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PHILADELPHIA^
HENRY
ALTEMUS
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IN
UNIFORM Henry
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Walter
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Lake.
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POEMS
WRPTTEN
IN
YOUTH.
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To
Science,
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Aaraaf,
102
Tamerlane,
A
122
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Romance,
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jjj
Fairyland,
To
,
135
To The
the
River
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CONTENTS.
ix
LATER
POEMS.
PAGE
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Wit
kin
Dream,
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141
The
Bells,
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Helen,
Valentine
i^y
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A7i
Enigma,
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My
Mother
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M.
L.
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For
Annie,
Ulalume
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Annabel
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The
Poetic
Principle
THE
POETRY
OF
EDGAR
ALLAN
POE.
The
life
of
Edgar
but
far
as
Allan
Poe
is, fortunately,
readers
subject
poetry.
trate
that
little
the
concerns
of
his
As the
events
of of
his his
career
illus
we
enigmatic
a
character
to
genius,
them.
have,
may and
that
perhaps, imagine
artistic
his
right
from
inquire
of
about
We
that
parents
he
semi-Celtic
his
stock and
profession
and
inherited
came
genius,
his
pride
a
perversity
injudicious
of retold his
from
ing trainBut
by
the
so
wealthy,
or
foster-father. and
legend
often
too
myth
and
errors
misfortunes,
malice of
ours. or
told fond
by posthumous
is
by
Poe's in
indulgence,
is still
The
was a
really
that
no
affair
career
topic
spite
a
excites
controversy
America.
of
his
first
biographer,
when Poe" up Men from enemy the
are
Griswold,
Mr.
begetting published
natural
Ingram
his
"Edgar
(London,
hatred alive scornful defended who of
1880),
and
unwittingly
surviving
knew criticism.
scandal-mongers.
and
To
Poe,
who find
his
by
for other
an
Englishman
reasons,
spleen,
critics luckless
and,
were
fairer The
defense
American of this
not
conciliated.
xii
THE
POETRY
OF
man
of
genius
one.
is
not,
and
cannot
be
wholly
tions insinuaskill
can
successful
The
charges
but
and
no
may
an
refuted,
or
an
ascetic of of
a
human
being.
is
natural wish
see
poet's
man,
genius
should
should wish
to
think
among But
the
him
honorable,
wanted
as a
tle, genman
kindly
what his
and
wise.
also
poetry
the
lacks he
wanted
familiar
humanity.
with
Among
pride, and intolerable vdth the life-long regret, the desiderhtm which, having lost the solitary object and of its love, can find among M'omen living men and the objects of passing sentiment than more no passions,
was
affectionate known
caprice.
from
Love,
to
as
the
poets
and
have
it,
Catullus wild
to
Coventry
or
Patmore,
mestic, do-
love, whether
appears And this
and have
feverish been
stable
him Poe
to
unknown.
was
by
it is not husband
meant
that his
not
an
affectionate
of
wife,
before
but
that
the
better he
was
element
a man.
heart,
had
burned he
away
' '
knew
what
to
calls
that
sorrow
which
and
the in
living love
some
cherish
resembles
dead,
which,
of
the
minds,
delirium
opium."
gate
her
a
His the
a one
spiritwas
grave, and in
of
on
praise he
was
could compare
was
confer
woman
his he
maturity
to
to
whom months
had
lost while
he
still
boy.
"For
after her
decease,"
says
Mr.
Ingram,
EDGAR
ALLAN
FOE.
xiii
* '
Poe
. . .
would
go
nightly
when
the
to
visit the
tomb
of very-
the
nights
rains
the
most
were
and winds
autumnal
over
fell, and
he
mournfully
and
came
graves,
lingered longest
The
truth
away
of
our
this
anecdote
than
was
a
would world
be
more
for
as
or
purpose Poe
of controversies
to
whether
or
expelled
he We
from
school,
up
gambled, editorshipof
even
gave
see
the
him
occupied, pre-
boyhood,
with
the dead.
thought
In
of
death
and
condition
of the
his
prose
romanceshis
imagination
is
prematurely buried and explore the veiled things of corruption, his led wandering the hie jacets of lovers are among
the dead. This is the dominant
note
of
poetry,
reunion and
not
this wistful
of
regret, almost
souls
hopeless
distant of the
departed
fearful
in
the
"
the
Aidenn,"
dead is
almost dreamless.
that
sleep
*'The Which
lady sleeps!
is
Qh
may
be
her
sleep.
!
so efiduriftg,
deep
lie
pray
to
God with
that
she
may
Forever
While
the dim
xiv
THE
POETR
OF
Thus of
Poe's
verse
is
so
far
from
being
his
"
life," that
of death
it is
; and
often, in literal
even
earnest,
criticism
not
thoughts
heart
or
death,
Lenore
even
or
his
Lee
is not
Ulalume,
deal He of
with
solid in
a
realities,with
more porous va-
dwells
world
that
region
where
seas,
of crumble "dim
Atlas,"
into
fathomless
and
in
fairyland
haunted
with
vales
or
lost
palaces,
in
Not his He
Poe's only was practice thus scarcely more theory of poetry was avowed of that
all the
limited,
but
extensive.
most
is the
This
mate legiti-
was,
doubtless,
is the
by
most
Poe's
melancholy
human the least
as
devoid
so
actual
stuff, the
etherealized,
in action.
creation
likely
"the
result
speak, Poetry he
beauty,"
when it
defined
and
was as were
rhythmical
eyes
matter.
of
most
beautiful
Thus
such
topics
He ferring pre-
patriotism,prosperous absolutely
his
alien
to to
the
genius of Poe.
carried
theory Fouque's
"
"
the
absurd
to
more
length
works
full of of
of
Undine" is
no no
the
Molieres.
than
as
There and
poet
creature
"fifty humanity
so
of
Moliere.
fancy
empty
Undine,
sprite
who
is
no
more
substantial
EDGAR
ALLAN
FOE.
xv
than than
a
a
morning
solar of this
shower,
vapor
liked
more
evanescent
myth.
and and
Poe, who
the
melancholythan all
moods the
waste-watery
tenderness
sprite
and the
better
mirth
Mascarilles Tartuff
be
es,
was
Alcestes,
also of
the and
opinion
and
;
that
the
poem
could
long.
were
The"
Iliad"
Ee "Odyssey^"^
too
thought
mistakes
they
carried
heavy
When and matter. examined, weight of words into the this theory or paradox of Poe's shrinks Poe that common preferred place observations lyric poetry and that lyrics are essentiallybrief. In considering Poe's theory and practice,we must
not
forget
that
both
were,
in
part, the
then and
result
to
of
reaction.
American
literature and
intended
be
extremely
and
was
moral,
of it
was as
respectable,
didactic,
much
expected,
as
Poetry
to teach
morality
her
duty.
We
have
always
that poetry should plenty of critics who cry out be "palpitating with struggle actuality,"should the living facts of the hour," should with dignify indite industrialism, and perhaps, to paeans, sewing-machines and patent electric lights. Poe's
"
nature
was
and
ecstasies
are
tissue
and
self-complacent
no one was saw
content
more
commonplace,
Poe.
Thus
that
more
clearly than
he
the
to
aged encour-
by
his
rebellious
instinct
take
up
what
xvi
THE
POETRY
OF
was
then
singular
and
heterodox immoral
critical in
the does
not
position,
for of
He
has
lately been
these
called
America
limits
writing beauty
Its
words:
of
"Beyond
poetry
With
the
province
it has
extend.
or
sole
arbiter
is taste.
the
intellect relations.
the
has
conscience
no
only
collateral
It
dependence, duty
any
or one
unless
incidentally,
that busied
Poe's the
upon
either
To
truth."
who is
believes
best, the
poetry, great
nobly
the
no
with
great
passions,
have
These
fatallynarrow.
and
truth
we can
Without
"Prometheus."
ideas
great
the them
paramount
honorable
women
are
have
always
into
the
been
inspirers of
men
actions, and
are
by following
dramatic of is
and
led
situations
which
the
Homer.
materials
There
Shakespeare,
an
immortal Poe
^schjdus, strength
in
and in the
and
root
stories
of
great
actions; but
all action He
and
sanity,
tion. por-
deliberately
Now,
while
go about actions
chooses
poetry
never
to
distributing tracts,
and situations unconscious have lessons Poe's
neglect
which,
of
under
her
spell,
But,
his of
as
become
we
morality.
bent, and
criticism
said,
the his
natural
didactic made him
reaction
against
and
cheap
time,
his
country
neglect
EDGAR
ALLAN
POE.
xvii
passions, both in his practice the he When his theory. as spoke of Keats of Mr. flawless of English poets, and son Tennyand
most
as
"the
noblest
poet that
ever
lived,"
he
was
magical, by that in them which is most the undefinable most most intangible, and of their music, and inimitable inexpressible charm the Ode to by the delicious languor of the
attracted
"
' '
Nightingale"
poems creation
the
essence
and
of the
"
Lotus-Eaters." of the
to
These
are,
indeed,
of
"rhythmical
mind,
and
was
Poe's
and the
of
poetry.
secret
As
to
of he
Poe's
the
produced his melodies, the singular musical be attributed to much may and epithets, much appropriateness of his words technique by
which
to
his
elaborate
care
for
the
details
a
of
his
art.
George
describes the She rain
Sand,
a
in
"Un
Hiver which
Majorque,"
rainy night
how
to
half-ruinous tells
us
monastery
the be melodies
seemed
so
magically
any
music,
direct alive etait
that,
without of air
puerile attempt at sounds, his compositions were "Son of the tempest. genie
la nature
de plein des mysterieuses harmonies des traduites equivalents sublimes par pensee
des
was sons
a
dans
sa
musicale,
of
et
non
par
In
une
exterieurs."
kind
Poe's
pre-establishedharmony
xviii
THE
POETRY
OF
melancholy thoughts. As Mr. Saintsbury points out to me, though" his language into mere from not unfrequently passes vagueness literal and in the grammatical unmeaningness
musical words and
sense
of it,yet it
never
fails to
if
not
convey
sense.
the
proper the
suggestion
lines in
'
in sound
in
Take
Ulalume:'
'
//
was
7iightm
most
the
lonesoine
October
Of
Here words
my
immemorial
year.'
most
it would
to
puzzle the
a
adroit
sense
student
ticated authen-
of
attach
distinct
to
can
usual
by lexicons,
no one
'immemorial.' fail to
see
And that
yet
it is the
with
an
ear
emphatically
necessary
note
the
supplies
As
to
Poe's better
management
than
of
his
metres,
one
cannot
do
again. Saintsbury's criticism indefinite "The but same intensely poetic effect is produced still more obviously by Poe's management is acquainted of his metres. who Every one
quote
Mr. with his critical work
on
knows
the
care
(a
care
that and
brought
'
him
he
the
ridicule
on
'
of
sciolists
poetasters) which
The
bestowed
subjects.
Palace,'
in its till
own
Raven,'
Lee,'
'
Ulalume,'
'
The
'
Annabel
For
Annie,'
and
are,
metrical
we as a
marvels,
it is
have
admired discern
the the
EDGAR
ALLAN
FOE.
xix
selection
and these
and
skillful
constituent remains
juxtaposition of the parts of elements of each. Every one and uncopied as a unapproached
In
concerted
piece.
the
on
'The
Haunted
slackens Lee
Palace,' the
and
'
metre,
towards
statelyat
the
the
beginning,
In
dies
'
close.
'Annabel there
and
For
scendo cre-
Annie,'
contrary,
ebbs
is
in
at
steady
two
from
the
other but
pieces
alone whole. is the
the
and
flows
uncertain
skillfully arranged
With
most
Poe
stands
almost
as a
in this arrangement
lyric works
or
poets
line
the
stanza
unit, and
rather
the the
length
sense as
of the
poem
the the is
mined is deterBut
by
the
than well
as
by
sound.
sense
with
more
Poe than
the
music
sense,
(even
and
perhaps)
nor
arranged
projected
curtail metrical To
a or as
as
whole,
a as
would without
it be
omit well
stanza
the
critic and
who
himself
inexpressible
essence
of melodious
words
a
is of
the
of song, It is to
practice
Poe's,
is
so
perpetual warning.
as
verse
like
deficient vague
faint
it is in
so
all merit
but of
lyric music
the
stars
we
and
"
emotion,
devoid echo
human
passion
that
rhythmical
of if
own
among life
"
and
are
man's
we
laborious the
hold
native his
spoken
of
"valueless
verse," and
valueless
XX
THE
POETRY
OF
his
more
verse
must
than
it
and
if
we
ask
from
to
it
nothing
more ware.
give
go
but
to
never
music,
others
who
want
must
that
different if and
we more
We
shall
him
appreciate
men
keep comparing
human of
to
of
stronger
him of
a as
natures.
We
the
must
take
one
the
that
voices,
sound with
almost
in the
"shadow of song,
voice,"
fill
or
temple
He
or
and
little hour
music.
is not, like
Homer,
Scott,
can
or
Shakespeare,
Moliere,
the
sea,
poet that
of
men
live with
market
by
soul
in the
hills, in the
hours of
always, place. He
when inclined behind
or
is the
singer
it
rare
languor,
the
to
is vacant
as
of
were,
the
pride
echo
of life, and of
a
listen,
the
to the
lyre from
Moschus
He
is like
Bion
who
a
crossed that
the
ferry
reaches
and the
sings
ears
to
Pluteus
song
faintly
of
mortals.
Oi'/c eaaelQ'
a
aytpaaroq
juolTrd.
indeed is the
"Not
verse
unrewarded"
of Poe has been
singing, for
men
the far
prized by
powers
"
with his
a
a own.
wider
Poe Yet
range said he
and that
than
was
poetry
passion."
of much
of
real value
moment
the
public, or
for
very
creditable
to
m)^self."
in
They
the
greater
part, composed
the
EDGAR
ALLAN
FOE.
xxi
most
miserable
circumstances,
when the
a
when
poverty,
of had
a
when born
not
man
neglect,
yet
was won
cruel
indignation
where letters the
of letters, in
country
were
their
place,
to be
a
torturing
life," as
Lee"
poet.
The
He
compelled
"
bookseller's
hack.
hack's, is indeed
damnable
or
Goldsmith when
sent
said, and
"The
was
or
doubly
newspaper of
a
trebly damnable
were
Bells'*
of
the
"Annabel
the
of
round
for
offices
and
to
a
be
disposed
of
pieces master-
the
price
was a
dinner
pair
boots.
Poe's
time
for for
pittance, and
sake
of
the of
bread,
Then
crowd
venomous
mediocrities.
violent enforced
and
quarrels, which
the energy that he
with
of
hackIt is had
no
Avork, devoured
Avonder
the
poet.
even
produced
have
he
is many could
an
so
narrow
could He
not
looked that
volumes
not to
him.
not
declared
his
muse,
or
and
would
excite
"with
more
eye
the
paltry compensations
of said mankind." that he
the Thus
it may, himself he
often
verses
at
least, be
of
him,
was
in
his
poetry,
his is very
see
deserted he
one
earlier
as
Shelley,
to
any
may
lane" "Tamer-
has
and
the
"
read His
through
reputation
are
Al
does
not
rest
on
these
which
longer than
his
xxii
THE
POETR
OF
own
canon
admitted,
Haunted
but
on
pieces
"The
of verbal
music "To
like One
"The
Palace,"
Sleeper,"
the lines
in
Paradise,"
which
"Israfel,"
and
at
"To of
Helen,"
I have
placed
very
the
beginning piece
of
verse
this volume.
did
not
Though
in the
appear
he
editions
of Poe's
poems,
alwa3'S declared
for the
w^oman
it
was
written caused
to
in
boyhood
in Beddoes'
whose
half
death his
him,
inhabit
his
not too
phrase, "with
Poe
was
heart
aware
other
worlds."
well
that
"Raven,"
among clever his
to
despite its
best
immense
popularity, was
it is almost
works.
Indeed,
poetical,and has in it a kind of echo whose of ]\Irs. Browning, floating in the verse, poet's mind, probably suggested the composition. ''^The Haunted The "To Helen," Palace," and
be
"
perhaps
well his
as
the
most
most
coherent
and
s
the
melodious
of Poe
As
life and
sank
in
poverty,
his
versemore
ment, bereaveand
misfortune,
more
misery,
vagueness
approached
often
to
mere
can
the
of music, rather
in than
ing appealto
sensation be
in Ulalume limits
mere
any
"The
emotion Bells"
was
which
stated
the
"
words.
of
an
written
"
intervals
ural unnatto
lethargy;
remain
attracts
scarcely pretends
the
within
or
the
of
poetical art,
as
and
as
repels by
sounds
vacant
Mr. "Ulalume"
a
Stedman
says,
"seems
an
truly
provisati im-
violinist
might
play
upon
EDGAR
ALLAN
FOE.
xxiii
the
instrument
has
become
a
his
one
thing
had tion defini-
of worth
after
alone the
of
own
companion
The
"sense
who
odd
left him of
into
with
soul."
as
highest
"
poetry
made
are
swooning
verse
nonsense
seems
for
such
as
People
his is
so
constituted
in
to
that,
a
if
pleasure
such
thing
his
as
"Ulalume,"he
to
supposed
other courage has
an
admit
Thus one's for
ability in-
admire
moral
any
poetr3^
to
it may belief
require
that
even
some
"
assert
excuse
Ulalume"
is curious
It
sort
or
and
observing
be
that
to
this
of the
verse
is of
so
rare.
easy
make,
herd
imitators
approach
by its quantities of
art
exception
of
of
some name
Mr.
Morris's
"Blue
de
Closet," Nerval,
on
perhaps
side
In
seems
of
to
pieces by
any
border
Gerard
it is difficult
successful
between
lines
verse
the and
further music.
Poe that
of
the
this
to
dim
Thule,"
fact
The of
is,
the
art
of is
hints, of
not
an
fantasies,
one seem or as
unfinished
suggestions
both
is not of
easy
many
to
critics,
It forms
rare
poetry
and
to
painting,
obscure,
undefined.
suppose.
enough
be
to
introduce certain
very
A
make
needed
to
themselves
thus We
of art.
define
the
na-
xxiv
EDGAR
ALLAN
FOE.
ture
of of
as
the
witchery
art
by
was
which achieved.
the
most
difficult
did
ceed, suc-
task
romantic
is
Poe
confessed
cannot
by
be them. their the
the
wide
acceptance
if any
one
of
poems
that
to
mean
defended
chooses
attack
They melody
result' vent.
teach may
be
nothing,
they
Httle;
as
antly triumphtrick.
was
one
explained
But,
that prose,
as
lie
of
fait
ce
tour
qui
The
only
Poe
was
Poe
could
play.
in
a
Like
a
in
possessed
individual,
it
was
poetry
style
as
strange
it
style
trebly
of
a a
remarkable hack-writer.
of tastic fanold all his
because
the
Poe
property
remains sound.
J^hen
all and
is
said,
master
melancholy
of
a
Some
foolish
legend
rivals. ravished
tells His
the
musician
were
who
surpassed
sad,
strains
ears
unearthly
who his listened viol
was
and,
a
of
those Yet
with
but
strange
melancholy. string,
a
had
single
out
and
the
framework
breast-bone. in
fashioned
Poe's
verse
'
of the
dead
woman's is much
"
parallel player's
mournful,
which
his
own
taste
"
resembles
sweet
that and
minstrelsy.
and
It
is
morbidly
on
all
to
touched
a
that
single
immortal
string,
affection.
thrills
dead
and
TO
HELEN.
Helen,
Like
thy
those
beauty
Nicean
is
to
me
barks
of
yore.
sea.
That
gently,
The weary,
his
own
o'er
perfumed
wanderer
bore
To
On
seas
long
hair,
have
wont
to
roam,
thy
brought
was
classic
face.
home
Thy
To
me
the
glory grandeur
that
Greece,
was
And
the
that
Rome.
Lo
in
yon
brilliant
window
niche
How
The
statue-like
see
thee
stand.
hand
!
agate
lamp
from
within
my
Ah,
Are
Psyche, Holy
the
regions
which
Land
777^
RA
VEN.
Once
upon weak
midnight
weary,
dreary,
while
pondered,
and
a
Over
many
quaint
lore,
and
curious
volume
of
gotten for-
While
I
came
nodded,
a
nearly tapping,
napping,
suddenly
there
As
of
some
one
gently
door.
rapping,
rapping
at
my
chamber
"'Tis
some
visiter,"
door
"
muttered,
"tapping
at
my
chamber
Only
this,
and
nothing
more."
Ah,
distinctly
December,
remember
it
was
in
the
bleak
And
each upon
separate
the
I
dying
ember
wrought
its
ghost
Eagerly
wished
to
"
vainly
had
sought
From
my
the
books
of
sorrows
"
sorrow
for
lost
rare
Lenore
"
For
the
name
and
radiant
maiden
whom
the
angels
Lenore
"
Nameless
here
for
evermore.
THE
RA
VEN.
29
And
the
silken
curtain
sad
uncertain
rustling of
fantastic
each
ple pur-
Thrilled
me"
filled
;
me
with
terrors
never
still the
beating
of
my
heart,
stood "'Tis
some
repeating
visiter
door
"
entreating
entrance
at
my
chamber
Some
late
visiter door
;"
entreating
it
entrance
at
my
ber cham-
This
is, and
nothing
more."
grev:"
stronger;
hesitating
then
I,
"or ;
Madam,
truly your
and
so
forgiveness gently
at
implore
fact
But
the
came
is I
was
napping,
came
you
And
so
faintly you
chamber
I
scarce was
my
door.
sure
That
heard
;
you"
"
here
opened
wide
Darkness
the
door
there, and
nothing
more.
Deep
into
there
Doubting,
to
that
darkness
stood
dared
dream
But
the
silence
no
unbroken,
and
the
darkness
gave
token,
so
THE
RAVEN.
And
the
only
"
word
there
!"
spoken
echo
!"
was
the
whispered
back
word,
This
I
Lenore
whispered,
word,
and
an
murmured
the
"Lenore
Merely this,
and
nothing
more.
Back
into
me
the
chamber
turning, all
a
my
soul
within
Soon
tapping
that
somewhat
louder
before.
said
*'
Surely,"
my
I, "surely
lattice
;
is
something
is, and
at
window
see,
Let
me
then,
what
"
thereat
this
mystery
Let
explore
be
my
heart
still
;
"
moment
and
this
mystery
explore
the
'Tis
wind
and
nothing
more!"
Open
In
here
a
flung
the
shutter, when,
with
many
flirt and
flutter.
a
there
stepped
of yore. least
stately
made he ;
or
raven
of
the
saintljinstant
days
Not the
obeisance
or
he ; not
an
stopped
But,
with my Perched
mien
stayed
of lord
"
lady, perched
Pallas
above
chamber upon
a
door bust
"
of
just
above
my
chamber
door
Perched,
and
sat, and
nothing
more.
THE
RAVEN.
