Rarely, rarely, comest thou Sleep, sleep on! forget thy pain Summer was dead, and autumn was expiring Tell me, thou star, whose wings of light That time is dead for ever, child. The awful shadow of some unseen Power The billows on the beach are leaping around it The cold earth slept below .. The everlasting universe of things The fiery mountains answer each other The flower that smiles to-day The fountains mingle with the river The golden gates of Sleep unbar The keen stars were twinkling. The odour from the flower is gone The pale, the cold, and the moony smile There late was One within whose subtle being There was a little lawny islet The rose that drinks the fountain dew 345 331 299 94 76 96 67 69 297 342 273 352 384 141 35 80 390 92 347 The serpent is shut out from paradise The spider spreads her webs, whether she be The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing. The wind has swept from the wide atmosphere . 281 228 362 142 227 336 36 95 PAGE Thou art fair, and few are fairer . 161 Thus to be lost and thus to sink and die We meet not as we parted We strew these opiate flowers. What! alive and so bold, oh earth? . 90 333 34 388 334 328 When passion's trance is overpast When the lamp is shattered. 351 Where art thou, beloved To-morrow? 363 Wild, pale, and wonder-stricken, even as one 353 144 Ye hasten to the dead! What seek ye there Cambridge: Press of John Wilson & Son. |