness : thus .iriven 
 Hy the bright slia.low of that lovciv dream 
 Beneath the cold glare of tlu- d..solate nighi. 
 I hrough tangled swamps, an-l -Iccp precipitous dells 
 Mar ling with careless .step the m.lonlighl snake 
 
 1016 
 
 1017 
 
 He fled. 
 
 Ti ., , Kor, as fast \ cars How awa\ 
 
 The smooth hrmv gathers, and the' hair grous thin 
 And white, ami where irradiate ,Iewv eves 
 
 I Mght flowers departed, and the beautiful shade 
 
 nt the green groves, with all their mus winds 
 
 And musical motions. 
 
 Ihen 1 ke the forests of .ome pathless mountain, 
 U hich from remotest glens two warring winds 
 Involve ,„ h,e .vhich no, the loosened fountain 
 
 <»t I \ii catch from „u,. uniting minds 
 I he spark whi<h must consume them : — 
 
 —A/fi.sf. 227, 
 
 A/n.sf. ,-,.'?3. 
 
 — A. .!• r. n. 40. 
 
 1018 
 
 1019 
 
 All , , ,,, -'^ whirlpool.s draw 
 
 A I wreeks of Q.^an to their chasm, the svvav 
 ()t thy strong gemus, Laon, which foresaw " 
 I Ins hope, compels all .spirits to obey, _/, 
 
 .(• C. IV, ir.. 
 
 . c • I . "" '""''t'l' ('ves wen drawn 
 
 As famishe.l marni..rs thro" strange seas gone 
 
 .aze on a burning watch-fwer, bv the light 
 <>t those (hvine.st lineaments - ' 
 
 -L. .vC. V. 44. 
 
108 
 
 I02U 
 
 ,. , , "« 'IfMil llMVfS \Mlkc 
 
 Utului- Ur. wavr, in tlowors an.l IkmI.s wlii.li make 
 
 hose gm-n (ioplhs hoiuitiful wIm-m skies arc l.hif 
 I hi" tniiltititdc MO moveless did patiako 
 
 Sucli liviiij; eliaiige, 
 
 -L. .!• r. V. 5:$. 
 
 1021 
 
 .... ■ , , , , '■''* '" '''»■ sacred grove 
 
 V\ liie 1 shades the springs of .Ethiopian Nil,.. 
 
 I hat livnig tree, whi.^h, if the arrowv dov.- 
 
 Strike with her shadow, shrinks in fear awhile 
 
 But Its own kin.lred leaves rlasps while the sunbeams smilr • 
 
 And elings to them, when darkness mav dissever 
 
 I ho close caresses of all duller plants " 
 
 Which bloom on (he wide earth -thus we for.'ver 
 
 V\ ere linked, for love had nursed us in the haunts 
 
 Where Knowledge from its sctr.'t source inchants 
 
 ^ oung hearts with the fresh music of its sprin-in-r 
 
 hrc yet its gathered flood feeds human wants " "' 
 
 As the great Xile feeds Kgypt ; ,/,. ,, c. VI 4l» 41 
 
 10-_>2 
 
 "■"' ill! autumnal blossom 
 \Vliich s|)reads its shrunk leaves in the sunny air 
 After cold showers, like rainlxjws woven there. 
 Thus ill her lips au<l cheeks the vital spirit 
 .Mantle.l, and in her eves, an atmosphere 
 Of health aii<l hope ; / , 
 
 ('. VJ. .5 
 
 o;». 
 
 ly dews are wet, 
 
 1023 As in its sleej) .some odorous violet. 
 While yet its leaves with niglitly dt 
 Breathes in prophetic dreams of' day's uiuise 
 <)r, as ere Scythian frost in fear has met 
 Spring's messengers descending fi.im the skies 
 
 I he bu.ls foreknow their life-this hojie must i'vcr rise. 
 
 -/.. <t <\ \'ll. .ST. 
 
 1024 My spirit move.) upon the s(>a like wind 
 
 Which rouml some thyrny cape will lag and hover 
 
 llio it can wake the still cloud, ami uniiind 
 
 The strength of 'j'empest : /_ 
 
 c <: VII. 40. 
 
 1025 Yes, it is Hate, that shapeless fiemlly thing 
 
 Wiiich. wiieii the heart its snaky fohls intwim 
 Is wasted (juite, and when it doth repine 
 To gorge such hitter prey, on all beside 
 It turns with ninefold rage, as with its twine 
 \\ hen Amphisba-na some fair bird has tied. 
 Soon o'er the putrid mass he threats on evJrv 
 
 sid 
 A. 
 
 .I' ''. VIII, 21. 
 
 l(J2«j 
 
 ... '11x1 as .some most si-reiic 
 
 And lovely spot to a poor maniac's eve. 
 After long years, .some sweet and mo"viii.' scene 
 Of youthtiil hope returning siiddenly, 
 Quells his long madness-thus man shall remember thee. 
 
 -A. .(■ c. i.\. .m 
 
109 
 
 1027 
 1028 
 
 1029 
 
 Kacli of that rmiltituflf alone, and lost 
 To .sense of oulwanl tliin;,'s. one hope vet knew 
 As on a foani-j,'iit <;n<: some seaman tost. 
 Stares at the rising' ti.li>. or like the crew 
 Whilst ncnv the ship is spliitinj.' thro' an.l thro' 
 Kach, if the tramji of a far steed was heard, 
 Started from sick despair. 
 
 — A. .(• c. W. 10. 
 
 "P""i ll"' iiiiiles she smiled : 
 And with lier elo(|went ^.'estnres, and the hues 
 Ot her .jiiiik lips, even as a, weary child 
 W ins sleep from some fond nuiW with its .aivss 
 
 niilil 
 
 .She won them, tho" iinwillinu' Im'I- (.. hind 
 Near me anioiii' the snakes. 
 
 — A. <i '■. .\ll. 14, 15. 
 
 10.SO Two other l.ahes, deli-htfiil nioro 
 In my lost soul's ahandoiied iiij^hl, 
 'I'lian their own country's ships niav Ije 
 Sailing towards wrecked marineis.' 
 Who cling to tho rock of a wintry .sea. 
 
 1031 For puhiic hope grew pale and dim 
 In an altered time and tide, 
 
 An I in its wasting withered him, 
 As a summer Mower that hlows too soon 
 l)rooi)s in the smile of the waning mo(,ii. 
 When it scatters through an .\pril night 
 The frozen dews of wrinkling 1. light. '" 
 
 1032 Alas : the unquiet life did linule 
 
 From mine own heart througireverv vein, 
 Like a captive in dreams of liberty." 
 Who heats the walls of his stonv ."■ell 
 
 — A', -f- /A :VM. 
 
 — A'. ,{ //. (if<2. 
 
 A'. .1 //. l(i;«. 
 
 lOICJ As the ghost of Homer dings 
 
 Kound Scamander's wasting springs ; 
 
 1034 As divinest Shakespeare's mi^ht '"^ 
 Fills Avon and the world with light 
 Like omniscient power wliiili he 
 Imaged 'mid mortalitv ; 
 
 1035 .As the love from Petrarch's urn, 
 ^'et amid yon hills <loth hiirn. 
 
 A (luenchless lamp hy which the heart 
 Sees things unearthly : so thou art 
 Mighty spirit- so sli"all be 
 The City that did refuge thee. 
 
 l(»3(i As the Norway woodman (piells 
 In the dejith of pinv dells. 
 One light flame amid the brakes, 
 While the boundless forest shakes, 
 And its mighty trunks are torn 
 Hy the tire thus lowly born : 
 The spark beneath his feet is <lead. 
 He starts to sec the Hames it fed 
 Howling through the darkened skv 
 With a myriad tongue.? victoriously, 
 
 -h'inj. /,://.<,, 194. 
 
110 
 
 And sinkH down in fear : ho tlioii. 
 () 'ryiaiiiiy, Iteliolde-it now 
 Light antutid tiice, and tliou hcarest 
 The loud flames ascend, and fearost : 
 
 10.*{7 "Tis an awful thing 
 
 To touch such inisi.'iiinf as I now concuivu 
 So Mioii sit shiviM'ing on tiio dowy l)aiii\, 
 And try tlie chill stiuani with their feet : 
 How the delighted spiiit j)ants for j(jy I 
 
 HKW In the atniosj)here we breathe, 
 
 As huds grow red when tiu; snowstoi'nis ilee, 
 From spring gatiieriiig U|) heneath, 
 Whose mild wimls shake the eldijr hraiie, 
 And the wandering lierdsnien know 
 That the wliite tiioiTi soon will Mow : 
 VVisd(»in, iJustice, Love and Peace, 
 When they struggle to increase, 
 
 lO.SH Ai'e to us as soft winds he 
 
 To shepherd hoys, the propliecy 
 Which begins and ends in thee. 
 
 EiKj. Hills, -im. 
 
 onre in 
 
 -L'i'iii'i, 11. 
 
 i. 124. 
 
 — Prom. I. 7!)0. 
 
 1040 Look how the gusty sea of mist is breaking 
 In crimson foam, even at our feet I it lises 
 As Ocean at the en<.'liantment ot the moon 
 Round foodless men wreckeil on some oozy isle. 
 
 — Pruiii. II. iii. 4.'{. 
 
 1041 He sunk to the abyss? to the daik void ? 
 Aftolto. An eagle so caught in some bursting cloud 
 On Caucasus, his thunder-baHled wings 
 Entangled in the whirlwind, and his eyes 
 Which ga/ed on the unda/.zling sun, now l)linded 
 liy the white lightning, while the ponileioMs hail 
 Beats on his stiuggling form, whidi sinks at length 
 
 Prone, and the aerial ice clings over it. —l\-o)n. III. ii. 10. 
 
 1((42 The flowers (as an infant's awakening eyes 
 Smile on its mother, whose singing sweet 
 (Jan first lull, and at last must awaken it), 
 WHicn Heaven's blithe winds had unfolded them. 
 
 iShone smiling to heaven, 
 
 — .SV//V. /'. I. r)9. 
 
 1043 The hurricane came from the west, aiul ))assed on 
 By the |)ath of the gate of the eastern sun, 
 Ti'ansversely dividing tlie stream of the storm ; 
 As an ari'owy ser[)ent, pursuing the form 
 
 Of an elephant, bursts through the brakes of the waste. 
 
 — V I .lion of Sta, lOO. 
 
 1044 Then, as a wild swan, when sublimely winging 
 
 Its path athwart the thundei'-smoke of dawn, 
 Sinks iieadlong through the aerial golden light 
 On the heavy-sounding ])lain. 
 When the bolt has pierced its brain ; 
 
 My song, its pinions disarrayed of might. 
 Drooped ; — 
 
 -Odt to Lib. XIX. 
 
11 
 
 1U45 
 
 lUv sun (onus fort I., an.l niaiiv nM,iil,.s spawn- 
 
 He sets, aiKlPiuli ..i,|,rlii..,al iMsr.t tlirn 
 
 Js ^'atlicff.l mtu .l.'iitli Willi. )ut a (lawn 
 
 Au<\ tlic iinm.wtal stars awake a^aiii ; 
 
 So IS it ill the world of living nu-n : 
 
 A Kodlikc niin.l soars fortli. ni its (Ifli.rhi 
 
 Makn.j,' earth hart- an.l vilin- l.c.av.M.T an.! wh.n 
 
 T.,nv. Tt "i V?I'"" "'"* '1'Mim.Ml or si,ar...l its iid.t 
 Loave to ,(s kin.in.l lan.i.s tho .spirit's awfnl ni-i.t. 
 
 "—Adnn. X\I.\. 
 
 l<>4() Russia still hovers, as an .-aj,-!.. niiulit 
 
 JNithni a.l.,u.l. n.sir whi.ha kit.- ami crane 
 Han>;tanuk.,l in inuxtrieahk' light, 
 lo stoop up.)n the vii-tcn' ; 
 
 1047 From the smroun.ling hills, the Latteries l,Ia/.,.,| 
 Kneading th<-ni -lown with (ire an.l iron rain • ' 
 • . . till, like a tield of corn 
 Un.ler the hook of the swart si.kleinan 
 I he l.aii.l entrenched in moun.ls of Turkish dea.l 
 urevv weak an.l few. 
 
 /A//. 3(»7. 
 
 -/ff//. 3S(>. 
 
 "'■*^ A r .-, . , , . l^iki" one who finds 
 
 A fertile island in the harren sea. 
 
 Oni- mariner who has survive.l his mates 
 
 Alany a drear month in a great ship -so he 
 
 With soul sustaining songs, an.l sweet .lebate 
 
 in ancient lore, there fe.l his lonely being : 
 
 — Pritire Ath. II. i. <j 
 1049 Such was Zonoras ; an.l as .lavlight fin.ls 
 
 Oiu. amaranth glittering on the path of frost 
 
 \\ hen autumn nights have nippe.l all weak.-i' kinds. 
 
 Thus, hnnigl, his age. dark, c..hl, ami tempest-tost 
 
 Shone truth upon Z..n.n-as ; J/v;,,,, \y,^ „ .. , 
 
 lorO Twas the season wh<-n the Karth upsprinus 
 ^rom slumber, as a spher..,l aiiuers chil.l," 
 bhadowing its eyes with green an.l golden winas, 
 htands up betore its mother bright an.l mild ° 
 m whose soft voi.-e the air expectant seeiiis- 
 ho stood before the sun. which shone an.l smiled 
 Jo see it rise thus joyous from its . beams, 
 The fresh an.l ra.liant Earth. -rrinr, Ath II iii l 
 
 lOul 
 
 . **»<-'li seemed the jul>ilee 
 
 As when to greet some e.>n.pier<.r-s a.lvance 
 Imperial Ro...e jKmred forth her livi.H' sea 
 l^rom the senate-house, an.l f.,riim. and theatre 
 
 105: 
 
 And her feet, ever to the ceaseless song 
 
 Anrf^Min"";' ''""^'' "'"' :^-'^^-. '^"<1 I'inls, and bees 
 Ami falling dr.>ps. niove.l m a measure new 
 
 yt sweet as on the summer evening breeze 
 
 Up from the lake a shape ..f g.,l,len ^vw 
 
 Jietween two ro...ks, athwart the rising moon 
 
 Uanees i the win.I, where never ea-de flew • 
 
 — Triumph, 111. 
 
 — Triumph, ,367. 
 
112 
 
 H»r).'{ and slu', tli()ii>j;lit l>y tli<iuglit, 
 
 'I'lanipli'd its sparks into the du.st of rli'iitli ; 
 As (lay upon the thrt-sliold of the east 
 'I'li'ads out tilt.' lamp of iiiglit, until tlic luciith 
 Of (larkiR'ss I'c-illuiiiiiii' t-vni tlu^ least 
 Of lieaven's liviii)^ eyes 
 
 |(».">4 Anil as the preseiuc of that fairest planet, 
 Altho' unseen is felt l»y one w iio iiopes 
 That his day's |)ath may end as lie liej^an it, 
 In that star's smile, wiiose li>,(lit, . 
 
 Triumph, 3S7 
 
 10.')5 So knew I in that light's se\-ere excess 
 
 Tiie fuesence of that sliajie which on the slreani 
 
 Moved as I moved along the wilderness. 
 
 More dindy than a day-appearing dn-am, 
 
 The ghost of a foi'gottcni form of sleej) : 
 
 A light of heaven whose half cxtinguislieil lieani 
 
 Through the sick day in which \\^' wake to weep, 
 
 (ilimmers for ever sought, for e\er lost ; 
 
 So did that shape its oi)scui'e tenour keep 
 
 Beside my [)ath, as silent as a ghost ; — Tri'inifih. 416. 
 
 10,')t> The eaith was grey with piumtoms an<l the air 
 
 '>\'as peopled with dim forms, as when tiiere hovers 
 
 .\ Hock of vampire hats i)efoie the glare 
 
 Of the tropi(; sun, i)ringing, ere evening. 
 
 Strange night upon some Indian isle ; lluis were 
 
 riiantoms diffused around, — Triumph, 4S2. 
 
 l(tC)7 Hut he who gains hy l)ase and armed wrong. 
 Or guilty fraud, or liase c .mplianees. 
 May he despoiled, even as a stolen dress 
 Is stript from a convicted thief, and he 
 l^eft in till! nakedness of infamy — Frrvjm. Vul. 4. p. S. 
 
 11 •."•S As a poor hunted stag 
 
 A moment shudders on th(> fearful hrink 
 Of a swift stream- the cruel hounds pri'ss on 
 With deafening yell, the arrows glance and wound. 
 Fie plunges in ; so Orpheus, seized and torn 
 liy the sharp fangs of an insatiate grief, 
 Ma'na<l like waved his lyre in the i)right air, 
 And wildly shrieked 1 — Orph. \{\. 
 
 10r)9 It never slackens, and through every change 
 Wisdom and beauty and the power divine 
 Of mighty poes^' together dwell. 
 Mingling in sweet accord. As I have seen 
 A tierce south hlast tear through the darkened sky, 
 Driving ahjng a rack of winged clouds, 
 Which may not pause, hut ever hurry on 
 As their wihl shepherd wills them, while the stars. 
 Twinkling and dim, peej) from between the plumes. 
 
 1 <•()(• so that the world is bare. 
 