3^
Then
this
into
ebony smiHng,
and it wore,
bird
beguiling
decorum
my
sad
fancy
By
'
the
grave
stern
of
thi
ance counten-
Though
thy
grim
what
crest
sure
be
shorn
no
and
shaven,
thou,"
I said, "art
craven,
raven
Ghastly
the Tell
me
and
ancient
shore
"
wandering
is the
from
Nightly
thy lordly
shore the !"
name
on
Night's
Plutonian
Quoth
Much
I marvelled
so
raven,
"
Nevermore."
this
ungainly meaning
that
fowl
to
hear
course dis-
plainly,
little
"
Though
For
we
its
answer
little
relevarcy
bore;
cannot
help agreeing
blessed
door
"
no
living human
above
being
Ever
yet
was
with
seeing bird
bust
his
chamber B'rd
or
beast
upon
the
sculptured
name
as
"
above
his
chamber With
door.
such
Nevermore."
But
the
raven,
sitting lonely
if his soul
on
the
placid bust,
one
spoke only
That
one
w^ord,
as
in that
word
he
did
outpour.
further he
Nothing
then
then
"
he
uttered"
not
feather
fluttered
32
THE
RA
VEN.
Till
scarcely more
have
than
muttered
"
"
Other
friends
flown
before he will
On
the
morrow
leave
me,
as
my
hopes
have
flown Then
before."
the
bird
said
"
Nevermore."
Startled
at
the
stillness
broken
by reply
it
utters
so
aptly only
spoken,
*'
Doubtless,"
stock
said and
some
I, "what
is
its
store,
Caught
Followed
one
from
unhappy
followed bore
"
master
whom
ciful unmer-
songs
burden
Till the
that
melancholy
"
burden
bore
Never
"
nevermore,'
But
the
raven
still
beguiling
a
all
my
sad
soul
into
smiling.
wheeled and
bust the
Straight
bird
cushioned
seat
in
front
of
and
door;
Then,
upon
to
velvet
sinking,
what
I betook
myself
ominous
linking
Fancy
What
unto
fancy, thinking
of yore
"
this
bird this
grim,
Meant
and
ominous
bird
croaking
"
Nevermore."
THE
RA
VEN.
33
but
This
I sat
engaged
whose
core;
in
guessing,
now
no
To
the
fowl bosom's
fieryeyes
burned
into my
This
and
more
I sat
divining, with
lining that
my
head
at
ease
reclining
On
the
cushion's
velvet
the
lamp-light lamp-light
!
gloated o'er.
But whose velvet violet
lining with
ah,
the
gloating o'er,
S/w shall
press,
nevermore
Then,
methought,
from
an
the
air
censer
grew
denser, perfumed
foot-falls tinkled
unseen
Swung
by angels whose
the tufted
I
faint
on
floor.
God
sent
"Wretch,"
these
cried, "thy
hath
hath thee
lent
thee
"
by
angels he
and
!
Respite Quaff,
"
respite quaff
nepenthe
from
thy
memories
of Lenore
oh
nepenthe, and
forget
this
lost Lenore
Quoth "Prophet"
if bird
the
raven,
"Nevermore."
said
or
I, "thing
devil
!
"
of evil
!"
prophet still,
tossed
Whether
Tempter
thee here
sent,
or
whether
tempest
this desert
ashore.
all
"
Desolate
yet
undaunted,
on
land
enchanted
34
THE
RA
VEN.
On
this
I
by implore
" "
home
Horror
haunted
"
tell
me
truly,
tell
Is
there
is there
balm
in
Gilead
"
tell
me
"
me,
raven,
"Nevermore."
"
Prophet
that
we
!" said
or
I,
"
thing
!
of evil
"
prophet still,
by
that
if bird
devil
that
By
Tell
Heaven
bends
"
above
us
"
God
both
soul
adore with
this
sorrow
laden
if, within
the
distant
It
Aidenn,
a
shall
name
clasp
sainted
"
maiden
whom
the
angels
Lenore
Clasp
rare
and Lenore
radiant
?" the
maiden
whom
the
angels
name
Quoth
raven,
"Nevermore."
"
Be
that
I
word
our
sign
the
!
of
parting, bird
"
or
fiend
"
shrieked, upstarting
back into shore
"
Get
thee
tempest
token
and
the
Night's
lie
Plutonian
Leave
no
black
plume spoken
door !
out
as
of that
thy
bust
soul Leave my
above
hath
loneliness my beak
from
unbroken
"
quit
the
Take
thy
form
from
my door
heart, and
!
"
take
thy
off my the
Quoth
raven,
"
Nevermore."
THE
RA
VEN.
35
And
the is
raven,
never
flitting,
still
is
sitting,
still
sitting
On
the
pallid
door
bust
of
Pallas,
just
above
my
ber cham-
And
his
eyes is
have
all
the
seeming
of
demon's
that And
the
dreaming.
o'er
lamp-light
shadow
soul
on
him floor
streaming
;
throws
his And
the
out
my
from
the
that
shadow
that
lies
ing float-
on
floor
Shall
be
lifted
"
nevermore
THE
VALLEY
OF
UNREST,
Ojice Where
it
smiled
the
silent did
unto
dell
not
people
gone
to
dwell
wars,
They
Trusting
had
the
the
mild-eyed
their
above
azure
stars, towers,
Nightly,
To In
keep
the
red
the all
flowers,
which
day lay.
sun-light
visitor
lazily
shall
each sad
confess
valley's
there
restlessness.
Nothing
is the
motionless
"
Nothing
Over the
save
airs
that
brood
magic
no
solitude.
are
Ah,
That
Around
by
wind
stirred
the
those
seas
trees
palpitate
the
like
chill
misty
wind
Hebrides
those the
Ah,
That
by
no
clouds
are
driven
Heaven
rustle
through
from violets
morn
unquiet
even,
Uneasily,
Over
In
the
there
lie
myriad
types
of
human
eye
"
thb:
valley
of
unrest.
37
Over
And
the
lilies above
there
that nameless
wave
weep
wave
grave
their
They
Eternal
from
"
out
fragrant
in
tops
dews
come
down
drops.
delicate
stems
They
Perennial
weep
from
"
off descend
their in
tears
gems.
BRIDAL
BALLAD.
The
And
ring
the and
is
on
my
hand,
is
on
wreath
my
brow-
jewels
my
am
grand
at
command,
happy
now.
And
my
lord when
he
loves
he
me
well
But,
I
first
breathed
"
his*
vow,
felt
my
the the
bosom
swell rang
seemed
as
For
words
voice battle
knell,
who fell
And
In the
his the
now.
down is
dell.
And
who
happy
But
And
he
spoke
he
a
to
reassure
me,
kissed reverie
my
came
pallid
o'er
bore before
brow,
me. me,
me,
While
And
to
the
churchyard
to
And
sighed
him I
am
him
Thinking
' '
dead
D'Elormie,
now
Oh,
happy
"
BRIDAL
BALLAD.
39
And And
thus this
the
the
words
were
spoken,
vow,
plighted
my faith heart be
And, And,
Behold
though though
the
broken. broken,
my
be
golden
me
token
That
proves
happy
now
Would
For And Lest Lest I
God dream
soul
could
I is
awaken know
not
how,
my
an
sorely
be is
shaken
evil dead
not
step
who
taken,
"
the
forsaken
May
be
happy
now.
THE
SLEEPER.
At
I An
midnight,
stand beneath
in
the the
month
of
moon.
June,
mystic
opiate
vapor, from
out
dewy,
her
dim, rim.
Exhales
golden
And,
softly dripping,
the
drop
by
top,
drop,
Upon
Steals
Into
quiet
mountain and
drowsily
the universal
musically
valley.
upon the
about into
see wave
The
The
rosemary
nods
the
;
grave
lily
lolls
upon
Wrapping
The ruin
the
fog
its
rest
breast,
;
moulders
like
Looking
A And
Lethe,
slumber
! the
to
lake
conscious would
seems
take.
awake.
not,
for
"
the and
to
world,
lo!
the !
All
Beauty
casement
sleeps!
open her
where
lies
(Her
Irene,
skies)
with
Destinies
Oh,
This The
lady
window
wanton
bright
can
it
to
be
right" night
?
open
the
the the
airs,
from
tree-top.
Laughingly
through
lattice
drop
"
THE
SLEEPER.
41
bodiless
airs,
wizard
rout,
in and
through
wave
"
thy
chamber
out,
the
curtain
canopy
"
So
fitfully so
the
Above 'Neath
lid soul
lies hid.
That,
Like
down
the
wall.
fall !
ghosts
and
thou
the
shadows hast
art
rise and
no
Oh,
lady dear,
what
art to
thou thou
o'er
fear? here
?
Why
Sure
A
dreaming
far-off
trees !
come
seas,
wonder is
these
garden
Strange
And The
thy pallor ! strange thy dress! all, thy length of tress, Strange, above
this all-solemn
silentness
lady sleeps !
is have chamber bed
to
Oh, may
so
her
sleep,
!
Which
Heaven
enduring,
her
be
deep
one
in its sacred
keep
more
This This
I pray
changed
one more
for
holy.
melanchol3^
may
eye.
that
she
lie
Forever While
unopened
sheeted
the
dim
ghosts
go
by
My
As
love, she
it is
her
sleep.
!
Soft
Far For
about and
her
creep
forest, dim
some
old.
unfold
"
may
tall vault
42
THE
SLEEPER.
Some And
vault
that
oft
hath
flung
its
black
winged
panels
o'er the
fluttering
crested
back,
Triumphant,
Of Some her
palls.
"
grand
family
funerals
sepulchre,
whose
remote,
alone.
she idle whose echo
child hath
Against
In Some
portal
many from
out
an
thrown
childhood
tomb
stone
"
sounding
more,
door
She
ne'er
shall
force
an
Thrilling
It
was
to
think,
dead who
poor
of
sin
the
groaned
within.
THE
COLISEUM.
Type Of
of
the
antique
Rome
left
! to
Rich
reliquary
lofty contemplation
buried centuries
at
By
At Of
of
pomp after
so
length
weary
"
length
"
many
days
thirst in
man,
pilgrimage
for
an
and of
an
burning
lore that
(Thirst
I
the
springs
and and
thee
lie),
kneel,
altered
humble
so
Amid
thy
very
shadows,
soul
drink
within and
My
thy
grandeur,
gloom
glory
'
Vastness
! and ! and
now
Age
Desolation I
"
! and
Memories
! and
of
Eld!
!
Silence
I O
dim
Night
strength
feel
ye
feel
ye
in e'er of than
out
your
"
spells
more
sure
than
Judsean
king
!
Taught
O
Ever
in
the
more
gardens
potent
from
Gethsemane
the the
charms drew
rapt
Chaldee
stars !
down
quiet
Here,
Here,
A
where
where
hero
fell,
column
falls
in bat
the
mimic
holds
eagle
the
glared
gold,
!
midnight
vigil
swarthy
44
THE
COLISEUM.
Here,
Waved
where
the
dames
of
Rome
their
gilded
and
hair
to
the
wind,
now
wave
the
reed
thistle !
Here,
where
on
golden
throne
the
monarch
lolled,
his marble
horned
home.
moon,
by
the
wan
light
silent
of the
swift
and
lizard
of the
stones
But These
stay
! these
walls
"
these
"
ivy-clad
these sad
arcades
and
"
mouldering plinths
shafts
"
ened black-
These
vague frieze
"
entablatures
"
this
crumbling
wreck this
These
ruin
shattered
"
cornices
"
this
"
These
stones
"
alas
! these
grey
stones"
are
they
all"
All
of the
famed,
and
the
to
colossal
Fate and
left
me?
By
the
corrosive
Hours
'*
Not
all
"
"
the sounds
Echoes and
all
answer
me
"
"
not
all !
Prophetic
From
us,
loud, arise
forever the
Sun.
"
and
from
Ruin,
to
unto
wise,
As We With
melody
rule
a
from hearts
Memnon
the
the
of
despotic sway
we
rule
THE
COLISEUM,
45
We Not Not
Not
are
not
impotent
power
is
"
we
pallid
not
"
stones.
all
our
gone
our
all
our
fame
"
all
all
the
magic
wonder
of
high
encircles
renown
"
the
the the
that that
us
"
Not
Not And
all
all
mysteries
memories around in about robe
in
us
lie
"
that
hang
us as a
upon
cling
us
garment,
Clothing
of
more
than
glory."
LENORE.
Ah,
broken for
is
!
the
golden
bowl
! the
spirit
flown
ever
Let
the
bell
toll river
de
!"
saintly
soul
floats
on
the
Stygian
And,
now
Guy
or
Vere,
more
hast
!
thou
no
tear?
"
weep
never
See
on
drear
!
and
rigid
bier
low
lies
thy
love,
Come
!
the
burial
!
"
rite
be
read
"
the
funeral
song
An
sung
anthem died
so
for
the
queenliest
dead
that
ever
young her
"
dirge
died
for
the
doubly
dead
in
that
she
so
young.
ye her
she that for
her
for
her
wealth
and
pride,
feeble
!
fell she
health,
ye
blessed
LENORE.
47
How
shall
ritual, then,
be sung
the
be
read?"
the
requiem
By
That
you
"
by
to
so
evil
eye,
"
by yours
died,
the
slanderous
did
tongue
death
the
innocent
that
and
died
young?"
Peccaviinus;
Sabbath Go up feel The
sweet to
no
rave
not
thus!
and
let
solemnly
!
the
dead
may
hath
"gone
before,"
with
Hope Leaving
have For
flew wild
beside.
for
the dear
child
that
should
thy
bride" and
debonair,
that
now
so
lowly lies.
The life upon
her
her
"
yellow hair,
upon her
but
not
within
eyes
The
life upon
hair
"
the
death
"Avaunt!
" '
heart
is
light.
No
her
with flight
Pa^an
days
'
48
LENORE.
no
toll!
"
lest
her
sweet
soul,
amid
mirth,
the damned
note,
Earth.
from
as
it
doth
float
"
up
friends
above,
fiends
below,
the
indignant
"From
ghost
unto
a
is
riven
"
high
estate
far
up
within
"
"From beside
grief
the
and
groan, of
to
golden
throne,
King
Heaven."
CATHOLIC
HYMN.
At
morn
"
at
noon
"
at
twilight
dim
"
Maria
thou
hast
heard my
hymn
In
joy
and
wo
"
in
good
and
ill
"
Mother
of
God,
be
with
me
still
When
the
Hours
flew
brightly
by,
And
not
cloud
a
obscured
the
sky.
My
soul,
lest
it
should
truant
be.
Thy
did
grace
guide
to
thine
and
thee;
Now,
when
storms
of
Fate
o'ercast
Darkly
Present
and
my
my
Past,
Let
Future
radiant
shine
my
With
sweet
hopes
of
thee
and
thine
ISRAFEL*
In
Heaven "Whose
spirit
doth
dwell
are a
heart-strings
so
lute
"
None As
And
sing
the
the
wildly
Israfel,
stars
well
angel giddy
their
(so legends
attend
tell),
Ceasing
Of
hymns,
all
mute.
the
spell
his
voice,
Tottering
In The Blushes
her
above
highest
enamored with
to
noon,
moon
love, listen,
the
red
While,
levin
even.
(With
Which Pauses
the
were
rapid
Pleiads,
seven),
heaven.
in
And And
That Is
they
the
say other
(the
starry
choir
listening
fire
things)
Israfeli's
owing
angel
has the
to
that
lyre
lute,
*And and
who
the
Israfel,
sweetest
whose
heart-strings
of
all God's
are
voice
creatures."
Koran,
ISRAFEL.
51
By
The Of
which
he
sits and
sings
"
strings.
But
the
skies
that
angel trod,
are
Where
deep thoughts
Love's the
a
duty
"
"
Where
Where Imbued
grown-up
God
are
Houri
glances
all the
in
a
with
we
beauty
star.
Which
worship
Therefore,
thou
art
not
wrong,
Israfeli, who
An To
despisest
song;
unimpassioned
thee
Best the
laurels because
belong,
the
!
bard,
wisest
Merrily
live and
long
The
ecstasies
above
"
With
Thy
suit thy burning measures grief,thy joy, thy hate, thy love. the may fervor
the of
With
Well
thy
be
lute
mute
"
stars
Yes,
Is Our And
Heaven
a
is thine of sweets
are
but
and
"
this
sours
world flowers
merely
of of
flowers,
the Is the
shadow
sunshine
52
ISRAFEL.
If Where
could
dwell
Israfel
Hath He A
dwelt,
not
and
he
where
I,
well
might
mortal
sing
so
wildly
melody,
bolder
note
While
From
than the
this
might
swell
my
lyre
within
sky.
DREAMLAND.
By
route
obscure
and
lonely, only,
named
Haunted Where On
I
a
by
an
ill
angels
Eidolon,
throne these
dim
Night,
black reached
reigns
lands
upright,
but
have
an
newly
From From
ultimate
a
Thule
"
wild
Space
weird
out
"
clime
of Time.
that
lieth,
sublime,
Out
of
vales
and that
and
caves,
no
boundless
and
man can
floods,
Titan
chasms,
forms the
woods,
discover
over
dews
that
drip
evermore
all
toppling
without
that
a
shore
restlessly
unto
aspire,
of
Surging,
Lakes Their Their that lone
skies
fire;
endlessly
waters
"
outspread
lone still
"
and and
dead,
"
still the
waters
chilly lily.
With
snows
of
the
lolling
54
DREAMLAND.
By
the
lakes
lone
that
thus lone
outspread
and and
Their
Their With
waters, waters,
snows
dead,
"
sad
the
sad
chilly
"
of the
"
lollinglily,
river
ever,
"
By
the
grey the
woods,
toad
tarns
"
by
the
the
newt
swamp
encamp,
-
Where
and
By
the
dismal dwell
and
pools
"
Where
the
Ghouls,
most
By
In There
each each
the
spot
nook
the
most
unholy
"
melancholy,
meets
"
traveller
aghast
Past
"
Sheeted Shrouded
As
Memories
forms
of the that
start
and
"
sigh
they
pass
the
wanderer of friends
White-robed
In
forms
to
by long given,
Heaven.
agony,
the
Earth
"
and
For
'Tis
the
a
heart
whose
woes
are
legion
"
walks
in
shadow
oh, 'tis
Eldorado!
the
not
it,
May
To
dare its
not
openly
are
view
it ;
Never
the
mysteries
human
exposed
;
weak
So
The
wills
its
king,
who
uplifting of
the
fringed
DREAMLAND,
55
And
thus
it
the
sad
Soul
that
here
passes
Beholds
but
through
darkened
glasses.
By
route
obscure ill
and
lonely,
only,
named
Haunted
Where
by
an
angels
Eidolon,
throne home dim
Night,
On I have
reigns
but
upright, newly
From
ultimate
Thule.
SONNET:
TO
ZANTE.
Fair
isle,
that
from
the
fairest
of
all
flowers,
dost
Thy
How
gentlest
memories
of
all
gentle
of
names
take
many
At
what
radiant
hours
sight
of
thee
and
thine
at
once
awake
How
many How
scenes
of
what
departed
of
bliss
many
thoughts
visions
of
what
entombed
hopes!
is
How
many No
maiden
that
more
"
no
more
upon
thy
sad
verdant
slopes
No
mo7'"
alas,
that
magical
sound
Transforming
all!
Thy
charm
shall
please
110
7no7'e
"
Thy
memory
no
more
Accursed
ground
Henceforth
hold
thy
!
flower-enamelled
shore,
hyacinthine
' '
isle
purple
di
Zante
I sola
d'oro
Fior
Levante
"
THE
CITY
IN
THE
SEA.
Lo In
Death
has
reared
himself
throne
strange
down
city lying
within
the and
alone
dim the
Far Where
West,
bad and
the
and
good
the
to
the
worst
best,
their
eternal
rest.
Have Their
gone
shrines
and
towers
palaces
that
that is
and
towers not !
(Time-eaten
Resemble
tremble
ours.
nothing by
Around,
lifting
winds
the
forgot,
sky
Resignedly
The
beneath
waters
melancholy
lie.
No On
rays
the But
from
the
holy
heaven
of
come
down
;
long light
up
night-time
from
the
out turrets
that
lurid
town
sea
the
Streams
silently
far
"
Gleams
up
"
the up
pinnacles
spires
"
and
free
"
Up
Up Up
Of
domes
up
kingly
walls
"
halls
"
fanes"
up
shadowy
bowers flowers
"
sculptured
58
Up
The
THE
CITY
IN
THE
SEA.
many
and
wreathed
many
marvellous
intertwine the
shrine
Whose
friezes
viol, the
violet, and
vine.
Resignedly
The So That blend all
beneath
the
sky
lie. shadows
in
melancholy
the
seem
a
waters turrets
and
there
pendulous proud
tower
air.
town
While Death
from
looks
in the
gigantically down.
There
Yawn
But In
open
level
not
and the
gaping
luminous there that eye
"
graves
waves
riches
lie
each the
idol's
diamond
Not
gaily-jewelled dead
the
waters
Tempt
For
no
from
their
bed
ripples curl,
that
alas !
of
Along
No
wilderness
tell that
glass
may
sea
"
"
swellings
some
winds
be
Upon
No On
far-off
hint
happier
that
heavings
seas
winds
serene.
have
been
less
hideously
But The As In
lo,
wave
stir is in the
"
air !
movement
there
towers
is
there
if the
had
aside,
tide
"
slightlysinking,
THE
CITY
IN
THE
SEA.
59
As A
if
their within
tops
feebly filmy
now
a
given
void
The
waves
glow
and
"
The And
hours
are
breathing
no
low"
when, Down,
down
amid
earthly
town
moans,
that from
shall
settle
hence,
Hell,
Shall
rising
do
it
thousand
thrones,
reverence.
TO
ONE
IN
PARADISE.
Thou
For A green A All
wast
all my
in
that
soul the
a
to
me,
love.
which
isle
did
sea,
pine"
love,
fountain
wreathed
and
shrine,
fairy
were
fruits
and
flowers,
And
all
mine.
Ah, Ah,
But
A
dream
too
bright Hope
! ! out
to
last didst
starry
to
that
arise
be
overcast
voice
!
on
from
"
"
the
the
Future
Past
cries.
On
but
o'er
(Dim
Mute,
gulf
!) my
lies
motionless,
For,
The
alas
! alas
! with
me
light
more
"
of
no
Life
more
is
o'er
no
No
"
more
"
(Such
To
language
the sands
holds upon
the the
solemn
sea
shore)
tree,
!
Shall Or
bloom the
the stricken
thunder-blasted
eagle
soar
TO
ONE
IN
PARADISE.
And
all And
my all my
days
are
trances,
dreams
nightly
dark
Are And
In
where where
thy
eye
glances, gleams
"
thy
footstep
dances,
streams.
what
ethereal
By
what
eternal
EULALIE.
DWELT
alone of
a
world
was
moan,
soul
stagnant
Eulalie
tide,
became
and
gentle
"
my
ing blush-
yellow-haired
young
Eulalie
became
my
smiling
bride.
Ah,
The Than the And That With Can vie the with
less"
stars
less of of
bright
the
night
radiant
eyes
never
the
a
girl
flake
can
the
vapor of modest
make and
s
moon-tints the
curl
"
purple
Eulalie'
pearl,
most
garded unre-
Can
with
the
bright-eyed
curl.
