IV I feed the clouds, the rainbows and the flowers With their ethereal colors; the moon's globe And the pure stars in their eternal bowers Are cinctured with my power as with a robe; Whatever lamps on Earth or Heaven may shine Are portions of one power, which is mine. V I stand at noon upon the peak of Heaven, For grief that I depart they weep and frown. What look is more delightful than the smile With which I soothe them from the western isle ? VI I am the eye with which the Universe All prophecy, all medicine are mine, HYMN OF PAN I FROM the forests and highlands We e come, we come ; From the river-girt islands, vi. 6 their || its, Rossetti. Hymn of Pan. Published by Mrs. Shelley, 1824. Where loud waves are dumb Listening to my sweet pipings. The wind in the reeds and the rushes, II Liquid Peneus was flowing, Speeded by my sweet pipings. The Sileni, and Sylvans, and Fauns, And the Nymphs of the woods and waves, To the edge of the moist river-lawns, And the brink of the dewy caves, And all that did then attend and follow, Were silent with love, as you now, Apollo, With envy of my sweet pipings. I III sang of the dancing stars, I sang of the dædal Earth, And of Heaven and the giant wars, It breaks in our bosom and then we bleed. All wept, as I think both ye now would THE QUESTION I I DREAMED that, as I wandered by the way, Mixed with a sound of waters murmuring Under a copse, and hardly dared to fling Its green arms round the bosom of the stream, dream. II There grew pied wind-flowers and violets, Daisies, those pearled Arcturi of the earth, The constellated flower that never sets; Faint oxlips; tender bluebells, at whose birth The sod scarce heaved; and that tall flower that wets (Like a child, half in tenderness and mirth) Its mother's face with Heaven's collected tears, When the low wind, its playmate's voice, it hears. The Question. Hunt, 1822 || A Dream. Harvard MS. Published by Hunt in The Literary Pocket-Book, 1822. ii. 6 Harvard MS., Boscombe MS. || omit, Ollier MS., Mrs. Shelley, 1824. ii 7 Heaven's collected, Harvard MS., Ollier MS., Hunt, 1822 || heaven-collected, Mrs. Shelley, 1824. III And in the warm hedge grew lush eglantine, With its dark buds and leaves, wandering astray; And flowers azure, black, and streaked with gold, Fairer than any wakened eyes behold. IV And nearer to the river's trembling edge There grew broad flag-flowers, purple pranked with white; And starry river buds among the sedge; And floating water-lilies, broad and bright, And bulrushes and reeds, of such deep green V Methought that of these visionary flowers THE TWO SPIRITS AN ALLEGORY FIRST SPIRIT O THOU, who plumed with strong desire Bright are the regions of the air, SECOND SPIRIT The deathless stars are bright above; And the moon will smile with gentle light FIRST SPIRIT But if the whirlwinds of darkness waken The red swift clouds of the hurricane The Two Spirits. Published by Mrs. Shelley, 1824. |