And seeing it asleep, so fled away, Not to pure Ida with its snow-cold skies, Nor unto Tempe, where Jove grieved a day; But to that second circle of sad Hell, Where in the gust, the whirlwind, and the flaw Their sorrows,-pale were the sweet lips I saw, I XIV. F by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd, Fetter'd, in spite of pained loveliness; To fit the naked foot of poesy; Let us inspect the lyre, and weigh the stress Jealous of dead leaves in the bay wreath crown; She will be bound with garlands of her own. 1819. 1 H XV. HE day is gone, and all its sweets are gone! Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast, Warm breath, light whisper, tender semi-tone, Bright eyes, accomplish'd shape, and lang'rous waist! Faded the flower and all its budded charms, When the dusk holiday-or holinight Of fragrant-curtain'd love begins to weave XVI. I CRY your mercy-pity-love!—aye, love! Merciful love that tantalises not, One-thoughted, never-wandering, guileless love, Unmask'd, and being seen-without a blot! O! let me have thee whole,-all-all-be mine! That shape, that fairness, that sweet minor zest Of love, your kiss, those hands, those eyes divine, 1. That warm, white, lucent, million-pleasured Yourself your soul-in pity give me all, B XVII. HIS LAST SONNET.' RIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou art Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, Of snow upon the mountains and the moors Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, This was written in a copy of Shakespeare's Poems given to Mr. Severn a few days before. 2 Another reading: 66 Half-passionless, and so swoon on to death.” There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground And hath its Eves and Edens-so I deem. I believe this to be one of George Byron's forgeries. |