Ye gentle visitations of calm thou
Moods like the memories of happier
Which come arrayed in thoughts of
Like stars in clouds by the weak w
But that the clouds depart and sta

I sing the glorious Power with az
Athenian Pallas! tameless, chaste
Tritogenia, town-preserving Maid,
Revered and mighty; from his awful
Whom Jove brought forth, in warli

As I lay asleep in Italy
There came a voice from over the
And with great power it forth led
To walk in the visions of Poesy.
I met Murder on the way—

And canst thou mock mine agony, th
In cloudless radiance, Queen of s
Can you, ye flow’rets, spread your
Mid pearly gems of dew that shine
And you wild winds, thus can you s

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

The golden gates of Sleep unbar
Where Strength and Beauty, met to
Kindle their image like a star
In a sea of glassy weather!
Night, with all thy stars look dow

Guido, I would that Lapo, thou, a
Led by some strong enchantment, mi
A magic ship, whose charmed sails
With winds at will where’er our th
So that no change, nor any evil ch

How, my dear Mary,—are you critic
(For vipers kill, though dead) by
That you condemn these verses I h
Because they tell no story, false
What, though no mice are caught by

O World! O life! O time!
On whose last steps I climb,
Trembling at that where I had sto
When will return the glory of your
No more—oh, never more!

Those whom nor power, nor lying fa
Nor custom, queen of many slaves,
Have ever grieved that man should
Of his own weakness, and with earn
Fed hopes of its redemption; these