Eulalie'
most
careless
Now Come
For
Doubt
"
now
Pain
never
again.
me
her
soul
gives
sigh
for
sigh.
EULALIE.
63
And
all
day
bright
the
long
and
Shines,
Astarte While within
to
strong,
sky,
dear
Eulalie
ever
her
upturns
her
matron
eye
to
"
While
ever
her
young
Eulalie
upturns
her
violet
eye.
TO
5.
D.
Thou
wouldst
be
loved?
"
then
let
thy
heart
From
its
present
pathway
part
not
Being
everything
which
now
thou
art,
Be
nothing
which
thou
art
not.
So
with
the
world
thy
gentle
ways,
Thy
grace,
thy
than
more
beauty.
Shall
be
an
endless
theme
of
praise,
And
love
a
"
simple
duty.
TO
F
.
Beloved
amid
the
earnest
woes
That
crowd
around
my
!
earthly
path
"
(Drear
Not
path,
alas
where
grows
even
one
lonely
at
rose)
"
My
In
soul
least
solace
hath
dreams
of
thee,
and
therein
knows
An
Eden
of
bland
repose.
And
thus
thy
memory enchanted
is
to
me
Like
some
far-off
isle
In
some
tumultuous
sea
"
Some
ocean
throbbing
storms"
far
and
free
With
but
where
meanwhile
Serenest
skies
continually bright
island smile.
Just
o'er
that
one
SONNET:
SILENCE.
There
are
some
qualities
"
some
incorporate
things,
That A have
of that
a
life,
thus
is
made
type
From
entity light,
springs
in solid and
matter
Silence
"
sea
and
shore
"
Body Newly
and with
One
dwells
in
lonely
some
places,
solemn
grass
o'ergrown;
graces, Some
Render human memories and
lore,
"
him
is
terrorless:
his Silence:
No
More."
not!
He
the
corporate
hath he
him
No
power should
of
evil fate
himself
But
some
urgent
to meet
(untimely
(nameless
where
lot
!) elf.
Bring
That
thee haunteth
his
shadow
the
lone
regions
hath
trod
!
No
foot
of
man),
commend
thyself
to
God
THE
CONQUEROR
WORM.
Lo!
'tis
gala
the
night
latter years
!
Within
An In
lonesome
angel
veils,
in A
a
throng,
and
bewinged,
drowned
to
see
bedight
tears,
in
Sit
theatre,
of
play
the
hopes
and
fears,
breathes
While The
orchestra
of the
fitfully
music
spheres.
Mimes,
Mutter
in
the and
form mumble
of
God
on
high,
low.
And
Mere
hither
and
thither
fly
who
"
puppets
of
vast
they,
come
and
go
At
bidding
That shift
formless scenery
to
things
and
the
fro.
Flapping
Invisible
from Wo
out !
their
Condor
wings
That
It With
motley
shall
not
dramabe
oh,
be
!
sure
forgot
chased
its
a
Phantom that
for it
evermore
By
crowd
seize
not,
6S
THE
CONQUEROR
WORM.
Through
To the much And
circle
that
ever
returneth
in
self-same of
spot,
and of the
more
And
Madness,
the
soul
of
Sin,
Horror
plot.
But
A
see,
amid
the
rout !
crawling
shape thing
solitude
blood-red The
scenic
writhes
from
out
It
writhes The
!
"
it writhes become
sob
with
mortal
pangs
mimes
the
its
at
food,
And In
seraphs
gore
vermin
fangs
human
imbued.
Out
"
out
over
are
the
each
a
lights
out
"
all
And,
The
quivering
funeral with
all the
form,
curtain,
Comes down
pall.
rush
and
of
storm
And
the
angels,
palhd
wan.
Uprising,
That And
the
unveiling, play
hero is the the
affirm
tragedy
"
Man,"
Worm.
its
Conqueror
THE
HAUNTED
PALACE.
In
the
greenest
of
our
valleys
By
Once
good
a
angels
and
tenanted,
fair
stately
reared
"
palace
its
"
Radiant In the It
palace
monarch there
head.
"
Thought's
!
dominion
stood
Never Over
seraph
fabric
spread
half
so
pinion
!
fair
Banners On
its
yellow,
roof did
"
glorious, golden,
float
was
and
flow,
olden
(This
Time
all
"
this
in
;
the
long
every
ago)
And
In
gentle
sweet
air
that
dallied.
that the
day,
plumed
went
Along
A
ramparts
odour
and
pallid,
winged
away.
in
Wanderers
happy
two
that
valley,
windows,
saw
Through
luminous
Spirits moving
To
a
musically,
well-tuned
a
lute's about
law, where,
Round
throne
sitting
(Porphyrogene
In
state
!)
well
realm
his
ruler
glory
of
the
befitting,
was seen.
The
70
THE
HA
UNTED
PAEACE.
And
Was
pearl
and
ruby glowing
fair
palace door,
came
Through
which
"
flowing, flowing,
flowing,
And
sparkling
of but
evermore,
troop
Was
Echoes,
to
whose
sweet
duty
sing,
of their
In
voices The
of
surpassing beauty.
wisdom
wit
and
king.
But
evil
things,
toe
us mourn
in
robes
of sorrow.
Assailed
monarch's
!
"
high
never
estate.
(Ah,
let
for
him
morrow*
Shall
dawn
upon
about
desolate
the
I)
And
round
his and
home
glory
That Is but
a
blushed
bloom.ed, stoiy
dim-remembered
old time
Of
the
entombed.
And
travellers,
now,
within
that
valley,
see
Through
Vast To
the that
red-litten
move
windows
forms,
a
fantastically
discordant
I'ke
a
melody,
pale
door
out
no
While,
Through
A hideous And
the
throng
"
rush smile
laugh
1. sorroiv,
but
V.
an
obvious
misprint.
POLITIAN.
FROM
"
SCENES
SCENES
FROM
^^POLITIANr'
AN
UNPUBLISHED
DRAMA.
I.
ROME.
"
Hall
in
Palace.
Alessandra
aftd
Castiglione.
Alessandra. Castiglione.
Thou
art
not
sad.
I.
Castiglione.
Sad!
"
Oh,
A few
I'm
the
happiest,
more,
happiest
knowest,
man
in my
Rome Alessandra.
'.
days
make
Will
thee Methinks
Oh,
hast
am
very
a
happy!
way
of
Aless.
singular
showing
Thy
Why
Cas.
I A
was
happiness!
didst Did
not
what
"
ails
so
thee,
cousin
of
mine?
thou I
sigh sigh?
deeply?
conscious
a
of
it.
It
is
fashion,
silly
most
"
silly
fashion
Did
have
When
am
very
happy.
sigh?
{Sighing.)
74
Aless.
SCENES
FROM
'TOLITIANr
Thou
didst.
Thou
art
not
well.
Thou
indulged
of
am
vexed
"
to
see
it.
and thee!
are
Castiglione,
art
"
these
"
thou
already
altered
so wears
Thy
The
looks
haggard
as
nothing
hours
and fair
"
away
constitution
late
wine.
cousin,
Cas.
"
(iinising.) Nothing,
not
even
nothing
deep
like evil
sorrow
Wears I will
it away
hours
and
wine.
amend. Do
Aless.
it.
I would
too
"
have
thee
drop
low born
Thy
And
riotous
company,
like with
fellows
111 suit
the
Di
Broglio's heir
Alessandra's
1 will
Cas. Ai.Ess.
drop
Thou
more
wilt
thou
must.
Attend
thou
also To For
thy
dress
and
equipage
and
"
they
"
are
over
plain
fashion
much
depends
Upon
Cas.
to
it.
see
Aless.
sir.
Then
to
it!
"
pay
more
attention,
To In
becoming
Much,
carriage
much,
"
much
thou
wantest
dignity.
Cas,
oh, much
I want
In
Thou
mockest
me.
Sir!
Sweet,
gentle Lalage!
SCI^XES
FROM
''POLITIANr
75
Aless.
I
Heard
to
I he
aright?
speaks
Jicr of //and
speak
him
"
Lalage
on
Sir
Count!
{places
art
his
shoidder)
not
what
What
thou
sir?
dreaming?
He's
well!
ails thee,
Cas.
I
crave
{starling. ) Cousin
! fair coasin
!
"
madam
thy pardon
hand from air is most
"
indeed
am
not
well
Your This
off my
shoulder,
!
"
if you
"
please.
the
Duke
'
oppressive
Madam
Enter
Di
Broglio.
Di
Broglio.
My
the
son,
I've
news
for thee!
"
hey?
Ales-
"what's
sand
matter!
{observin.g
! kiss
ra.)
Kiss make
the
pouts!
her, Castiglione
it up, both. I say,
her,
!
You I've
dog
news
! and
this is
minute
you
"
Politian
expected
his
Hourly
We'll
To
Politian, Earl
the
of Leicester! 'Tis
have
at
wedding.
first visit
the
Aless.
imperial city.
What!
PoUtian
of Leicester?
same,
Of
Britain, Earl
Di Brog. The him but
my
love.
A
man
We'll
In But
have
at the
wedding.
of
quite young
not
seen
years,
rumor
grey
in fame. of him
as
I have
a
him.
speaks
in
prodigy
wealth,
at the
Pre-eminent
arms,
and him
And
high
descent. I have
have much
wedding.
Aless.
of this
Politian.
76
Gay,
And
Di
SCENES
FROM
''PO
LIT
I AN."
and
not?
Far
from
it, love.
of all
No So
branch,
they
few
'Tis
say,
he
are
philosophy
mastered it.
deep
Aless.
abstruse
as
has
not
Learned
learned.
very
men
strange
have
seen
I have
known
Politian
And
As
sought
of
one
his
company.
entered
They madly
into
to
speak
life,
the
seen nor
of him
who the
Drinking
Cas. And He From Di Let
us
cup
of
pleasure
dregs.
Politian mirthful
he.
Ridiculous
him
! Now
/ have
learned
man
know
is
a
well
"
nor
a
dreamer,
and
shut
out
common
passions.
Children,
forth
and Did
we
Brog. go
disagree.
the
taste
fragrant
or
air
I hear
Of
the
garden.
was
a
I dream, man?
did
Politian
melaticholy
{Exeunt.)
"
window
Lalage,
table
on
fling, reading
books
and
a
at
lie
/iand-?nirror.
leans Lal.
maid)
Jacmta!
SCENES
FROM
''POLITIANr
77
J AC.
Lal.
I'm
here.
were
know,
Jacinta. you
presence
most
in waiting.
Sit down
Sit down
!
"
my
trouble
you
"
!
"
humble,
time.
humble.
Jac. {aside).
'Tis
ner herself 171 a sidelong man(Jacinta seats upon the chair, resti?ig her elbows tress ttpoftthe back, and regarding her miswith look. Lalage a contemptuous continues to read.)
Lal. "Bore
a
"
It in another
climate,
so
he
not
said,
i'this
bright golden flower, but leaves, over some {Pauses, turns lingering
shower
"
soil !
"
and
nor
restimes.)
snow,
nor
"No
winters
there,
"
But
Ocean
ever
to
refresh
mankind
western
"
Breathes
the
!
"
shrill
most
spiritof the
beautiful soul
!
"
wind."
like
.
Oh,
To O
beautiful what my
how
fevered
doth
dream died!
"
of
Heaven maiden
happy
still
land!
{Pauses.) She
maiden who
the
died! O
more
happy
couldst
die !
and
Lalage
Told
Thus
of
beauteous
one
dame
beyond
in
the
the
sea
speaketh
Ferdinand
words
of the
play"
78
' '
SCENES
FROM
''POLITIAN."
She
died
full young
not
so
"
"
"
one
Bossola
answers
him"
"
I think
her
"Seemed
to have
"
Ah,
luckless
lady Jacinta
But
Of A She Lean With
!
"
{Still no
Here's
a
far
sterner
despair that Egyptian queen, winning so easily thousand hearts losing at length her own.
" " "
like
oh, very
like in its
died.
o .-er
Thus her
endeth and
"
the
"
weep
gentle
and
names
Eiros
!
"
and
Charmion
Rainbow
Dove
Jacinta !
so
is it? what {pettishly).Madam, Lal. Wilt thou, my good Jacinta, be As in the library and bring me go down The Holy Evangelists?
J AC.
kind
J AC.
Lal. For Dew Will the
Pshaw!
If there wounded be
{Exit.)
balm Gilead
it is there trouble far
on
in spirit
in the there
night
be found like
time
"
"
of my
bitter
sweeter
dew of
than
that hill."
Which
hangs
chains
pearl
and
Hermon
a
{Re-enter Jacinta
on
throws
volinne
the
table. )
's the book. Indeed
Jac. There,
very Lal.
ma'am,
she
is
{Aside.)
thou
{astonished).
Have
thee
to
say,
cinta? Ja-
I done
vex
aught
thee?
"
To
grieve
or
am
sorry.
SCENES
FROM
''POLJTIANr
79
For
thou
hast
served and
me
long
and
ever
been
Trustworthy
Jac.
She
has I can't
respectful. {Resumes
her
reading.')
believe
any
more
jewels
didst thou
"
no
"
no
"
sliegavemeall.
{Aside.)
Now
think I be-
Lal.
What
me,
say,
Jacinta?
Thou How
Can Thou
hast fares
I do
not
good aught?
and
no
when
is it to be? aid
is there
further
Jacinta? Jac. Is there no further aid for me. That's meant {Aside.)
you Be need
not
needest,
I'm
sure,
madam,
always throwing
Lal.
those
"
jewels
in
my
teeth.
Jewels! Jacinta, now I thought not of the jewels. Jac. Oh ! perhaps not ! I might have But then sworn
There's For
indeed, Jacinta,
it.
After
all.
Ugo
sure
says the
the
Count
a
ring
he's
is
Would
have you;
given
best for I'm
real
such
as
And
at
the
use
certain, madam,
Jiozv.
you
I
cannot
Have
jewels
bursts
But
might
leans
a
have
sworn
{Exit.)
tears,
table
"
(Lalage
head
and
her
upon
raises
after
short
pause
it.)
8o
SCENES
FROM
''POLITIANr
Lal.
Poor
servant
Lalage
maid!
"
!
"
and
is it
come
to
"
Thy
Whom
but
courage!
hast
cherished
to
to
the
( Taking
least's
"
inirro7\
Ha!
In
here earlier
friend
"
too
friend thee.
days
and
friend
now
"
will
not
me
deceive
Fair A
mirror
"
true!
tell heed
It and
"
(forthou
not
me.
canst)
tale
pretty
tale
and
wo.
thou
answers
Though
It And
it be
speaks of Beauty
and
eyes, deceased
waisted remembers
cheeks,
me
long
"
Of
joy departed
sad,
and of
Hope,
!
"
the
now,
Seraph
in
a
Hope,
tone
Inurned
entombed
Low,
solemn,
grave
but
most
audible.
thou
Whispers
For
early
maid.
untimely yawning
mirror
and
true!
"
ruined
Fair
end
to
gain
said
"
"
no
heart
to
break
"
he
loved
"
he
false ! she
and
false !--false
( While
apart
Monk.
?nent
thou
in
hast,
Heaven.
Sweet
Think
of
eternal
Give
Lal.
up
thy
soul
to
penitence,
with
and
pray
{arising hurriedly).
soul is at
war
I cannot
!
pray
!
"
My
God
The
frightful sounds
of merriment
below
SCENES
FROM
''POLITIANr
8i
Disturb
The
sweet
my
senses
"
go the
! I cannot
pray
"
airs
from
garden
me
"
worry
!
"
me
Thy
Fills With
presence
grieves
dread and
awe
go
me
with
"
thy ebony
!
crucifix
horror
Monk.
Lal.
Think Think
of
of
thy precious
my
soul
"
early days?
! think
ran
think
(jf my
father And And Think And And mother the in Heaven that
of
our
quiet home,
door
! i
rivulet
before
!
"
the
of my think
think
of them
think
vows
of my
"
trusting
ruin
"
love
"
confidence
my
his
my
!
was
think
!
think
Of
Yet
unspeakable
stay
!
misery
!
"
begone
it thou
3^et stay
what
saidst
of
prayer
And And
penitence?
vows
Didst the
speak
of faith
before
I did. 'Tis well.
Monk. Lal.
There
A A
is
vow
were
fittingshould
and
be
made
"
sacred
solemn
vow,
vow
imperative,
!
urgent,
is well
!
Daughter,
Father,
crucifix
this zeal
is
this zeal
thou
crucifix
whereon
vow?
This Not
sacred
that
!
"
anything but fit for this thing ? to register her {He hands
no
w^ell !
his owtt.)
Oh
no
!
"
!
"
no
{Shudderi?ig )
82
SCENES
EROM
''POLITIANr
Not
that!
Not
I tell thee,
cross
holy
man.
Thy
Stand
raiments
back!
thy ebony
a
affright me
"
myself, Methinks crucifix! / have 'twere a fitting the symbol of the deed The the vow deed the deed's And register should tally,father! cross-handled a {Draws dagger and
" "
crucifix
"
ra/ses
it
on
high.)
wherewith
!
are a
Behold
the
cross
vow
like mine
Is written
in
heaven words
Monk.
And Thine Pause Swear
Thy
a
madness,
"
daughter,
livid
"
speak
eyes
ere
purpose wild
late !
" "
unholy
tempt oh, be oh,
swear
are
not
wrath
not
divine!
!
too
not
be
rash
not
the
oath
"
it not
Lal.
'Tis sworn!
III.
An
apartment
in
palace.
DAZZAR.
Politian
and
Bal
Baldazzar,
Thou
must not unto
"
Arouse nay
these
thee
now,
Politian thou
indeed,
humors.
indeed,
Be
shalt
not
way
thyself !
thee.
off the
idle fancies
now
that
!
beset
live, for
thou
so,
diest
Politian.
Not
Baldazzar
Surely
I live.
SCENES
FROM
''POLITIANr
'^2,
Bal. To
see
Politian, it doth
thee thus. it doth
grieve
me
Pol. To
Baldazzar,
thee
me,
cause
grieve
me
give
do?
for
grief, my
wouldst
honored
thou
friend. have
me
Command
sir!
what
At
thy
behest
from
I will
shake
off that
I did milk
nature
Which Which
And be
my my
more
forefathers mother's
inherit, imbibe,
other.
with
no
I did
some
Politian, but
sir !
Command
Bal. To the Pol. There There There Bal. I heard And is is is To
me,
the
or
to
the
field-
senate
Alas!
an
an
alas!
imp imp
what
would
hath
follow
followed
was
me me
even even
there there
voice
it not.
that?
I heard
not
any
voice
except thine
own.
own,
the
echo
Then
of thine I but
not court
Pol.
Bal.
"
dreamed.
Give
the
"
thy
awaits
soul
to
dreams:
the
camp
thee
her
Fame
thee
"
Glory
thou
calls
not
"
the
trumpet-tongued
to
wilt
hear
hearkening phantom
It is
a
imaginary
sounds
voices.
Pol Didst
Bal.
phantom
hear it not.
voice ?
thou
not
it then
I heard
84
Pol.
no
SCENES
FROM
''POLITIANr
Thou
more
heardst
it not!
Baldazzar,
speak
To
Oh
me,
Politian,
am
of
thy
camps
even
and
unto
courts.
! I
death.
Of
Of We And
For
the the
hollow
high-sounding
Earth
! Bear
"
vanities
me
populous
been
are
with
yet
awhile
"
have
now
boys together
friends
"
school
not
fellows
be
so
yet shall
thou shalt
a
long
"
in the kind
eternal
city
dome Power
"
A A
and
Power then
august,
absolve
friend.
and
supreme
"
Shall Unto
Bal. I will Pol.
of all further
duties
thy
not
Thou
speakest
Fate
fearful
riddle
understand.
Yet
now as
Approaches,
The And
and of
me,
the
are
Hours
are
breathing low,
to
sands
dazzle
time
changed
golden
alas'
grains.
Baldazzar.
Alas! my
I cannot
die, having
a
within the
heart
So As
keen hath
relish
for
beautiful it.
wont
been
now
kindled
within it
was
Methinks
to
the
air
Is balmer
than
are
be
"
Rich
A And
rarer
melodies
floating in
bedecks
lustre
"
the
winds
"
"
loveliness with
in
a
the the
earth
holier
quiet
moon
Sitteth
Thou Bal.
Heaven.
not
Hist!
hist!
thou
?
canst
not
say
hearest Indeed
now,
Baldazzar
not.
I hear
SCENES
FROM
'^POLITIANr
85
listen!
Pol.
Not faintest
hear sound
sweetest !
"
it!
"
listen
now
"
"
the
And A
yet
the
that
sorrow
me
ear
ever
heard
tone
! !
lady's voice
!
"
and
in like
the
a
Baldazzar,
it oppresses
spell !
Again
Into
again
heart
!
"
how
solemnly
! that
it falls
my
I
of hearts
heard
"
eloquent voice
were
Surely
Had In
never
yet it
its
well
I /;/// heard
it with
thrilling tones
days! ^earlier
Bal. I
"
myself
the
from
hear
it
now.
Be
still!
voice, if I mistake
not
greatly,
you
it
Proceeds
yonder
unto
lattice the
"
which
"
may
see
Very
Does The The Is As His
even
plainly through
it not? this
window
belongs.
palace of
and
the
Duke.
singer is undoubtedly
roof of his
that
beneath
"
Excellency
of
perhaps
he
Alessandra
of whom
spoke
the
son
Castiglione, again
!
Pol.
it
comes
Voice
{very faintly).
"And As Who In is for
thy
heart
me
so
strong thus,
to
leave loved
and
wo
have wealth
is for
thee
so
long
among?
so
And
As
thy
to
heart
me
strong
thus
? !
"
leave
"
Say nay
say
nay
86
SCENES
FROM
''POLITIANr
Bal. it In
The
song
is
English,
and
I oft have
heard
merry
! hist
England
! it
comes
"
never
so
plaintively
"
Hist
again
"Is
me
Voicp:
{more
As Wh In And As
loudly).
0
it
so
strong
thus,
thee
so
long
?
wealth is
for
and
wo
among
so
thy
to
heart
me
"
strong
thus
? !
"
Say
Bal. Pol.
Bal. Pol. Bal. 'Tis All Let hushed
is not
us
say
nay
all is still !
go
down.
Go
The awaits
down,
hour
us,
"
Baldazzar,
is
go!
late
"
growing
in the
the
Duke
Thy
Below.
presence
is
expected
hall
What
Politian?
Voice
"
{(Ustmctly).
Who In And
have
wealth is
loved
and
wo
thee
so
long.
! ?
among
so
thy
heart
strong
nay
"
Say
Bal. These Your L'nto Pol. Let
us
say
nay
"
descend!
to
"
'tis time.
Politian, give
pray.
fancies
the
wind.
Remember,
much thee! and Lead
of rudeness remember!
on
Remember
do.
do
member. re-
{Goi)ig.)
SCENES
FROM
^^POLITIANr
87
give,
earldom
"
Let
lis
Believe
me
I would lands
Freely
To "To look
give
the
the
broad
of my
face
hidden
by
yon
lattice hear
gaze
more
that
veiled
face, and
Once
Bal. Descend Let
us
silent
tongue."
you,
beg
"
sir,
may be
with
go
the
Duke you.
offended.
down,
I pray
Voice Pol.