 As if a spectre wrapt in shape'ess terror 
 Amid a company of ladies fair 
 Should glide and glow, till it became a mirror 
 
 -Orph. 84. 
 
li:} 
 
 lot; I 
 
 Iw 1 e ,.f their sweet eyes, witli .-.11 its ern.r 
 Nh..ul<l he ahsorhe,!. till they to „„uhle grew 
 
 ~T<>iii>r nf Famivf, |(i. 
 -As the wcrM leaps l,ef,„.e an earthquakes ,lawn 
 ,^n(l nnpn.phetic of the <.on,inK liours ' 
 
 i !•.-■ niatin win.ls frnm the expande.I fi„wors 
 Skitter th..,rh„anle.li,uonse;an.l awake, 
 The earth, until the .lewysl.ep is shaken 
 I rmn every Inn,,, heart whieh it p.-ssesses 
 1 hrough seas an,l «ii„ls, .ities an.l wii.lerm- 
 
 Bsses, 
 
 I „. 1 , . • • • So <;herar.lis' hiill 
 
 laughed i„ the mirth „f its |„„| •, festivala, 
 
 Ktd'J Thus (I., ihe generations of the earth 
 
 <.o to the grave an.l issue from the woml, 
 ;^ iryiving still the impeiishahlo chan-'e 
 
 U hull the keen frostwm.l of (he wanint; vear 
 Mas seattered on the forest soil. an.M.eaVT 
 
 1. a.iing w ith loathsou,,. rottentieb.s the la n.I. 
 Ail germs of promise. ' 
 
 — Oiw r, l'2'A. 
 
 m:i Thus have 1 stood, thr,,- a wild waste of years 
 Mrugglmg with whirlwinds of mad agony, 
 
 -V- .»/. V. i. 
 
 With stul.l)..rn and unalterahhJ will' 
 Kven as a giant oak, whicd. heaven Vs tier.:, 
 Ha.l seathe.1 in the wilderness to stand 
 A monument of fadelos.s ruin there • 
 
 (I; 
 
 line 
 
 -'J. M. Vff. 'j.'-,4. 
 
 HUM.W TO Natihal. 
 
 ^*'^* . , serenelv now 
 
 And moveless, as a long-forg„iten h re 
 
 fMispended in the solitary <lonie 
 
 Of some tuysteri.m.s fane^. 
 
 I wait thy 'breath, (.'reat'l'arent 
 
 -A last. 41. 
 
 '^'•"w and men 
 
 (ro to their graves like flowers or creeping worms, ^Aln.t. 621. 
 
 ^^'^^^ I'f. 1 I, ,^^",t^''e" Heaven remained 
 Utterly hlack, the murky sha.les involve.l 
 An image, silent, (.'old, an.l motionleHs 
 As their own voiceless earth an.i vacant air. ^Alast. 669. 
 
 10.i7 Thou wc.^ as a lone star, who,e light did shine 
 
 lOriS ?Kn r ' f / •'"'■'^ '" "■•"^^^'•■^ nu.lnight roar ' 
 10t)8 Thou hast like to a rock-built refuge stood 
 
 Above the ),lind an.l battling multitude. _7'o Word.w. 1. 
 
 1069 Thus solemnized ami softened, death is mild 
 And terrorless as this aerenest night : 
 
 g —Sinnm. Ere. Churchy. 25. 
 
114 
 
 1(170 
 
 >(>71 
 1072 
 
 1073 
 
 1074 
 1075 
 
 1070 
 
 1077 
 
 1078 
 
 H«'r >{()ltlt;ii troaHcs 8ha<lu 
 'I'lio Ikisoiii's HtiiiriK-Ms pi'idc, 
 Twining like toiuliils of the paniHite 
 Arimnd a marble column 
 
 n. W. 44. 
 
 Hani hcartH an<l cold, like weights of icy stone 
 
 Which crushed and withered mine, — JJnl. L. it C. \'\. 
 
 for one tiien left this earth 
 Whose life was like a setting planet milil, 
 Which clothed th»!e in the radiance underiled 
 
 Of its departing glory 
 
 -/>m/. /.. .1 (,'. XII. 
 
 1080 
 
 1081 
 1082 
 
 1083 
 1084 
 
 1085 
 
 thou and I, 
 Sweet friend I can look from our tranquillity 
 Like lamps into the world's tempestuous night, 
 
 ~lJ>il. L. .1 C. XIV. 
 
 There was a woman, heautiful as morning. 
 
 Sitting licneath the rocks, upon the sand 
 
 Of the waste sea, fair as one flower adorning 
 
 An icy wildeitiess — — L. d- C. \, It). 
 
 In the world's youth his emj)ire was as tirm 
 
 As its f(juiidations— — /,, ■(• C. 1. 'M. 
 
 and they [m-. impulses] were dear to memory 
 Like tokens of the dead — L. d: C II. 2. 
 
 I will arise and waken 
 The multitude, and like a sulphurous hill. 
 Which on a sudden from its snows has shaken 
 The swoon of ages, it shall hurst and till 
 The world with cleansing fire : 
 
 As mine own shadow was that child to me, 
 
 — /.. .t- C. II. 14. 
 -L. A'C. 11. 24. 
 
 tiius suhtlued 
 Like evening shades that o'er the mountain creep, 
 We moved towards our home ; — L, <(• C. II. 49. 
 
 Each heart was theie a shield, and every tongue 
 
 Was as a sword of truth— —L. <6 ('. IV. 10. 
 
 And every hosoni thus is rapt and shook. 
 
 Like autunm's mvriad leaves in one swoln mountain hrook. 
 
 —L. dC. IV. 1.3. 
 
 And then my youth fell on me like a wind 
 Descending on still waters — 
 
 To thy voice their hearts have trembled 
 Like the thousand clouds which flow 
 With one wide wind as it tlies I 
 
 — L. .(• C. IV. 29. 
 
 —L. d- C. \. 
 
 and the stain 
 Of blood from mortal steel fell o'er the fields like rain 
 
 —L. d- C. VI. 6. 
 
]]-y 
 
 Hosi.lr „... tlR.„, HiiM as u Ki.u.t pine 
 
 /-• 'I '". \i. Id. 
 
 - '- •< r. VI. 12. 
 
 lOHN -,,, . , . , 
 
 Who liko i(. -I ) '''"' •'" "'"•' '""' K"o<l 
 
 '"'" A;:,';s;l^'y;;^"- "■"•"" "■' - ^-- -t- .-- " '^ ' '" '"' 
 ''"'^ - - ^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 i(i«n -^. ac. VII. I. 
 
 K. cl. other down her fair an.l listenin.. ,.|u.ok 
 J,i.st as the thonulas whioh fe.l the.n liLe •ulo,,.] 
 i'l-oni sunhriirlit ,^1]^.^ • ' "^*^ '' "*^'"' 
 
 voxc, h,t.,'„i,i,„,„„,, ,;■. SoL',;,t",:r:,;;"l"' "'-■•■ 
 
 „, ilie /tithiop there 
 
 iikrLti't^l™«i'Cs;"'' '■'■'• "■■■' """ ^-. „. ^ ,,, „ 
 
 lOflT 
 1098 
 
 Ye shallhe pure as .lew -/...,(;. vill. J8. 
 
 hince, like the ship which hears nie F l,..,-,. 1, 
 
 No thought ' * '"''^^ known 
 
 ■ ■ ° A. .f C. VIII. 25. 
 
 ■""fe=£;;^^-;'-rSE'-s:teil, 
 
 -/>• <^ c. X. 16. 
 
 1 100 Some .shrouded in their lone and ,roI,l„n i • 
 
 As if not dead, but shiniSi ""' g .'" ''"""' 
 Like forms whieh sculptors carve, 'thl'Se to agonv. 
 
 — /-.'ct'C. A. 23. 
 
I*i 
 
 1101 'I'luit tnuiistioiis fiiitli wliiTovvitli ili(»\ iiiliil iiiaiikiii<l. 
 Ki'll, like li nliaft liiohcil liy tlii> Itowiiian's <ti'i)I', 
 On tlifii own licailH : — /,. ,c ' '. \. '2H. 
 
 1 Ki'J She trfmhlcil lik«' oni- aMpen pale 
 
 Ainon^ the j^looiny piiKi.H of a Xorwe^jiaii viilr 
 
 A. ,1 ('. \\\. W. 
 
 1103 The warm K-ars Imrsf in spite of faitli ami fiar, 
 Kroni many a In-mulon'^ eye. lail like 8oft dcus 
 W liidi fwd spiin^''s cfirlifMt lnuls, imnj,' ^jfttln-itd tlii-if, 
 Frozon l>v <loiil>t. — ^ L. ,i- C. Ml. I (. 
 
 1 104 I was clammy roM like flay. 
 
 1 lO.'t l"'onl wrlf-conti-mpl, wiiicli ilrown.s in hiu'cih 
 ^'oiitli's staili^'lit smili', and makt-s its t^ars 
 First like liot ;,'all. tiien dry for ever I 
 
 1106 Many tlii-n svepi , not tears hut j^all 
 
 Within their hearts, like droi)s which fall 
 \\'astini4 the fountain stotu' awav. 
 
 1107 
 
 my hopes were once like tire 
 
 llON Mis motions, like the winds, were free, 
 \\'hi<h hend the itri^dit j^'rass yrac .'ully. 
 Then fade away in circlets faint : 
 
 1100 Vet o'er ids talk, and looks, and ;nien, 
 'rem|)orini^ their lo\'eline.ss too keen, 
 I'ast woi- its shadow l)ackward threw. 
 Till like an exhalation, spread 
 From flowers half drunk with evening; dew. 
 They (lid liecome infectious : 
 
 1110 And soon his deep and Hunny hair, 
 In this alone less heautifnl. 
 
 Like gi-ass in tomlis j^rew wild and I'are. 
 
 1 1 1 1 His lireath was like inconstant flame. 
 As eagerly it went and came ; 
 
 1112 Like tl<nvers. which on each other close 
 Their langui<l leaves when daylight's gone. 
 We lay 
 
 111.3 Mut Ilia [sv. life] it seemed already free, 
 Like the shadow of tire surrounding ine 1 
 
 — A' .(• If. .'{itH. 
 A'. .1- //. 17!». 
 
 — A'. .( //. 7'JI. 
 
 — A'. ,(■ //. 704. 
 
 - A'. .(• //. :•.».->. 
 
 — A'. .1 //. s(i:{. 
 
 -A'. .1 II. v_>l. 
 
 — A'. .(■ //. H.S4. 
 
 — A' .!■ //. •)7"). 
 A'. .»• //. |0:{7. 
 
 1114 and they fed 
 
 From the same Howers of thought, until each mind 
 Like springs which mingle in one Hood beeame, 
 
 -l{. <L' //. 1-287. 
 
 HIT) Kvery little living nerve 
 
 That fiom hittei- words did swerve 
 Kound the tortured lips and brow, 
 Are like napless leaflets now- 
 Frozen upon December's bough 
 
 -Eil'J. Hill.-:, 40. 
 
IIT 
 
 Ill»! An.l thr si. klf I.. Ilir HWoiil 
 
 l.it's iin. Iiiin^'f.l, thuiiKli maii.v ii |..r.l, 
 l.ikf a weed u hosi' Hlimlf is I'loisnii, 
 OviTjirMNvs this ifyiMiiH fiiison, 
 
 1117 I niic'ly kill 111.. I.,„|y. will, I, |,^■H,■|•^.•^< 
 
 i-ikc .1 stiorif,' pnison, the soul within Mi\ |.MW,.r, 
 
 -KiKj. Hilts, -JOS. 
 
 '''/„■,. I. 1. 111. 
 Ills Sn \\|i,.,i I uakr my iiiouil s.-.-iiis |i,,iii,| Hr.' ; 
 
 C'li,-!, \\. ii, |;ui. 
 1 I lit M V l.,ii.,'.„. shuuhl lik.. a k.iif.. t.Mi- mil ||„. sffivt 
 
 U liirh rankers my hcariV .•.„■,. ; -('.„.;, ||I. ,. i.-,^. 
 
 "'-" Ma\ it 1... 
 
 A hiilroiis likfiiPHM nf h.-rsclf, that a« 
 Kroiii a ili.stnriin^' iiiirn.f , she iiiav soc 
 Ifff iina),'e iiiixcil with what slu- I'liost al>li..is. 
 Niiiilidg iipiin |„.|. finiii her lairsiiig l.ifast. -t',,,,-;, \\ , j. | j,-, 
 
 1121 I am as universal as tiie li>,'ht ; 
 
 ll'J-' Free as th(. earth surr(.umlii,g"air. as lirm 
 
 112.1 Asth.-w„rl,l\s..entre. -( '.„<■;, IV. iv. »,s. 
 
 IIlM What area th.iiisan<l lives? A |i,irri(i(le 
 
 ila.l trampled them like dust : r,,/,/. V. li. |m7. 
 
 112". The IV.pe is s 111. IK.t In he moved or helit 
 He h.oked as ealni an.l keen as is the entwine 
 \\ iiieh tortures and whieh kills, .•xempt itself 
 l-rom au;ilit that it infli.ts ; —Cnici, V. iv I 
 
 1 12(1 A pilot asleep on the howling sea 
 Leaped up from the de.k in ai,'.)iiy, 
 
 An.l die.l as mad as the wil.l waves he 
 
 1 127 Wl-.m th.,ii .li.lst from her l.osom, like a .l.ui.l 
 
 <)t gh.ry. arise, a spirit of keen joy ! ~/>ro,„. I. |.-,7. 
 
 - /'/•'.//,. I. <J5. 
 
 1128 J{|ood like new wine l)uhhles vvithii 
 
 I : 
 
 -/'mill. I. ,"i7.'». 
 
 1129 An. like the vap ,iirs when the sun sinks down 
 (.atherint,' ai,'ain in drops upon the pines, 
 And tremulous as thev. in the deep iiight 
 M.v hemg was e.mdeiised : -J'ron,. \\. j. «;{. 
 
 •'3" _ Sueh the state 
 
 Of the earth's primal spirits heneath his (v. Sat.uns] swav 
 
 As the ealm |.)y of flowers an.l living leaves 
 
 Mcfore the wind .)r sun has witliere.l them 
 
 And semi-vital worms: -Proin. II. iv. .11. 
 
 1131 Yet if thou wilt, as 'tis the destiny 
 
 Of trodden worms to writhe till thev are dead, 
 
 Put forth thy might ' -/Vo,„. II[. i. n;, 
 
 113'-' .. „ . tome 
 
 Shall they [sr. human shapes) l.eeome like sister antelopes 
 
 By one fair dam -/V,.,«. III. iii. o„. 
 
"^•%,., ,, liatf, .iis.lai,,, or four, 
 
 Ao more ins.Til.od, as o'er tl.c gate uf lidl. 
 All hope ahiiii.lon yv who oiilor liero ; " _ />,■,;,„. i 1 1. j v. WA 
 
 im A .lark yet migl.ty faitli, a po« er as « i.le 
 
 As ,s tl.e worl.l it M-aste,], _/Vo... Uf. ,.. ,71. 
 
 1135 A Lady, tlie wonder of lier kind 
 
 Whose form was upl.orne l.y a lovelv mind 
 \ h.eh, .l.Iatmg, had moulded her n'nen and motion 
 Mke a sea-flower unfoldeii l.eneatii the cuvaii \, „.-. /•. ij. .-, 
 
 113(1 lier child 
 
 Is vet sMdIing, ami playing, and mm'n.urinu : so sinile.l 
 
 I lie false iti'i'u lit. fl.,. ..i '~ ... . 
 
 — I i--i(ii> 0/ S. 1(J.'). 
 
 I lie false deep ere the stor 
 
 ni. 
 
 1 137 I 
 
 1 138 r Oh : lift n.e as a wave, a leaf, a eloml I 
 
 1 140 Ka<h heart was as a hell (.f storms. 
 1141 
 
 0'/' '" ir. ir. IV. 
 
 Athens diviner vet 
 <deanied with its erest of eohimns. on t he will 
 Uf mail, as on a mount of diainond, set ; —0,/,'/u Ui, y 
 
 1142 Toml) of Arminius ! render uj) thy (h'a<l, 
 
 Till like a standard from a watch-tower's stall' 
 His soul may stream over the tyrant's head, 
 
 -Odv to i.;i,, XIV. 
 
 **'*^ c. n r. ., , . "'"1 this Kingly paunch 
 
 fe^ells like a sad l.efore a favouring l.roeze, ~<K,I. Ti/r . I. i. 3. 
 
 ^''** „ , , and these 
 
 IJ.eotiai. eheeks, like Kgypt's pvramid 
 {Jsov with less toil were their foundations laid) 
 .>nstain the cone of my uiitronhled hrain 
 I hat point, the emhlein of a pointless nothin-r 
 
 1145 We -are we not formed, as notes of music are 
 I'or one another, though dissimilar. 
 
 114«> Iniagiiiatioii ! which from earth and skv 
 And from iho depths of human phantasy, 
 As horn a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills 
 J he universe with glorious heams, 
 
 1 147 Her tcuich was as eleetiie poison, 
 
 1148 H.it now thy youngest, dearest one has perished 
 I he nursling of thy widowhood who .rr^w 
 
 Like a pale flower l,y some sad maidcMi cherished, 
 And fed with true love tears, instead of dew ; 
 
 1149 Hee on the silken fringe of hi.s faint eyes. 
 Like dew ujion a sleeping flower, tlieie lies 
 
 A tear some dream has hnisened from his brain. 
 
 '^■''/- T,/,: I. i. ,i. 
 /:'////( V. 14-_>. 
 
 ■ A'/y/z/v. 1()4. 
 
 —A>/n„. VI. 
 —.h/n„. X. 
 
119 
 
 1 !.)(> Midst others of less note came oiw, frail Form, 
 A ))luuit()m among men ; oompanionless 
 As the last eh)!!!! of an expiring storm 
 Whose tiiiinder is its knell ; —.1-/,))/ XXXl 
 
 1 l.")l Kings are like stars-thoy rise and set, tliey liavc 
 
 I he worship of the world, hut no repose. " ~~J/p//. 195. 
 
 1 1-VJ Time has found ye light as foam. —//»//. 442. 
 
 1 lo.'i And the quick spring like weeds out of the dea.l. 
 
 — D((itli (if Xa/i, 24. 
 1154 Through the hlack l.ars in the tempestuous air 
 
 saw, like weeds on a wrecked palace gro\viri<' 
 Long tangled h.cks thing wildly fortli and tlowi'ng 
 
 —./ii/ian, 223. 
 
 "■'■* tliough his li))s did seem 
 
 Like reeds which (piiver in impetuous floods ; 
 
 — I'riitrc Al/t. I. 63. 
 ll")6 Hut we yet stand 
 
 In a lone land, 
 Like tombs to mark tlie memory 
 Of holies and fears, 
 
 I l.'iT Vet now despair itself is mild. 
 
