190 Lines to an Indian Air And the midnight moon is weaving So the spirit bows before thee With a full but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summer's ocean. LORD BYRON CLXXII LINES TO AN INDIAN AIR I arise from dreams of Thee Hath led me-who knows how? The wandering airs they faint Like sweet thoughts in a dream; As I must die on thine O lift me from the grass! She walks in beauty, like the night The smiles that win, the tints that glow A heart wnose love is innocent. CLXXIV LORD BYRON She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; 192 She is not Fair But all things else about her drawn I saw her upon nearer view, A countenance in which did meet And now I see with eye serene W. WORDSWORTH CLXXV She is not fair to outward view Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me. The Lost Love But now her looks are coy and cold, The love-light in her eye: Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are. H. COLERIDGE CLXXVI I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden; I fear thy mien, thy tones, thy motion; Innocent is the heart's devotion With which I worship thine. P. B. SHELLEY CLXXVII THE LOST LOVE She dwelt among the untrodden ways A maid whom there were none to praise, A violet by a mossy stone Half-hidden from the eye! -Fair as a star, when only one She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, O! The difference to me! W. WORDSWORTH 193 194 The Education of Nature CLXXVIII I travell'd among unknown men 'Tis past, that melancholy dream! And she I cherish'd turn'd her wheel Thy mornings show'd, thy nights conceal'd And thine too is the last green field That Lucy's eyes survey'd. W. WORDSWORTH CLXXIX THE EDUCATION OF NATURE Three years she grew in sun and shower; On earth was never sown : This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse: and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, To kindle or restrain. |