"
{loudly). Say
{aside).
'Tis the
nay
! say
"
nay
strange!
voice and
'tis very
strange
methought
in with
mv
Chimed
desires
bade
me
stay!
window
{Approaching
Sweet Now voice be this
! I heed
the
thee, and
will
or
surely stay.
be it Fate,
Fancy, by Heaven,
descend.
the Duke for
Still will
I not
unto
Baldazzar,
me;
make
Apology
I go
not
down
Your
to-night.
Bal.
Shall
Pol.
be
IV.
TJie
gardens
of
palace
"
moonlight.
Lalage
and
Lalage. To
?ne,
Politian.
And Politian?
"
dost
thou
thou
speak speak
of love of love
dost
SS
SCENES
FROM
''POLITIANr
To This
Lalage?
PoLiTiAN. bitter
"
ah,
wo
"
ah,
cruel
not!
wo
is nie!
most
mockery
is mo.^t
"
cruel
not
indeed thus!
"
Weep
tears
me.
oh,
sob
thy
Will
madden comforted
Oh,
I know
"
mourn
not, Lalage
it
at
"
Be
And And Thou
I know Look
turn
all,
me,
still I
speak
of love.
"
brightest
eyes!
I have
beautiful
askest
me
Lalage!
I
here of
thine
if I could
speak
and
love,
what
Knowing
seen.
what
know,
seeing
I
answer
Thou Thus
askest
on
me
that
"
and knee I
thus
answer
thee
"
my
bended
thee.
{Knccliiii^' )
Sweet
Thro' Not
Lalage, good
mother,
with
God's and
I hn"e ill
"
thee thro'
"
love
and
on
thee
wo
"
hwe / love
thee;
thee.
weal
with
her
first-born
her
knee,
Thrills Not
on
intenser
love
than time
I for
or
thee.
altar, in any
a
clime,
now
Burned
there my
holier
burneth do
Within
spiritfor
thy
woes
I love?
{Arisnig.')
Even
for
I love
"
even
for
thy
woes
"
Thy
Thou
beauty
Alas dost in and the
and
!
thy
woes.
Lal.
me
How,
Pure Could
th}^father's
dishonored
the
maidens
reproachless
with
Lalage
a
Thy
wife, and
tainted
SCENES
FROM
''POLITIANr
89
would
it
^ly
With And
seared
the
and
blighted
honors
name,
how
tally
ancestral
of
with
Pol.
of
I hate The
"
I loathe
the
name
; I do
abhor
unsatisfactory
thou
I not
not
and
ideal
thing.
beautiful
Art
Do
Lalage,
"
and
I Politian?
not
"
love
art
thou
"What
need
not
we
more?
Ha!
glory!
"
now
speak
of it:
most
By By By
Than And What That Into
sacred
now
"
and
most
solemn
"
wishes
scorn
no on
my
and
fears
"
earth I would
to
hope
more
"
There
deed
cause
thy
scoff foot.
at
glory
it
"
trample
matters
we
it under
matters
it, my
down
"
fairest, and
and
my
best,
go dust
unhonored
we
forgotten
and
the
so
descend
and then
together.
"
Descend
together
"
"
then
chance per-
Why
And
dost then
thou
pause,
Politian?
perchance
and
roam
together, Lalage,
starry
still" and
quiet dwellmgs
dost thou
of
the
blest,
Why
And
pause,
Politian?
still Earl
to^
of Leicester
Now,
90
SCENES
FROM
''POLlTIANr
Thou
lovest
me,
and
me
in my
heart
of hearts
lovest
truly.
!
Oh,
Lalage
thou
his
knee.)
?
! within
Lal.
! hush
the
a
gloom
"
Of
A
figure past
slow,
and
and
less noise-
Like
the
grim
shidow
Conscience,
aci'oss a
solemn
re/
and
noiseless. I
was
( Walks
"
and
urns.)
mistaken
'twas
but
giant bough
Politian
! ! art
Stirred Pol.
wind.
"
my
love
Why
Not
thou
Why
Far
so
pale ?
thou
Conscience'
self,
less
a
shadow
the
which
firm
likenest But
^
to
it,
the
Should
shake wind
spirit thus.
night
Is
chilly
"
and
these all
Throw Lal.
over
Pol.tian!
Thou
speakest
land
to
of
love.
Knowest
thou
the
With
which
found
"
all
tongues
are
busy
"
land
new
Miraculously
A A thousand
found
by
one
of Genoa the
"
leagues within
of
golden
west
fairy land
flowers, and
fruit, and
sunshine,
SCENES
FROM
'
'POLITIANr
And
And
crystal lakes,
mountains,
the
and
over-arching forests,
whose
around
towering
flow which
summits
winds
untrammelled
"
Of
Heaven
breathe
air
to
Is In
Happiness days
Pol.
to
now,
are
and
to
will
be
freedom
hereafter
that
come?
"
Oh,
that
wilt Paradise
thou
"
wilt
thou
Fly
my
?
Lalage,
There
wilt
Fly
And And For No
thither
with
me
Care
shall
Sorrow
life shall
shall then
be
no
more,
and
for
Eros
be
all.
be
mine,
eyes
but
"
thee, and
more
a
in thine
"
and
mourner
the the
radiant
wait thee
upon
ever;
thee, and
and
and
I will
kneel my
thee
worship thee,
own,
call thee my
"
beloved.
My My Fly
my
"
beautiful,
love, my
wife.
all ; thither
wilt
thou, Lalage,
Lal.
is to
!
be
done
"
Castiglione
Pol.
And
shall
die! And
"
{Exit.)
he
"
Lal.
{after a pause).
alas
!
shall
"
die!
Castiglione
Where Thou
am
die ! I ?
"
Who
was
"
spoke
it he
art
the
words
?
"
what
gone
not
said
not
Politian
Politian look.
! !
art
not art
thou
"
gone,
not
If
eel thou
gone
yet
dare
92
SCENES
FROM
''POLITIANr
Lest Wilh
thee
not
"
thou
couldst
"
not
go
to
me
words
hear
art
upon
And
To To
thy
not
one one
word
"
one
word,
hate
say say
thou
gone
how
thou
dost
scorn
"
dost
My
Oh,
1
womanly
gone
"
weakness.
Ha!
ha!
thou
"?;-/ not
speak
not
to
me!
I kneia
thou
wouldst
not
go!
durst
knew
thou go.
wouldst
not,
couldst
not,
Villain,
And thus
thou
art
not
gone
"
"
thou
!
mockest He
is
me!
I clutch
"
thee
thus
gone,
he
is gone Gone
"
gone.
Where
am
I ?
'tis well
"
'tis very
well
So that the
be
keen
"
"
the
blow
alas!
be
sure,
'Tis
well,
well
alas!
V.
TJie suburbs.
Politian
alone.
PoLiTiAN.
This
weakness
grows
upon
me.
am
faint.
And
To much die
ere
I fear
I have
me
ill
" "
it will not
do
lived!
!
"
Stay
"
O
Of
Prince
Powers
me
the
me
Tomb,
not
Oh, pity
now.
Oh,
pity
me
perish
SCE.VES
FROM
''POLITIANr
9."
In
the
me
budding
to
of my
Paradisal
Hope
Give
'Tis
yet
for
to
"
yet
life
" "
little while:
so
I who
I who
late
the Count?
Demanded
die
what
sayeth
E7it"r
Baldazzar.
Baldazzar.
or
That,
of feud the Earl
knowing
and
no
cause
of
quarrel
Between
He doth Pol. What
Politian
your cartel. thou it you
himself,
decline
What
answer
didst
was
say
?
me,
brought
the
a
go
dazzar Bal-
With Laden
Ox
one
what
excessive
fragrance
bowers
!
"
zephyr day.
the
aware
comes
from
more
yonder worthy
eyes
have
fairer
Italy, methinks
seen
No
mortal Bal.
!
"
What
not
cause
said
Count!
That
he, Castiglione,
being
and
Of
Of
any
feud
existing,
between the
or
any
quarrel
Pol.
your
lordship
himself,
Cannot
accept
is very
saw
challenge.
true
"
It is most
All
When
this
true.
now,
When
saw
you,
in the
so
sir.
you, Britain
so
Baldazzar,
we
frigid
Ungenial
A heaven
the No From
which
as
left
so
lately,
free
he did ?
calm
this
"
utterly
?
"
evil taint
more,
of clouds
And
say
Bal.
my
lord,
than
I have
told
you,
94
The
SCENES
FROM
''POLITIANr
Count
no
Castiglione will
cause
not
fight,
Having
Pol. All And A very
for
quarrel.
"
Now
true.
this is true
Thou
art
my
it
"
friend, Baldazzar
thou'lt
go back of I do
me
I have
not
forgotten
; wilt
piece
him
of service
man,
a
thou
and
say
Unto Kold
this
that
?
"
I, the
thus
Earl
Leicester,
villain
"
much,
prythee,
say
Unto
He
the should
Count
have
it is
cause
exceeding
for
just
quarrel.
!
Bal. Pol.
My lord ! {aside).
"
my 'Tis
friend he
"
he
comes
himself!
{A loud.)
I know
Thou
reasonest
well.
"
what
"
thou
wouldst
say
not
send
the
sage mes-
Well
Now With
!"
of it"
me
"
send
come
it.
a
prythee,
whom
person
affairs
of
most
private
meet,
nature
I would Bal.
adjust.
I go
not?
" "
to-morrow at
we
Do
we
the
Vatican.
Pol.
At
the
Vatican.
{Exit Baldazzar.)
Entc7-
Castiglione.
The I thou
a7n
Earl
of Leicester Earl I
here
the
of Leicester,
am
and
thou
seest,
not,
that
here?
Some
strange.
"
misunderstanding
"
SCENES
EROM
'TOLITIANr
95
Hath
without
doubt
arisen
thou
hast
been
urged
Thereby,
Some To
me,
in heat
most
of anger,
to
address in
words
unaccountable,
writing,
being
I
am
aware
nothing
which
thee
"
might
no
warrant
thee Ha!
" "
in this
am
thing. right?
Having
'Twas
Do
err a
given
at
offence.
mis:ake? times,
undoubtedly
prate
we
all
Pol.
Draw,
Ha! then
"
villain, and
draw?
"
no
more
!
at
Cas.
and
villain?
have
thee
at
once.
Proud Pol.
Earl!
{Draius.)
to
the
expiatory tomb,
thee
devote
the
name
of
Lalage
Cas.
(lettingfall
the off
"
his
sword
a7id Of
"
recoiling Lalage !
! not.
to
I say
fight thee
not
"
indeed
me,
I dare didst
wilt
fight with
now
say.
Count?
baffled
thou
thus?
"
this is well;
Ha
"
say
darest
not
"
not?
Cas. Hold
So
I dare
dare
"
not
off
thy
upon
"
hand
with
that
beloved
name
fresh
thy lips I
not.
will not
fight thee
"
I cannot
dare
Pol.
I do
Now
by
thee
m}!
"
halidom
believe
coward,
I do
believe
thee
9^
Cas.
SCENES
FROM
''POLITIAN."
Ha
!
"
coward
!
"
not
be
{Clutches
PoLiTiAN,
his sword
but
staggers
is
toward
fore be-
his
purpose
arid he the
knee
his
Earl.
! my
a
Alas It is I
am
"
it is
the
"
In
such,
cause
me
veriest
coward.
Oh, pity
Alas
!
"
I do
"
indeed
arise be
"
and
die !
"
not
thus
thus
"
Oh, let
me
my
bended
knee.
It
were
most
fitting
in this in the
deep humiliation
will
not
perish.
a
fight I
raise
Against
Here is
thee.
"
Earl
of
Leicester.
thou
home
no
{Baring
or
bosom.)
let
hindrance
to
th}^weapon
Strike
Pol. Am To
home.
fight thee.
Hell!
"
Now
"
and
I not
I not
at
sorely
word
thus. the
?
grievously tempted
But Do mark thou
"
take
thee
not to
thy
me,
sir!
Think For
fly me
prepare
public insult in
eyes
an
streets
before
thee
"
The Like
Even
of the
citizens.
I"11 follow
thee
death.
"
Before
those
whom
thou
lovest
SCENES
FROM
''POLITIANr
97
Before
all
Rome
I'll
taunt
thee,
villain,
"
I'll
taunt
thee,
Dost
hear
? ?
with
coivardicc
"
thou
wilt
not
fight
me
Thou
Cas.
liest Now
! thou
shalt indeed
and
most
! is
{Exit.)
just just,
!
this
Most
righteous,
avenging
Heaven
POEMS
WRITTEN
IN YOUTH.
Private
reasons
"
of
some
which
have
ence refer-
to
the
sin
of
plagiarism,
and
others
to
the
date
of
Tennyson's
first
poems
"
have
duced in-
after
me,
some
hesitation,
to
republish
these,
the
crude
compositions
of my
earliest
boyhood.
They
are
printed
verbatim
"
out with-
alteration
from
the
original
edition*
"
the
date
of
which
is
too
remote
to
be
judiciously
acknowledged.
E.
A.
P.
"This
statement
is
incorrect."
Ed.
SONNET:
TO
SCIENCE.
Science
true
daughter
all
of
Old
Time
thou
art
Who
alterest
things
thus
with
thy
the
peering poet's
realities
eyes.
Why
preyest Vulture,
should whose
thou
upon
heart,
wings
love thee
are
dull
How
he
or
how
deem
thee
wise,
Who
wouldst
not
leave
him
in
his
wandering
skies,
To
seek
for
treasure
in
the
jewelled
undaunted
Albeit
he
soared
with
an
wing
her
?
Hast
thou
not
dragged
the
Diana
from
car
And
driven
Hamadryad
in
from
the
wood
To
seek
shelter
some
happier
Naiad from
star
Hast
thou
not
torn
the
her
flood,
The
Elfin
from
the
and
green beneath
from
grass,
me
The
summer
dream
the
tamarind
tree
AL
AARAAF^
Part
I.
Oh
nothing
back
those
earthly
from
save
the
of the
ray
(Thrown
As
flowers)
where of
save
Beauty's
day
"
eye,
in
gardens
the
Springs
Oh
!
from
gems
Circassy
the
thrill
nothing
in
earthly
woodland the
Of Or
melody
(music
voice like
rill
"
of
so
passion-hearted)
departed
in
and
Joy's
That,
Its Oh Yet That
peacefully
murmur
the
the
dwell
shell,
"
echo
!
dwelleth
of
will
of the deck
nothing
all
the
"
ours
"
the
our
beauty
Love,
world
flowers
our
list yon
bowers
"
Adorn The
afar,
star.
afar
"
wandering
sweet
time
for
on
Nesace
"
for
there
lay lolling
discovered
the heavens" that of
the
golden
Brahe in
then
a
air,
star
was
by
Tycho
which
few
as
appeared days,
a
suddenly liancy
in
attained,
br
1-
surpassing
and has
Jupiter"
been
seen
suddenly
appeared, dis-
never
since.
AL
AARAAF,
103
Near
An
four
bright
in desert
"
suns
"
temporary
blest
of rays
rest
"
oasis
"
of the
seas
that
roll
soul
so
" "
o'er
th' uncliained
are
soul that
scarce
(the billows
from
time
dense)
rode,
struggle
distant
to
its destined
eminence
to
one
spheres,
the the
time, she
of God d
"
late to ours,
now,
favored of
an
But,
She
ruler
anchor'
"
realm.
the
throws amid
in
aside
the
sceptre
and
leaves
holm,
And,
Laves Now Whence
incense
happiest,
sprang wreaths
in yon of many
the
Idea
thro'
(Falling in
Like
It lit
startled
star,
woman's
on
hair
'mid
hills
Achaian,
She
Rich Fit Seen
looked
into
clouds, for
emblems but other in
curled
"
"
of the
of her
world
Of
A
wreath
that
twined
each
starry
form
around.
And All
Of
all the
opal'd air
she
in color
bound.
hurriedly
fair
knelt
upon
as
bed the
flowers;
the
of lilies such
rear'd
head
On
So
Capo
around
Santa
Deucato,*
about
Maura"
and
sprang
eagerly
*
to
olim
hang
Deucadia.
On
I04
AL
AARAAR
Upon
Of The
her
the who
flying footsteps
loved
a
of
"
"
deep pride
and
so
"
mortal
died.*
with
young
bees,
knees:
around
her
And
flower, of Trebizond
misnam'df
erst
highest
loveliness
nectar
stars,
:
where
it sham'd
All
other
its honied
dew
(The
fabled
that
the
heathen
knew)
Heaven, dropp'd from Deliriously sweet, was And fell on gardens of the unforgiven
In
"
and
on
sunny
to
flower
this
So
above,
that,
hour.
It still remaineth,
With
torturing the
unwonted
all its the
bee
reverie: the
leaf
madness, Heaven,
blossom
and
In
And
and
of
environs,
Disconsolate
Repenting Heaving
Like
fairy plant, in grief linger grief that hangs her head. follies that full long have fled,
"
her
white
breast
to
the
balmy
more
air.
fair:
and
Nyctanthes too, as sacred as the light She fears to perfume, perfuming the night : And a sun,:}: Clytia pondering between many
*
Sappho.
flower The
is much
t This
noticed
by
Lewenhoeck
and becomes
Tournefort. intoxicated.
bee,
feeding
u^jon
its biossom,
X Clj^tia
"
ThcCiirysantJu'tfium Pcruviainiiu,
term,
the
sun,
or, to
turns
employ
ually contin-
better-known towards
the
covers
turn
sol"
,
\s\\\q\\ like
itsel
Peru,
the
country cool
and
from
which
it comes,
With
dewy
clouds
which
AL
AARAAF.
105
While
And And
adown flower
her that
petalsrun
sprang into
onEarth'^'
"
scarce
birth,
Bursting
Its way And
its odorous
to
spiritto wing
of
a
Heaven,
garden
thither
king f
Valisnerian
lotus
flown
From And
Isola And With Fair To
of the Rhone: struggling with the waters thy most lovely purple perfume. Zante ! X
d'oro!
the
"
Fior
di Levante!
bud
Nelumbo
that
floats
for
ever"
"
Indian
Cupid
down
the
to
holy
in
river
care
flowers, and
bear Heaven: the
fairy !
whose
is
given
up
to
Goddess'
song,
odors,
||
during
in the
most
refresh
its
B.
DE
flowers St.
violent
heat
ot
the
day."
*
Pierre. the
There
of
is cultivated
at
Paris
species
and
serpentine
flower time of
aloes
exhales ils
without
a
la'^ge
vanilla short. then fade
beautiful the
not
strong
during
It does
expansion,
the its
is of
blow
month
July;
you
perceive
-and t
it
gradually
St.
Pierre. in Its
petals -expand
them"
die." There
is
found,
kind. feet"
the
stem
Rhone,
will
beautiful
to
lily of
the
the of
Valisnerian
three in the
or
stretch
length
water
four
thus
preserving
its head
above
swellings
of the
river.
The
a
Hyacinth.
fiction
one
" It is
of the
these of
that
Cupid
was
an
first
seen
floating in
still loves And of the
of
river
Ganges,
J that
he
the
cradle vials
Rev.
childhood.
golden
saints"
full of
of
odors, John.
which
are
the
prayers
St.
io6
AL
AARAAF.
"
Spirit! that
In the
dwellest
where,
deep sky,
and
The In
terrible
fair,
boundary
turneth
star
Which
Of
the
and
view
thy
the
barrier
thy
bar
"
Of
the
barrier
comets
overgone who
and
were
By
From
To To be
cast
their be
pride,
from
last
"
their
throne,
drudges
red
till the
carriers
of fire
(The
With
And Who In But
heart)
tire,
not
"
speed
with livest
"
not
pain
that
"
shall
part
"
know feel-
Eternity
the shadow
we
of whose
brow
Thy
Have
A
iressenger
dream'd
thy Infinity
own*
O
"
model
of their
Thy
The
will is done,
star
God
hath
ridden
high
God
was
The
as
Humanitarians
held
a
that
to
be
stood under-
having
vol. of
leally i, pag
Milton's
-.
human
ioxvs\."
Vide
Clarke's
Sermons,
The drift
employ
AL
AARAAF.
107
but she
;
"
Thro'
many
tempest,
rode
Beneath And
In
thy burning
that
eye
to
here, in thought,
thee
thought
partner
can
alone
so
Ascend
A
be
"
thy
is
throne
*
By winged My
Till
In language
their which
Fantasy
embassy
the
would
; but
given,
be of
at
secrecy^sha'lknowledge
environs
appear, it will
the be
Heaven."
first
sight,
to
verge
upon that
one
doctrine himself
seen
immediately
of
he
guards
the Dr.
most
against
errors
charge
of
on
having
ages
adopted
of the
of
ignorant
the
dark
Sumner's
Notes
Milton's
Christian
This
opinion,
could
never
in
spite
have
of
many very
testimonies
to
the
trary, cona
been
was
general.
for of the the fourth
Andeus,
Syrian
His Pin.
of
Mesopotamia,
He lived
were
condemned
opinion
T/V/f
as
heretical.
in the
beginning
century.
Du
disciples
called
Anthropomorphites."
these
Among
Milton's Dicite
sacrorum
minoi'
poems
are
lines:"
praesides cujus
finxit
ex
nemorum
Deae, "c.
Quis
Natura
ille
primus
imagine
genus ?
solers
humanum
Eternus, Unusque
And
incorruptus,
etuniversus
aequaevus
polo,
Dei.
exemplar
Cascitas
hunc Tochter
afterwards,
Non
ctii
p'-o''undum
augur
lumen alto
dedit
"c.
Dircaeus
*
vidit
sinu,
Jovis
Goethe.
Schosskinde Phantasie."
io8
AL
AARAAR
She
ceased
"
and
buried
then
her
burning
cheek.
Abashed,
A For She
amid from
stars
the the
shelter
the
of the
His
eye
trembled
not
"
Deity.
"
stirred
there
breathed
not
for
voice
was
How
A
solemnl}^ prevading
sound of silence
on
the
calm
air !
ear
the
name
startled "the
Which
dreamy sphere."
is
poets
music
of
the
Ours
"
world
"
of words:
is the
Quiet
merest
we
call of all.
Silence"
nature
which
word
All
speaks,
not
and
ev'n
ideal
things
"
Flap shadowy
But The ah!
so
sounds
when,
from
voice
of God
And
wings
in
is
"Whattho'
run
*
worlds
sightless cycles
Link'd Where
to
little
system,
is but
and
one
S"in
"
all my
love
follyand
the
the
crowd
my
terrors
thunder-cloud,
the
ocean-wrath
"
in my
own
which grow
dimmer
they
Legge.
run,
Sightless"
too
small
to
be
seen."
AL
AARAAF.
109
Yet
To
thine
bear
is my
resplendency,
thro' the
so
given
Heaven. and
my
secrets
upper
Leave With
tenantless all
"
thy train,
moony
fly, sk}^
"
Apart
And
night,*
another
light!
and
so
thy embassy
twinkle
and
a
"
To To Lest
proud
stars
orbs
a
be
ev'ry heart
the
ban
totter
in the
guilt
of
man
"
LTp
The Our Tlie
As
rose
the
maiden
in the
eve!
