She left me at the silent time
When the moon had ceas’d to climb
The azure path of Heaven’s steep,
And like an albatross asleep,
Balanc’d on her wings of light,

Like the ghost of a dear friend de
Is Time long past.
A tone which is now forever fled,
A hope which is now forever past,
A love so sweet it could not last,

The everlasting universe of things
Flows through the mind, and rolls
Now dark—now glittering—now reflec
Now lending splendour, where from
The source of human thought its tr

...
And many there were hurt by that s
His name, they said, was Pleasure
And near him stood, glorious beyon
Four Ladies who possess all emper

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

Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead

And that I walk thus proudly crow
Is that ’tis my distinction; if I
I shall not weep out of the vital
To-morrow dust, nor wear a dull de

There late was One within whose s
As light and wind within some deli
That fades amid the blue noon’s bu
Genius and death contended. None
The sweetness of the joy which mad

WHEN the lamp is shatter’d,
The light in the dust lies dead;
   When the cloud is scatter’d,
The rainbow’s glory is shed;
   When the lute is broken,

The warm sun is falling, the bleak
The bare boughs are sighing, the p
And the Year
On the earth is her death-bed, in
Is lying.