 Even as the winds and water.s arc ; 
 
 1 158 "tis to work and have such pay 
 
 As just keeps life from dav to dav 
 In your limbs as in a cell ' 
 
 II ri!) lilood is nn tlie grass like drw. 
 
 IKiO VVhat if English toil and lilood 
 
 Was poured forth even as a Hood ? 
 
 11(51 Stand ye calm and resolute, 
 Like a forest close and mute, 
 
 1 "5^ he wiio was 
 
 Like the sjiadow in the glass 
 (Jf the second. 
 
 1103 He had as much imagination 
 As a pint-pot ; — 
 
 1164 Vnr language was in Peter's iiaiid 
 Like clay, 
 
 I 16") Is it my genius like the moon 
 
 Sets those wiio stand her face inspecting 
 
 1166 Lik(! a crazed bell-chinie, out of tune? 
 
 1167 The language of a land which now is free 
 
 And winged with thoughts of truth and maiestv 
 Hits round tiie tyrant's .sceptre like a chiud'. ' 
 
 - Littn- I,, M. (1. |7(i. 
 
 — Lines, II. 
 
 — St(tir.(t.-i )iirir Xa/tf( i. 
 
 ~M(,d-, XL. 
 yrnsh. XLVH. 
 
 — Mn.sk- , LX. 
 
 Mask, LXXIX. 
 
 ~-/*ro/. l>H.r li. 13. 
 
 -~l\tn- II. IV. viii. 
 
 — /V, ,- //. V. XV. 
 
 ~r^hr H. VI. X. 
 
120 
 
 — Witch, .Win. 
 
 Wltr/i, LXJ. 
 
 '•6'' till men should live and move 
 
 Hai'mouioua as the saci'ed stars ahovu. 
 
 "^'^ two lover.s linked innocently 
 
 In their loose loeks which over both did creep 
 Like ivy from one stem ; — 
 
 3 170 And I wander and wane like the weary moon, 
 
 ~ Fra(jm. uf Drama, 4. 
 
 1 171 He was as is the sun in his fieice y(nith 
 
 1172 As terrible and lovely as a tempest ; -Frmjui. of Drama, r,7. 
 
 J 173 And ^vccps like a soft eloud in Apiil's hoscjui 
 LTpon the sleeping eyelids of the plant 
 
 ~Fni,ii,i. of hrmna, IS8. 
 
 il74 But I whom thoughts whieh must remain untold 
 
 Had kept as wakeful as tiie stars that gem 
 
 The cone of night. v . ,• , , .,, 
 
 = — / nil III Jill , lil , 
 
 1175 And o'er what seemed tiie head a I'loud-Iike crape 
 
 Was bent '/> • i ,., 
 
 — 1 riuiii}ih, yi. 
 
 J 17H Till like two clouds into one vale impelled 
 
 That shake the mountains when their liglitniugs min^de 
 
 And die in ram— the tiery hand which ludd 
 
 'i'heir natures, .snaps— while the siiock still mav tin<rle 
 
 — I rill III fill, lo"). 
 
 ^'"" ,, \ .' till like a will,,w, 
 
 Wk-'V tau' hair swept the hosom of the stream 
 
 1 178 And as a shut lily sti'icken hy the wand 
 Of dewy morning's vital alchemy, 
 I rose ; 
 
 ' ' '^ „. , and others made 
 
 Circles around it, like the clouds that swim 
 Round the higii moon in a hrigiiL sea of air ; 
 
 1 ISO For deaf as is a sea. which wrath makes hoary, 
 
 The world can hear not the sweet notes that move 
 
 Ihe sphere whose light is melody to lovers - ~Tnnui,,h. 477. 
 
 ^'^^^ ,„ ,, , . aixl long before the dav 
 
 \Vas ohl, the joy which waked like heax-cn's glance 
 The sleepers in the ol)liviouK valley, died ; - Trium/ih, .-),S7. 
 
 1 1S2 Those marble shaiies then seemed to (juiver. 
 And »heii' fair limbs to float in motion, 
 Like weeds unfolding in the ocean. ' — J/.'v Drmm. XXI. 
 
 1 183 My heart is (|uivering like a tlanie ; 
 
 1184 As morning dew that in the sunbeam dies 
 1 am dissolved in these consuming ecstasies. 
 
 118") And thy tears u|)on my head 
 Burn like points of fnjV.en lead. 
 
 J 1S6 (Hasp me till our hearts be grown 
 Like two shadows into one ; 
 
 — Tiiuiii/)/i, ,']tJ4. 
 
 — 'J'riumpli, 401. 
 
 — Triiiiii/ifi, 4,-,3. 
 
 - CoiLst. III. 
 
 — To .I//.S07/, VIII. 
 
 — f'o .]fi,ytri/, X. 
 
121 
 
 1 187 Her sons are as stunes in the way. 
 
 1188 An army, wliioli liherticide and prey 
 Makes as a two-edged sword to all wiio wi<dd 
 
 1 189 As dew lieneatli the wind of nioi'ning, 
 1 190 Aa the sea which whirlwinds waken, 
 
 Is my heart wiien thine is neai'. 
 
 1191 Tlieir caresses were like the ehatl' 
 111 the tempest, 
 
 1 192 One sung of thee who left the tale untohi, 
 
 J.ike the false dawns which j)erish in the bursting 
 1193 Like em]»ty eup^ of wrought and thedal .'ohl. 
 
 — l.iiit-i, II. 
 
 — SoltHl't oil ElKJ. 
 
 — Sophia, IV. 
 — /iiifnifa({i>n. 
 
 \Vhich mock tlie lips with air. when the\- are thirsting 
 
 — Frnjin. Vol. 4, p. 19. 
 
 1194 .\nd from its head as from one hodv giow, 
 As glass out of a watery rock, 
 Hairs which are vipers. 
 
 -Mfdiisa, IV. 
 
 119;> And so tiiey grew together like iwo flowers 
 
 Upon one stem, which tiie same lieanis and showers 
 
 Lull or awaken in their purple prime. 
 
 Whi-'h the same haiul will uatlier the same cliiiie 
 
 .Shake with de.'ay -fioni, U,. 
 
 1196 But thou art as a i)lanet, sphered aliovc : 
 
 1197 That witliered woman, grey and widte and brown 
 Aloie like a trunk hy lichens overgrown 
 
 Than anything whiJii once could have l.eeii human. 
 
 1198 In my own heart I -^aw as in a irjass 
 The hearts of other.-, 
 
 1 199 In whom io, c e\cr made 
 
 Health like a iieap of embers soon to fade. 
 
 I'JOO So that as if a frozen torrent 
 
 The iilood was cui'dicd in its current ; 
 
 1'2(H Like a herbless plain, for the i:entli" rain 
 I gas|), I faint, till they wake'again. 
 
 r_'02 Wlien you die, tlie silent .\Io(,n 
 
 III her interlunai- swoon 
 
 Is not saildcr in iiet- cell 
 
 Than dcsertcil Ariel. 
 
 When you live again on eartii, 
 1203 Like an unseen star of birth, 
 
 Ariel guides you o'er the sea 
 
 Of life from vour nativity. 
 
 Florif, 2(5. 
 Fionl, ,")t5. 
 
 - -Ho^l^\ 
 
 -To E>nilia. 
 
 — Lore, 24. 
 
 - Masir, I. 
 
 And now, alas, the jioor sprite is 
 Im])ri.soned for some fault of his 
 1204 In a body like a grave— 
 
 With a Guitar, 2.3. 
 
122 
 
 I'iO;") Tlieii liki- a useless and outworn machine 
 Hots, perishes and passes. 
 
 1206 ^ Man like these passive things 
 Thy will unconsciously fiilfiHeth : 
 
 1207 Like theirs, his age of endless peace, 
 Which time is fast maturing. 
 
 Will swiftly, surely come : 
 
 -(J. .\f. I. 155. 
 
 V- ■'/. III. 233. 
 
 HuMAx TO Human. 
 
 208 
 
 201> 
 
 IJIO 
 
 My powers revived within me, and I went 
 
 As one whom winds waft o'er the Lending grass, 
 
 Ihrough many a vale of that l.road continent 
 
 — A. .(• ('. IV. ;«. 
 
 I stood, as drifted on some cataract 
 
 By irresistible streams, some wretch might stiive 
 
 VV ho hears its fateful roar : _/,. ,,■ C VI H 
 
 For with strong speech I tore the veil that iiid 
 Natuie, an<I Truth, and Liberty, and Love^ 
 As one who from some mountain's pyramid 
 I oints to the unrisen sun. 
 
 1211 
 
 1212 
 
 12i;i 
 
 I am as one lost in a midnight wood. 
 Who dares not ask some harmless passenger 
 I he path across the wilderness, lest he 
 As my thoughts are, should be a nnirderer. 
 
 Till, like n\w in slumber bound. 
 
 Borne to the ocean, I Hoat down, around 
 
 Into a sea profound, of ever-spreading sound 
 
 . ., all my being 
 
 Like hnn whom the Numidian s^eps did thaw 
 Into a dew with poi.son, is dissolved 
 
 -/.. <t-C. IX. 7. 
 
 -Cf»'';, II. ii. f)3. 
 
 Pnvn. II. V. 82. 
 
 -Pro„i. III. i. .39. 
 
 1214 
 
 „.. And then as one 
 
 U hose sleeping face is stricken by the sun 
 \\ ith light like a harsh voice, wh'ich bids him rise 
 
 Ohiir. 38. 
 
 Hlma\ to Animal (oh RKyKu^-i:). 
 
 '-''',., ,, , , 'f'^^fnigHty Spirits now return, 
 Like birds ot calm, from the world's raging sea. 
 
 /- .f C. I. 58. 
 
 '''^"' fear with lust 
 
 Strange fellowship through mutual hate had tied 
 wi • i. ^V '''"'"^ serpents 1 angled in the dust, 
 Which on the paths of men their mingling poison thrust. 
 
 ~L. a- c. IT. 4. 
 
1217 
 
 128 
 
 Cvtliiiii tlu'ii 
 
 A. .I' ('. 1\-. -it). 
 
 and tlimiigh the pjit|,.s <,f iiicii 
 \N .11 pass, as tl.e (.|,ann..<l l.ir.l that Iiannts tlu- ....luufs dcu 
 
 I- -I''. 11. 4(). 
 1-218 Thirst raged within n,e, like a s(„r,,in,rs „e,st 
 
 Built in rn> ontrails : A. .(■ r. 1 IF. Jl. 
 
 1219 The tyrant'.s guards resjstai co yet maintain : 
 tearless and tieive. and iuird as l..v,sls ,,f hh.ud, 
 
 1220 Those sanguine shives. 
 
 Like ral.i.l snakes, that sting .some gentle < hiid 
 
 U ho hnngs thcni food, m !„.„ winter fal.se and fair 
 
 .^-lures them forth witii its cold smih-s, so wild 
 
 I hey rage among the camp : „/^ ,,. ^ . ■y- ^j 
 
 1221 But he (sr. the seeptred wretch) 
 
 Glared on me as a toothless snake might glare 
 
 A. <!• ('. V. 2."). 
 
 1222 Sorrow and shame, to .see with their own kind 
 Our human l.rethren mix, like Leasts of hl,.„d 
 
 I o mutual ruin aimed— ^j ,,. ^^ ^-j ,- 
 
 1223 And impotent their tongues thev lolle.l into the air 
 i^laccid and foamy, like a mad dog's han>diur 
 
 - L. <»■ C. VI. Hi, 17. 
 
 l''2<i r ■ , . 
 
 ^ ., ,. , -'IS ii friend whose smile 
 
 Like light and rest at morn an.l even is sought, 
 
 lliat wild bird was to me, / ,. (- yjj j^ 
 
 1225 
 
 ^ ., , obediently thev .ame. 
 
 Like .sheep whom from the fold il,c .shepherd brings 
 
 lo the stall, red with blo(Ml : / tC \ " 
 
 I. "jo? r -1 1 '""' •^^^'"''" 
 
 ' Like wolves and s(.r])ents. to their mutual wars 
 
 btrange true(>, / ^^_ c \ ~ 
 
 1228 All night, the lean hya-iias their sad case 
 Like starving infants wailed 
 
 1229 
 
 — A. .!■ C. X. U-,. 
 
 - ., , '"-^t'e ! See! thev fawn 
 
 Like dogs, and they wdl sleep with luxurv sp,.nt. 
 V\ hen those detested hearts their iron fangs hav.' rent I 
 
 A. dC. \. .S7. 
 
 ^^^^ TV, '""' ^''"' ''" '"^^"'■'' fi-ar possest, 
 
 Ihey raged like homeless beasts whom burning woods invest 
 
 A. ,(■ ('. X. 4l». 
 
 ]231 So she seoarge.l forth the maniac iuultitude 
 
 lo rear this pyramid t(.ttering i,nd slow 
 1 ague-stricken, foodless, like lean lu-rds pursued 
 liy gad-flies, they have i)iled the heath, and gums, and wood 
 
 -A. <{• C. X. 42. 
 
124 
 
 >-•*'- uacli girl hy the liol ;itm()S|)lieru 
 
 Of liis l)Iiii(l agony, like a scoipion stung 
 IJy Ills own rage upon liis liuining hior 
 Of (.•iicling coals of tire ; 
 
 -A. .t' C. XI. 8. 
 — ir .(• If. 032. 
 
 -/i". .1- //. 11, S3. 
 
 12.33 VVhon, liki- twin vultuios, llicy liung foi'iling 
 On t'ach heart's wound, 
 
 1234 I looked, and knew tliat he was dead, 
 And fell, as the eagle on the plain 
 Fulls when life desert-s hci' brain, 
 
 12,35 Those who alone thy trtwers hehold 
 Quiveiing through aerial gold 
 
 VN'ould imagine not they were 
 
 Sepuk'hies, where hiunan forms 
 
 Like |)ollution-nourish<;d worms 
 
 To the corpse of greatness cling, 
 
 Murdered, and now moiddering : /v/*/. /////«, 142. 
 
 1236 And we are left, as scorpions ringed with fire.- Ce/c;/, 11. ii. 7U. 
 
 I'-^'i" ^ I know two dull, tierce outlaws 
 
 Who think man's spii'it as a worm's, 
 
 1238 What: can the everlasting elements 
 Feel witii a worm, like man ? 
 
 1-39 ^^ Heaven, rain upon lier head 
 
 The blistering drops of the Marcmms dew, 
 Till she lie speckled like a toad ; 
 
 (\nri, III. i. 233. 
 —Ccnr:. III. ii. 2. 
 
 ('mri, IV. i. 130. 
 
 1240 Cntil the subject of a tyrant's will 
 Became, woi'se fate, the alijcct of his own. 
 
 Which spurred him, like an outspent hor.se, to death. 
 
 rr,„ii. 111. iv. 139. 
 
 1241 Ami the sharks and the dog-fish their grave-clothes unboun.l 
 And were glutted like dews with ihis manna laiiu'd down 
 Fr(,m (iod on their wilderness. __|7,/o« o/'^Vrt, 50. 
 
 1242 Chameleons feed on light and aii' ; 
 
 Poet's food is love and fame ; 
 If in this wide world of care 
 
 I'oets could but find thfc .same 
 With as little toil as they, 
 
 Would they ever change their hue 
 
 As the light chameleons do, 
 Suiting it to every ray 
 Twenty tiuu's a day ":'' 
 
 1243 Foets are on this cohl eaith, 
 As ehanieleons might be. 
 Hidden from their early biith 
 In a cave beneath the sea, 
 
 ^244 (1,1 antelope 
 
 In the suspended impulse of its lightness 
 Were less letherially light. 
 
 — Hrhniidilon. 1. 
 
 — Exhuitntiun, 10. 
 Epipsi. 75. 
 
 ! 
 
l'24r) And tnwaifls flic loadstar nf my one (h-siic 
 I flitted, like a diz/y moth, 
 
 124(5 Then as a hunted deer that cindd n(»t tlee. 
 
 I tui'iied upon my thouj.dits. and stood at l)ay, 
 W'onndeil and weak and pantinj,', 
 
 1247 My muse has lost hei wings, 
 
 Of like a dyinij swan who soars and sings, 
 I should desci'ihe vou in hetoic stvle, 
 
 Epi/ts. 219. 
 "E/ii/is. 272. 
 ( 'fllir, Ejujx. S4. 
 
 1248 \()t so the eagle, who likt; thee could scale 
 124!l Heaven, and could nouiish in tlu^ sini's domain 
 
 Her mighty youth with morning, tloth complain. 
 
 Soat'ing and scfeaming round hci' empty nest 
 
 As Alhion \\ails for ihcc. Aihrn. WIJ, 
 
 I2')(» A paidlikc s|)irit beautiful and swift 
 
 -A'lou. .WXIl. 
 
 12.")1 And like a lieatcn hound trcmldc thou shall as now. 
 
 Ad,„i. .\.\.\VI1. 
 
 1252 In the great morning of the world, 
 '{'he Spirit of (iod unfurled 
 The Flag of Freedom o\i'r (haos. 
 
 And all its handed anarchs lied, 
 Like vultures frightened fiom Imaus, 
 
 Before an earthtiuake's treiid. 
 
 12.53 Nor at thy bidding less cxultingly 
 
 'i'han birds lejoicing in the golden day, 
 The Anarchies of .Vfrica unleash 
 Their tem))est\\ingcd cities of the sea. 
 
 1254 And the inheritors of the earth, like beasts 
 When eartlupiake is unleashed, with idiot feai- 
 ( 'ower in their dens 
 
 1255 The vultures and the dogs, your pensioners tame, 
 Are overgorged ; but, like oj>pressors. still 
 ■Phev crave the relic of Dest ruction's feast. 
 
 - Hill. 4»j. 
 
 -11(11. 297. 
 
 //<//. 356. 
 
 JI<!I. 421 
 
 12r)t) F»epulse is on the waters 1 
 
 They own no more the tlninder-beariug banner 
 Of Mahmud : but like hounds of a base bieed, 
 (iorge from a stranger's liami, and rend their master. 
 