" "
yellow night.
Earth
we
single-mooned
faith
to
one
on one
plight
adore
"
love
and
moon
birthplace
sprang
rose
of young
Beauty
star
had
no
more.
that the
yellow sheeny
left not
from her
downy
shrine
and of
hours, flowers,
Up
And
Her
maiden
from
bent
o'er
"
mountain
dim
plain
way
but
reign,f
Part High
on as
a
mountain
head
his bed
"
Such
Of
the
drowsy
shepherd
on
giant pasturage
his
often
lying
at his
ease,
Raising
*
and
movement
sees
I have
peculiar
a
of
the
a
fireflies;" they
common
will
in
body
island from
and
centre,
or
in^o
innumerable
radii. mentioned
the
sea
fTherasasa,
which,
of astonished
in
Therasea,
moment,
the
arose
neca, Seeyes
the
mariners.
no
AL
AARAAF.
many time
rosy the sunken the
muttered
the
head,
sunlit
suns moon
hope to be forgiven is quadrated in Heaven moon that towering far away ether, caught the ray
"
"
"
at
eve
"
at
noon
of the
night,
fair
While
danced
with
stranger
lightU'preared
Of gorgeous from
upon
such
height
on
arose
pile
d
columns
Parian
air,
smile
Flashing
Far
And Of
marble
wave
down
upon
the
stars
the
that mountain
sparkled there,
in its lair. such
as
young their
pavement,
fall*
Thro'
ebon
own
pall
die
"
Of
their
they
of the
Adorning
A
then
dome,
Sat
A
sk5^
let
"
Heaven
as
a
down.
crown
window
diamond,
there,
Lock'd And
above from
purple air.
down
that
meteor
rays
shot
chain
And
Save S
)me
beauty twice again. tb' Empyrean andthat when, between spiritflapp'd his dusky wing. eager the pillarsSeraph on seen eyes have
dimness
nature
hallow'
d all the
ring,
of loves
this
world: best
that for
the
Lurked
*
in each
star
cornice,
from
the
round
ruin'd
each
roof did
Some Of
which, Olympus,
thak'd
by
mischance,
fall."
Milton.
AL
AARAAK
every from
sculptured
his marble
in the in
a
cherub
thereabout
earthly
statues
of
his
?
niche
"
Achaian
Friezes From Of Is
world
and the
rich
from
Tadmor and
PersepolisO, the
late
"
Baalbec,
beautiful
clear stilly,
!
abyss
!
Gomorrha thee
"
wavef
to
save
now
upon
but
too
loves the
to
revel
in
summer
night: twilight
murmur
of the
the
ear,
gray
stole
upon
a
in
Eyraco ,X
ago
"
many
wild
star-gazer long
of
Voltaire,
bien
in
speaking pied
d'une
Persepolis,
ces
"
Je
mais
conun
nois
Tadmiration
au un wave own
qu'inspirent
chaine des
arts
palais
peut t
"
erige
des !
"
sterils"
il etre
chef
""
d'oeuvre
O,
on
the
UlaDeguisi
it is
is the
Turkish Bahar
appellation;
Loth,
or
but,
tanah.
its
shores,
were
called
Almocities Siddim
There in
undoubtedly
"Dead Sea."
In
more
than
two
engulphed
were
the
the
Valley
and
of
five"
Admah,
of
Zeboim,
Zoar,
mentions
Sodom,
Gomorrha.
Stephen
thirteen It is said
Byzantium
but
eight,
is out
c
and
reason.
Strabo
(engulphed)" Maundrell,
the
last
f all
[Tacitus, Strabo,
Troilo, vestiges
At any down
as
Josephus,
columns,
season,
Daniel that
of St.
an are
Saba,
sive excesseen
Nau,
above
D'Arvieux]
of
after
drought, the
the
walls,
such
"c.,
surface.
remains
may
be
discovered
and many
"
by
such
looking
in
into
the argue
now
transparent
the existence
lake,
of
the
at
distances
would
settlements
the
space
usurped
by
Asphaltites."
X Eyracor-Chaldea.
112
AL
AARAAF.
That
stealeth
ever
on
the
on
ear
of him distance
as a
Who,
And Is
not
musing,
sees
gazeth
darkness
"
the
dim,
cloud
"
the form
-
coming
voice
"
its
?
its
most
palpable
and
loud
But A A And
From
what
is this !
"
It cometh rush
"and
of
it
"
brings
music pause
"
with
and
it
"
wings
sweeping,
halls
falling strain.
haste her
Nesace the
is in her
again.
and her
wild
energy
were
of wanton
Her
cheeks
zone
flushing,
around
lips apart;
waist
heart.
that
clung
gentle
of her breathe
burst the
beneath
centre
the
heaving
hall Zanthe! her
to
of that
paus'd long'd
and
panted,
all beneath
kiss'd
golden hair,
but
sparkle
there
Young
To
flowers
flowers
were
a
were
whispering night
"
in
melodyf
to tree
:
happy
many
that
and
as
tree
gushing
upon
music
or
they
fell
;
star-lit grove,
came
moon-lit
dell
"
silence
material
things
and
angel wings
"
I have the
often
thought
as
I could
over
distinctly
the horizon.
hear
the
sound
of
darkness
it stole
f'Fair'esuse
Wives
of
flowers
Windsor.
for
their
character}'.
'"Merkv
AL
AARAAR
113
And
Bore
sound burthen
alone
to
that the
from
the the
spirit sprang
maiden
charm
sang:
"
the
blue-bell
or
streamer
"
tufted
wild
from
spray
the
keeps,
moonbeam
dreamer,
"
away*
! that
Bright beings
With On the Hath Till half
stars
ponder,
eyes, your
the the brow
closing
which from
wonder
drawn
skies,
they glance
down eyes
calls
! from
on
thro' your
shade,
and
to
of the
maiden
now
"
you
Arise
In To
your
dreaming
violet
bowers,
duty beseeming
These star-litten hours
"
And
shake
from
your with
tresses
Encumbei'd
The breath
dew
kisses
too
"
of those
That
cumber without
them you.
be
(O
how,
Love!
Could
angels
is this
the that
blest?)
"The
sun
In
Scripture by day,
known
nor
passage"
moon
shall
not
smite
not of
posed ex-
thee
by
moon,
night."
in
It is perhaps
hps the the effect
generally producing
to
the
to
Egypt,
those
who
sleep with
the
face
which
circumstance
passage
dently evi-
allud'.-s.
114
AL
AARAAF.
Those
That
kisses
of true
to
love
rest
Up
The
!
"
your
wing
Each
It And O
hindering thing : dew o : the night would : weigh down 3-our flight
"
true ! leave
are
love
them
caresses
"
apart
on
They
But
light
on
the
tresses,
lead
the
heart.
Ligeia
Whose Will
Ligeia
beautiful ]\Iy
one! idea
run,
harshest
to
O ! is it On the
to
toss?
Albatross,*
night
the
(As
To On
she
air)
with
keep
the
watch
delight
there?
harmony
Ligeia
! wherever
Thy image may be,^ No magic shall sever from thee. Thy music
*
The
Albatrosi
is said
to
sleep
on
the
wing.
AL
AAKAAK
115
Thou In But
a
hast
bound
many
eyes
dreamy
strains
sleep
"
the
still arise
"
Which The
sound
rain,
to
the
flower
dances
the
murmur
rhythm
that
of the
shower
"
From
Are But
the
are
"
Away,
O To
then, my
thee
! hie
springs
Beneath lone
In lake
that the
moon-ray
"
To
that
smiles,
of
deep rest.
At
the That
star-isles
its breast
"
enjewel
wild
Where Have
flowers, creeping.
On
its
Full
maid
"
I
now
met
with
unable
this
to
idea
in and
an
old
English
from
tale, which
The
am
obtain,
as
quote
memor}-:""
and
verie cf
trees
essence,
and,
is
it
were,
springeheade
pleasaunte
sounde the\'
origine
the
all
musicke
the do
verie make
which
of the
forest
when
growe."
16
AL
AARAAF.
Some Have
have
left the
cool the
glade,
*
"
and
slept with
them,
moorland
on
bee
Arouse
On
my
maiden.
and their lea
"
Go
! breathe
slumber,
All The
softlyin
musical slumber'
can
s )
ear,
number
d to hear
"
They
For
what
awaken
soon
An
angel
Whose
sleep
the
hath
been
taken
cold
moon.
no
spell which
slumber
Which
lulled
him
to
rest
?"
Spiritsin wing, and angels to the view, A thousand seraphs burst th' Empyrean
thro'
The
wild
bee
will
not
sleep in
the
shade
if there
be
nnonlight.
The
rhyme
has
an
in th's
verse,
as
in
one
about
sixty
It from
lines
fore, be-
appearance
of
affectation.
or
is, however,
Claud
imitated
Halcro"
m
from whose
Sir
Walter mouth
Scott,
I admired
"
Oh!
were
ever
there
so
an
island,
Tho' Where No
man
wild.
woman
might
be
smile,
"c.
and
beguiled,"
AL
AARAAF.
117
Young Seraphs
That O
dreams
still
hovering
on
their
drowsy
light
"Knowledge,"
thro' of God
"
the
keen
fell,refracted,
! from
was was
thy bounds,
upon that
afar,
star:
Death
eye
error error
Sweet Sweet Of
To For That
that
sweeter
still that
tis
death breath
"
that
dims 'twere
"
ev'n
with
of
our
the
"
Science
them
the the
mirror
joy
Simoom,
availeth
or
and
would
destroy
is Woe
"
what
Truth
was
(to them)
their last
it to know that
them life
"
is Falsehood"
death
"
BHss
to
"
Sweet With
with
die
was
rife
the
ecstasy
of satiate
Beyond that death no immortality But sleep that pondereth and is not "to be" oh ! may And there spiritdwell my weary
"
"
"
Apart
from from
Heaven's Hell !*
Eternity
"
and
yet how
far
With
the and
not
Arabians
there
men
is suffer
an
a
no
medium
between
but
Heaven
Hell,
attain
to
where that
punishment, happiness
yet
do
tranquil
even
w*hiich
they
suppose
be
characteristic
of
heavenly
enjoyment.
"
Un
Un
no
rompido
puro"
sueno"
dia
allegre"
libre
Quiera"
Libre De de
amor"
de
tsperanza"
zelo"
odio"
de
de
rezelo."
De
"Luis
Ponce
Leon.
Sorrow
sorrow
is not which
excluded
the
from love
to
"
Al che:
Aaraaf,"
ish
but the
it is that
living
for
dead,
and
ii8
AL
AARAAK
What
in what din:, shrubber}'guilty spirit, ? of that hymn the stirring summons Heard not But no two: imparts they fell: for Heaven grace those
maiden
!
To A O
who
hear
not
for
their
beating
"
hearts.
Was
angel and her seraph-lover seek the wide where (and ye may sober Love, the blind, near Duty
Love
moan,"*
skies
over)
of perfect
knowm?
Unguided
hath
fallen
"
'mid
"tears
goodly spirit he who fell: A wanderer by the moss-y-mantled well A gazer the lights that shine above on A dreamer in the moonbeam by his love: for each wonder? What star is eye-like there
He
was a
"
"
"
And
looks
so
sweetly
every
on
Beauty's
hair
"
And
To The
they,
his
and
love-haunted
had
night
a
found
(to him
young
Upon
And
crag,
Beetling
athwart
the
scowls lie.
starry worlds
that
which
The
in
some
minds
resembles of Love,
the
delirium
the
of
opium.
of
passionate
excitement
upon
and
are
buoyancy holy
make
choice
spirit attendant
of "Al
and
intoxication,
to
its less
who
sures"the plea-
price of v/hich,
Aaraafas their annihilation.
*
"
those
souls after
residence
There
be
tears
of
in
perfect
moan
Wept
for thee
Helicon.""
Miltom.
AL
AARAAF.
119
sate
he
with
his love
"
his
dark
eye
:
bent
eagle
turned
gaze
along
her orb
the
the
"
firmament but
ever
it upon
to
then
It trembled
of E".rth
again.
"
lanthe,
How She
deare"t,
see!
how
so
dim
far
that
ray!
lovely
seem'd
'tis to
not
look
away!
autumn
eve
thus
upon
halls
" "
that
nor
gorgeous
that
eve
mourn'
to leave.
I should
remember
well
"
sun-ray
th'
On
Wherein
And
on
with a spell dropp'd, in Lemnos. carving of a gilded hall Arabesque the draperied wall I sate, and on eye-lids O, the heavy Hght ! my
" "
How
On With But
drowsily
Persian
it
weighed
and
them
into
night
!
ran
flowers, before,
Saadi
mist, and
Gullistan:
love
they
in his
I
O,
that
light!"
slumbered"
Death,
the
while,
Stole So
o'er
my
senses
in that
lovely
isle
was
there.
*'
orb
I trod the
upon
;-
Parthenon
her
columned
wall
It
was
entire
in 1687" the
most
elevated
spot
in
Athens.
I20
AL
AARAAK
Than
And Thence And
even
thy glowing
old
bosom
beats did
withal,*
when
Time I
"
my
as
wing
in
the
me
eagle
from
an
I left behind
hour. I
What One
upon
the
as
her
airy bounds
of her
unto
my
hung flung
garden
a
globe
view
too!
was
"
Unrolling
Tenantless
chart
cities of the
desert
on me
then,
of men."
be
again
"
to
be?
for thee
"
here
in yon and
world
above,
love."
And
woman's
loveliness
passionate
"
But
list,lanthe,
as
when
the
air
so
Failed,
my
my
pennon'd
brain
was
spiritleapt dizzy
"
Perhaps
I left
so
grew
but
world
late
into
chaos
on
hurl'd,
the
Sprang
And
from
a
her
station,
winds
apart,
athwart.
to soar,
rolled
flame, the
my
sweet
fiery Heavens
then
rose
Rethought,
And fell
"
one,
I ceased
not
swiftlyas
before.
"
Shadowing
Than
more
beauty
white
in their
airy
brows of love.
have
the
breasts
of the
queen
"Marlowe.
t Pennon,
for
pinion." Milton.
AL
AARAAR
121
But
with
downward,
rays,
measure
tremulous this
motion
star unto!
thro'
Light,
Nor For
brazen the
golden
long
nearest
of my
was
falling hours,
thine
a
to
all stars
came,
on
to
ours
"
Dread
A red
star!
that
amid timid
niphl E/rth."
of mirth.
Daedalion
the
"
We
came
"
and
our
to
thy
Earth
"
but
to
not
to
us
Be, given
We
came,
lady's bidding
love
the
;
discuss:
my
around,
we
above,
come
below,
and
go.
Gay
Nor She
of fire-fly ask
a reason
night
save
the
angel-nod by
her Time
grants
to
us
as
granted
thine
o'er
God
"
But,
Never
Dim
Angelo,
his
was
than
grey
unfurled
fairy wing
the Aaraaf
fairier
world! eyes
angel
in
Alone When
could
phantom
knew o'er swelled bust
the
the
course
skies,
to
sea
"
first Al
her
be
Headlong
But As We
thitherward its
starry
the
when
glory
upon
sky.
eye.
glowing paused
Beauty's
before
the
beneath
of
man's
men.
heritage
"
And
thy
in
star
trembled
as
doth
Beauty
then
"
Thus The
discourse,
that
the
lovers
whiled and
away
night day.
waned
and
waned
brought
no
They
Who
Heaven
for the
to
them
no
hope imparts
hearts.
beating
of their
TAMERLANE.
Kind
solace
in
dying
is
not
hour!
Such,
I
father,
not
(now)
that
me
my power of
theme
"
will Of
madly
may
deem shrive
Earth
the in
sin
Unearthly
I You It If is I Its I would But have call but
no
pride
time
to
hath dote
or
revell'd dream
of
"
it
hope
that
"
fire
fire
agony
of O
"
desire
God! I
can
can
hope
fount
not
is
"
holier
"
more
divine
"
call is
not
thee
fool,
old
man,
such
gift
of
thine.
Know Bowed O
thou
from
the
secret
of
spirit
into
its heart!
wild
I
pride
did
shame
yearning
Thy
inherit
with hath
withering searing
the
of Hell
portion
which of my
a
the shone
fame,
The Amid
Halo
glory
Jewels
Hell
! and
throne.
with
me
pain
fear
Not
shall
make
again
"
TAMERLANE.
123
0 And
The
craving heart,
sunshine
for the
summer
lost flowers
hours!
of my voice
undying
in the
of that
dead
time,
With
its interminable
of spirit thy emptiness
"
chime,
a a
Rings, Upon
1 have The
spell,
knell.
not
always
diadem and
the
same won
been
on
as
now
fevered
my
brow
"
usurpingly
fierce
"
heirdom
me
given
?
to
the
Caesar of
a
this to
heritage
kingly mind.
hath
human
And
On
mountain
The
mists
Taglay
upon
have
shed
Nightly
And,
And I
their
my
head,
believe,
tumult nestled from dreams with the
red
of
Have So
late
in my
Heaven of
the
an
"
"
('Mid Upon
While From
me
unholy night)
of
touch
Hell,
clouds
Appeared
The And the
to
half-closingeye
of
pageantry
monarchy
thunder's
;
roar
deep trumpet
124
TAMERLANE.
Came Of
hurriedly
human
upon
me,
telling
my
"
battle, where
voice,
child ! was voice, silly swelling My own (O ! how my spiritwould rejoice, And at the cry) leap within me The battle-cryof Victory !
The
rain
came
down
"
upon
the and
my
head wind
and blind.
Unshelter'd Rendered
It
was me
and mad I
me:
heavy
deaf
but
man,
thought,
and
who
shed
"
Laurels
The
torrent
upon
the
rush
of the
chilly air
my
the
"
Gurgled
Of
within
"
ear
the
crush
empires
The hum
with
captive's
and
the
prayer
tone
"
of suitors
a
Of
'round flattery
sovereign's
throne.
hour
to
power
:
My
Then
innate
nature
be
one
it
so
lived
"
who,
their
then,
fire
in my
boyhood
wuth
a
when
Burn'd
glow
heart
youth, expire)
this iron had
a
then
who
knew
woman's
weakness
part.
TAMERLANE.
125
no
words
"
alas!
"
to tell
loveliness would
more
of
now
loving
attempt
well
to
a
! trace
Whose
Are Thus Some With The To
face
my
mind,
wind.
shadows
I remember
on
th' unstable
having
early
lore
dwelt
upon, felt
"
page
of
loitering eye,
letters
"
till I have
with
"
their with
meaning
melt
fantasies
none.
O, she
Love 'Twas
"
was as
worthy
in
as
ot
all love
"
infancy angel
her
was
"
such
minds
Might
On which Were
For
envy: my
incense
young
the
shrine
every
"
hope
a
and
thought
then
they
as
were
Pure
"
her
young
"
Why
did
I leave
to
Trust
the
fire within,
light?
We
grew
"
and
love
"
together
"
Roaming
forest, and
shield in
the
wild
;
"
My
And
/
saw
breast
wintry
weather
And,
she
no
when would
the
heaven
but
in her
eyes.
126
TAMERLANE.
Young
For
Love's
'mid from that
our
is
and
the those
heart;
smiles,
When,
And
apart.
laughing
me on
I'd throw
And
pour
was no
my
her
There
No Of But
need
to
speak
fears
reason
the
rest
"
need
"
to
quiet
ask'd
any
no
her
who
on
why,
turn'd
me
her
quiet eye!
Yet
My
than
the
love
and
strove,
When,
Ambition
I had
no
on
the
mountain it
a new
peak alone,
tone
:
"
lent
"
being
but
in thee
The
In the
world earth
"
and
contain
sea
"
the
the
Its That
joy
was
"
its li'.tlelot of
new
pain
the
pleasure nothings
"
ideal.
"
Dim,
And
vanities
of dreams which
by night
were
dimmer
"
real"
shadowy lightI) Parted their misty wings, upon And so, confusedly, became Thine ! a name a name image and
a
(Shadows
and
more
"
"
Two
separate
ambitious
The
"
yet
most
intimate
things.
was
"
have father?
you
known
You
passion,
have
not:
TAMERLANE.
127
A Of
cottager,
half
And the
I mark'd
throne
own,
world
as
all my
at
murmur'
such
lowly
dew the beam
lot
"
other
dream.
Upon
own ]\Iy
the
had
vapor
of the
not
past, did
which
the hour
Of The
beauty
"
did
"
while
the
it thro'
"
minute
day
oppress
My
We
mind walk'd
a
with
double
on
loveliness. the
crown
together
mountain its and
Of
Afar
high
from
rock
which
natural
on
looked
towers
down
proud
hills ! with
Of
The And
forest,
the
hills
"
dwindled
begirt with
a
bowers
rills.
shouting
to
thousand
spoke
But
her
of power
"
That
and
The
I
converse
her
eyes
read, perhaps
A
mingled
flush
on
"
The
her
become
to
me
Seem'd
Too
to
queenly
let it be
throne
well
that in the
I should
Light
I
wilderness in
a
alone.
wrapp'd myself
And
Yet
grandeur then,
"
donnd
was
it
not
Had
thrown
her
"
128
TAMERLANE.
But
that, among
Lion Ambition
to
the
rabble
"
men,
"
is chain' d down
a
crouches
so
keeper's
where the
hand
"
in deserts wild
"
grand
fan his
"
the
own
terrible breath
conspire
to
With
their
fire.
Look
'round
not
thee
queen
now
on
Samarcand!
her
"
Is she
of
Earth? hand
pride
Above Their Of
all cities?
in her
destinies? which
not
glory
the
known
Stands
she
"
nobly
alone?
Falling
Shall And
her
veriest
form
the her
the o'er
who
sovereign?
astonished
Timour
"
he
Whom
people
saw-
Striding
A
empires haughtily
d outlaw?
diadem'
O, On
human
love!
of all
thou
w^e
Earth,
Which
fair St into
the
the
Upon
And But Idea
Siroc-withered power
a
plain,
to
failing in thy
leav'st
! which
bless,
the
heart
wilderness!
bindest
of of
so so
life around
a
With And
music
strange
wild
won
a
sound
"
beauty
birth
Farewell
! for
I have
the
earth.
TAMERLANE.
129
When
No
Hope,
cliff
that
eagle
him
that
tower'
d, could
see
His
in the
sky,
"
bent turn'd
droopmgly
his
sun
softened
e3^e.
when
the
will
of heart
part
sullenness
who
look
sun.
upon
glory
soul often
will hate
the
ev'ning
mist
lovely, and
sound whose
a
will list
the
of the
those
in
(known
one
Who,
But
dream
carmof,
from
tho'
the
moon
"
white
noon,
moon
all the
splendor
of her and
smile
that time
is
chilly
"
of
dreariness,
in your
(So
A And Whose For And Let With
like you
gather
is
breath)
after
a summer
death.
sun
is the
dreariest is known
hath
one
"
live to know
seek
as
we
to
keep
flown
"
life, then,
the
the
fall is sC\.
more so.
"
I reach' For
home flown
out
"
my
home
no
who
made
it
passed
its mossy
door.
