Away! the moor is dark beneath the
Rapid clouds have drank the last p
Away! the gathering winds will cal
And profoundest midnight shroud th
Pause not! The time is past! Ever

The serpent is shut out from Para
The wounded deer must seek the her
In which its heart-cure lies:
The widowed dove must cease to hau
Like that from which its mate with

“Throughout these infinite orbs of
Of which yon earth is one, is wide
A Spirit of activity and life,
That knows no term, cessation, or
That fades not when the lamp of ea

Thou art fair, and few are fairer
Of the Nymphs of earth or ocean;
They are robes that fit the wearer
Those soft limbs of thine, whose m
Ever falls and shifts and glances

'What art thou, Presumptuous, who
The wreath to mighty poets only du
Even whilst like a forgotten moon
Touch not those leaves which for t
Who wander o’er the Paradise of f

THE wind has swept from the wide
Each vapour that obscured the suns
And pallid Evening twines its bea
In duskier braids around the langu
Silence and Twilight, unbeloved o

Extract from Poetical Essay
Millions to fight compell’d, to fi
In mangled heaps on War’s red alt
When the legal murders swell the l
When glory’s views the titled idio

If solitude hath ever led thy step
To the wild ocean’s echoing shore,
And thou hast lingered there,
Until the sun’s broad orb
Seemed resting on the burnished wa

The cold earth slept below;
Above the cold sky shone;
And all around,
With a chilling sound,
From caves of ice and fields of sn

At the creation of the Earth
Pleasure, that divinest birth,
From the soil of Heaven did rise,
Wrapped in sweet wild melodies—
Like an exhalation wreathing