But if I dream that all these are, They are to me for that I dream; And all things flow like a stream. Argal this very opinion is only true relatively tc the flowing philosophers. IV. POEMS PUBLISHED IN THE EDITION OF 1833, AND OMITTED IN LATER EDITIONS Of the thirty poems in the 1833 volume, fourteen were omitted in 1842; but eight of these (including Kate,' restored since the poet's death) were afterwards given a place in the collected editions, as explained in the prefatory notes. SONNET O BEAUTY, passing beauty! sweetest Sweet! How canst thou let me waste my youth in sighs? I only ask to sit beside thy feet. Thou knowest I dare not look into thine eyes. Might I but kiss thy hand! I dare not fold My arms about thee-scarcely dare to speak. And nothing seems to me so wild and bold, As with one kiss to touch thy blesséd cheek. Methinks if I should kiss thee, no control Within the thrilling brain could keep afloat The subtle spirit. Even while I spoke, The bare word KISS hath made my inner soul To tremble like a lutestring, ere the note Hath melted in the silence that it broke. THE HESPERIDES This poem is reprinted in the 'Memoir' (vol. i. p. 61) with the following note: 'Published and suppressed by my father, and republished by me here (with accents written by him) in consequence of a talk that I had with him, in which he regretted that he had done away with it from among his "Juvenilia." The author of the Memoir 'has since added 'Kate' (which he does not mention) to the 'Juvenilia' in the collected editions (see p. 25 above), but he has not restored this poem. "Hesperus and his daughters three, Comus. THE North-wind fall'n, in the new-starréd night Zidonian Hanno, voyaging beyond The hoary promontory of Soloë Past Thymiaterion, in calméd bays, Between the southern and the western Horn, Guard it well, guard it warily, Standing about the charméd root. Round about all is mute, As the snow-field on the mountain-peaks, Sleep and stir not: all is mute. If ye sing not, if ye make false measure, Laugh not loudly: watch the treasure In a corner wisdom whispers. Five and three Father Hesper, Father Hesper, watch, watch, night and day, Lest the old wound of the world be healéd, The golden apple stolen away, And the ancient secret revealed. Father, old Himala weakens, Caucasus is bold and strong. Wandering waters unto wandering waters call; All things are not told to all. Half-round the mantling night is drawn, Hesper hateth Phosphor, evening hateth morn. IV Every flower and every fruit the redolent breath For the western sun and the western star, The end of day and beginning of night Holy and bright, round and full, bright and blest, Mellowed in a land of rest; But when the full-faced sunset yellowly The world is wasted with fire and sword, Bound about ROSALIND This poem (see p. 21 above) has been restored, but without the following note, which is appended to it in the 1833 volume: AUTHOR'S NOTE. Perhaps the following lines may be allowed to stand as a separate poem; originally they made part of the text, where they were manifestly superfluous. MY Rosalind, my Rosalind, To whom the slope and stream of Life, Break through your iron shackles - fling them far. O for those days of Piast, ere the Czar O DARLING ROOM I O DARLING room, my heart's delight, No little room so warm and bright, For I the Nonnenwerth have seen,¦ III Yet never did there meet my sight, With two such couches soft and white, TO CHRISTOPHER NORTH You did late review my lays, You did mingle blame and praise, Rusty Christopher. When I learnt from whom it came, I forgave you all the blame, Musty Christopher; I could not forgive the praise, V. OTHER DISCARDED AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS ON CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY Written in 1830. See Notes. THEREFORE your Halls, your ancient Colleges, WHERE is the Giant of the Sun, which stood Of brassy vastness broad-blown Argosies Seen by the high-necked camel on the verge Journeying southward? Where are thy monu ments Piled by the strong and sunborn Anakim The Pharaohs are no more: somewhere in death Rock-hewn and sealed for ever. SONNET Contributed to 'Friendship's Offering,' annual, 1832. ME my own fate to lasting sorrow doometh: Like a lone cypress, through the twilight hoary, From an old garden where no flower bloom eth, One cypress on an island promontory. But yet my lonely spirit follows thine, As round the rolling earth night follows day: But yet thy lights on my horizon shine Into my night, when thou art far away. I am so dark, alas! and thou so bright, SONNET Contributed to 'The Englishman's Maga zine' for August, 1831; and reprinted in Friendship's Offering,' 1833. CHECK every outflash, every ruder sally Of thought and speech; speak low, and give up wholly Thy spirit to mild-minded Melancholy; This is the place. Through yonder poplar alley Below the blue-green river windeth slowly; But in the middle of the sombre valley The crispéd waters whisper musically, And all the haunted place is dark and holy. The nightingale, with long and low preamble, Warbled from yonder knoll of solemn larches, And in and out the woodbine's flowery arches The summer midges wove their wanton gambol. And all the white-stemmed pinewood slept above When in this valley first I told my love. Published in Punch,' February 28, 1846, signed Alcibiades'; and followed in the next number (March 7, 1846) by the lines entitled "Afterthought,' afterwards included as 'Literary Squabbles' in the collected edition of 1872. See p. xv. above. We know him, out of Shakespeare's art, That, strongly loathing, greatly broke. So died the Old: here comes the New. I thought we knew him: What, it's you, Who killed the girls and thrilled the boys A Lion, you, that made a noise, And shook a mane en papillotes. And once you tried the Muses too; But men of long-enduring hopes, An Artist, Sir, should rest in Art, But you, Sir, you are hard to please; With moral breadth of temperament. And what with spites and what with fears, You cannot let a body be: It's always ringing in your ears, 'They call this man as good as me.' What profits now to understand You talk of tinsel! why, we see The old mark of rouge upon your cheeks. You prate of Nature! you are he That spilt his life about the cliques. A TIMON you! Nay, nay, for shame: LINES Contributed to 'The Manchester Athenæum Album, 1850. |