 Ihll. 460. 
 They [v. viiltui-es| 
 
 Stoojjed through the sulphurous battle-smoke, and |ierclied 
 Kach on the weltering carcase that we loved 
 1257, 125S Like its ill angel or its damned sonl, —lltll. 51". 
 
 1259 Theiireeks 
 
 Are as a brood of lions in the net 
 f^iund which the kingly hunters of the earth 
 Star 1 smilinir. 
 
 1260 And as a jade urged by the whip and goad 
 To drag life on, 
 
 -Hdl. 931. 
 Julinn, 301. 
 
 
12G 
 
 U liK-h, liko a sfrpent th.,u onvon.HneHt 
 Ah mi Inpayment of the waimtli it l,;nt ? 
 
 —Julian, a98. 
 
 I2(J2 KvoM tl.e instinctive worn, on wiml, uc t.va.l 
 
 I urns tho >t wo„,„I „„t, tlien ujth n.ustra '• I.ei.l 
 
 S.nksn. tl.e ,lu.stan.l.nth.s liken./.. '"^''- '"-"'../.,„,, 4,2. 
 
 12ii:{ Mon of Kngland, heirs of (;i„ry 
 
 Kise like (.ions aftei' sluniljoV 
 
 In unvan.juishahle number, -Ma.k, XX.WII.. XXXVIII. 
 
 12(J4 There are mincing women, niewinu. 
 Uke cats, who amaiil mi.scir 
 Of their own virtue, 
 
 I2fir> Each pursues what seem.s most fair 
 
 Muimg l,ke moles, through min.l. ami there 
 ftcooj) palace caverns vast, 
 
 I2«(i A toad-like lump of limb and feature, 
 
 1267 And so liis soul would not be gav 
 But moaned within him, like a t'ii'wn 
 Moaiung within a cave, 
 
 1268 And the wood-gods in a crew 
 ame, bhthe as in the olive copses lhi..k 
 
 t-^icad.e are, drunk with the noon-dav dew 
 
 12(39 
 
 riv f ,, , , '''^*' " «e.\less bee 
 
 lastu.g all l.los.«oms, and conlined to none 
 
 -Pehr B. III. viii. 
 
 -/'et>r li. III. .x.xiii. 
 — Pthr li. IV. xvi. 
 
 — fMer li. VI. xx.x. 
 
 — WitA'h, VIII. 
 
 Witch, LXVIII. 
 (Vuts-. /. II. 102. 
 
 H.M g n, h,« gu den prison from the window 
 O the .p.een s bower over the public wav, 
 Blasphemes with a bird's mind : 
 
 1271 Tiie slave of thine own slaves who tear like curs 
 ll.e fugifve, an.l flee from the pursuer/ -Cuu.. I. II. 123. 
 
 1272 To which the eagle spirits of the free 
 Like eaglet.s floating in th^ heaven of time, 
 
 Ihiough palaces and temples thunder-proof -Vha.. 1. IV 51 
 
 1273 , , 
 
 ... , , out as soon 
 
 As they had touche<l the worhl with living flame 
 
 I'led ba.k hke eagles to their native noon.^ -TrUnn.K 129. 
 
 Bend 
 
 ukle ; they recede, and 
 
 nen, ,ng w.thin each other^s atn.osphere 
 Kindle mvisi il»-__...>,i .,., <i 1 ' 
 
 now 
 
 e invisibly -and as they </l 
 
 Lik ^,,^ 
 
 Oft to their bright d 
 
 ow 
 
 e moths by "light attracted and repelled 
 
 1275 Amid tl 
 
 He hid himself 
 
 ignt destruction come and go, 
 e mountains like a hunted beast 
 
 — Triumph, 149. 
 -Martnijhi, XIII, 
 
127 
 
 1276 Rulers wlio iioither see iiitr fuel iioi' know 
 
 Hut Iffcli-likf to tliuir faititiug louiitiy fling, 
 
 l'277 Ah from an aiiccstial oak 
 
 Two finiity ravens souiul their clarion 
 \'ell l)y yell and eroak liy erouk 
 When they scent the noon-day snu)kf 
 
 Of fresh human cariion : - " 
 
 l'2~b As two gihhering night-ljirds flit 
 
 From their l)owers of deadly yew 
 Through the night to frighten it. 
 Wiien the moon is in a fit, 
 
 And t)ie stars are none or few : — 
 
 1279 As a shark and dog-lisli wait 
 
 Under an Atlantic isle, 
 For the negro-ship, whose freight 
 Is the theme of their debate. 
 
 Wrinkling their red gills the while- 
 Are ye, two vultures sick for hattle, 
 
 1280 As the birds at thunder's warning 
 Is my heart when thine is near it. 
 
 1281 Her form was like a snake's— wrinkled and loose 
 And withered. 
 
 1282 Like a blooddiound well-beaten, 
 The bridegroom stands, 
 
 1283 The fair hand that wounded it. 
 Seeking, like a panting hare, 
 Refuge in the lyii.x's lair, 
 
 '-S^ and soon the priests arrived, 
 
 And finding death their penitent had shrived, 
 Returned like ravens from a corpse whereon 
 A vulture had just feasted to tiie bone. 
 
 -Sullll'/, 1. 
 
 -Similes, Vol, 4. p. 0. 
 
 — Siphia. 
 
 — Frayin. 
 
 -Fiujitin, l\' . 
 
 — Lore, etc. 
 —iHiur. 191. 
 
 1285 The mind, whicii like a worm whose life may share 
 A portion of tlie unapproachalde 
 
 Marks your creation's ii.se. To Burou. 
 
 1286 custom's force has made 
 
 His nature as the nature of a land). ~(j. M, \'\\\, ■>-, . 
 
 Human Bkintj.s oh ATTHinrxEs to Pkusomfied Austh.vctions 
 
 (SpIHITS, HlIAFlvS, KTC.) 
 
 1-87 Nature's most secret steps 
 
 He like his shadow has pursued, 
 
 1288 A Form most like the imagined habitant 
 Of silver exhalations spiung from dawn, 
 By winds which feed on sunrise woven, 
 
 -Alast, 81. 
 
 — A. <(• r. V. 44. 
 
128 
 
 1'2.H9 A liquid (^lenuMit, whereon 
 
 Our Spirits, like delighti-d tilings 
 Tliftt Wfilk the air on Hiihtle wings. 
 Floated and mingled far away. 
 Mid the warm winds of the sunnv .lav. 
 
 — /.'. <f- //. %.1. 
 
 Natitral Piikno.mkna to Xatikai,. 
 
 He wamlered on 
 12!tf) Till vast Aornos seen from I'etra's sleen 
 Hung o'er the low hori/on like a cloud : 
 
 ri!>l Spirit of Nature ! thou 
 
 Imperishal>le as this glorious seene, 
 Here is thy titling teini)le. 
 
 Its home 
 1292 'riie voiceless lightning in these soliiudfs 
 Keeps innoci-ntly. and like vapour hroods 
 Over the snow. 
 
 129.'{ For, from the eneounter of tiiose wondrou-; f(M.>s, 
 A vapour like the sea's suspended spiav 
 Hung gatheied : " _ 
 
 1'_'94 A l)oat of rare device, whicii has no sail 
 
 l!ut its own curved prow of thin moonstone. 
 VVrought like a weh of texture tine and frail. 
 To catch those gentlest winds 
 
 12I*:. This vital worl.l, this home of happv spirits 
 W as as a dungeon to my hlasted kind, 
 
 12!»() The islands and the mountains in thi- day, 
 Like clrmds reposed afar, 
 
 — Ahi^i. 230. 
 D. If. I, St). 
 
 M„nl. /{. 1.3(5. 
 
 -A. .(• r.'i. 11. 
 
 -A. <(• C. I. 23. 
 
 A. .(• r. II. 6. 
 
 1297 
 
 -/.. .(• ('. III. I.-). 
 a whirlwind keen a.s frost — L. ,(• C, Hf. -26. 
 
 1298 I led him forth from that which now might seem 
 
 A gorgeous grave ; _/, ^. (^ y ofi, 
 
 12!I9 To see like some vast island from the ui-eaii. 
 The Altar of the Federation rear 
 Its pile in the nndst : _ /^ ,{. (■ y 4y_ 
 
 1300 Then : "Away ! away '." she cried, and stretched her sword 
 As 'twere a scourge over the courser's head, —/.. ,{• (', VI. 21. 
 
 that spacious cell 
 
 1301 Like an upaithric temple wide and high. 
 Whose aery dome is inaccessible. 
 
 A. .«• r. VII. 12. 
 
 and on such bright floor did stand 
 
 1302 Columns, and shapes like statues, —A. ,{• C. VII. 13. 
 
 1303 The misery of a madness slow and creeping, 
 
 1304 Which made the earth seem fire, the sea .seem air, 
 
 — /.. d- C. VII. 15. 
 
 
:i.i 
 
 ! 
 
 Ami I l..T;inic ill lasf cvcii us ,\ slwulc, 
 
 l.,.>- -r m'""!"'' ''.'I'""' "" «l'i'lk til" winds lliiV.. pirv.Ml, 
 
 l.{t>,> I ill It |„. tliiii as air; / , ^ ■ v 1 1 ...• 
 
 ,..,,,. ^ , . . , , 'I'l'itlKT still iIh' iMViia.ls.aiii.-, 
 
 I.JIK. .V.'kmu t(. .|ii..,i<|i III,. aK,,Mv nt 111,, llaiiic, 
 
 \N liicli ragiMJ likf poison tlin.iiKli tlu,-ir Imrstiiii: v.. ins : 
 
 /.. .t <'. X. •_•!. 
 
 l.So; .St..a.l.v .iml swift, wlin.- tlio Mavs rnll.-l lik,. innuntauis 
 U itliiii tlir vast laviiif, wlios,. litts (lid pour 
 lunniltiioiis lioo.ls tVniii tliHr fn tliousand tuimtains 
 
 I lie tllUlld.T nt whose rait iMiplift i||,r |-,,ar 
 
 Mad., the air sweep in whirlwinds fn„n th.< shore, 
 I.J<»S (.aim as a shade, the l.oat ot' that fair rliild 
 
 '"'"""'^•'•^ "^"'' /.. ..-r. Ml,;;.,. 
 
 i:^'>!l And in the mi. 1st. afar, ..ven like a >phere 
 
 Mini;; in one hollow skv, did theiv aiipear 
 
 i'he Tempi., of th.. Spirit : on the s.,imd 
 
 .•no . , , """■'' ""■"•■'■• 'li''"i Miei an.l more near 
 
 l-iiu I Ik., th.. switt moon this -lorious earth around, 
 
 ' '"■ '•''■'"""■'I '""'t approaeh..d. and thi.tv its haveii found. 
 
 - A. .1- '■ Ml. ^1. 
 I.'IM O'er whiih 1 he .•oliimned \\<,od did f,aine 
 A roofless tempte, like the fan.. 
 Where. ..ir new creeds conld faith .)h|ain, 
 Man s early race one,, knelt henealh 
 J he o\-erliaii;,dim deitv. 
 
 - /.'. .(• //. Kit. 
 
 — /'. .1 //. Ts'.l. 
 
 -/;. ■!■ /A Ids::. 
 
 /-'".'/• /////-, II" 
 
 131'i The n..xt Spriu- shows |..av..s pal., and ratv 
 Milt Ilk., flowers delicate .iiid fair 
 On its rent lioiii,dis 
 
 l.'il.S And w..(.ds like i)raii.hin,L,' .•hiysolite, 
 
 i.'iU .Save M here many a palace ^rate 
 
 With green seji-flowcrs overgrown 
 Like a m./k .if ocean's .iw n. 
 Top|)lcs o'er th.. atiand.iiie.i s..a 
 As th.. tiil.'s change sullenly. 
 
 I.'U,') Oh, thou l)right win.. 
 
 Tould I helieve thou wert th..ir mingle,] I.Io.kI, 
 
 I hen woul.i 1 taste the.' lik.. a sacrament -C. ww, I. iij. 77. 
 
 ''^'" Thou k no west 
 
 I his cell .s.'eins like a kiml of para.lise 
 After our fath..r's presence. 
 
 l."<17 Brother, lie down with me upon the rack. 
 
 It soon will he as soft as any grav.. 
 
 ^"^^^ and mighlv realm.s 
 
 Moat by my feet, like .sea-u[)ro(jte(l isles, 
 
 1319 Mighty fleets were .strewn like chart' 
 
 y 
 
 —Cnri, y. iii, 1(1. 
 
 — Ciiici, V. iii. 48. 
 
 — I'rom. I. 61-2. 
 
 — I'rnm. I. 71(1. 
 
130 
 
 \'A-2'i Hfticcfurlli till- ticMs (if liciivfii retlcctiiijj; mim 
 
 W'liicli ai'f (iiy I'l'iiliii, will Iiimnc, iiiistiiiiicil willi IiIuchI, 
 
 Hciiriitll (lie ll|>lifllli;; uiflils, JiUi- jilailis of I III II 
 
 SwiiyciMiy t III' MiimiiM'i' air, —/'rum. III. ii. IS. 
 
 l.'fJI Hi'liold till' Nficiils iiiiiItT tlif ^'iccii sea, 
 
 'l"li"ir vviivi'iiug limits lioino on ilu- wimllikc slicaiii, 
 
 /',»„,. III. ii. 14. 
 
 I.S2J 'I'ln^ (l»!\v mists of my siiiilrHS sU'op sluvll float 
 1 .'{JM 
 
 Umliw llir stais likt! Iialiii 
 
 /'roni. III. iii. 10(». 
 
 IMlM 
 1 'AH, 
 
 \:v2i 
 
 \:iiH 
 
 i:<2!» 
 
 1332 
 1333 
 
 \:i:u 
 I33r> 
 
 1 33() 
 
 MV.il 
 133S 
 
 Till- iniii;,'!' of a tompic, l)uill altovo, 
 
 Uistiiicl witli (•((liimii, arch, and aicliitravc, 
 
 Ami palm likf capital — I'lmn. III. iii. I(>l. 
 
 and in ♦Ik; deep tlicro lay 
 Those lovi'ly forms imaged as in a sky ; — /'rum. III. iv. 82. 
 
 I see a cliariot like that thinnest hoat, 
 In which the mother of the mcjiiths is home 
 |{y (^hhin;; ni;^'ht into her western cave, 
 VVheu siie iipspi in^^.s from intt'iluiiar dreams, 
 ()"or which is cuivimI an orhliku canopy 
 Of gentle darkness, and the lulls and woods 
 Distinctly seen throiigii that dusk airy veil, 
 Regard like sha])es in an enchanted glass ; — /'ram. IV. 2(»G. 
 
 \ spliero, which is as many thousand spheres, 
 Soliil as crystal, 
 
 Until each t'raglike tuwei. 
 
 My Hoa-like forests 
 
 Anil it o|)(!ned its fan-like leaves to the light 
 
 And the wand-like lily 
 
 And the sinuous paths of lawn and of moss, 
 
 -/'rum. IV. 23S. 
 
 ~~/'rum. IV. 344. 
 
 — /'rum. IV. 347. 
 
 — SV/,... /'. I. 3. 
 
 — 5e/iv. /'.I. 33. 
 
 ^\'^'re all paved with daisies and delicate hells 
 
 As t'l! if as the fabulous asphodels, — Sen'<. /'. I. 4!(. 
 
 Tiie juivering vapnur.s of dim noon-tide, 
 NVIiieh like a sea o'er the warm earth glide, — .?»•/«. /'. I. flo. 
 
 And agarics, and fungi, with mildew and mould, 
 Starti'd like mist fiom the wet ground cold ; 
 
 — Am.v. /'. III. (J2. 
 
 Their moss rotted otl'thcm, tlake hy ilake, 
 
 Till the thick stalk stuck like a murderer's stake, 
 
 Where rags of loose ilesh yet tremhle on high, 
 Infecting the winds that wander hy. 
 
 And at its outlet, flags huge as stakes 
 Dammed it up 
 
 -Seii.s. I'. III. 6ti. 
 
 ~Sem. /'. III. 72. 
 
 And when lightning is loosed, like a deluge from heaven, 
 
 She sees the hlack trunks of the water-spouts spin 
 
 And bend as if Heaven was ruining in, — Vis. of Sea, 4. 
 
W li.le an mrll,,„ak.. ... splint..,,,,, i.n , ,, ,'•,,, „y ,,■,„. 'M 
 
 i;n<. (),..• .i.M.k is i.mHt u|. i,„,„,i„. w,.t,.,siM.i,.«, 
 
 "" ""•'"'^'-<'til.t.,k.sm I'm. n/-.s',„, ;r, 
 
 I'll, n . *'"' '^'•'■•■"iiii,!;,' M,is(, 
 
 '•I»l H..twe,.„ ....ua,, ,„,! hravt-n, lik.. , ,„..,. ,v„. past. 
 
 r/.v. i>/'s,fi, 10.-,. 
 
 ^ K.. .•uhu..,,s ._i,„| walls. ,|i,| .s„,.n,u,„| u,,.! .s„Mtui„ 
 JI.-.o„„..,Ul...t..,.,p..si: it.vnt tl,..,„,ntvv,m., 
 •Vs . .HM ,v„,is „s .a,.-i,.,s ,.f ,..u„„ta„„M.s .nu' .■ 
 
 J.<4t '^''^•■'•''•'l'>'^tMt,tsfall. u,, ,!,,. wl,,,lwi,,,la,vcLt: 
 
 - r/.v, n/Srii, lf|7. 
 
