- 1. The Pleasures Of Memory Part Ii
Delle cose custode, e dispensiera.
TASSO.
ANALYSIS OF THE SECOND PART.
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- 2. Written At Midnight
While thro' the broken pane the tempest sighs,
And my step falters on the faithless floor,
Shades of departed joys around me rise,
With many a face that smiles on me no more;
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- 3. To The Fragment Of A Statue Of Hercules, Commonly Called The Torso
And dost thou still, thou mass of breathing stone,
(Thy giant limbs to night and chaos hurl'd)
Still sit as on the fragment of a world;
Surviving all, majestic and alone?
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- 4. Written In A Sick Chamber
There, in that bed so closely curtain'd round,
Worn to a shade, and wan with slow decay,
A father sleeps! Oh hush'd be every sound!
Soft may we breathe the midnight hours away!
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- 5. To The Youngest Daughter Of Lady **
Ah! why with tell-tale tongue reveal [1]
What most her blushes would conceal?
Why lift that modest veil to trace
The seraph-sweetness of her face?
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- 6. The Alps At Day-break
The sun-beams streak the azure skies,
And line with light the mountain's brow:
With hounds and horns the hunters rise,
And chase the roebuck thro' the snow.
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- 7. Ode To Superstition.[1]
I. 1.
Hence, to the realms of Night, dire Demon, hence!
Thy chain of adamant can bind
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- 8. Verses Written In Westminster Abbey. [1]
Whoe'er thou art, approach, and, with a sigh,
Mark where the small remains of Greatness lie.[2]
There sleeps the dust of Him for ever gone;
How near the Scene where once his Glory shone!
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