ISO
TAMERLANE.
And,
A Of
tho'
came
my
thread from
I had
was
soft
and
low
voice
one
the
stone
"
whom
earlier
to
of fire that
heart
"
burn
a
below.
wo.
humbler
deeper
Father,
I know From Where Hath And
I
"
firmly
for
do
believe who
"
Death
comes
for
me
regions
there
of the
blest
to
afar.
is
nothing
deceive.
gate ajar.
cannot
see
rays
you
Are
I do
flashing thro'
believe that in every when
of
Eternity
hath
snare
path
"
Else
how,
holy
grove
"
I wandered
the
idol, Love,
the snowy
Who
daily scents
incense
the
most
wings
With
From
of
burnt-offerings
unpolluted things
bowers
are
Whose Above
No
mote
pleasant
with may
yet
so
riven
from tiniest
eye
Heaven
no
fly
" "
The How
light'ning of
was
his
eagle
revels
it that amid
Ambition
crept,
there.
and
Unseen,
Till
In
the
he
laughed
very
leapt
?
Love's
hair
DREAM.
In I But
visions
have
of
the
dark of
night
dreamed
joy
of
departed
life
and
"
waking
left
me
dream
light
Hath
broken-hearted.
Ah
To
! what
is
not
dream
by
are
day
him
w^hose around
back
eyes
him
cast
On
things
Turned
with
the
ray
?
upon
past
That
holy
While
Hath A all
dream^that the
holy
world
were
dream,
chiding,
a
cheered
me
as
lovely
beam
lonely
sp-'rit guiding.
What So What
In
though
trembled
that from
light,
afar
"
thro'
storm
and
night,
could Truth's
there
be
more
purely
bright
day-star
ROMANCE.
Romance,
With
who
loves
head
to
nod folded
as
and
sing,
wing,
drowsy
the down
me a
and leaves
some
Among
Far To Hath
green within
the}-
shake
shadowy
lake,
painted
"
paroquet
most
been
familiar
to
bird
"
Taught
To
me
my
alphabet
earliest
say
"
lisp
my in
word
I
While
A
wood
most
did
lie,
eye.
child
"
knowing
years
on
Of
So
late,
shake
eternal
the
Condor very
as
Heaven
high by,
With
I have
tumult time
they
for
thunder
idle
cares
no
Through
And
Its That To
gazing
an
on
the with
unquiet
calmer
sky. wings
"
when
down
hour my with
upon time
away
spirit
flings
and
little while
heart it
lyre
rhyme
!
forbidden
"
things
be
the
a
My
Unless
would trembled
feel
to
crime
with
strings.
FAIRYLAND.
vales
"
and
shadowy
woods,
can't
floods
"
cloudy-looking
forms
the
tears
we
that there
drip
wax
moons
wane
"
again
moment
"
again
of the
"
night
"
"
changing
put
breath
out
places
the
they
the
star-light
their
from
pale
faces.
twelve
more
by filmy
the than
moon-dial
the
rest
One
(A
kind
which,
have down
"
upon
to
trial,
be down
"
They
Comes With
Of While In
a
found still
on
the
best)
and
down
its
centre
the
crown
eminence,
circumference falls
over
easy
drapery
hamlets,
Over
Wherever O'er
halls.
be
"
they
the
may woods
strange
o'er
"
the
sea-
134
FAIRYLAND.
spirits
every
buries
on
the
wing thing
tip
"
drowsy
them
"
quite
"
labyrinth
then how
of
light
"
And Is In And
Is
deep!
of their
O,
deep!
the the
passion
morning
their moony in
sleep.
arise,
they
covering
skies,
as
soaring
the
the
"With
te.npests
almost any
they
thing"
toss.
Like
Or
a
yellow
use
Albatross.
moon
no more
They
For
that
same
the
end
tent"
as
before
"
Videlicet Which
Its Into
I think
extravagant.
however. dissever,
butterflies seek down the
atomies,
a
shower
those
Of Of And
which
Earth,
so come
who
skies.
again things!)
(Never-contented
Have
brought
their
specimen
Upon
quivering
wings.
TO
.
The
bowers
whereat,
in
dreams,
see
The
wanton
est
singing
thy
words
"
birds,
Are
lips
"
and
all
melody
Of
lip
-begotten
Thine
eyes,
Then
in
Heaven
of
heart
enshrined
desolately
!
fall,
God
on
funereal my
mind
Like
starlight
on
pall
"
Th}^
And
heart
"
thy
sleep
to
heart
!
"
wake
and
sigh.
dream
till
day
buy
"
Of
the
truth
that
gold
that
can
never
Of
the
baubles
it
may.
TO
THE
RIVER
Fair
river!
in
thy
wandering
bright,
clear
flow
Of
crystal,
art
water,
Thou
an
emblem
of
the
glow
heart"
Of
beaut)^
"
the
unhidden
The
playful
Alberto's
maziness
of
art
In
old
dauhtger;
But
when
within
thy
then,
wave
she
looks
"
Which
glistens
then,
the
and
trembles
"
Why,
Her
prettiest
resembles;
in
of
brooks
worshipper
in his
For
heart,
as
thy
lies
"
stream,
Her
image
heart
deeply
which trembles
His
at
the
beam
Of
her
soul-searching
eyes.
THE
LAKE.
TO
In To The So
spring
haunt
of
youth
the I
it
was
my
a
lot
of
wide
not
world
love
spot
less"
which
could the
the
lovely
a
was
Of
And But
wild
the
lake,
tall
the
with
bound,
around.
her
pines Night
towered
thrown
when
pall
Upon
And
that the
spot,
as
upon
went
all,
mystic
in
wind
by
Murmuring
Then
"
melody
I would
"
ah,
terror
then,
of
awake
lake.
To Yet But
the that
a
the
was
lone
not
terror
fright,
"
tremulous
not
or
delight
the
feeling
teach
Love"
was
jewelled
me
mine
to
Could
Nor
bribe
define
were
although
in
the
Love
thine.
Death And
For To Whose An in him his
that
a
poisonous
fitting
could
"
wave,
its who
lone
gulf
grave solace
thence
bring
imagining
soul dim
solitary
Eden of that
could
lake.
make
SO.VG.
SAW
thee
on
thy
bridal
blush
day
"
When
burning
came
o'er
thee.
Though
The
happiness
world all love
around
thee
thee
lay,
:
before
And
in
th'ne
eye it
Earth
kindling
be)
light
(Whatever
Was all
on
might
my
aching
see.
sight
Of
Loveliness
could
That
blush,
As such it
perhaps,
well may
hath
was
maiden
shame
"
pass raised
alas!
"
Though
In the
its
breast
glow
of
fiercer
flame
him,
Who
saw
thee
on
that
bridal
day,
come
When
that
deep
blush
wou/d
thee
o'er
thee,
Though
The
happiness
world all
love
around
lay,
before
thee.
POEMS. LATER
DREAM
WITHIN
DREAM.
Take
this
in
kiss
upon
from
me
the you
avow
brow
now,
"
And,
Thus You That Yet
In
a
parting
let
not
much
are
who
been
deem
a
my if
days
has
or
dream
hope
away
night,
vision,
day.
none.
In Is
or
it therefore
less
seem
gojie
All
Is but
that
a
we
dream
within
dream.
I stand
amid
the
roar
Of And
surf-tormented
I hold of
shore.
my hand sand-
within
the
!
Grains
How
golden
how
few
yet
they
to
creep the
Through
While O God
my
I weep"
!
can
fingers
while
I not
a
deep,
!
I weep
grasp
Them O God
with
!
can
tighter clasp?
I not
save
Otie Is
But
from
that dream
the
we
pitiless
see or
wave?
seem
all
a
within
dream?
THE
BELLS.
Hear
the
sledges
Silver
with bells
!
the
bells
"
What
world
How lu
of
merriment
their
melody
tinkle,
'
foretells
they
the
the
tinkle,
tinkle,
of that
seem
icy
stars,
air
night
While
All
oversprinkle
to
the With
heavens,
a
twinkle
;
crystalline
time,
of
delight
time,
Keeping
In To the
a
time,
sort
Runic
that
so
rhyme,
tintinabulation
From
musically
bells, bells.
wells
the
bells,
bells,
Bells,
From
bells,
and the
bells"
the
jingling
tinkling
of
the
bells.
Hear
the
mellow
Golden
wedding
bells their
!
bells.
What
world
of
happiness
harmony
foretells
THE
BELLS.
i43
Through
How From
the
balmy
out
air of their
they ring
the
night delight!
notes,
molten all
m
-golden
tune,
And
What To
a
the
turtledove
On
listens, while
moon
she
gloats
Oh,
What
a
from of
out
sounding
!
cells,
wells
!
gush
euphony
How
How
voluminously
it swells
it dwells
Future
! how
On
the the
it tells
Of To
rapture
that and
impels
the
the Of
swinging
ringing
the
Of
the
rhyming
and
the
chiming
of the
bells !
III.
Hear
the
loud
alarum
bells
"
Brazen What
a
bells ! their
tale
of
terror,
now,
ear
turbulency tells
In
the startled
of
out
night
their affright !
to
How
Too
they
much
" :ream
horrified
speak.
144
THE
BELLS.
They
In In
a a
can
clamorous
mad
appealing
fire,
the the
mercy deaf
of and
the
fire.
expostulation
with
frantic
resolute
now
endeavor sit
or
to
never.
moon.
By
the
side
the
a
of the
pale-faced
terror
Oh,
What
tells
How What On
a
the bosom
Despair ! they clang, and clash, horror they outpour of the palpitating air !
the the
ear
Of
and
roar
Yet
it
fully knows,
By
And
How
Yet the In
And How
twanging. the clanging. and the danger ebbs tells, ear distinctly the jangling the wrangling.
danger
the sinks and
flows
the
or
swells,
anger
of the
By
the
sinking
swelling
the bells"
in the
bells"
Of Of the
clamor
and
clangor
bells
THE
BELLS.
i45
Hear
the
tolling of
Iron
the
bells
"
bells!
What
world
of
solemn
!
thought night,
their
monody
compels
In How the
we
silence
shiver
of the
with
menace
affright
of their floats
tone
At
the For
melancholy
every the sound
rust
that
From
within
a
their
throats
Is
groan.
"
And
the
people
dwell
"
They
And
In
that
steeple.
tolling,tolling,tolling,
muffled
in
so
monotone.
Feel
On
glory
the
rolling
heart
a
human
stone
woman
"
They They
And
are
are
neither neither
man
nor
or
"
brute
are
human
"
They
their
he
Ghouls: tolls ;
king
Rolls
it is who
And
A And
paean
from
the bosom
his merry
the
With And he
psean
of the and he
dances
yells;
146
THE
BELLS.
ICeeping
In
a
time,
of Runic
time,
time,
sort
rhyme,
of
To
the
paean
the
the
bells
"
Of
bells:
Keeping
In
a
time,
sort
time,
time.
of
Runic
rh37me.
of
bells" of
To
the
throbbing
bells,
the
bells,
Of
To
the
bells,
the
sobbing
time, time,
the
bells
Keeping
As In
time. knells,
he
knells,
Runic
knells,
happy
the
rhyme.
of the
To
rolling
bells, bells,
bells,
"
Of
To
the the
bells,"
the
tolling
bells, bells,
and the
of
bells, bells,
Of
the
bells, Bells,
bells,
bells"
To
the
moaning
groaning
of
the
bells.
TO
HELEN.
I I
SAW
thee
not
once
"
once
only
many
;
"
"
years but
7iot
ago
must
say
ho7U
many.
out
It A
was
July
midnight
moon,
and
from like
full-orbed
that,
thine
owm
soul,
soaring,
Sought
There
a
precipitate
a
pathway
veil
up of and
a
through light.
slumber,
heaven.
fell
silvery-silken
and d
in
With
quietude,
the that
no
sultriness,
faces
an
Upon
Roses
Where
upturn'
grew
of
thousand
enchanted
to
garden,
unless these the
roses on
wind
dared
d
stir,
of
tiptoe
"
Fell
That Their Fell That
on
the
gave odorous
upturn'
out,
in
faces
return
for
an
love-light,
death
"
souls
in
d
ecstatic
on
the smiled
upturn'
and
faces in
of this of
these
roses
parterre,
enchanted
By
Clad I
thee,
all
and in
by
poetry
a
thy
bank the
presence
white,
violet while
of d
"
saw
thee
on
half-reclining
upturn'
own,
moon
Fell And
the thine
faces
the alas!
roses,
on
upturn'
in
sorrow
148
Was Was That To No Save it not it not
TO
HELEN.
Fate, that,
Fate
me
on
this
name
July midnight
is also
"
(whose
pause incense the
me
"
Sorrow),
bade breathe
before
that
the
of those hated
footstep
stirred: and
beats
world
slept,
God
!
only
my
thee
(O
Heaven!"
coupling those two words!) I looked I paused only thee and me. all things disappeared. instant in an
heart
in
"
"
(Ah,
The The The Were
bear
garden
moon
was
enchanted
out
:
!)
pearly
mossy
M^ent
the the
meandering
j^aths,
trees,
happy
seen
flowers
no more
repining
roses'
airs.
the
very
odors
Died All
"
in the
arms
of the
save
adoring
"
all
expired
the
the
thee
save
thou
vSave
Save I I
saw saw
only
but but
divine soul
"
light in
thine
were
thine
in
uplifted eyes.
the world
them
to
me.
them them
them
"
they
saw
but
only
the
for hours
went
to
"
Saw What
only
wild
until
moon
down.
lie enwritten
! !
heart-histories
seemed
Upon
How
those dark
a
of pride ! a sea silentlyserene ! yet how deepdaring an ambition fathomless a capacity for love !
But Into
now,
a
at
length,
couch
dear
Dian
sank
from
;
sight,
western
of thunder-cloud
TO
HELEN,
149
And Didst
thou,
ghost,
away.
not
amid
the
entombing
eyes
trees
glide
would
Only
go
"
thine
They
Lighting
they pathway
never
yet
home
gone.
my
not
lonely
left
me
night,
since. the
77^^'jhave
They They
Their
follow
(as
lead
my
me
hopes
have)
me
"
they
through
I
years.
are
my is
to
ministers
"
yet
and
their enkindle
slave.
office
to
illumine
"
My
And And
duty,
be
in
by
their
bright
fire,
fire.
light.
purified
sanctified fill
electric
elysian Beauty
the
"
They
And In While the
are
my far
soul
(which
stars
is
I
Hope),
kneel
to
up silent
in still
"
sad,
even
watches the
two
of
my
night
of
meridian
glare
day
see
them
sweetly
by
scintillant the
!
Venuses,
unextinguished
sun
VALENTINE.
For
her
this
rhyme
is
penned,
whose
luminous
eyes,
Brightly
Shall
find the
expressive
her
own
of
sweet
the
twins
of
Leda,
name,
that,
from
nestling
every
lies
Upon
Search
page,
enwrapped
the lines
an
reader.
treasure
narrowly
"
!
"
they
amulet
hold
Divine That
must
talisman
"
be
worn
at
hca^^t.
Search
well
the
measure
"
words
"
the
syllables
or
Do
not
forget
your knot labor
!
trivialest
point,
there
you
this
undo
no
may
Gordian
lose
yet
one
is
in
not
Which
If
might
could
without
sabre.
one
merely
comprehend
the
plot.
(To
read second
discover
the
the
names
in the
this
and
the
foUowing
connection letter
to
first
letter
letter
of the of
of second the
first
line
the
in third
line,
and
to
line,
not
the been
fourth
fourth,
so
on
the American
thought
for
necessary
retain
the
ing, spell-
Lada
Leda.)
VALENTINE.
151
Enwritten
upon
the
leaf
where there
uttered
now
are
peering
Eyes
Three Of Its
scintillating
eloquent
poets
words
soul,
oft
lie
perdus
in
is the
hearing
poet's
too.
by
poets
"
as
the
name
letters,
Like the
form
although
knight
a
naturally
Pinto
"
lying
Ferdinando
"
Mendez for
Truth"
Still
You
synonym
not
Cease
trying!
you do
the
will
best
read
the do.
riddle,
though
you
ca7i
AN
ENIGMA,
"Seldom
we
find,"
says
in the
Solomon
Don
Dunce,
"Half
an
idea
profoundest things
Naples
sonnet.
Through
As
all
the
flimsy
through
trash
!
"
we
see
at
once
easily
of
as
bonnet
"
Trash
all
how
can
lady
don
it
Yet
heavier
far
than
^^our
Petrarchan
stuff
"
Owl-downy
Twirls into
nonsense
that
the
faintest
puff
it.'
trunk-paper
Sol
is
the
while
you
con
And,
veritably,
general
right
enough.
arrant
The
tuckermanities
are
Bubbles
"
ephemeral
tins
and
so
transparent
"
But
is,
now
"
you
may
all
"
depend by
d
nt
it upon
"
Stable,
opaque,
immortal
Of
the
dear
names
that
lie
concealed
within't.
TO
Not
In
long
the mad
ago,
the
writer
of
of
these
lines,
pride
"the
intellectuality,
of words" denied
"
Maintained
ever
power
that
thought
the
arose
within of
che the
brain
Beyond
And Two Italian
now,
utterance
as
tongue boast,
"
if
two
in
mockery foreign
only
in
words
"
soft
to
dissyllables
murmured "dew
tones,
made
be
By
That
angels
dreaming
like from chains
out
the of
moonlit
hangs
stirred
pearl
on
hill,"
heart,
souls
"
Have
the
abysses
that
are
Unthought-like thought,
Richer,
Than
even
thoughts
of
far
wilder,
the "the
far
diviner
visions
seraph
sweetest
harper,
voice
Israfel,
of
all
(Who
has
God's
tures"). crea-
Could
The With I cannot
hope
pen
k)
utter.
And from
I !
my my
spells
are
broken. Land.
powerless
name as
shivering
bidden
think
"
thy
text,
though
or
by thee,
I
"
cannot
speak
'tis
not
Alas,
cannot
feel
for
feeling.
154
TO
.
This Threshold
standing
of
motionless
the
upon
the
golden
of
wide-open
adown
I
gate
the
the
dreams,
Gazing,
And
entranced,
gorgeous
vista,
thrilling
the
as
see,
upon
the
right.
along.
Upon
Amid
To
left,
and
all
wa^^
far
empurpled
where the
vapors,
away
prospect
terminates
"
tliee
only.
TO
MY
MOTHER.
Because
feel
that,
in
the
Heavens
above,
The
angels,
find,
among
whispering
their
to
one
another,
terms
Can
burning
as
of
love,
None
so
devotional
that
of
"
Mother,"
Therefore
by
you
that
dear
name
long
have
called
"
You
who
are
more
than
mother
unto
me,
And
fill
my
heart
of
hearts,
where
Death
stalled in-
you,
In
setting
mother
"
my
Virginia's
own
spirit
who
free.
My
Was
my the
mother,
of
died
early.
you
but
mother
myself
loved
so
but
Are
mother
to
the
one
dearly,
mother
I
And
thus
are
dearer
than
the
knew
By
Was
that
infinity
dearer
to
with
which
my than
wife
my
soul
its
soul-life.
ELDORADO.
Gaily
bedight,
A In
gallant
knight,
and
in
sunshine Had
shadow,
journeyed
a
long,
Singing
In search
of
song,
Eldorado.
he
grew
old
"
knight
his
as
so
bold
"
heart he of
shadow
found
spot
looked
ground
Eldorado.
like
And Failed He
"
as
his
him
strength
at
length.
shadow
"
met
pilgrim
said
can
Shadow,"
Where
he,
"
it be" Eldorado
?"
This
land
of
ELDORADO.
157
"'
the
Mountains
Moon,
Down
Valley boldly
shade
of
the
Shadow,
Ride,
The
ride,"
replied,
for Eldorado
"
If
you
seek
"
TO
.
I
HEED
not
that
earthly
my
lot
Hath"
little
of
Earth
in
it"
That years
of
love
have
been
forgot
In
the
hatred
of
a
minute
:
"
I
mourn
not
that
the
desolate
Are
happier,
sweet,
than
I,
But
'Ca.oX
for you
sorrow
fate my
Who
am a
passer-by.
TO
M.
L.
S
.
Of Of The The
all
all
who
to
hail whom
thy
thine
as
the
morning night
heaven bless
"
"
is
the
blotting
sacred for
sun
utterly
of
"
high
who,
life
"
weeping,
ah
!
thee
Hourly
For In Of the
hope
for
"
above
all.
faith
resurrection in
"
of
deep-buried
in
Truth
all
Virtue
"
Humanity
unhallowed
"
who,
down
on
Despair's
to
bed arisen
' '
Lying
At
die,
have
suddenly
w^ords,
thy
soft-murmured
!
"
Let
there
be
light
At
In
the
the all
soft-murmured
words
were
fulfilled
seraphic
who
owe
glancing
thee
most"
of
eyes
"
Of
gratitude
remember
Nearest The
truest"
worship
oh,
"
fervently
weak lines
devoted.
are
And
think
these
written
by
him
"
By
His
him
who,
is
as
he
pens
them,
with
an
thrills
to
think
spirit
communing
angel's.
FOR
ANNIE.
Heaven
the
crisis
"
danger
the
over
is
past,
illness
lingering
at
last
"
And
Is
the
fever
called
at
"
Living'
conquered
last.
Sadly,
I
am
know of
I full
shorn
no
my
move
strength,
And As
But I
muscle He
at
I
no
length"
I feel
matter!
"
am
better
at
length.
And
rest
so
composedly,
bed,
Now,
That any
in
my
beholder
Might
Might
fancy
start at
me
dead
"
beholding
dead.
me,
Thinking
me
FOR
ANNIE.
i6i
The
The
and
and
Are
now.
With At
horrible
heart:
ah,
that
Horrible
throbbing
the
"
The The
sickness
"
nausea
"
pitiless pain
ceased, with
maddened
Have
That
the my
fever
brain
"
"
With That
.the fever
burned
called in my
Living
"
brain.
And
the the
worst
Has
abated
terrible
Torture For
of thirst,
the
naphthaline
accurst:
river
"
Of
I have
Passion drank
of
water
That
quenches
all thirst:
"
Of
water
a a
that
flows,
few
With From
Feet From Down
a
under
cavern
very
far
under
ground.
i62
FOR
ANNIE.
And
ah ! let it
never
Be That And
For In
foolishlysaid
my
room narrow never
it is
my
gloomy
;
bed
man a
slept
bed
"
different
to
And,
In
slumber
My
tantalized Here
spirit
agitations
and
roses:
Of
myrtles
now,
For
while
so
quietly
Lying,
A holier
it fancies
odor
About A rosemary
it, of pansies
odor,
with
the
"
Commingled
With
rue
pansies
"
and
beautiful
Puritan And
pansies.
it lies
in
so
happily,
many
truth of Annie
"
Bathing
A
dream
of the the
And Drowned Of
beauty
in
a
bath of Annie.
the
tresses
FOR
ANXIE.