 1:M.-, <;ii.losgli,n,m.,.i„,- „■(•,• ,i,y tl,.,v,.-lik.- tin,,,'. 
 
 l.S4(i When I wi,h..„ the ,o„t in „,.v win,l.lM,ilt tont. 
 nil tli.Mai,,, ,.|v<.,.s, laki-,s, andsnis, 
 Like 8t,wp.s ot ti.o sky fallen tl,n,' „,„ „„ hiH, 
 Aiv uaeh paved with the niM.xi aii.l tlK^sel. 
 
 i:Ul From cape to eape, will, a h.i.lge-like shape, 
 
 VMS Sii„l,ea„,-p,-oof I ha„";r liki' a ,ouf, 
 ilic miii,,itains its .■.ilunms l,e. 
 
 l.'U!) And elond-like „i()i,,itaii,s 
 
 -Cliiihl. 47, 
 
 ■l.U) L,ke ,.,..ks wh,rh ti,e lifts out „f the Mat deen 
 Arose m .saced Jtaly, ' ' 
 
 v., ... Wi"' petticoats streuiiiiiiif 
 
 Sttea,n„,y like— like— like ** 
 
 Anythii,.,'. 
 
 /'urf/anax. ( )h no 
 
 \'i'-o /i"V!''"'," ^t'^'-''^'''! "f'"! A.imi.ars ship 
 ...2 ,-l,kethe ,anrm-ofaeo,..,,,e,.i,,.|H,st ' 
 l.{5.{ Or uate,;.tall f,.,„. a .li//.y pVe.:i,,ice 
 '^cattoie 1 upon the wind. 
 
 — ( 'full'/, ,■>.">. 
 
 -Cum/, ().'{. 
 -~(X/i' to I Ah. IV. 
 
 —Odt 1 1, I, ill. IX. 
 
 
 i.,-. T , to \vho,n this world ,)f life 
 
 J.W4 Is a.s a gai'de,, ravaged 
 
 l.Soo When it wouM seek in Hespe,-s setting spl,e,-e 
 A radiant death, a fierv sep,ileh,e 
 As if ,t wei'e a lamp <jf\.a,thly llai'ne. 
 
 1356 It would have followed, tho" the grave between 
 \awned hke a gulph whose spectres are « usee, / 
 
 1357 It is an isle under Ionian .skies 
 Beautiful as a wreck of I'aiadise 
 
 —'i:^. Ti,r. U. 95. 
 
 -/i>/>s. 1S(). 
 
 -Fpi/js. 222. 
 -Epip-s. 230. 
 ~Epi)>8. 422. 
 
VV2 
 
 1,3.')S Ami level with the living winds, whicli How 
 Like waves above the living waves l)el()w. 
 
 l.Sr)9 A veil f(tr our seelusion, close as night, 
 
 LStlO Of life which flows like a . . . ilieain 
 Into the liglil of nior.iing, to the grave 
 As to an oi.'ean. 
 
 13<)l Another eli|)t her profuse locks, and tinew 
 The wreath upon him like an anadeni, 
 Which, frozen tears instead of pearls hegem : 
 
 <;<) thou to i^ome — 
 130"2 And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise 
 
 Hiii/it. ."il7. 
 -'.'aiir. K/iip<. I.">1. 
 
 -A'fnn. Xl. 
 
 A dun. WAX. 
 
 and lofty ships even now 
 13t>.'? 1-ike \apours ancliored to a mountain's e<lg(", 
 
 Fieigiited with tire and wliiilwind, wait at Scula 
 
 The convoy of the ever-\eering wind. If'//. 28.S. 
 
 1304 The licet which, like a Hock of clouds 
 
 L'liased by the wind. Hies the insurgent ijanner. IJd/. 4(>0, 
 
 t.'rete and Cyprus, 
 13t>r> Like mountain twins, that from each other's veins 
 Catch the volcano-Mre and (nuth<iuakc si)asm. 
 Sliake in the genei'al fever. — //'■//. 587. 
 
 .\ chasm 
 136(> .\s of two mountains in tlie wall of Stand)oul : —I hi!. S30. 
 
 13(17 Between kingless continents sinless as Kden //•//. H(47. 
 
 136S It |.sr. earth I was cloudy, and sullen, and cold, 
 
 Like a fro/.en chaos uprollecl, — iJm/li (>/' X't/'ohoit. 
 
 13(i(t Those famous Kuganean hills, which hear. 
 
 As seen from Lido througii the harhour-piles, 
 
 'J'lie likeness of a clump of peaked isles Ji'/imi. 77. 
 
 1370 I leaned and saw the city, and could uuii'k 
 How from their many isles in evening's gleam 
 Its temples and its jjalaces did seem 
 
 lake fabrics of enchantment piled to Heaven Jk/i'iih. S!>. 
 
 1371 (hi its helm, seen far away 
 
 A planet, like ti\e .Moi'uing's lay ; —M'td-. XWl. 
 
 137"i .Men of Kngland, heirs of ( ;iory. 
 
 Siiake yiniv cliains to eartii like dew 
 Which in sleep had fallen on you. 
 
 - M'id\ .W.Will. 
 
 1373 A cloiul, with lightning, wind and hail, 
 
 It swept over the mountains like 
 .All ocean, — I'di r liiU, \. \ii. 
 
to.) 
 
 1 ')') 
 
 1.S74 Ami worse find worsi-. the drousv ciiisc 
 Yiiuncd in liim, till it gicw a pe.st 
 A widi' loiitiigiuus atrnosplieif, 
 Creeping like cold through all things near 
 
 Pefir /i>//, Vll. xvii. 
 
 '••''•"' woven liaeeiy ran 
 
 , Of light (irni texture, I'ihhed and' hi'iinehing, o'er 
 The solid rind, like a leafs veined fan — 
 
 — w'l/rh. wxni. 
 
 1.17(5 Where like a meadow which no scythe has shaven ; 
 VVhich rain couM never hen.l, or whiil hlast shake, 
 With the Antarctic constellations paven. 
 
 ( 'anopus and his crew, lay the Austral lake— 
 
 -Wiir/,. xi.vm. 
 
 I'^VT this liaven 
 
 Was as a gem to cojjy heaven engraven. 
 
 1378 And whei'e within the surface of the river 
 1'lie shadows of the massy temples lie, 
 And I ever are erased l)ut tremble evei' 
 
 Like things which every (doud can doom to die, 
 
 n'ifrh, L. 
 
 11'//-//, [,IX. 
 
 1.S7!) And as a veil in which I walk through Heaven 
 
 1 have wroiight mountains, seas, and waves, and clouds. 
 
 And lastly light, whose interfusion dawns 
 
 In the da;-k space of interstellai- air. - ('ii/tii. Dnniin. -24. 
 
 1.S80 A soft hand issued from the veil of Hre. 
 Holding a cup like a Magnolia flower, 
 Anil pouied upon the eailh within the va.se 
 The eleutent witli which it oveitlowed, 
 Hrighter than morning light, and i)urer than 
 The waters of the springs of Himahiii. r„iiii. />rinii>i. 14"). 
 
 1881 And thus it |.sr. the fruit| lay in the Klvsiau calm 
 Of its own lieauty, floating on the lint- ' 
 Which, like a tilin in purest space, divided 
 The heav(Mi beieath the waters from the heaven 
 Above the (dou Is : ^'„/,„ hmwa, 'i'iS. 
 
 ..ce those thronging i^iiariols 
 
 R<dling. like paiiued clouds liefore tin; wind. 
 
 Heiiind their solemn steeds : how some are siiii|ied 
 KISl' l>ike curv( d shells dyed by the azure dcptin 
 138;{ Of Indian seas : some like' the new-boi>n moon. 
 !384 Aiitl some like ears in which ihc iJomans climbed 
 
 (Canopied Ity Victoiy'>; eagle wings outs|)>-cad 
 
 T ic V 'ai>/t'»lian. 
 
 ''//'?>. /. I. ]:!(;. 
 
 J.lSr- Tl.'is .u;),M'ous horizon, whose dim round 
 T:, i'»astio!ied by the circumHuous sea. 
 Repilling invasion from the sacred towe-s. 
 IVe ses upon me like a dungeon's grate. 
 A '.fw dark roof, a damp and nari-ow wall. 
 
 <'/in^. I. IV. 41. 
 
134 
 
 iMs: 
 
 l.'W(i Isk". occaii iiiul all things tliat in tlioni wear 
 Till! form and cliaracttT of nioilal mould, 
 iiine as tlie Sun llieir fatlier lose lo hear 
 Thoii' poition of the toil \vhi(;h ho of old 
 Took as his own, and then imposed on ihcni. 
 
 And from it came a gentle livulet, 
 Whose water like clear air, in its calm sucop 
 Bent the soft grass, and kept forever wet 
 The stems of the sweet Howers, 
 
 yet contagion there 
 
 .S[)read like a (juenehless tire ; 
 
 i.SHS 
 
 i;wfl 
 
 13!K) 
 
 I.S!)1 
 1392 
 
 l.3i>;} 
 135)4 
 
 1395 
 13!m 
 1397 
 
 Trill III jili . !(). 
 
 'i rill III jih, 314. 
 
 /'. ir. II. 129. 
 
 the flood 
 (Jrew traiHjuil as a woodland rixer 
 Winding through hills in solitude, 
 
 And their swords ami their see[)tre,^ • 
 Like wrecks on the surge of etcM'nity. 
 
 — Mil rid inn "> I). \W. 
 
 M ;i .iiii' see, 
 
 - )»//(. Sill II, I/. W. 
 
 1 398 
 
 1 399 
 14U0 
 
 They sjn'ead themselves into the loveliness 
 
 Of fan-like leaves, and over pallid flowers 
 
 Hang like moist clouds : or wheie high branches kiss. 
 
 .Make a green s])ace among the silent Jiowers 
 
 Like a vast fane in a metiopolis. Wmi'lnKiii. .'t2. 
 
 Suirounded hy the (olunnis and the towers 
 
 All overwrought with branch like traceries, — Wnoilmnii, 'u. 
 
 which makes 
 Kven the mud and slime of the warm lakes 
 A wrinkled clod as hard as brick ; —Sunum-r ((ml Wint, ,-, 13. 
 
 The wreaths ui stony myrtle, ivy, and ))ine, 
 Like wintei' leaves o'ergrown by moulded snow, 
 
 ■ 7'o Xii I ill , 1 7. 
 
 And whei e the Haian ocean 
 
 \Veltei's with aii-like motion. 
 Within, above, around its bowei's of starry green, 
 Moving the sea flowers in tho.se purple caves 
 Kven as the ever stornde.ss atmosi)here 
 
 Floats o'er the Elysian realm, - '/'<, .\'a/,lry, jfi. 
 
 thy shiehl is as a mirror 
 To make their blind slaves see, and with tierce ulcam 
 To turn his hungiy swoi'd upon the wearer ; —Ti, Xn/J,.^. 7S. 
 
 The Karth is likt' Ocean, 
 Wreck-strewn and in motion : 
 
 1401 
 
 While around the lashed Ocean, 
 Lik<! mountains in motion. 
 Is withdiawn and uplifted. 
 Sunk, shattered and shifted 
 To and fro. 
 
 Nourishing each tender geiv. 
 
 Which like floweis will Iti;:,! rr<)m them 
 
 — Fiii/iiin 1, I. 
 
 Fllililir,.. HI. 
 ■ h'pi'fli. 2i>. 
 
i:i5 
 
 1 M)2 Througli dcsiMt woods and tnicts. wliich seem 
 Like (K'L'aii, liomuloss, l)uuiidle.s,s, uiicoiitiiiLMl. 
 
 -'Frmini . IV'iiuli 
 
 1403 The eiiasm in wlucili the sun lias sunk is slnit 
 Uy darkest l)airioi's of cinereous cloud, 
 Like mountains over mountains huddled - 
 
 n )i(/. 
 
 Ei'i iiiiiij, IV. 
 
 1404 Which tlie circumfluous plain waving iVdow, 
 Like a wide lake of green fertilitv, 
 Witli streams and fiehls anil marshes "^hare, 
 
 Divides from the far Apennines which lie 
 Islanded in the immeasurable aii-. 
 
 l-**^-> ^ and its Mowers fair, 
 
 Full as a cup with the vine's hurnini; dew, 
 O'errtowed with gcdden colours. " 
 
 l4U(i Now all the tree tops lay asleej), 
 Like green waves on the sea, 
 As still as in the silent deep 
 The ocean woods may he. 
 
 1407 f sat and saw the vessels glide 
 Oyer the ocean bright and wide. 
 Like spirit-winged ehariots sent 
 O'er some serenest clement 
 
 For ministration stiange and far; 
 
 As if to some Klysian star 
 
 Sailed for drink to medicine 
 
 Such sweet and bitter pain as mine. Llu>- 
 
 1408 Till from the breathing lawn a forest sjjiin.'s 
 Of youth, integrity, and loveliness, ° 
 Like that which ga\e it life, to spring and die. 
 
 Sfvchin, A\. 
 
 -Ziii 
 
 IX. 
 
 — To .htii, li,r„ll. III. 
 
 Hay o/'L. .'HI. 
 
 -V- .^f. V. V,\. 
 
 Natural to Human Mkixos— Human ATTtuMUTix- Natural 
 Phenomena to Mkntai, Phenomena— Spirits, etc. 
 
 '■*"'^ Xow on the jx.lislied stones 
 
 It [.>r. rivulet] danced, like childhood laughing as it went 
 
 A Inst. 408. 
 1410 Watch the dim shades as like ghosts they come and go 
 
 —St'iiKns IS 14, M. 
 
 1411 
 1412 
 
 1413 
 
 Calm as a slumb(;riug babe 
 
 Tremendous ocean lay. -/>. |('. 1. I34. 
 
 and there the sea I found 
 Calm as a cradled child in dreamless slumber boiniii 
 
 /.. <!• <'. i. XV. 
 The .Morning Star 
 
 Shone 
 Twas like an eye which seemed to smile 
 
 on me 
 
 I.. .(• (\ I. xl. 
 
136 
 
 J414 
 1415 
 
 1416 
 
 1417 
 
 14 IS 
 
 1419 
 
 iSculptiirL's like life ami thoiiyiit ; iiiiiiiovaljle, iloep-t'Sed. 
 
 — /■, <(• r. I. li. 
 
 what was this cave ".' 
 its (let!}) fouiulations ni) tinii jjurjujse Uiiuw.-j 
 liiiinutHblu, I'esistless, strong to save, 
 Like iiiiiiil wliile yet it mocks tiie ail-devouiiiig grave 
 
 - A. c(' ('. VII. xxviii. 
 
 Oh, tiioii hrigiit wine whose i)ui'|)le splendour leajj.s 
 And hiil)l)les gaily in this golden how 1 
 Under the lain[)light, as niy spirits do, 
 
 — i'cnri, 1. iii. 77. 
 
 14-_'() 
 
 14J1 
 
 14-J2 
 
 14-j:{ 
 
 beneath thi.s erag 
 Huge as des])air, as if in weariness, 
 The nielanuholy niouiitain yawns, 
 
 '''iiou small tlanie 
 Whieh, as a dying pulse lises ami falls, 
 Still llickerest up and down, 
 
 the vain and senseless erowd, 
 Who, . . . 
 
 will leave 
 The ehui-ehes and the theatres as void 
 As their own hearts '.' 
 
 made eaith like heaven ; 
 
 — ( V /('•(, III. i. "J.'jS. 
 
 —Cniri, III. ii. 11. 
 
 — CfHi'i, y . iii. 36. 
 — I 'rum. III. iv. 160. 
 
 and water springs 
 Wheme the great sea, even as a child, is fi.'d —I'r<t)n. \X . 2X4. 
 
 And the Naiad-like lily of the vale 
 
 -^V)/.^•. I'lnnt, I. "21. 
 
 14J4 
 
 1 4-J.". 
 14_'(i 
 
 1427 
 
 And the rose like a Nymph to the hath addressed. 
 
 Which unveiled the depth of her glowing lueast 
 
 Till, fold aftei' fold, to the fainting air. 
 
 The soul of her beauty and love lay bare ; -S' iis. /'/(int. I. 2S). 
 
 The un.seen clouds of the dew, \\ liich lie 
 Like tire in the Howers till the sun rides high, 
 Then wander like spirits among tlie sphei'es, 
 Kach cloud faint with the fragrance it bears: 
 
 —Sfii-^. I'hiiit. I. 86. 
 
 Kach and all like ministering angels were 
 
 For the Sensitive I'lant sweet jov to bear. — >V /^s. I'lmd, 1. 1(4. 
 
 'I'lie garden, once fair, became cold and foul. 
 Like the corpse of her who had been its soul. 
 
 Xe«>. I'laiii. III. 17. 
 
 And the leaves . 
 
 Like troops of ghosts on the diy wind past 
 
 i4'JS And agurics ami fungi 
 
 Pale, tieshly, as if the decaying dead 
 With a spii'it of growth had been animated 
 
 ^Stns. I'lani, 111. .S4. 
 
 .Vh/.s'. ri,i„l. III. 6-2. 
 
OT 
 
 142!) Tlie Sensitive Plant like oiii' foihid 
 Wept. 
 
 •N''//v. I'ktill, III. S'2. 
 
 14.'i(» Hut the luaiulrakes. and toadstools, and docks and >larnels 
 Ho.se like the dead from their ruined iliarneis, 
 
 - .SV„.v. I>l„ni. III. lie. 
 
 H.'U Wiiether tiie Sensitive Plant, of that 
 
 'vViiieh within its houghs like a spirit sat 
 
 Now felt this ciiange, 1 cannot .sav 
 
 — .S'( II-1. /'/'(iif, ('our/. I. 
 
 Ii;^-' The heavy dead hulk 
 
 f)ii the living sea rolls an inanimate bulk, 
 
 Like a corpse on tlu' day whicii is hungering to fold 
 
 Its corruption ai'ound it* - I7.s/o/( o/Sfi. '.U. 
 
 1433 Thou, from whose iniseen presence the leaves dead 
 Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter tleeing, 
 
 -- Wrsf Win./, I. 
 
 1434 Like a child from the womh, like a ghost from the tomh. 
 
 143") I ari.se and unbuild it again (.'/om/ S3. 
 
 1-136 the odours deep 
 
 Of flowers, which like lips murmuring in their slecj) 
 
 Of the sweet kis.se.s tiiat had lulled them tliere, 
 
 Breathed ])ut of hei' to the enamoured air ; -/'Jjiips. 202. 
 
