And shivering wolves, surprised with Of genuine crystals, pure as those that Whose zeal outruns his promise! Blue- LADY! the songs of Spring were in the How oft the malice of one luckless word Pursues the Enthusiast to the social board, Haunts him belated on the silent plains! Yet he repines not, if his thought stand clear, At last, of hindrance and obscurity, ΙΟ Fresh as the star that crowns the brow of The Emathian phalanx, nobly obstinate; And so the bright immortal Theban band, Whom onset, fiercely urged at Jove's morn; Bright, speckless, as a softly-moulded tear The moment it has left the virgin's eye, Or rain-drop lingering on the pointed thorn. XX. [Composed ?.-Published 1815]. THE Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said, command, Might overwhelm, but could not separate! XXII. [Composed ?.-Published 1815.] HAIL, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour! Not dull art Thou as undiscerning Night; "Bright is thy veil, O Moon, as thou art But studious only to remove from sight Went floating from her, darkening as it The self-same Vision which we now behold, At thy meek bidding, shadowy Power! brought forth; went; ΙΟ And a huge mass, to bury or to hide, Approached this glory of the firmament; Who meekly yields, and is obscuredcontent II These mighty barriers, and the gulf be tween ; The flood, the stars,-a spectacle as old With one calm triumph of a modest As the beginning of the heavens and And while the youthful year's prolific art Of a bedimming sleep, or as a lamp fashioning Abodes where self-disturbance hath no part. XXVI. [Composed ?.-Published 1835.] DESPONDING Father! mark this altered bough, So Or 1. 7 (edd. 1819, 1820, 1827); "sullen star," Excur- XXXII. COMPOSED ON THE BANKS OF A ROCKY [Composed ?.-Published 1820.] DOGMATIC Teachers, of the snow-white fur! Ye wrangling Schoolmen, of the scarlet hood! Who, with a keenness not to be withstood, Press the point home, or falter and demur, Checked in your course by many a teasing burr; 5 These natural council-seats your acrid blood Might cool;-and, as the Genius of the flood Stoops willingly to animate and spur Each lighter function slumbering in the brain, Yon eddying balls of foam, these arrowy gleams IO That o'er the pavement of the surging streams Welter and flash, a synod might detain XXXIII. THIS AND THE TWO FOLLOWING WERE Channels for tears; no Naiad shouldst Green herbs, bright flowers, and berry thou be, ΙΟ bearing plants, Have neither limbs, feet, feathers, joints, Rise into life and in thy train appear: And hath bestowed on thee a safer good; |