I. Canto II. Stanzas 28-45, has influenced the plot of the ballad? Is Lord Houghton's version (29-32) preferable to that in "The Indicator":

"She took me to her elfin grot,

And there she gaz'd and sighed deep,
And then I shut her wild sad eyes—

So kiss'd to sleep."

ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen:
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
5 Oft of one wide expanse had I been told

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That deep-brow'd Homer rul'd as his demesne :
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes

He stared at the Pacific and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise

Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

Ascertain what occasioned the poem. This sonnet is a fine example of unity in composition.

LAST SONNET

Written On A Blank Page In Shakespeare's Poems,
Facing "A Lover's Complaint."

Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art

Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,

And watching, with eternal lids apart,

Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite,

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5 The moving waters at their priest-like task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask

Of snow upon the mountains and the moors
No-yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel forever its soft fall and swell,

Awake forever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever or else swoon to death.

(1-14) Where and under what circumstances was this sonnet written? Note the form of its sonnet structure. What lines bear comparison to (55-60) of "Ode To A Nightingale"? In one of Keats' letters is an exclamation, "O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts!" In these few poems which you have read he is under the control of the

senses.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

1792-1822

a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. - Matthew Arnold.

The Sensitive Plant.

Optional Poems

Ode To The West Wind.

The Cloud.

View From The Euganean Hills.

Beatrice's Expostulation With Death (The Cenci, Act V. IV.). Life Of Life! Thy Lips Enkindle (Prometheus Unbound, Act II. V.).

A Lament.

Love's Philosophy.

I Arise From Dreams Of Thee—

When The Lamp Is Shattered

Arethusa.

Stanzas Written In Dejection Near Naples.

Phrases

With hue like that when some great painter dips
His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.

Life of Life! thy lips enkindle

With their love the breath between them.

- Revolt Of Islam.

- Prometheus Unbound.

Death is the veil which those who live call life;
They sleep and it is lifted. .

Prometheus Unbound.

To love and bear; to hope till Hope creates

From its own wreck the thing it contemplates. . .

-Prometheus Unbound.

True love in this differs from gold and clay,

That to divide is not to take away. — Epipsychidion.

The fountains of our deepest life shall be

Confused in passion's golden purity. . . . Epipsychidion.

Most wretched men

Are cradled into poetry by wrong;

They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

ADONAIS

-Fulian And Maddalo.

5

Oh, weep for Adonais! though our tears

Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!
And thou, sad Hour, selected from all years
To mourn our loss, rouse thy obscure compeers,
And teach them thine own sorrow; say: With me
Died Adonais; till the Future dares

Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be
An echo and a light unto eternity!

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15

II

Where wert thou, mighty Mother, when he lay
When thy son lay, pierced by the shaft which flies
In darkness? where was lorn Urania

When Adonais died? With veiled eyes,

'Mid listening Echoes, in her Paradise

She sate, while one, with soft enamoured breath,
Rekindled all the fading melodies,

With which, like flowers that mock the corse beneath,

He had adorned and hid the coming bulk of death.

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25

III

Oh, weep for Adonais - he is dead!

Wake, melancholy Mother, wake and weep!
Yet wherefore? Quench within their burning bed
Thy fiery tears, and let thy loud heart keep,
Like his, a mute and uncomplaining sleep;
For he is gone, where all things wise and fair
Descend: -oh, dream not that the amorous Deep
Will yet restore him to the vital air;

Death feeds on his mute voice, and laughs at our despair.

30

35

IV

Most musical of mourners, weep again!

Lament anew, Urania!

He died,

Who was the Sire of an immortal strain,

Blind, old, and lonely, when his country's pride

The priest, the slave, and the liberticide

Trampled and mocked with many a loathed rite
Of lust and blood; he went, unterrified,

Into the gulf of death; but his clear Sprite
Yet reigns o'er earth, the third among the sons of light.

40

V

Most musical of mourners, weep anew!

Not all to that bright station dared to climb:
And happier they their happiness who knew,
Whose tapers yet burn through that night of time.
In which suns perished; others more sublime,
Struck by the envious wrath of man or God,
Have sunk, extinct in their refulgent prime;
And some yet live, treading the thorny road,

45 Which leads, through toil and hate, to Fame's serene

abode.