 1437 Let the fixed bayonet 
 
 (ileam with sliarp desire to wet 
 Its bright point in English blood 
 Looking keen as one for food. 
 
 Mad; L.X.WII. 
 
 143S like children chidden 
 
 At her conunand they |.vr. billowsj ever came and went 
 
 143U Couched on the fountain Bke . . . 
 
 Or on blind Homer's heart a winged tiiought. 
 In joyous expectation lay the boat 
 
 144(1 till the car 
 
 Of the late moon, like a sick matron wan, 
 To journey fiom the misty east began. 
 
 1441 tiie \\ave 
 
 Whicli like a toil-worn labourer leaps to sliore 
 To meet the kisses of the tlowrets there. 
 
 1442 The works of faith and slavery, so vast, 
 So .sumptuous, yet withal .so peri.shing I 
 
 Even as tiie corpse that rests beneath tlicir wall. 
 
 1443 ^ and eartli. 
 
 Even as a child beneath its niotiier's love 
 Is strengthened in all excellence, and grows 
 Fairer and nobler with each passing year. 
 
 \VI/r/t, IV. 
 
 U //<■/,, .WXIV 
 
 — IC/Vr//, LI. 
 
 -J). \v. II. \m. 
 
 I). \y. 11. 314. 
 
 -J). W. II. 32(1. 
 
138 
 
 I-*-*-* iiinl that tall Hower tliat wets 
 
 Like ii child, half in tetiderness and iniith — 
 Its mother's fa<:o with lieavtMi-colluctod tears, 
 When the low wind, its playmate's voice, it hears. 
 
 144") And like a dying lady, lean and pale, 
 
 Vho totters forth, wrapt in a gauzy veil, 
 Out of her chand)er, led by the insane 
 And feeble wanderings of "her fading brain, 
 The moon arose up in the murky east, 
 
 1446 A star has fallen upon the earth, 
 
 Like an angelic spirit ])ent 
 In a form of mortal bii'th, 
 
 l-^-*" the dew 
 
 Lay on its spotted leaves like tears loo true 
 
 1448 Making the wintry worhl appear 
 
 Like one on whom" thou sniilesL, dear. 
 
 — (^>Ofstinii, II. 
 
 — Wanimj Mooti. 
 
 I 'ml. I[,ll. 196. 
 
 . Ziirra, VI. 
 
 Tn.lniK, Iiiritntioii, 19. 
 
 Natural Piienomeva to Animals— Art Phoducts to 
 Animals, and Vice Vehsa. 
 
 *■*'*■' . Higher and higher still 
 
 Ihen- [.vc. waves] fierce necks writhed licneuth the l.'mpest's 
 
 scourge. 
 Like serpents struggling in a vullure's grasp. 
 
 A/a.sf. 323. 
 
 '"^^^T-, , , The glaciers creep 
 
 Like snakes that watch their prey, IJ'oni their far fountains 
 Slow, rolln.g on : • .^j^^,,, /^.„„^_ 
 
 1451 That land is like an eagle, whose young gaze 
 
 Feeds on the noon-tide beam, wJiose golden jjlunie 
 I'loats moveless on the storm, and in the l)laze 
 Of snn-rise gleams when Earth is wrapt in gloom : 
 
 L. cL C. XI. xxiii. 
 
 J 452 And he tamed tire which like some beast of prey 
 Most terril)le but lovely, played beneath 
 The frown of man. ^ -ProM. II. i v. m. 
 
 '■^'••"^ heaven's utmost deep 
 
 (iives up her stars, and like a Hock of sheep 
 
 They pass l^efore his eyes, are numbered, an<l roll on. 
 
 —Prom. IV. 4 IS. 
 
 1454 And none ever trembled and panted with bliss. 
 In the garden, the Hehl, or the wihierness, 
 Like the doe in the noon-tide with love's sweet want 
 As the companionless Sensitive Plant. —Si-m J' I •» 
 
139 
 
 U.V) All loiitliliL'st weeds lie^'ari to grow, 
 
 Whose (■ofuse leaves were splashed with riiaiiv a speck, 
 Like the water-siiake's heiiy and tlie toad's hack. 
 
 --Shis. />. 111. .M. 
 1450 And at its outlet flags 
 
 Dammed it up witii roots knotted like water-.siiakes. 
 
 ~S,us. /'. MI, ;•_>. 
 
 14.">7 And a northern whirlwind, warnlering ahout 
 Like a wolf that had smelt a dead child .mt, 
 
 .sv».v. /'. in. no. 
 
 14.-)8 Who crowd [sr. tigers] side l.y si.l.-, and luivedriven, like a crank, 
 I he deep grip of their daws througii the vihrating plank 
 
 — Vi.-<ii)ii i)/'S((i, 4;i. 
 
 14">0 Thine azure si.ster of the Spring shall hlow 
 Her' elari')ri ... 
 (Driving sweet buds like Hocks to feed in airi — il'-.v/ l\ ;„fJ, I. 
 
 14»)0 With wings folded I rest on my airy nest 
 As still as a l>roodiiig fiove. 
 
 14(J1 And I laugh to sec them [.^<•. stars] whirl and fle( 
 Like a swarm of golden hees. 
 
 1462 Higher still and higher 
 
 Krom the earth thou springest 
 Like a cloud of tire, 
 
 1463 Like a star of heaven 
 
 in the hroad day-light 
 Thou art unseen, 
 
 1464 How glorious it will be to see her Majesty 
 
 . . . her petticoats 
 iStreaniing like . 
 
 or a war steed's mane. 
 
 — CInuil, 4,S. 
 
 — S f,' I// n )■/,-, 6. 
 -.S7.7/A/ /■/.■, IS. 
 
 1465 Streaming like . 
 
 or a cow's tail. 
 
 (h''/. Ti/r. n. i. !).-). 
 'Ed. Ti/r. n. i. !)o. 
 
 1466 And palisades of tusks, sharp as a bayonet. 
 
 — rJ'Jd. Ti/r. n. i. 144. 
 
 1467 Our bark is as an albatross, whose nest 
 Is a far Kden in the purple Kast ; 
 
 1468 The earth doth like a snake renew 
 Her winter weeds outworn. 
 
 1469 When the exulting elements in scorn 
 
 • ■ • '"y 
 
 Sleeping in beauty on their mangled prey 
 As panthers sleep ; 
 
 1470 Couched on the fountain like a panther tame, 
 One of the twain at Evan's feet that sat, 
 
 In joyous expectation lay tiio boat. 
 
 —E/ii/^i. 416. 
 — J ft//. \m± 
 
 -Ltlttr lo Af. a. 4(1. 
 
 
 Wllrh. XXXIV. 
 
140 
 
 1471 
 1472 
 147M 
 1474 
 
 And ihiTc its fruit lay like a sioeiiinL' lizanl 
 I ndei' tiic .siiadow.s __ 
 
 Tiie Hplondoiir winged worlds disperse 
 Like wild doves scattered. 
 
 ... '>iit. "tis sleeping; fast 
 
 Like a beast unconscious of its tetlicr. 
 
 And tlie young and dewy dawn, 
 Hold as an unhunted fawn, 
 Up tlie windless iieaven is gone 
 Lauyii — for amhuslied in tiie day 
 Clouds and whirlwinds watch theii' j)rey. 
 
 147") We paused amid tiie pin- < tiiat stood 
 
 Tortured hy stonns to shapes as rude 
 As serpents interlaced 
 
 1476 She left me at the silent time 
 
 When the moon had ceased to dim!) 
 Tiie azure path of iieaven's .steep, 
 And like an alhatross asleep, 
 Haianeed on her wings of light 
 Hovered in tiie purple night. 
 Ere slie .sought lier ocean nest 
 In the ciiamher.s of the West. 
 
 Unjiii. /Ji-ittnu, 205. 
 - /'/•(>/. J/,(/. 54. 
 
 -Iiio riirilif. 
 
 — TuJiine, IWoll. III. 
 
 -Lii)e-s in Bay of Li-rin\ I. 
 
 SIMILES OF SWIFTNESS, CHANGE AND 
 EVANESCENCE. 
 
 1477 
 
 1478 
 
 1479 
 
 1480 
 
 1481 
 
 And felt tlie lioat speed o'er the tramjuil sea 
 Like a torn c^oud before the hurricane. 
 
 As one that in a silver vision floats 
 Obedient to the sweep of odorous winds 
 Upon resplendent clou<ls, so rapidly 
 Along the dark and r-itMed watei's tied 
 1"he straining l)oat. 
 
 Tlie little boat 
 htill fled before tlie storm ; still Hcrl, like foam 
 Down the steep cataracts of a wintry river ; 
 
 tiie woven leaves 
 Make not-work of tiie dark blue light of day, 
 And the night's noon-tide clearness, mutable 
 As shapes in the weird clouds. 
 
 i>ut thou art fle<l 
 Like some frail exiialation ; which the dawn 
 Kobes in its golden beams, — 
 
 'Alas/. 314. 
 
 A /a.-:/. .316. 
 
 Alasf. tiu. 
 
 —Ala-^t. 445. 
 
 Alast. 686. 
 
141 
 
 14H2 W'c aif as clouds tliat veil the iiii<lniglit moon ; 
 
 How listlessly liit'V si)ceil, and i^lcaiii, and (juivcr. 
 Stri;akiii;L; tiif daikiii'ss radiaiitlv I yet soon- 
 Night closes found, and they are lost for ever. Mnftthi/iti/, 1. 
 
 14!SI} Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings 
 (live various response to each varying Mast, 
 To whose frail frame no second motion lirings 
 One mood or modulation like the last. Mn/nhiliti/, ,"). 
 
 1484 When all that we know, or feed, or see, 
 
 Shall pass like an unreal mystery Tin n is no irorh. 17. 
 
 148u For the ver,\- spirit fails, 
 
 l)ii\en like a homeless cdoud fiom steep to steep 
 
 That vanishes among the \ iewless gahs. Motil /i/aiic. 't~. 
 
 148t» The race 
 
 Of man flies far in dread ; his work and dwelling 
 
 Vanish, like smoke liefore the tempest's stream, 
 
 And tlieir jilace is not known. J/nnf /l/aiir, 1 17. 
 
 14S7 The vast clouds lid, 
 
 (Jountless and swift as leaves on autumn's tempest slicii. 
 
 /-. <(■ r. 1. iv. 
 
 1488 The pallid semicircle of the moon 
 
 Past on in slow and moving majesty ; 
 
 Its upj)er horn arrayed in mists, winch soon 
 
 J)Ut slowlv lied, like dew Iteneath the beams of noon. 
 
 — A. .(• ('. I. V. 
 
 14S!» Kven like a hark, which from a chasm of mountains, 
 l)ark, vast, and overhanging, on a river 
 Wiiich theie collects the strength of all its fomitains. 
 Comes forth, whilst with the speed its frame ilotli (|uiv(>r. 
 Sails, oars, and sti'eam, teijiling to one endeavour ; 
 So from that chasm of light a winged Koirn 
 On all the winds of heaven approaching e\ er 
 Floated, dilating as it (;ame : tlie storm 
 i'ursued it with fierce blasts, and lightnings swift and warm. 
 
 — A. .(■ ('. I. vii. 
 
 1490 Then soai' — as sw ifl as smoke from volcano springs. 
 
 — L. <(■ C. 1. xiii. 
 
 1491 I looked, and we were sailing plea.santly, 
 
 Swift as a cluiid hetwe.-n tlie sea and sliy, — A. <(• ('. 1. xlvii. 
 
 1492 Even as a sbrm lot down l)eneat!i the ray 
 Of the still moon, my spirit onward past, 
 Beneath truth's steady beams upon its tunudt cast. 
 
 — A. <(• ('. II. xii. 
 
 1493 In sudden panic those false murderer.s fled, 
 
 Like insect tribes befoi'e the northern gale : — L. d- G. V. viii. 
 
 1494 And all the shapes of this grand sc'cnei'v shifted 
 Like restless clouds before the steadfast sun 
 
 -A. <(• ('. V. xviii. 
 
142 
 
 im-, Tiu. .l.aiM.s of ,,uth like, mist .nrlt,.,! away, 
 
 I l!'<i SmI.I..,,, as „|..,„ tlu. Mmonris,. makes a,,,n., 
 M range cl.Mids in tlu- east • " 
 
 -A. <(• (', V, xxxvij. 
 
 -A. .(■ r. V. xl. 
 
 '■'' I ,. '''''*^' tl'ii'i Inia-'e wa.s.lrest 
 
 '" -'•■'.. UM.gs swift as ..lo„.l.s"in winter .kies. _A. ., (, V. ,. 
 
 J4»«K wis.l.,m| swift an.l strong 
 
 As new-( e.lge,l Kagles, beautiful and v,.unc.. 
 li..U float among ti.e Minding i.ean.s of m-uninu. 
 
 /- «<• r. V. li, I. 
 
 >-Miall ta.le like shadow from ids thousand fanes. 
 
 -A. <t('. V. li. (i. 
 
 1500 
 
 ]501 
 
 I'ur overhead, ships from Propontisl^;''''' 
 t s. 'rV''"";f' "V ^''^■" ^''^ ^vavesJndle 
 
 -A. <•■ ^'. VI. vii. 
 
 Our myriads, wl.om the swift l.olt .nvrthVew 
 Or the red sword, failed like a n.ountain r Jr 
 \Mneh rushes forth in foam to sink ,n san Vo.ever 
 
 Jiut like the vapour uf the tempest tied 
 
 ~L. .f C. VJ. 
 
 xiv, 
 
 Oe the plan.; her .lark hair was dispread 
 l^ike the piue s loeks upon the lingering blast ; 
 
 -^■'- 't'^' VI. xxi. 
 i-m did seize a Tartar's swor.l, an.l sprin,. 
 
 Upon MS ho.se, and swift as on the wh rlwfnds win.r 
 Have thou ami I bee., borne beyond pur.suer, = 
 
 -J^- ^•C.Vl. xxv/. 
 '*^^ ., , , /v Idle tears pursued 
 
 i^aeh other down her fair and listening' cheek 
 l-ast as the thoughts whieh fed then.," _A. ., c. VH. jj. 
 
 1505 Swift as an eagle stooping fron, the plain 
 O. ino.nn.g light, into some shadowy wood. 
 He plunged through the green silenee of the main 
 
 -L. d' c. xn. X. 
 
 oOO Ami I beeame at last even as a sluule, 
 
 l^oi^inirfctii-;";::^;^^^'''''^''^-*"''^'--!^^^^ 
 
 — ^- «l' C. \ U. xxvi. 
 'VI ,. , <^P''ii">n is more frail 
 
 F -en whil '■'""'' '?"■ ^'"^'''^ ^"' t''^' ""><"' 
 
 io lade the orb of truth— , ,^. virr- 
 
 1510 High temples fade like vapour- _/,. ,,. c, VIH. xvi. 
 
14 ;} 
 
 l")!! She is my lite — 1 am l>ut as the sliailc 
 
 \'tl'2 Oi licr, a smoke sent , p from uslies, soon to tailc 
 
 A. .1 r. VIII. vxv. 
 
 \'i\'.i Tliis is till- wiiitcf of till- woilil ; -and licrc 
 
 Wf (lie, even as tlic winds of AiitiMini fade, 
 
 K\l)iiinj^ in tlii,- froic and U><i<s\ air. 
 
 Bfliold, Sprin;^ conius. tlio' wc'iinist jtass, who iiiadi> 
 
 'I'iii' promise of its l)iitli,— even as tiu- shade 
 l.")ll \yhicli from oiu' deatli, as from a mountain, tliiigs 
 
 Tile fiitmc, a iiroad sunrise ; //. ,(. (\ i\ ^^y 
 
 l")!.') Tiiy growtii i.s swift as morn, wiien niyht must fade ; 
 
 /-. <(■ C. Xl. xxii. 
 
 1516 ^ Cytinia sprung 
 
 From her gigantic steed, wlio, like a shade 
 Chased i)y the winds, those vacant streets among 
 Fled tameless, — A. <(• r. \| |. xiii. 
 
 ''•'1 ^ like gos.samer. 
 
 On the swift hreath of morn, the vessel Hew 
 
 Till down that mighty stream dark, calm, and lleet 
 
 Between a chasm of ccdarn mountains riven, 
 
 Chased hy the thi'ouging winds whose viewless feet 
 lolS As swift as twinkling heams, had, under Heaven 
 
 From woods and waves wild sounds and odours driven. 
 
 The l)oat lied visibly three nights and davs, 
 lol9 Borne like a cloud thro" morn, and noon, and even, 
 
 /.. <t' ('. Ml. xxxii. 
 
 15-2I) Morn, noon, and even, that hoat of pearl outran 
 Tlie streams which bore it, like tiie arrowy cloud 
 
 15-21 Of tempest, or the speedier thought of man. 
 Which tiieth forth and cannot make abode, 
 
 — L. <l' ('. XII. XXXV. 
 
 1;j22 On the fourth day, wild as a wind wrought sea 
 The stream became, and fast ami fastor'bair 
 The spirit- wingi'd boat, A. ,f C. \l\. xxxviii. 
 
 ir)2,'> Like the swift moon . . . this glorious eartii around, 
 Ihe charmed boat approached, and there its haven found. 
 
 -A. <(• C. XII. xli. 
 
 ir)24 For ever now his , ,,h declined, 
 
 Like .some fiail baik which cannot bear 
 
 The impulse of an altered wind, _/,'. ,(. //_ SN. 
 
 152") And swift and swifter the notes came 
 
 From my touch, that wandeied like (juick flame, 
 
 -A'. <{• H. 1115. 
 
 Jt?^}^ ,„ for human things 
 
 lo27 Change even like the ocean and the wind. 
 
 — A'. <L- //. 1279. 
 
 1528 Love, Hope, and Self-esteem, like clouds depart 
 And come for some uncertain moments lent 
 
 -If. I. n. IV. 
 