163
She
And
To
gently
breast
"
sleep
to
her
Deeply
From
sleep
heaven
of her breast.
the
the
light was
me
extinguished
v^arm,
covered she
prayed
me
to
the
angels
"
keep
shield
from of the
me
harm
To
the To
queen
angels
harm.
from
And
Now
I lie
so
composedly.
bea,
in my
(Knowing
That And
her
love)
"
you
I rest
Now,
in my
her
(With
That That
love
my
me
breast)
dead
"
you
you
fancy
shudder
me
to look
at
me,
Thinkino:
dead
"
But
my
heart
it is
brighter
many
Than
all of the
in
Stars
the
sky,
64
FOR
ANNIE.
For It
it
sparkles
with love
the of
with
Annie-
glows
Of the
the
light
my
of
"
Annie
"
With Of
thought
eyes of my
the Annie.
light
the
ULALUME.
The
skies
The
they
leaves leaves
were
ashen
were
and
sober;
and
sere
"
they
crisped withering
October year
lake of
The
It
was
they
in
were
and
sere
night
Of my hard
In
the
lonesome
most
It
was
by misty
by
Auber,
Weir
of
"
the down
region
dank
tarn
of
It
was
Auber,
of Weir.
In
the
ghoul-haunted
through
I
woodland
Here
once,
an
alley
with
Titanic,
my my Soul Soul.
was
"
Of Of
These
cypress, cypress,
were
roamed
with when
Psyche,
my
days
scoriae
lavas
volcanic
As
As
the
the
rivers
that
"
restlessly
down of the
roll
Their
In
sulphurous
the ultimate
as
currents
Yaanek
climes
pole
"
That
In
groan the
they
of
roll the
down boreal
Mount
Yaanek
realms
pole.
sober,
Our
talk
But
had
our
been
serious
and
were
thoughts
were
they
palsied
and
and
sere
sere-
Our
memories
treacherous
"
66
ULALUME.
For
we
knew
we
not
the
month
not
was
October,
of the year
"
And
marked of all
the
once
the
night
in the of Auber
year
"
(Ah, night
We
noted
not
nights
lake
had dank
!) here)-
dim
we
(Though
Rememberecl Nor
the
journeyed
tarn
down
not
the
of Auber,
of Weir.
ghoul-haunted
the
woodland
And
now,
And As
senescent to
morn morn
"
the
star-dials of
our
hinted
a
of
"
At
the And
end
path
liquescent
was
nebulous
a
lustre miraculous
a
born,
cresceat
"
Out
of w^hich
Arose Astarte's
with
duplicate horn
crescent
Distinct
duplicate
warmer
horn.
And
I said
"
"
She
is
than
Dian
"
through an ether of sighs revels in a region of sighs : that the tears not are seen dry on
rolls
cheeks, where
come
the
stars to
w^orm
never
dies,
past the
us
ot
the
Lion
"
point
the
up, in
the
path
peace
the of the
skies
Lethean
skies
"
despite
on us
of the her
Lion,
shine up
with the
bright
eyes
"
Come
through
love
lair of the
luminous
Lion,
With
in her
eyes."
ULALUME.
167
But
Psyche, upliftingher finger, Said Sadly this star I mistrust Her pallor I strangely mistrust:
"
"
"
"
Oh,
hasten
!
" "
oh, let
us
us
"
not
linger !
must." her the dust
"
In
fly! for we terror she spoke, letting sink Wings until they trailed in
agony
In
letting sink her Plumes till the}^trailed in the dust Till they sorrowfully trailed in the
sobbed,
"
"
dust.
dreaming: Let us on by this tremulous light! in th's crystalline light! Let us bathe Its Sibyllicsplendor is beaming With Hope and in Beauty to-night: See ! it flickers up the sky through the night Ah, we safely may trust to its gleaming,
"
replied
This
is
nothing
but
"
"
And We
be
sure
it will lead
trust
safely may
That Since
cannot
but
it flickers
up
to
Heaven
through
the
night."
Thus I And
And
And
we
pacifiedPsyche and kissed her. tempted her out of her gloom her scruples and gloom conquered
"
passed to the end of the vista, But were stopped by the door of a tomb By the door of a legended tomb ;
"
i68
ULALUME.
And
said
"
"
What
of
is
written,
sweet
sister,
?
"
On
She
the
door
this Ulalume
legended
"
tomb
replied
the vault
"
"
Ulahime
"
'Tis
of
thy
lost
Ulalume
"
Then As
As And I
it
ashen
and
sober
and and
were
crisped
seie
"
were
withering
October
cere
It
was
surely
of
I
"
On That That On Ah
Well I
this
I I
very
night
last
journeyed
burden in
herehere-
dread all
this
!
of
nights
tempted
dim
year,
here
?
what
has
me
know,
now,
lake
of
of
Auber
"
This Well
I
misty
know,
now,
region
this
dank
Weir
"
tarn
of
Auber,
Weir."
This
ghoul-haunted
woodland
of
ANNABEL
LEE,
It
was
many In
a
and
many
year
sea,
ago,
kingdom
there
name
by
the
That
maiden
the
whom
you
may
know
By
And
of
Lee;
with loved
no
this
Than
maiden
to
she and
other
me.
thought
love
by
was
child this
and
she
was
child,
sea
:
In But
we
kingdom
with
by
a
the love
loved
love
that
was
more
than
"
I With
and
a
my
Lee;
love
the
and
winged
me.
seraphs
of
heaven
Coveted
And
this In
was
the
reason
that,
long
ago,
this blew
kingdom
out
by
of
a
the
sea,
wind
cloud,
chiUing
Lee
;
came
My
So that
And To shut In
beautiful
her bore her up
Annabel
kinsmen away
a
highborn
her in
from
me.
sepulchre by
the
sea.
this
kingdom
I70
ANNABEL
LEE.
The
ange's,
Went
not
half
her
so
happy
and
me
"
in
heaven,
envying
that
was
Yes
I
"
the
reason
(as
the of
all
men
know,
In That
this
the
kingdom
came
by
out
sea)
the
wind
and
cloud
by
Lee.
night,
Chilling
killing my
Annabel
But
our
love
those
it
was
stronger
were
by
than
we
"
far
we
than
the
love
Of Of
who far
the demons
older
"
many
wiser
than
in
And
neither Nor
angels
down
above,
the the Lee:
sea,
the
Can
ever
dissever
my
soul
Annabel
soul
Of
the
beautiful
For
the
me
moon
never
beams,
without
bringing
Of
And the
Annabel
Lee but I
stars
rise,
Annabel
feci
Lee
the
;
bright
eyes
Of
And
s
the
", the
beautiful
all
night-tide,
"
I lie
"
down my
by
life
the and
side
Of
my
darling,
bride,
my
darling,
my
In
In
her
her
septdchre
tomb
there
by
of
the the
sea,
sea.
by
the
side
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
In
speaking
to
of
the
Poetic
Principle,
or
have
no
be
either
much
thorough
at
profound.
the
While
very what
to
we
random my
essentiality
purpose
of those wall
call for
or
Poetry,
principal
some
be
cite
consideration American
or
few
English
own
poems upon
my
which
ow^n
best
taste,
most
mean,
which,
fancy,
"minor
left
the
I
definite of
course,
impression.
poems of
By
poems"
And
a
little
me
length.
to
here,
words
in
the
beginning,
to
a
permit
say
few
in
regard
somewhat
or
peculiar principle,
wrongfully,
own
which,
had
of the
whether
its
rightfully
influence
I
has
ways al-
in that the
my
a
critical poem
"a
estimate does
not
poem.
I maintain
a
hold
that
long
exist.
is
phrase,
in that
a
long
poem,"
simply
I
flat
contradiction
observe
as
terms.
need
scarcely
inasmuch value
poehi by
the
deserves
its
the this
are,
title
soul.
only
The
it
excites,
is in all
elevating
ratio
of
of
the
poem
But
elevating
through
of be
a so a
excitement.
excitements
That
a
psychal
necessity,
which would
be
transient. entitle
gree deto
excitement
at
poem
called
all,
of
any
at
cannot
sustained
After
throughout
the
"
composition
half
an
great
very
length.
utmost,
lapse
fails
"
of
hour,
the
it
flags
(171)
172
revulsion
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
ensues
"
and
then
the
poem
is,in effect,
found that culty diffithe
and
in fact, no
are,
no
longer
doubt,
is
There
in
have
reconciling
Lost"
with for
the
dictum
"Paradise
be
devoutly
admired
throughout,
maintaining
enthusiasm This
as
the
absolute
which
critical
in
dictum
to
would
be
mand. de-
great work,
all
fact, is
regarded
requisitein
merely
its
as a
minor
If, to preserve
Unity
it
result and
"
totality of
be
a
read
the
(as would
is but
necessary) at
constant
alternation
a
of
ment excitewe
depression.
true
After
there
no
passage
of what
feel
to
be of
us
poetry,
follows, inevitably, a
critical
passage
can
platitude which
to
prejudgment
the
"
force
we
admire
; but
if,upon
completing
work,
that shall
again, omitting the first book second the is to say, with we conmiencing be finding that admirable surprised at now
read it
"
which
we
we
before
condenmed
so
"
that
damnable
It
which
had
previously
that
even
much
admired.
follows
or
from lute
the the
ultimate, aggregate,
best
absois
a
of
epic
under fact.
the
sun,
nullity
In
and
this is
to
precisely the
Iliad, we
regard
the
very
have, if
for
not
positive
it
the
proof, at
intended
least
as a
good
of
reason,
believing
series
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
173
the work modern but the
any
"
say
sense
only
of
that
Art.
is
The
the
supposititiousancient
and blindfold imitation. is
over.
model,
But
inconsiderate
of these
very
"
day
which poem
artistic anomalies
If, at
in
no
time,
any
long
be
poem
luere
popular
that
reality
very
I doubt
it is at
least
clear
long
will
the
ever
popular again.
of
a
That
extent
measure
we
poetical work
seems
is, ceteris
edly, undoubtciently suffithe
paribus,
when
the
of its merit,
state
we are
thus
"
it,
proposition
for
can
"
absurd
yet
indebted
there
it to
Quarterly
in
mere
Reviews.
Surely
bulk,
be there
nothing
can
be
cerned, con-
nothing
far
as
volume
is
which
from
to
has these
so
continuously
sentiment does
no man
elicited
! of
A
saturnine
pamphlets
be
sure,
by
the
mere
physical
us
magnitude
a
which the
it conveys,
impress
is
with
sense
of
sublime
"
but
impressed
of
even
after
by the material
Even
be
so
grandeur
"The
the
Quarterlies have
not
instructed
to
they
have
not
insisted
by
what
the
cubic
are
foot,
we
or
impressed by it. As yet, on our estimating Lamartine Pollock by the pound -but
from
else about
to
infer
their
continual
ing prat-
"sustained
little
effort"?
has
If, by
"sustained
an
effort," any
gentleman thing
accomplished
for
epic, let
us
frankly commend
be
a
him
the but
effort let
"
if this indeed
commendable"
us
174
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
forbear
It is to
come,
the
effort's
account.
sense,
in the
a
time
of
to Art
upon
"
work
rather
impression
by
the the
amount
it makes
by
to
the
effect
it
produces"
effect,
which
or
time
it took
of
impress
the
by
been
"sustained
effort"
had
found
fact
necessary
in
effectingthe
is
all
pression imone
The
is,
that another
perseverance
"
thing
and been
the
and
genius quite
in Christendom
nor
can
the
Quarterlies by,
this
confound
many
them.
By
I
proposition,with
which
have
In just urging, will be received as self-evident. ities, falsas meantime, by being generally condemned they will not be essentiallydamaged as truths.
On
the
other
hand, it is
Undue
clear
that
poem
ma)^
be
improperly
mere now
brief
brevit}' degenerates
vo'y
a
into
while
never
short
or
poem,
brilliant
vivid,
produces
nuist
be
the
wax.
effect. of the
There
stamp
erable innum-
upon
the
Beranger
and
too
has
wrought
things, pungent
general
themselves
they
have
been into
deeply
so
the of
thus,
aloft
A
as
many
to
feathers
fancy, have
the the
been
blown
only
in
be
whistled
instance
dowu
of
wind.
effect
remarkable
of
undue
of
quisite ex-
brevity
the
depressing a
:
poem,
popular view,
is afforded
"
in
little Serenade
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
175
I arise In
from
dreams
of
thee
the
first sweet
When And
I arise
winds
stars
are are
dreams my
thee,
And
Has
in spirit
me
"
feet how ?
"
led
who
knows
To The
On
thy chamber-window,
sweet
wandering
the
airs the
they faint
stream
"
dark
silent
The
champak
sweet
odors
fail
;
Ivike
The
It dies As I must
heart, thine,
die
O, beloved
O, lift me
I
thou
art
from
I
the
grass
die,
faint, I
fail !
Let
On
thy
my
love
in kisses
rain
lipsand
is cold beats
eyelids pale.
and
My
cheek
white,
and
alas
:
My
O
heart
loud
to
fast
! press Where
it close
thine
again,
it will break
at last !
Very yet
Their will
no
few less
warm,
perhaps
a
are
familiar
with
these
lines,
author.
poet
than
Shelley
and
is their
yet delicate
ethereal but
imagination by
none so
be
appreciated
by
all,
176
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
thoroughly
sweet
as
by him
of
one
who
has
himself
to
arisen
in the
from
matic aro-
dreams air of
a
beloved
bathe
southern
midsummer poems
he
same
night.
the very has
One
of
the
finest which
this from
by Willis,
has
ever
best
no
in
my
opinion
kept
back
written,
of
doubt, through
been the
defect
undue
brevity,
less in
its proper
position,not
view
:
"
critical than
in the
popular
The
shadows
near
'Twas
And
Was
slowly
walk'd
walking
pride.
side.
Alone
she
but, viewlessly,
her
Walk'd
at spirits
Peace
charm'd
Honor
the
street
beneath
air ;
on
her
feet.
And
charm'd
the
And
And For
kind
as
her,
"
called
her
ever
good
gave
fair her
all God
to
She
kept
with
chary
care.
She
kept
heart the
with
care
warm
her
beauties
true"
rare
From For
lovers
was
and
to
cold
came
all but
not to
gold,
woo
"
And
But
rich
honor'd If
well
her
charms
to
sell.
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
177
fair
Now A
walking
she make
Want
there
was
one
more
"
slight girl,lily-pale;
had
unseen
And
To
company
"
the
spiritquail
Scorn she
'Twixt And
and
walk'd
forlorn,
nothing could
avail.
No
mercy From
now
can
clear
her
to
world's wild
peace
For
as
prayer gave
dissolved
way
Her But
heart
!
"
the
sin
forgiven by
is cursed
Christ !
in Heaven,
By
this
the
"verses
man
alway
In
composition
Willis
who
we
find
it difficult to recognize
so
has
many
mere
of but
society."
full
an
The
not
only richly
breathe
an
ideal
of
energy,
they
all
earnestness,
which works While
in
we
evident
in
for
look
vain
the
other
of
epic mania,
to merit
for
some
years
mind,
by
mere
public
find
be
it
succeeded
by
but
palpably
in the
said
our
false to
long
tolerated,
one
which,
may be
brief have
already endured,
more
to
in
all
the
corruption of
enemies
Poetical
than
its other
combined.
allude
to
178
the
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
heresy
ultimate
it is
of
The
Didactic.
It
has
been
assumed, Every
and
tacitlyand
the
indirectly,that
is Truth.
a
object
is the
We
of
all
Poetry
poem,
said, should
inculcate
moral,
by
this moral
adjudged.
this
have it into the been
our
happy
heads
idea, and
we
Bostonians
We
very have
pecially es-
developed
that
it in full.
to
taken for
write
poem
simply
to
have
radically wanting
force
:
"
poetic dignity
is that
our
but
the
simple
to
fact
would
own
we
permit
should
sun
ourselves
look there
into
souls
immediately
there
discover
nor can
that
under
any
the work
neither
exists
exist
more
supremely
per
more,
noble,
poem poem
tlian
this very
is
a
poem, poem
this
and
poem
se, this
which written
With
nothing
sake. for the
man,
this
solely for
as
the
poem's
deep
some
reverence
True
as
ever
spired in-
the
bosom
of
would
nevertheless of inculcation.
limit, in
I
measure,
to
its
modes
I
would
limit them
enforce
them. The
would
not
feeble en-
by dissipation.
She
has
no
demands
of Truth
are
S}mpathy with the myrtles. is so which All that cisely indispensable in Song is preshe has nothing whatever all that with which her a flaunting paradox to It is but making to do. In enforcing a and flowers. in gems her wreathe
severe.
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
179
efflorescence
of
We
we
truth
we
need
We
severity rather
must
than
language.
must must
be
be
be
mood
which,
of the
not
as
nearly
the
as
possible,
must
is the
blind chasmal
exact
poetical. perceive
the
He
He
be
and
indeed
who
does
radical
and be
difference
between
truthful
must
the
of inculcation.
theoryof
redemption
still
who,
in
spite
of
these
cile recon-
differences, shall
obstinate
persistin attempting
waters
to
oils and
Poetry
and
Truth.
of mind into Dividing the world immediately obvious distinctions, we its three have the
I most Pure
Intellect, Taste,
Taste which in the
in the
and
the because
Moral
Sense.
place
middle mind
either
it is
just
It
this
position
intimate
Moral that of
it
occupies.
so
holds
from
relations Sense
with is
extreme
; but
the
separated by
has
not
faint
to
difference
some
Aristotle
hesitated
the
place
its
operations
we a
virtues
themselves. the
as
theless Never-
of offices
trio marked
the
with
cerns con-
sufficient
itself
distinction. with
Just
so
Intellect
us
Truth,
the
Taste
Sense
informs
of
the
of the
tents con-
Moral
is
regardful
teaches Taste
this latter,while
Reason
Conscience
obligation, and
herself
war
the
expediency,
upon her
displaying the charms, waging the ground of her deformVice solely on ity, disproportion,her animosity to the fitting,
with
i8o
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
to
the
appropriate,to
immortal is thus
the
harmonious,
within the
in
word,
to
Beauty.
An
man
instinct
sense
deep
of his
to
the
spirit of
This
fold mani-
plainly a
administers
Beautiful.
in the
it is which
delight
odors,
and
forms, and
amid
sounds,
exists.
and And
the
sentiments
which
in the
he
just
eyes
or
as
the
lilyis
in
peated re-
lake,
mere
or
of
Amaryllis
the
mirror,
these
so
is the
oral
written
of repetition
forms, and
a
sounds,
and
colors, and
of
He
odors,
But
and this
sentiments
mere
duplicate
not
source
delight.
who
is repetition
poetry.
shall
simply
or
sing,
however and
with
however
a
glowing
truth of
enthusiasm,
the
with
vivid
description,of
colors, and
with his divine distance
have he has
sights,
he,
sounds,
and
odors,
in
conmion
and
sentiments
"
which
I say,
greet hitn
has
a
yet failed
to
prove the
We
There
he has
quenchable, un-
is still
been
something
to
in
which
a
unable
attain.
still
not
thirst
iis
to
allay which
This
It is at
shown
to
the
crystal springs.
of
Man.
thirst
once
belongs
a
the
tality immorand
an
consequence
indication of the
of
to
of
his
perennial
for the
existence.
It
us,
It is the
no a mere
sire de-
star.
is
ciation appreeffort
an static ec-
Beauty Beauty
before
but
wild
reach
above.
we
grave, the of
things
that
thoughts
whose
of
Time
to
attain
portion
Loveliness
very
elements
perhaps
apper-
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
i8i
tain
or
to
eternity alone.
And
the
thns
most
when
by Poetry,
of the into
when
by Music,
we
entrancing
melted Gravina
poetic moods,
we
find
as
ourselves the
tears,
weep
then,
not
Abbate
supposes,
a
through
and
certain
grasp
ever,
inabilityto
once
wholly,
divine
poem,
or
here and
on
earth,
at
for
those
rapturous joys
the
of
which
we
through
attain
the brief To
"
through
to
music,
but
and
indeterminate
glimpses.
the
struggle
this
apprehend
the
to
struggle, on
"
part
fittingly
which
to
constituted it (the
has
given
ever
the
been
world enabled
all that
at
world)
and Poetic
has
to
once
understand
The
feel
as
poetic.
of in
course,
Sentiment,
modes in very the
"
may
develop
itself in various in
Architect,
"
Music
in the
and
and peculiarly,
of the
wide
field,
Our
to
composition
theme,
present
its
manifestation
in words.
speak
brieflyon
Contenting myself topic of rhythm. with the certainty that Music, in its various modes of a rhyme, is of so vast metre, rhythm, and in Poetry as never to be wisely rejected is moment so vitally important an adjunct, that he is simply declines its assistance, I will not now sillywho its absolute to maintain essentiality.It is in pause Music nearly attains the perhaps that the soul most
"
the
i82
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
great
end
for
which,
when
inspired by
the
the of
Poetic
Sentiment, Beauty.
end
often from cannot thus
it
It may
struggles"
then,
creation
here in
supernal
We
this sublime
are
is, now
made
an
and
to
fact.
notes
feel, with
are
shivering delight,that
stricken
to
earthly harp
have
been
which
And
of
the
angels.
union
we
there
can
be
Music
that
in the
sense,
Poetry with
find The the old
we
popular
the
shall
widest Bards do
own
field and
not
Poetic
development.
had
Minnesingers
possess
was,
as :
" "
advantages
Moore,
which
and in the
poems. would
Thomas
most
singing
manner,
his
songs,
legitimate
in
To
the
define,
brief,
Poetry
with
The
Rythmical
With
it has
Creation
the
of
Beauty.
or
arbiter
is Taste.
lect Intel-
the
Conscience
onl}' collateral
has
no concern
relations. whatever
A
Unless
either
incidentally, it
Dut}^
or
with
with
Truth. That
most
few
words,
is the
however,
at
once
in
the
explanation.
most
pleasure which
pure,
the
elevating,and
from the the
most
intense, is derived,
of
we
tain, I mainIn
contemplation
of
the
Beautiful. find
contemplation
to
Beauty
alone
it possible
or as citement ex-
attain
that
pleasurable elevation,
we
of
Poetic from
the
the
soul, which
and which
recognize
is
so
the
Sentiment,
Truth, which
or
is the
Reason,
from
Passion, which
excite-
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
183
therefore
I make
"
ment
of the
the word
Heart,
as
make of
Beauty,
the
using
Beauty
it is
made
causes
inclusive
of of the
Art
sublime"
the
province
rule
as as
poem,
that
simply
effects
because be
their
an
obvious
to
:
"
should from
spring
no one
directly as
yet
possible
having been weak enough in qi^estionis at the peculiar elevation to deny that in the least most It by readily attainable poem.
no means
follows, however,
or
that of be
; for
the
incitements
or even
of
Passion,
of
the
precepts
may
not
Duty,
the
lessons
Truth,
with
introduced
into
poem,
and
advantage
various
the
incidentally, in
of the work
to tone
:
but
them
subserve they may the general purposes ways, artist will always contrue trive in proper
down
is the
subjection
and the
to
that
essence
Beauty
of
which
poem,
atmosphere
the few
real
the
I cannot
better
for
introduce
your
poems than
which
shall
present
of the
consideration,
to
by
"
the
"
citation
Proem
Longfellow's
the of darkness
"Waif:
The
day
is from
done,
the
and
Falls
As
a
wings
in his
Night,
feather
an
is wafted
downward
From
eagle
flight.
see
the
lights of through
the the
village
rain
Gleam
and
the
o'er
mist,
me,
And
feeling of
my soul
sadness
cannot
comes
That
resist ;
84
A
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
feeling of
That
sadness akin
sorrow
and
to
longing,
is not
pain,
only
the
And
As
resembles
the mist
resembles
rain.
