THE POET'S PHILOSOPHY.

[WE] look on that which cannot change the One,
The unborn and the undying. Earth and Ocean,
Space, and the isles of life or light that gem
The sapphire floods of interstellar air,
This firmament pavilioned upon chaos,
With all its cressets of immortal fire,
Whose outwall, bastionèd impregnably

Against the escape of boldest thoughts, repels them
As Calpe the Atlantic clouds-this Whole

Of suns, and worlds, and men, and beasts, and flowers, With all the silent or tempestuous workings

By which they have been, are, or cease to be,

Is but a vision; all that it inherits

Are motes of a sick eye, bubbles and dreams;
Thought is its cradle and its grave, nor less
The future and the past are idle shadows
Of thought's eternal flight—they have no being :
Nought is but that which feels itself to be.

Hellas.

THE POET'S WORLD.

ON a poet's lips I slept

Dreaming like a love-adept

In the sound his breathing kept ;

Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses,

But feeds on the aërial kisses

Of shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses. He will watch from dawn to gloom

The lake-reflected sun illume

The yellow bees in the ivy bloom,

Nor heed nor see what things they be;

But from these create he can

Forms more real than living man,

Nurslings of immortality!

Prometheus Unbound.

The Spirits of the Earth and the Moon

The Moon and the Earth

The Music of the Woods

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THE WITCH OF ATLAS

THE QUESTION

To Emilia Viviani

EPIPSYCHIDION.

Verses addressed to the noble and

unfortunate Lady Emilia Viviani, now impri-
soned in the Convent of St. Anne, Pisa

FRAGMENT

POEMS TO LIBerty, Greece, AND ITALY—

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Life may change

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LAST LOVE POEMS continued

To Jane-The Invitation

To Jane-The Recollection

Remembrance

Lines written in the Bay of Lerici
To-

ADONAIS ;-An elegy on the death of John Keats

ODE TO THE WEST WIND

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