14+ 
 
 I..-JJ II..H1 m.n-|.I..Mi.sh,.,| lamp. ^^h^M.. „„,,„«• fir- 
 Hslmkni I..V tilt' ui„,|, ,1,1.1 .„. w),.,,.,.,..lu,. 
 .■vumiii;.' .la.kn.'Ms I.ov.t.n. TIi.mi sn.ali Main.., 
 \M.i.' h asa (IviM^r pills,, risfs aii,! tails, 
 Ml i IIirUtMvst np ,1,1.1 iluun, li..w v.-rv s...,m 
 
 1-ir. V .i""' ^''i'"'' ^'"■''' """'"l^t <l'"u faiiaii.l l„. 
 I.>.<0 As tlK.ii |,a.lst m-vvv Ihmmi. S,, wastes ,n.,i sinks 
 
 Kvci. now, perhaps, tli.- lif.. that kiii.T „.) 
 
 Iliit t hat iM, p.,w,.r,,i„ (ill will, sjtal,, 
 
 Mm. l.n.k-nla,np,.(||..H|,. __^v.,./, III. ii. s. 
 
 l-.:il 15"ti« tlM.y ami thou ha,l va.iish.Ml, lik,. thin mist 
 l^niolli'.j on the iiiorriiti;,' wind. 
 
 I.ia-J An.l the triumphant storm did lice 
 Like ii cininicnir swift and pcoml. 
 H<-twiM-n, with many a .-aptivc chuid, 
 
 /'row. 1. I Hi. 
 
 l.rXi It \.r. a Dream I has l.orm. „„. |„.,.,, as ||oet 
 As |)csne.s li;rlit,,i„^, f^.,.} 
 
 ~'/'roj,i. I. 710. 
 — I'roni. I. 7;w. 
 
 ■'' , , ... •^■'^ ov'r wide dominions 
 
 I sped |,k,. som<> swift .•loud that wim;s the wuh. air's 
 
 wildcinesHcs, /. i - .., 
 
 ' -/'/•'„/,. I. 7(J3. 
 
 ^^*,,,, , Assu,i,l,.nlv 
 
 I I'on ( >r. SpMii^l .•o,iu.«t as th,. memory . ' a divam, 
 
 I'lOiii. II. i. 7. 
 
 1530 
 
 K.'hoes, wo : listen 
 
 \N'i' cannot stav : 
 
 As dew-stars ^dist'en 
 
 'I'hen fade away 
 
 — /'/•"/». 1\'. L'l. 
 
 ~ I'roin. II. i, 16(). 
 l.-.;{7 That their tiight must l„. swifter than Hre I'mn,. II. iv. X. 
 
 '•'^^ ,, , . , lik'' ><ister-antelopus 
 
 My otie fair dam snow- white au.l swift as wind, 
 A ursed among lilies near a i)rimming stream 
 ,_„„ -l'r<,„i. 111. iii. 1)7. 
 
 '•^•^9 Haste, oh, haste, 
 
 As .shades are chased, 
 TiemMiny hy day, from lieav-m's l,lue waste 
 \\" melt away, 
 ''^^'* "'ike tlissolviiig spray. 
 
 1-J41 And yo!:r wings are .soft an.l .swift as Thought, 
 
 ,., , /'row. IV. !)l. 
 
 '•'*■- I)c'ath. Chaos, and Xi.dit 
 
 VI II .1 i-i''""' tl'fs^'nm.l of oui'^ flight, 
 
 M.all flee, like mist from a tempesfs niight. -Prow. IV. 144. 
 
 lo43 Vast heams like s,,okes of some invisible wheel 
 
 Which wliirl as the oil, whirls, swifter than thought. 
 
 , -/Vo/M. IV. •J74. 
 
 "^ „r, , or some (lod 
 
 lie not ! An.l like my ^yonU they were no more. 
 
 — /'roiii. IV. 3I(i. 
 
 1 
 
14', 
 
 Mil : Im : lii.. aniiMMii.n (if i\r\\^Ut 
 ... , , V '"'■'' "'-i>-< "><•. lik'' .m iitrnn^plu.n' ..t IL-hf 
 ••**• •^"'' "•'* "'»' '♦'• 'I '-loud '.^ Loii.e l.\ its ..w„ Nnnd' 
 
 1.1 
 
 '•'♦•', , TlH. Ka,;!,. 
 
 I iK'iir : I am as u .li<.|i(,f ,|,.w tliui dit-s. 
 
 I.')47 TliiMi the Mci'ds . 
 
 Fl.'d fmtn tli,. fn.st t<. tlu- earth I)fiit3tith. 
 I hfir .l.'.a.y and sii<ld..ri llj^d.t from fin.st 
 *> as l.ut like 111,' vanisliin^' of a j-|,uh1 
 
 -/'rum. IV. .Vi.l. 
 
 l.'i4S 
 
 >''7i.v. /V(i«/, III. !»,s. 
 HWeot Hpiril. w lii.l, I day liv dav 
 
 Hav,. M. lon^. ..all,.,l .ny r|,iJ.I. i,„t s.UuU n.'.w ta'-lrs away 
 
 l^ik. a ra.nlH.u-, and I .1,.. fall,.,, s|,nuo,-/ lisn.Z/Sm. SS. 
 
 I.'i4!» Thci,' i,ii,x'iiiaini„g ^ikIh a„d tliev 
 Like a civfi- r'oll avvav. 
 
 -O'/' ^< limn II, 2i). 
 
 I.>.>«» ill fr..,„ ,t,«, stati.),, in tl,.. Iieaveu ..f fame 
 I he sp,,-,! s wl,i,lwi,„l rapt it. and thf lav 
 Of th.- fcniotest sphi-iT „f livinu (ja,,,,. ' 
 \\ Inch paves the voj.l was f,n„, l„.i,i„d it lltmL' 
 As f„an,f,n„, a ship-s swiftness. ^ q,/. n. Uf, I 
 
 I"mI Th.ai i,„nt,-e.ss swiftei- tl,an the ,„.,„„ ^(j,i,. ,„ , ;,, y^ 
 
 IW'J When like heaven's sun ^M,t l.v the exhalati..,. 
 pt Its own ^donons li;,d,t. thou didst ai-ise 
 Cliasn,g thy foes f.oni nation unto natic.n' 
 
 L.ke shadows: ~-0,h to Lil, xi, 
 
 1553 As sn.nn.e,- ..lo,,ds <Iissolve nnlanthened of thei,- ,ai., ; 
 554 Asa a,, tape,, fades with fading „i,r|,t, 
 l.M.) As a hiMef insect dies with dving dav, 
 
 .My song, Its pniions disa,,aved of nn^dit 
 
 Drooped. " '^ ,.,... 
 
 ' i>d, 1o Lib. XIX. 
 
 1556 Homeless alie passed, like a cloud on the hiast, 
 
 '^''Z- Tyr. I. 04)!. 
 ''" V , "l.v h..val pigs, 
 
 Aow let y(.ui' noses he as keen as hi«agles 
 ^ ou|. steps as .swift as g.eyhounds. ^-(Ed. Tyr. II. ij. \2i). 
 
 ^^^^ y, , , , ,., As with no .stain 
 
 Mie faded, l,ke a cloud which has out wept its ..aii, 
 
 Alton. X. 
 
 ''*^'^ „ , ''^'"^'l tliat alone which knows 
 
 He as a sword consumed hefoi-e the sjieath 
 Hy sightless lightning -J,/o.. XX. 
 
 1560 Swift a.s a Thought l.v the sn,.ke MeinoiA- stuuL- 
 From her ambrosial rest the fading Splei'.dour .tprung. 
 
 —Ado,,. XXII. 
 
 1561 And like a sudden meteor, which outstrips 
 llie splendour-winged ehar-iot of the sun, 
 m • r ■ eclipse 
 
 Tlie armies of the golden stars, each one, C,i„r. Ado,i. 34. 
 
 J'0' 
 
146 
 
 15H2 Worlds on woihls arc rolling ever 
 
 From creation to decay, 
 Like the l)ul)l)le.s on a river 
 
 Sparkling, Imr.sting, boiiie away. — Hell. 197. 
 
 150.S Swift as the radiant shapes of sleep 
 
 From one whose dreams are Paradise 
 Kiy, when the fond wretcjh wakes to weep, 
 And day jjcers forth with her Idank eyes ; 
 So fleet, so faint, so fair, 
 The powers of earth and air 
 Fled from the folding star of Hethlehem. —Hell. 225. 
 
 15(14 Like clouds, and like tlie shadows of tiie clouds, 
 1 r>6r) Over the hills of Anatolia, 
 
 Swift in wild troops the Tartar chivalry 
 
 Sweep :-- ' -Hell. 328. 
 
 lo66 And thaw their frost-work diadems like dew ; —Hell. 416. 
 
 1567 The fleet which like a flock of clouds 
 
 Chased by the wind, flies tiie insurgent hanner. —Hell. 460. 
 
 1568 And like loveliness panting witli wild desire 
 
 While it trembles with fear and delight ; 
 Hespei'us Hies from awakening night, — Hell. 1036. 
 
 1569 Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam 
 
 Like wrecks of a dissolving dream — — Hell. 1064. 
 
 1570 Though his life, day after day. 
 
 Was failing like an unrepleiiislied stream, —Prince Ath. I. 58. 
 
 1571 The youth, as shadows on the grassy hill 
 Outrun the winds that chase them, soon outran 
 
 His teacher, — Prince Ath. II. \Z. 
 
 1572 How many a spirit then puts on the pinions 
 Of fancy, and outstrips the lagging blast. 
 And his own steps, and over wide dominions 
 Sweeps in his dream-di'awn chariot, far and fast, 
 
 More fleet than storms — — Prince Ath. IIL 16. 
 
 1573 The Horse of Death tameless as wind 
 Fled, 
 
 —Mask; XXXIIL 
 —Mn,^k, LIL 
 
 — Witch, xn. 
 
 — Witch, XX III. 
 
 1578 And ever down the prone vale like a cloud 
 
 Upon a stream of wind, the pinnace wont : — Witch, XLL 
 
 1574 tyrants would flee 
 Like a dream's flim imagery ; 
 
 1575 and everytlung l)eside 
 Seemed like the fleeting image of a shade ; 
 
 1576 The l)oundless ocean like a drop of dew 
 Will be consumed— the stut)born centre must 
 
 1577 Be scattered like a cloud of sununer dust 
 
147 
 
 l''>"n and tlu> pak- 
 
 And hoavv hue wliich slinnlu-r could extend 
 
 Over its lips and eyes, as on the gale 
 A iaj)i(l shadow t'loni a slope of giass, 
 Into the darkness of the stream did pass. 
 
 Witr/i, XLIII. 
 
 li)SO Aiul then it winnowed the Klysian air 
 
 Wiiieli ever hung aiiout that lady brigiit, 
 
 With its a-therial vans an(i speeding tiieif, 
 Like a star up the torrent of the night, 
 1")81 Oi' a swift eagle in the n)oriung glare 
 
 Breasting the whirlwind .vitli impetuous flight, 
 The pinnace oareii hy those enchanted wings 
 Clove the tier'e streams towards the u|)per springs. 
 
 1682 Circling the image of a shooting star. 
 
 Even as a tigei- on Hydaspe's hanks 
 Outspeeds tlie antelopes whicii speediest are, 
 In her ligiit hoat : 
 
 ir)8.3 With motion like the spirit of tluit wind 
 
 Who-iC soft ste|) decpi'ns slumber, her light feet 
 Passed through the peojiled iiaunts of human kind. 
 
 iVitrh, XL\- 
 
 iVi/r/i, \A. 
 
 lo84 He fled like a shadow before its noon : 
 
 15S5 until my dream i)econie 
 
 Like a child's legend on tlie lideless -and, 
 ■ Which tlie first foam erases half, and half 
 I^eaxes legd)le. 
 
 1586 Swift as a sjui'it hastening to his task. 
 Of glory and of good, the sun s|)rang forth 
 Ficjoicingin his splend(air, 
 
 1587 ^ and those 
 Who lead it -tieet as shadows on ilie green, 
 Outspeed tlie chariot, 
 
 158S tlu' chariot hath 
 
 Passed over them nor other trace I find 
 But as of foam after the ocean's wrath 
 Is spent upon the desert shore : 
 
 15811 And sud(ieii]y my brain became as sand 
 
 Where the lirst wave had more than half erased 
 The track of deer (tn di si'it l.abrador ; 
 
 1590 And niaii. once tiectiiig o'er the transient scene 
 Swift as an iinremembcred vision, stands 
 Immortal ujion earth : 
 
 1591 The works of faith and slavery, so vast, 
 So sumptuous, yet withal so p'erisliing. 
 
 Even as the corpsi> that rest^ beneath their' wall 
 
 - i'lijin. hnniiii, 2. 
 
 f'li/i/i. Drrona, 151. 
 -Triumph, 1. 
 Triiiiiip/i, 1,38. 
 
 1592 Tlie shadows with swift wings 
 
 Speeded like thought upon the light of Heaven. 
 
 TriKin/ih, Hil. 
 Trill III fill ^ 4H5. 
 I>. II '. II. 15(1. 
 
 I>. W. II. .SI4. 
 I>. \y. II. :{22. 
 
148 
 
 ir)93 The sweetness .,f tl.e j.,y u l.i.h made Lis bieatli 
 
 fiul like tlie ti'aiices oi the suiiiiner ai\\ -~Siiii.^>tl .1 
 
 irm My thouglits arise and fade in solitude, 
 
 riie verse that would in\ est tlieui melts away 
 Like moonlight in the heaven of spreading day : 
 
 Fru'jm. V(j1. 'A, p. 40H. 
 
 159;' 
 
 'I'ill tins dreadful transport may 
 Like fi vapoiii- fade awav 
 
 — Misiry, X. 
 
 ir.96 Then clouds from sunheams, antelopes from leopards, 
 1^9/ And frowns and fears from thee 
 
 159S ^Vould not mori^ .swif'' "ee 
 
 ■ Then Celtie wolves from > Ausonian shepherds. 
 
 — 0(1.1' to v-i^. •/,'.■.■ 170. 
 
 1599 An.l swifter thy step than the earth.iuake's tramp : 
 
 icon 4 1 , — I^dii rty. III. 
 
 IbOO And ever changing like a joyless eye 
 
 That finds no object worth its constancy ? —To (he Moon, 5. 
 
 HJOl Ah, fleeter far than fleetest storm or steed 
 
 l'i02 Or the death ihey hear, 
 
 1()(»;} The heart which tender thought clothes like a <love 
 
 With the wings of care ; 
 i<>04 In whom love ever made 
 
 Health like a heap of embers soon to fade 
 
 Hid.') 
 
 UiOfJ 
 1608 
 
 r love Love -though he has wiin" 
 And like light can flee, ° 
 
 Swifter far than summer's flight. 
 Swifter far than youth's delight'. 
 Swifter far than "happy night. 
 Art thou come and gone. 
 
 l«l>9 Of that before whose breath the universe 
 Is as a ])rinc of dew. 
 
 HilO A star has fallen upon tlic eaith 
 
 Swifter than the thunder fell 
 To the heart of earth, 
 
 Hill The tempest of the . . . [incomplete! 
 doth (.ome, 
 Swift as tii'e, 
 
 I61'2 Marks- your creation rise as fast, as fair 
 As perfect worlds at the ('natDr's will. 
 
 i6i;i 
 
 -From Amliic, IJ, 
 — 7'o l<;mi(ki, II. 
 
 —Song, VIII. 
 — U( mtinlifnncf., I. 
 
 — Frai/ni. llrll. III. 
 
 S< flkio^ <)tj. 
 
 • — To Hi/roii. 
 
 I grow 
 
 I' rail as a cloud whose Ispleiidonrs) pale 
 Under the evening's eyer-changing glow : 
 lhl4 I die like mist u|)on the gale, 
 
 1<)15 And like a wave under the ctPlni 1 fail. 
 
 ~-Fm<jm. Vol. 4, p. 119. 
 ItilG Even whilst like a forgotten moon thou w.uiest ? 
 
 /■"rnf/i/i. \'(.l. 4, p. 1-Jl. 
 
141) 
 
 1617 That imtmeiit is gone forever, 
 
 Like iigiitniiig tiiat flashed and died, 
 
 1618 Liivc a siiowflake upon the river, 
 
 Like a sunh(!iitn upon tiie tide 
 161!» Wiiirh the dark shadows hide. -/-/(*'>■, Vol. 4, p. 148. 
 
 1620 Man"H brief and frail authority 
 
 Is powerless as the wind 
 'i'hat passetli idly hy. 
 
 V- 3/. III. 2:20. 
 
 1621 Aliasuerus fled 
 
 Fast as the shapes of mingled shade and mist. 
 That lurk in glens of a twilight grove, 
 
 Flee fi-om the morning heain - (/ JA. VII. 268. 
 
 SLVQLES OF LOVM 
 
 1622 
 1628 
 1624 
 162") 
 
 O Love I who to tile hearts of wanderinu men 
 Art as the ealm to Ocean's wearv wave.*!? — 
 
 <tC. VIII. xi. 
 
 I62(i 
 
 1627 
 
 162S 
 
 1621» 
 
 That love, which none may hind, he free to till 
 
 Tiie world, like light ; ' _A. ,(. C. VIII. xvi. 
 
 Virtue, and Hope, ami Love, like light and Heaven. 
 
 Surround the world.— -/,, ,(• ('. IX. xxiii. 
 
 and a light 
 Of li(piid tenderness like h>ve, did rise 
 From her whole frame, an atmospheie which ([uite 
 Anayed iier in its lieams, treiiuilous and soft and bright 
 
 -L. A- C. XI. V. 
 
 Tiie faintest stars are scarcely shorn 
 Of their thin beams by that delusive morn 
 Which sinks again in darkness, like the light 
 Of early love, .soon lost in total night 
 
 He it love, light, harmony, 
 
 Odour or tlie soul of all 
 
 Which from heaven like dew doth fall. 
 