Come,
Some
read
to
me
some
poem.
simple
shall soothe
and
heartfelt
lay,
of
That And
this restless
banish
the
thoughts
feeling, day.
Not Not
from from
the
grand
bards
old
masters.
the
sublime,
Whose
distant the
footsteps echo
corridors
of
Through
Time.
For, like
Their
strains
of
martial
music,
Life's endless
And
to-night
long
Read
from
some
humbler
poet.
from his of
Whose
As
songs
from
gushed
the the
heart.
showers Or
tears
clouds
summer, ;
from
eyelids
start
Who And
of
labor,
nights
wonderful
devoid
of ease. the
Still heard Of
in his soul
music
melodies.
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
185
Such
The
songs
have
power
to
care,
quiet
restless
come
pulse of
the after
And
like follows
benediction
prayer.
That
Then The
read
from
the
treasured
volume
poem lend
to
of the of
thy choice,
And
The
rhyme
of
the
poet
beauty
the
thy voice.
be filled with
And
night
cares
shall that
music,
the
day
Arabs,
silentlysteal
of
With
have
no
great range
been
justly admired
Some of the
can
lines of
pression. ex-
images
"
very
effective.
Nothing
be
better
than
the Whose
Down
bards
sublime,
Time.
distant
the
footsteps echo
of
corridors
The
The
idea
poem
of
on
the
last the
quatrain
is also
very
effective.
be
whole,
however,
is
chiefly to
of
of of
admired
so
for the in
graceful insouciance
with
the
well
accordance and
character the
ease
sentiments,
especially for
This
"
"
general
manner.
ease
or
naturalness,
86
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
literary style, it
as ease
has
long been
But
to
the
"
fashion
as so a
:
to
gard re-
in
appearance
alone
not
point
a
of
really difficult
manner
attainment.
"
natural
never
is difficult with it
"
only
the the
him
who
should
It is but
or
meddle of
to
unnatural.
the
sult re-
writing
that that
must
understanding,
in
mass
with
the
instinct,
tone,
the
composition,
of vary,
always
be and
mankind
of
course,
adopt
the
"
perpetually
author
occasion.
The American
who,
after should
the be
fashion
upon
Review,
"
merely
be
to
a
quiet,"
must
necessarily
and
occasions
or simpl}'silly, stupid ;
right
than
be
considered
"easy"
or
or
ural "nat-
Cockney
in the
exquisite,
of
one
than
the
sleeping Beauty
Among
much the
waxworks.
minor
me
poems
as a
Bryant,
which
of it
:
"
none
has
so
impressed
I
the
he
entitles
"June."
quote
only
portion
summer
hours,
lie,
groups of flowers
thick Stand
and
beauty by.
build and
my tell cell
;
The His
oriole
love-tale, close
The idle
rest
beside
butterfly
him
vShould The
there, and
bee and
there
be heard bird.
housewife
humming
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
187
noon,
And
what,
Come,
if cheerful
shouts
at
from
the
villagesent.
beneath
the ?
moon.
Or
songs
of maids,
With And
what
fairy laughter
if,in
lovers my the the
blent
evening light,
in
Betrothed
Of
I would
walk
monument
scene
sight
?
low
lovely
no
around
Might
know
sadder
sight
nor
sound.
know,
The
would
Nor
I know
I should
not
see
season's its
Nor
for
me
its wild my
But
if,around
friends
place
should
not
sleep,
to
The
I love
come
weep.
They
Should
might
them
haste and
to
go.
song,
keep
These
to
their soften'd
hearts has
should
bear
The
thought
of
one
of
what
been.
share
;
And
speak
The
who of the
cannot
scene
gladness
part in
of
the
Whose
all the
summer
pomp
that
fills
The
circuit
Is"
hills,
is green
;
that
his grave
And To
rejoice
88
THE
POETIC
PRLNCIPLE.
The
here
is
even
voluptuous
The
manner.
"
melodious.
a
poem
has
remarkable
seems
The
up, force, perings .sayto
melancholy
the surface his grave,
which of all
we
to
well
the find
poet's
cheerful
about
soul"
thrillingus poetic
one
the
while
there The
is
the
truest
elevation
a
in the
impression
And
left is
of
if,in
the
remaining
to
sitions compothere
I
a
introduce
tone
or
you,
more me
or
less of you
always
why
is
we
apparent,
know
(how
sadness
not)
nected con-
this
taint
all
inseparably
of
the
higher
manifestations
true
Beauty.
It
is, nevertheless,
feeling of
That
is not resembles the mist
sadness akin
sorrow
and
to
And
As
resembles
rain.
The
even
"
taint
in
a
of
which
so
"
poem
The
Health
of
speak is clearly perceptible full of brilliancy and spirit as Edward Coote Pinkney :
I
"
to
one
made
up
Of
A
loveliness
of
alone,
her
woman,
gentle
sex
The
seeming
paragon
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
189
To
whom And
the
better
stars
elements have
kindly
so
given
air,
heaven.
form
fair
'Tis less of
Her
every
tone
is music's
own.
Like
And
those
of
something
ever
Dwells
in her of her
see
The
coinage
from may issue
one
her
they.
And
As
lipseach
the burden the
rose.
Forth
from
Affections
The
Her
are
as
thoughts
of
her
to
her,
;
measures
hours
feelings have
freshness of
the
fragrancy.
flowers
;
The
And So
young
appears
The
The
image
of
themselves
by turns,
!
"
idol of
past
face the
years
Of
A
her
bright picture on
of her
must
one
glance
will trace
brain,
in
And
A
voice
echoing
remain mine of
hearts
;
sound memory,
long
such
as
But
So
her,
very
much is be
endears,
When
death
not
nigh
my
latest hers.
sigh
Will
life's,but
I90
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
I fill'd this
cup
to
one
made
up
Of
A
loveliness
of her
alone,
woman,
gentle
"
sex
The
Her
seeming
health
more
paragon
! and
would
a
on
earth
there
stood,
Some
of such be
a
frame,
That And
life
might
all
name.
poetry.
weariness
It
was
the
too
misfortune
far south.
of
Mr.
Pinkney
he would been
to
a
have
New
been
born
Had
that he
Englander,
ranked
as
it is the
probable
first of which
have
been that
American has
so
lyrists by
magnanimous
the the The
the
cabal of
long controlled
destinies
American
Letters, in
North American
conducting
Review.
;
thing
poem
called
The cited is
just
especially beautiful
it induces
the
we
but refer
poetic elevation
which
must
poet's enthusiasm.
evident
ness earnest-
for the
with
It
was
which
they
means
are
uttered. my
by
upon
no
design, however,
I should
to
patiate ex-
the
merits
of what for
read
you.
Boc-
These
will
necessarily speak
his
themselves.
calini, in
tells
us
Advertisements
once a
from
admirable
for the
Parnassus,
a
that
Zoilus upon
presented Apollo
very him
very
:
" "
caustic
criticism
the
He
errors.
book beauties
whereupon
the about work.
god
asked
of
the
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
191
him
ing pick
Now
him
out
sack
of
unwinnowed
wheat, bade
well
sure no means
all Ihe
chaff
answers
this fable
"
hit at
the
the
critics
was
but the
am
by
I
that
god
that
in
true
right.
of
by
certain
are
the
limits
the
critical
duty
in
a
not
grossly
misunderstood.
may be
Excellence,
in the
poem
especially,
light of an axiom, which need self-evident. only be properly put, to become if it require to be demonstrated It is not excellence thus such and to point out too : as particularly
"
considered
the
are
merits
not
of
work
of
Art, is
to
admit
that
they
is
merits
the
altogether.
"Melodies"
of
Among
one
Thomas
as
Moore
a
whose
seems
distinguished
to
character
poem
of
proper
have
to
singularly
intense
left out
"
"
view.
rest
allude
beginning
energy
Come,
their
in
this
bosom."
is not
The
of
expression
There
are
surpassed by anything
the
in
Byron.
is vine Dithe
two
of
lines
in which all in
sentiment
of
conveyed
has human found
that of
embodies Love
"
the
a
all
passion
hearts
sentiment and in
which, perhaps,
more
its echo
than
in more, any
:
"
passionate,
ever
other
single sentiment
embodied
in words
rest
Come,
in this bosom,
herd
;
my
own
stricken
deer,
home is
Though
Here
the
have
fled
from
thee, thy
still here
still is the
a
smile,
a
that
all
no
cloud
own
can
o'ercast.
the
And
heart
and
hand
thy
to
last.
192
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
Oh
! what
was
love
and ?
made
the
same
Through
and
I know I but
joy
through
through
heart,
thou
glory
shame
not, I ask
know that
thee,
whatever
art.
Thou And
hast
call'd
me
thy Angel
be, 'mid
the
in moments horrors of
of
bliss,
"
thy Angel
the
I'll
this,
to
Through
And
furnace,
thee, and
unshrinking,
thee,
pursue.
shield
too!
save
"
or
there
It has
been
the
fashion
of
late
days
to
deny
"
Moore
tion distincno
whom
man
more
fully comprehended
The
fact
the
great powers
of this
of
so
Moore.
is, that
over
the his
men,
fancy
other
as
poet
far
over
all
faculties, and
have
to
induced,
very But
a
idea
a
that
he
is fanciful
Never
true
only.
was
there
greater mistake.
the fame of
a
grosser compass
no
wTong of poem in
done
the
poet.
can
In
the mind
English
best
I
laiiguage
"
call to
more
profoundly
sense,
were
more
weirdly
lines
mencing com-
imaginative,
"
the
than
the
"I
would
by
of
that
dim
lake"
Moore.
"
which
are
the
I
am
composition
unable noblest
"
Thomas
regret
One
that
to
remember
them. of
of
the
and, speaking
Fancy
"
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
193
of
Ines
:
"
one
of
was
the
most
singularly
Hood.
fanciful "Fair
modern
"
poets,
Thomas
me an
His
had
always
for
inexpressible charm
not
saw
ye
fair Ines
She's To
gone
into
the
sun
West,
is down,
dazzle
And rob
when
the
our
the world
of rest.
She
The
took
smiles
love
on
best,
her
With And
morning
blushes
her
cheek,
breast.
turn
fair Ines,
Before
For
fall of
moon
night,
should shine
alone,
bright ;
lover
And
blessed walks
be
That And
beneath the
even
their
light,
cheek
breathes
not
love write
against thy
!
I dare
I had
gallant cavalier.
rode
so
whisper'd
there
no no
!
at
bonny
lovers
cross
dames
home,
true
here.
the dear
seas
That The
13
he
should
to win
dearest
of
the
194
I
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
saw
Descend With
And And
along
the
shore,
bands
of noble waved
gentlemen,
before
;
banners
gentle youth
snowy have been been
no
and
maidens
gay,
;
And
It would
plumes
a
they
!
wore
beauteous
dream,
If it had
more
away
with
song.
With And
But
Music
some
sad
and
felt
no
mirth,
But In
only
her
Music's
that
wrong.
sounds To
sang
Farewell, Farewell,
so
you've loved
long.
Farewell,
That
vessel
a
So
fair
Nor
lady
danced
for
light before,
on
"
Alas
pleasure
on
the
sea,
And The
Has
sorrow
the
shore
one more
! heart
smile
that
blest many
lover's
broken
"The
one
Haunted
the
one
House,"
poems
most
ever
by
the
same
"
author, is
one one
of
truest
written,
of
the
truest,
of the
unexceptionable,
of the
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
95
and in
"
most
thoroughly
It I
both artistic,
in
its theme
its execution.
is, moreover,
its
of
powerfully length
renders
In
ideal
it
imaginative.
for
of
"
regret that
purposes
to
:
suitable un-
the
me
this lecture.
place
it
permit
of
offer
"
"
the
universally appreciated
Bridge
Sighs
One
more
Unfortunate,
of
Weary
Gone
breath.
death
!
Rashly importunate
to
her
Take
her
up
tenderly,
care
Lift her
Fashioned
with
so
;"
slenderly,
fair !
Young
Look
and
so
at her
garments
;
Clinging
Whilst
like cerements
wave
constantly
Drips
Take
her
clothing ;
instantly. loathing.
Loving,
Touch Think
her of
not
scornfully mournfully,
;
her
Gently
Not
and
humanly
stains
of
of the
that
of her, her
All Now
remains
is pure
w'omanly.
196
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
Make
Into
uo
ber
Rash
Past
and
all
dutiful
dishonor,
left
on
Death
has
her
Only
Where
So
the
beautiful.
the
far in
many
light
and
to
window
casement
garret
basement,
amazement,
stood, with
Houseless
by night.
wind tremble dark of March
and
The Made
But Or
bleak
her
not
shiver
the
arch,
:
the
black
from
to
death's
to be
Anywhere,
Out of the
anywhere
world !
In
No
she
The
Over
river
ran,
"
brink
"
of
it,
of
Picture
it, think
it,
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
197
Dissolute Lave
ill
man
! of it !
it,drink
can
Then,
if you
all
slipsof hers,
family
"
of
Bve's
Wipe
Loop
Her
those
so
poor
lips of
hers
Oozing
up
clammily.
her from
tresses
Escaped
Whilst Where
the
comb,
;
fair auburn
tresses
wonderment
was
guesses
her
home
Who
Who
was
was
her her
a a
father
mother
? ?
Had
Had Or
was
she she
sister ? brother
a nearer
?
one
there
a
dearer
one
Still,and
Yet, than
all other
Alas
Of
! for the
rarity charity
!
Christian the
was sun
Under
Oh
Near Home
! it
a
she
had
none
198
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
changed
by
harsh
evidence.
its eminence
;
from
God's
providence
Seeming
Take her
estranged.
tenderly
care
up
Lift her
Fashion'd
with
so
slenderly,
so
Young
Ere
her
and
fair !
limbs
too
"
frigidly
Stiffen
rigidly, kindly,
compose
"
Decently
Smooth
them
and
;
And
her
eyes,
so
close
them,
!
Staring
blindly
muddy
with
of
when look
on
Last Fixed
despairing
futurity.
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
199
Into Cross
As
her
rest,
"
if
her
hands
Over
breast
her
Owning
Her
weakness,
meekness.
! less remarkable
rying car-
evil
behavior,
Saviour is
And
Her
leaving, with
sins to her this The
to the
The than
vigor
its the
of
poem
no
pathos.
fanciful
versification,although
very verge of the
to
fantastic,
wild
is nevertheless
admirably adapted
is the minor thesis
of the
the
sanity in-
which
poem.
Among
which which
has
the
never
poems
of
Ivord
Byron
is
one
received
from
praise
it
undoubtedly
the the
deserves
Though
And
day
of
my
my
destiny'sover,
fate hath
to
star
of
declined.
Thy
The
soft
heart
refused
so
discover
could find
;
faults which
many
my
Though
And
It
thy
love
soul
not
with
to
grief was
it with
me,
acquainted,
painted
It shrunk
share my
the
never
which found
spirithath
but in thee.
hath
Then The
I do
when
nature
around
me
answers
is
smiling,
to
last smile
not
which
it
mine,
believe
beguiling.
me
Because
it reminds
of
thine
200
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
And
As
when
the
winds
breasts
are
at
war
with
in with
the
ocean,
I beheved
me,
If their
billows
excite
bear
an me
emotion,
from thee.
It is that
they
Though
And
the
rock
of
my
are
last
sunk soul
hope
in
is the
shivered,
wave,
its
fragments
feel that
"
Though I To pain
There
my
not
it shall
a
be
to
is many
may
pang but
pursue
me
They They
crush,
they
shall
"
vsliall not
not not
contemnme
"
may
torture, but
thee
that
subdue of them.
'Tis of
I think
Though Though
human,
woman,
thou
didst
not
deceive
not
me,
thou
didst
forsake,
Though loved, thou forborest to grieve me, couldst shake, Though slandered, thou never Though trusted, thou didst not disclaim me. not to fly. Though parted, it was Though
Nor
watchful,
mute,
that
'twas
not
to
defame
me,
the
world
might
belie.
Yet Nor
I blame
not
war was
the the
world,
many
nor
despise it,
one
"
the
soul
of
not
with
If my
fitted to
sooner error
prize it,
shun
cost
:
folly not
to
dearly
more
that
hath
me.
than
once
could
foresee,
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
201
I have
found
not
that
whatever
me
It could
deprive
From
the wreck
much
of
I at
me
the least
past, which
may
hath
perished,
Thus
It hath
recall,
I most
taught
to
a
that dearest
which
of is
cherished
Deserved
In
be
all
the
In
desert wide
fountain
waste
springing.
still is
a
the
a
there solitude
tree,
And
bird
in the
Which
speaks
to
my
Although
the
No
the
rhythm
here could
is
one
of
the be of
can
most
cult, diffi-
versification theme
ever
scarcely
the
no
improved.
poet.
It
nobler
engaged
pen
man
is the
consider
in love his of
of
Fate
while
still retains
the
unwavering
in
From
I
Alfred
Tennyson, although
as
perfect
that
a
cerity sinever
regard him
have
left
I
the
noblest
to
poet
cite think
lived,
brief
noblest
myself time
call
only
very the
specimen.
of
are
him,
and the
most
him
poets,
at
not
because the
impressions
profound
he but
because
"
he
Jiot
produces
because
is at
at
all
times
the
poetical excitement
the
most
which
"
all
times the
most
intense
"
all
times
ethereal
most
in other
No
words,
so
most
elevating and
pure.
poet is
202
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
of
the
earth, earthy.
his last
What
am
about
:
to
"
"
read
is
from
long
poem,
"The
Princess
I know
not
some
what
they
mean,
the
depth
the
of
of
divine
to
despair
eyes,
Rise
In
heart, and
on
gather
the
looking
happy
the
Autumn
fields,
are no
And
thinking
as
days
that
more.
Fresh That
the
our
first beam
glittering on
up from
over
sail,
brings
as
friends
the
underworld.
one
Sad That
So
the
last which
reddens
we
sinks
so
with
all
love
below
are
the
no
verge
more.
sad,
that
Ah,
The To The
So
sad
strange
of when
as
in dark
summer
dawns
earliest
pipe
half-awaken
unto
'd birds
dying
sad,
so
ears,
casement
slowly
grows
square
more.
Dear
as
remember'd
as
kisses
after
death,
And
On
,
sweet
those
are
lipsthat
as
for others
deep
with
are
as
love,
Deep
O
wild
all
no
regret
more.
Death
that
Thus,
manner,
although
I
in
very
cursory
to
and
to
imperfect
you my my
have
of the
endeavored Poetic
convey
conception
Principle.
It has
been
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
203
purpose is
to
suggest
that, while
the
this
strictlyand always
found
simply
the
Human
Supernal Beauty,
is
manifestation
in
an
elevating excitement
of that
or
Principle of the
is the
is
to
passion which
that truth
Heart,
the
of
which
satisfaction
alas elevate the !
Reason. is
For, in regard
to
on
"
passion,
than
to
"
its the
tendency
soul.
degrade
the the
Venus
rather
"
Love,
Eros
contrary
Uranian
"
Love
true,
the
divine
the
as
distinguished
themes. And the
a
from the in
Dionsean
truest
is
questionably un-
purest and
of
all
poetical
be
sure,
regard
where
at
once
to
Truth,
a
if,to
we are
through perceive
we
attainment
of
truth
was
led
to
harmony
none
apparent
fore, be;
experience
effect in served shall the
to
the
to
true
but
this
not
is referable least
the
to
alone,
which
and
degree
the
merely
We
render
harmony
more
manifest.
reach,
however,
of
a
immediately
true
distinct
mere
conception
to
what few of
the the
Poetry is, by
elements
reference induce He in
simple
the
true
which
effect.
in the
Poet
poetical
nourishes in
low the
which
in
shine
Heaven,
of
volutes
flower,
the
clustering
the of in blue
shrubberies,
in the tall in
waving
the
of the
in grain-fields,
slanting
of
of
eastern
trees, in
distance
in the
mountains,
of
grouping
clouds,
the
twinkling
half-hidden
brooks,
gleaming
204
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
of
silver
the
rivers, in
the
repose
of
sequestered lakes,
in
He star-mirroringdepths of lonely wells. of birds, in the perceives it in the songs harp of ^olus, in the sighing of ihe night-wind, in the plains repining voice of the forest, in the surf that comto
the
shore, in
scent
the
fresh
breath
the
of
the
woods,
in the
of
of
the
violet, in
in the from
oceans,
perfume
that
comes
the
to
hyacinth,
at
him
eventide dim
islands, over
and
in all
He
owns
it in all in all
noble
thoughts,
motives,
holy impulses, in
in the
in the her
generous,
and
deeds. self-sacrificing
grace
feels
it in the in the
beauty
of soft
of
of the
her her
step,
lustre
melody sigh, in
He
voice, in her
of the
laughter,
in
harmony
feels it in her
deeply burning
meek far the
her
enthusiasms,
and
in
gentle charities, in
but
her
devotional
endurances,
kneels
to
above
all, ah,
in in the
above
all, he
the
it, he worships it
the
her
faith, in
purity, in
of
strength,
love.
of
gether alto-
majesty conclude by
one
the
recitation
in
It is
yet another
from
poem,
that
very
different
character
I have
before
"The
quoted.
of
by Motherwell,
With
of the cisely presym-
and
our
is called modern
and that
Song
of
the
Cavalier." .ideas
are
and
altogether
of mind
rational
we
absurdity
in
impiety
frame
warfare,
best
not
adapted
to
THE
POETIC
PRINCIPLE.
205
to
pathize
the
we
with
the
sentiments,
of the
and
thus
appreciate
this the
real
must
excellence
poem.
To
do
fully
soul
identify ourselves
old cavalier
!
:
"
in
fancy with
of
the
steed
A
steed of
! of
matchless keene !
speede
sword
else
to
metal
Al
noble
on
heartes
is
is drosse
"
Al
else
earth of of
meane.
neighynge
the war-horse
the
prowde,
lowde
come.
rowleing
clangour
soundes
oh ! the
as
drum,
"
of from
the
trumpet
heaven
that presse
And
thundering
war-cryes
an
of
knightes,
When
their
welle,
May
And Then
And
tole
from
a
heaven fiend
angel bright,
hell. brave
:
rowse
from
mounte
! then your
mounte,
amaine
and
gallants all,
call
don
helmes
Deathe's
Us
No
to
couriers, Fame
the
field
Honour,
againe.
shall
shrewish
When the
teares
fill your
in
our
no
eye
sword-hilt's
we'll
hand,
whit
"
Heart-whole
For the
part, and
of the and land
craven
sighe
fayrest
Ivet
piping swaine,
weepe and is like
to
wight,
fight,
Thus
Our And
puling
men
crye.
to
business
hero-like
die