 163(» 
 
 And the love which heals all strift- 
 Circling, like the breath of life. 
 All things in that sweet abode 
 Witii its own mild brotherhood : 
 
 the ovei])o\vering light 
 Of tliat immortal shape was shadowed o'er 
 Hy love ; wiiich, from his soft and (lowing limlis. 
 And pa.ssioii-j)arted lips and keen, faint eyes. 
 Steamed forth like vaporous tire ; an atmosphere 
 Which wrapt me in its all-di.s.solving power, 
 As the warm icther of tiie morning sun 
 
 Eufj. IIi//s, ,S1."). 
 -Eittj. Hills, 3(>«. 
 
 Wraps ere it drinks some cloud of wandei 
 
 •I ML' ( 
 
 lew. 
 --I'rom. II. 
 
 71. 
 
1.50 
 
 '^•'^' ill the depth of tlie (loop 
 
 Down, down. 
 
 Like tlic spark iiur.st in ondiers, 
 The hist look Love renienihers, 
 
 A ypell is treasured. 
 
 ^^^^rkf., . . l"ve like the atmosphere 
 
 Of the sun s f.re fillin^r the living w<.rhl, 
 Hurst fn.ni tliee, un.l illumined, 
 
 '•^•^•^ Conimcm as light is love, 
 
 wo< r -1 '^*' fJinidiar voice wearies not ever. 
 \M4 Like the wide heaven, the ull-sustainin.^ air. 
 It makes the reptile e(jual to the Cml : '" 
 
 1635 With love which i.s as tire, 
 
 — I'rnni. \\. \\\. 82. 
 
 -I'mni. ri. V. 2(5. 
 
 I'rom. II. V. 40. 
 ■I'rnni. m. iii. l.-)!. 
 
 ... „ . ,. the nnpu>|,al.l(. ihin air 
 
 And tlie all-eirchng suidight were transforme.l. 
 As It the sense of h,ve dissolved in them 
 Had folded itself around the .si.hercd world. 
 
 — /'mill. III. iv. ](»(». 
 
 I(i37 
 
 Hi38 
 
 UVM) 
 
 1G4(> 
 
 l(i4) 
 
 And from beneath, around, within. al..,ve, 
 iMllnig thy void annihilation, love 
 Kurst n. like light on caves cloven l.y the thunder-hall. 
 
 -I'rom. IV. ,S-,3. 
 And like a storm hurstiug its cloudv prison 
 W ith thnm er, ami with whirlwind', has arisen 
 Uut ot tile lanipless caves of unimagine.l heing : 
 
 I'riDii. |\". .-{y)!. 
 
 Which [.,c.. love] over all his kind, as the suns heaven 
 (.liding o er ocean, smooth, .serene, and even 
 Uarting from starry depths ra.lianc.- and life, .loth iiiov... 
 
 -I'rniii. i\\ .SS;-). 
 
 Man. oh, not men I a cliaiii of linkcl tiiought, 
 
 nt U)ve and might to he divided not 
 Compelling the elements with adamantine stre-^s 
 
 As the sun rules, even with a tvi-ant's gaze 
 
 1 he uiKjuiet repuhlic of the maze 
 Of planets, struggling tie.ve towards h..avenV free wilderness. 
 
 /'/•'(//(. |\'. .•i<)4 
 
 7'//. Moon. As in the soft and sweet eclipse 
 " lien soul meets .soul on lover.s' lips 
 High hearts are calm, and brightest eves'arc dull • 
 No, when thy shadow falls on n,c," 
 riicn am 1 mute and still, I)y Dice 
 ( overed : of thy love, Orb most beautiful, 
 I'uU, oh, too full. 
 
 1»)42 
 
 ir>4.s 
 
 Like the polar I'aradi.se, 
 Magnet-like of lovers" eves 
 
 1044 And the spring arose in that garden fair. 
 Like the Spirit of Love, felt evervwhere ; 
 
 I'roin. \\\ 4,-)(). 
 Prom. rV. 4(55. 
 ~S,'.nx. P. I. a. 
 
151 
 
 /'.I. .-)6. 
 
 1645 For eucli one was iiitei|)fiit'tra:.'(l 
 With the liglit luid odour its neighlumr shed, 
 Like young lovei's whom yoiilli and hn-e make dear, 
 Wrapped and tilled by tli'eir mutual atmosphere. 
 
 1646 Whether that lady's gentle mind, 
 No longer with the form eomhined 
 
 Whieh scattered love, as stars do light, -■sV/(.s. /'. (',,url. 5. 
 
 1647 the heaped waves l)ehold 
 The deep ealm of hliie heaven dilating ahove, 
 
 And, like passions made still l>y the presence of love, 
 
 Beneath the clear surfa<e reflecting it slide 
 
 Trenndous with soft inthience ; Vision of Sfn, 12K. 
 
 1648 Love is like understanding, that grows lirigiit, 
 Gazing on many truths ; "tis like tliv light, 
 Imagination, which from eartii and sky*^ 
 
 1649 With Howers as soft as tlioughts of hud<iing love ; 
 
 l>nt true love never vet 
 Was thus constrained ; it overlea|)s all fence 
 
 1650 Like lightning, with invisii)le violence 
 
 1651 Piercing its continents ; like Heaven's free bieatii, 
 
 1652 Which he who gras{)s can hold not : liker Death 
 Who rides ii])on a tliouglit, and makes his way 
 Through temple, tower, and palace, and the arrav 
 Of arms : 
 
 Epips. 161. 
 Epip.s. .S28. 
 
 Epips. 307. 
 
 165."i One passion in twin iicarts, which grows am 
 Till like two meteors of expanding flaine, 
 Those spheres instinct with it liecome tiie same, 
 Touch, mingle, are transfigured ; ever still 
 Burning, yet ever iiiconsumal)le : 
 In one anothers substance finding food, 
 Like flames too pure and light and uninii)ucd 
 To nourish tlieir bright lives witli baser piey. 
 Which point to Heaven and caiuiot ))ass away : 
 
 Free love lias this difi'erent fi'om gold and clay, 
 That to divide is not to take away 
 Like ocean which the general norih wind breaks 
 Into ten thousand waves, and eaiji one makes 
 A mirror of tlic moon like some great glass 
 Which did distort whatever form inigiit pass, 
 Dashed into fragments l)y a playful cliild, 
 Whit;h then reflects its eyes and foreliea<l mihl ; 
 Giving for one which it could not express, 
 A thousand images of loveliness. 
 
 rcw 
 
 1651 
 
 1655 
 
 1656 
 
 "Epips. 575. 
 
 1657 Untamable and fleet and fienc as tiie 
 1658 
 
 < 'diir. Epips. 17. 
 -(.'aw. Efiips, \\~. 
 
 tJKJU e\er soarest 
 Among the towers of men, and as soft aii' 
 In spring, which moves the unawakencd forest, 
 Clothing with leaves its branches bare and bleak, 
 Thou floatest among men — /'rinr, Ath. 11. 
 
 iv. I 
 
lo2 
 
 1659 al)()ve 
 
 One dream of Heaven smiles, like the eve of Love 
 
 On the uiKimet world : ' -iMhr In M. Q. 126. 
 
 1<»6(» And fed with love, like air und dew, 
 
 16H1 Its growth '/•/-, i, 
 
 " — I u (oils/. II. 
 
 I'i62 There is a warm and gentle atmosphere 
 
 About the form of one we love, and tlms 
 As in a tender mist our spirits an; 
 
 "^'■^P' ^Fra,jn>. \-ol. 4, p. 2U, 
 
 .SIxMILES OF DREAM. 
 
 '^^ ., ,. , like mist (m hreezes eiirled 
 
 l^rom my dnn sleep a shadow was unfurled A 
 
 <(• ('. iir. 
 
 1664 
 
 ... , , Talk with me 
 
 Ot that our land, whose wilds and Hoods, 
 iiarren and dark although 1 hey be, 
 yyere dearer tiian these chestnut woods • 
 1 hose heathy paths, tiiat inland stream,' 
 ^iiid the l)Iue mountains, shai)es which seem 
 Like wrecks of childliood's sunnv dream : 
 
 —Ji. .(• //. "20. 
 
 166r) Athens arose : a citv such as vision 
 
 Builds from the purple crags and silver towers 
 
 Ut hattleinented cloud, as in derision 
 
 Of kingliest masomy : —Oi/,- /<, L 
 
 1666 As one enamoured is uphorne in dream 
 O'er lily-paven lakes 'mid silver mist, 
 
 lo wondrous nnisic, so this shajjc might seem 
 
 It artly to tread the waves with feet which kitscd 
 
 The .lancing foam : -Triumph 
 
 1667 Along a shelving hank of turf, which lav 
 Under a copse, and hanllv daied to fling 
 
 Its green arms round tiie "bosom of the sti'cam, 
 
 IJut kissed It and tlien Hed, as thou mightcst in drcani 
 
 'h. \ 
 
 , 367. 
 
 -'Jiii.ll ion. 
 
 SIMILES OF THOUGHT. 
 
 166S Soft and delightful thoughts did rest and hover 
 
 Like shadows o'ei' mv brain / ,. /■ ■ 
 
 1669 And this i)elovcd child then felt the swav 
 Of my conceptions, gathering like a clou!l 
 Ihe very wind on which it rolls awav ■ L ,(• (' II xxxi 
 
ir>;} 
 
 1670 
 1671 
 lti7-i 
 
 1074 
 1675 
 
 1676 
 
 Swell arc llu- tii()iij,'iits whifli. like tia- tires that tlare 
 
 in stoini-eiicoiiipMssfd islfs. wi- clierisli yet 
 
 111 this (lark ruin. ' /,, ,i. (^' yj] xxxvii. 
 
 What is tliis uiidistingiiishahle mist 
 
 Of tlioiights, wliieh rise, like shadow after shadow. 
 
 D/irkeiiiiig each otiier'.' --<',/(((, III. i. 170. 
 
 Oiisiiircly tliroiiyii my hraiii, like siuidows dim, 
 Sweep awful tliouglits. lapid and tiiiek. 
 
 I lie tiiought 
 Wiiicii |)icrces tiiis dim uiu\cise like light. 
 
 Drive my dead thoughts over the universe 
 iJke withered leaves to (|uickeii a new liiitii 
 
 -J'roin. I. 146. 
 
 /Vo///. II. iv. 40. 
 
 \\%sl IVind, V. 
 
 And his ow n thoughts, along that rugged wav 
 
 Pursued, like raging houmls, their father and their prey. 
 
 A<loii XXXI. 
 
 Karth and ocean. 
 Space, and tiie isles of life or light tiiat gem 
 The sappiiire (It )ds of interstelhir air, 
 Tliis tiiinament jiavilioned u})oii chaos. 
 With all its cres.sets of immortal hie, 
 Who.se outwall, ha.stioiied impiegnahly 
 Against the escape of iRildest thoughts, repels them 
 As Calpe the Atlantii- clouds. —//»-//. 769. 
 
 1677 Thoughts after thoughts, unresting multitudes, 
 167^ Were driven within him, iiy some secret power. 
 
 Which hade them hla/.e, and live, and roll afar. 
 
 Like lights and .sounds from haunted tower to tower, 
 
 ()"er castled mountains lioriie, when tempest's war 
 
 Is levied hy the night -contending winds. 
 
 And the pale dalesmen watch with eager ear 
 
 — I'riiire At/i. I. 06. 
 167K As flowers l)eneath May's footsteps waken, 
 168U As stars from Night's loose hair are shaken. 
 1081 As waves arise when loud winds call. 
 
 Thoughts sprung where'er that step did fall. —Mn-d'. XX.\I 
 
 How beautiful they were, how linn they stood 
 
 Flecking the starry sky like woven pearl. -—Fni'ini. 77ioii>//tt.s. 
 
 Thy deej) eyes, a iloiihle Planet 
 (iaze tile wisest into madness 
 
 With soft clear tire,— the winds that fan it 
 
 .Are those thoughts of tender gladne.ss 
 Which, like zejihyrs on the hillow 
 Make thy gentle .soul thy pillow— —Soplun, II. 
 
 Ve gentle visitations of calm thougiit - 
 
 1684 Moods like the meinories of iiappier earth, 
 Which come arrayed in tlu.ughts of little worth, 
 
 1685 Like stars in clouds liy the weak winds eiiwrought, 
 Rut that the clouds depart and stars remain. 
 While they remain, and ye. alas, depart. 
 
 —Fraijm. \'ol. 4, p. 17. 
 
 168-J 
 1683 
 
■U 
 
 168H 
 
 „ ... , yo who .sit 
 
 1 avilioiied on the radiance or the L'lonni 
 
 Of mortal thougiit, which like an e.xhuh.tion 
 
 Meanmig from eartli, conceals tlie of hcav.'n 
 
 U hioli gave it l>irth _ ,, , 
 
 ol. Hrll. !). 
 
 1687 Until an envious wind crept l)y 
 Like an unwelcome thouglit", 
 Which from the mind's too faitiiful ev( 
 Blots one dear image out. 
 
 — To Janr, 81. 
 
 SIMILES OF NUMBER. 
 
 '*'^*^ tlio vast clouds tied 
 
 Countless and swift as leaves on autunnrs tempest she.'. 
 
 A. a- r. I. iv. 
 
 1689 Winged and wan diseases, an ari'a\- 
 
 Numerous as leaves that strew the autumnal gale ; 
 
 '^ A.'.L' a I. .x.xix. 
 
 1600 And multitudinous as the desert .sand 
 
 Borne on the storm, its millions shall a.lvanoe. 
 
 A. .f C. II. xlv. 
 /v. <(•('. VII. iii. 
 
 ^^^' tho.se millions swej)t 
 
 Like waves hefore the tempest— 
 
 '*^'*^ u 1 ■ 1 ., , ^'"^''' tlifongs did nuike 
 
 Uehuid the steed, a chasm like waves in a ship's wake 
 
 L. d- ('. X. iii 
 
 1693 (Jreat people, as the sands shalt thou l)..come, 
 
 -A. .(• C. XL 
 
 XXlll. 
 
 1694 Look, sister, where a troop of spirits gatiier 
 
 L^ke flocks of clouds in spring's delightful weather. 
 
 Thronging in tiie blue air I 
 
 Like tountaui -vapours when the winds are dumb 
 Ihat climl) up the ravine in scattered lines. 
 
 Four hundred thousand Mo.slems from the limit-^ 
 
 Of utmost Asia, irresistibly 
 ,'i';!^ '/,^li''"»g like full clouds at the Siro.xH.'s cr\ ■ 
 Ib97 Hut not like them to weep tiieir strength 'in tears 
 
 1698 
 
 The (irccian fleet 
 
 . , . ,. ... hung 
 
 As multitudinous on the ocean line 
 As cranes upon the cloudless Thracian wind 
 
 -Pro III. I. 664. 
 
 -/'roiii. I. 666. 
 
 ~-/fe/i. 275. 
 
 -Hell. 477. 
 
 1699 And when the windless snow descended thicker 
 
 Than autumn leaves —Witch \X\ 
 
155 
 
 1700 Ami iiV'f its gentle couiUeiiimco ilid j)lay 
 
 Thi" busy (liL'iims as thick as .suniinei' Hies. Wilih. XL 
 
 1701 And as the (lay grew hot, met liought I saw 
 A glassy vapour danc iiig on the pool, 
 
 And on it little (juaint and tiliny shapes. 
 With (li/./y motion, wiieel and rise and fall. 
 Like elouds of gnats with perfect lineaments 
 
 I'll tin. Ih-ainn, ■J.S4, 
 
 c/i<(.<. I. I. i:w. 
 
 1702 and the crowd divided 
 Like waves before an admirnl's prow. 
 
 1703 and a great stream 
 Of people there was hurrying to and fi'o, 
 
 Numerous as gnat.s upon the evening gleam. Trininph, 44. 
 
 1704 He made one of the multitude, and so 
 
 Was borne amid the crowd, as through the sky 
 
 One of the million leaves of summer's bier ; * Triimiph, 49. 
 
 1705 And as I gazed, methought that in the way 
 The throng grew wilder, as the woods of dune 
 When the south wind shakes the extinguished day, 
 
 1706 And saw like elouds upon the thunder l)last 
 The million with tierce .song and maniac dance 
 Raging around — 
 
 1707 Hut all like bubbles on an eddying flood 
 Fell into the same track at last, and were 
 Borne onward — 
 
 1 708 1 
 
 1705) - ' ^^^^ small gnats or Hies, as thick as mist 
 
 1710 I ^" evening marshes, 
 
 7'rlii/iijj/i, 74. 
 
 Triumph, 109. 
 
 Triumph, 458. 
 Triumph, 508. 
 
 nil each one 
 
 Of that great ciowd sent forth incessantly 
 
 These shadows, numerous as the dead leaves blown 
 
 In autumn evening from a poplar tree. -- Triumph, 528. 
 
 1712 The thronging thousands, to a ])assing view 
 
 Seemed like an ant-hill's citizens. - (^. M. \l. 101. 
 
/ 
 
LIl-H. 
 
 I was born in Toronto, Canada, on March 17, KS71. [ received 
 luy early education at Upper Canada Colle-e, a,.d matriculated at 
 the University of Toronto in 1887, where, with the intermission of 
 a year, T remained until the spring of 1892. In that year I graduated 
 with the Governor-Cieneral's medal in Modern Languages. For the 
 three following years T taught Modern Languages at Upper Canada 
 College, at the same time working under the general (lire(;tion of Dr. 
 iVight. In the autumn of iS'Ja I entered the .Johns Hopkins 
 University, where I followed courses in En-lish, Cerman and French. 
 In January, lH'^Q, I was appointed Scholar in the Department of 
 Fn^lish, and Fellow in June of the same year. I hav(! studied under 
 Dr. Bright, Dr. lirown, Dr. Wood, Dr. xMenger and Dr. .le Hahn, 
 to all of whom I desire to express my gratitude. ' 
 
 To Dr. Bright, especially, F wish to convey my warn) apptecia- 
 tion of the l.eneHt I have received from his stimulating and sympa- 
 thetic direction of my work. 
 
 Pf:lham Edgar. 
 
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