The Online Library of Liberty

A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.

• Preface.
• Julian and Maddalo; a Conversation.
• The Witch of Atlas.
• Letter to —
• The Triumph of Life.
• Fragments From an Unfinished Drama.
• Prince Athanase: a Fragment.
• Ode to Naples. *
• Marianne’s Dream.
• Mont Blanc. Lines Written In the Vale of Chamouni.
• Miscellaneous Poems.
• On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci, In the Florentine Gallery.
• Song.
• To Constantia, Singing.
• The Fugitives.
• A Lament.
• The Pine Forest of the Cascine, Near Pisa.
• To Night.
• Evening. Ponte a Mare, Pisa.
• Arethusa.
• The Question.
• Lines to an Indian Air.
• Stanzas Written In Dejection, Near Naples.
• Autumn: a Dirge.
• Hymn of Apollo.
• Hymn of Pan.
• The Boat On the Serchio.
• The Zucca. *
• The Two Spirits. an Allegory.
• A Fragment.
• A Bridal Song.
• The Sunset.
• Song, On a Faded Violet.
• Lines to a Critic.
• Good Night.
• To-morrow.
• Death.
• A Lament.
• Love’s Philosophy.
• To E*** V***
• To —
• Lines.
• To William Shelley.
• An Allegory.
• Mutability.
• From the Arabic. an Imitation.
• To —
• Music.
• Lines.
• Death.
• To —
• Passage of the Apennines.
• To Mary —
• The Past.
• Song of a Spirit.
• Liberty.
• To —
• The Isle.
• To —
• Time.
• Lines.
• A Song.
• The World’s Wanderers.
• A Dirge.
• Lines.
• Dirge For the Year.
• Sonnet I.
• Sonnet II. Political Greatness.
• Sonnet III.
• Sonnet IV.
• Fragments.
• Ginevra. *
• Charles the First. Fragments.
• Prince Athanase. Part II.
• Mazenghi. *
• The Woodman and the Nightingale.
• To the Moon.
• Song For Tasso.
• The Waning Moon.
• Epitaph.
• Alastor; Or the Spirit of Solitude.
• Translations.
• Hymn to Mercury. Translated From the Greek of Homer
• The Cyclops; a Satyric Drama.
• Translation From Moschus.
• Scenes From the “magico Prodigioso” of Calderon.
• Scenes From the Faust of GoËthe.

SONG.

• • Rarely, rarely, comest thou,
  • Spirit of Delight!
  • Wherefore hast thou left me now
  • Many a day and night?
  • Many a weary night and day
  • ’Tis since thou art fled away.
• • How shall ever one like me
  • Win thee back again?
  • With the joyous and the free
  • Thou wilt scoff at pain.
  • Spirit false! thou hast forgot
  • All but those who need thee not.
• • As a lizard with the shade
  • Of a trembling leaf,
  • Thou with sorrow art dismayed;
  • Even the sighs of grief
  • Reproach thee, that thou art not near,
  • And reproach thou wilt not hear.
• • Let me set my mournful ditty
  • To a merry measure,
  • Thou wilt never come for pity,
  • Thou wilt come for pleasure,
  • Pity then will cut away
  • Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.
• • I love all that thou lovest,
  • Spirit of Delight!
  • The fresh Earth in new leaves drest,
  • And the starry night;
  • Autumn evening, and the morn
  • When the golden mists are born.
• • I love snow, and all the forms
  • Of the radiant frost;
  • I love waves, and winds, and storms,
  • Every thing almost
  • Which is Nature’s, and may be
  • Untainted by man’s misery.
• • I love tranquil solitude,
  • And such society
  • As is quiet, wise and good;
  • Between thee and me
  • What difference? but thou dost possess
  • The things I seek, not love them less.
• • I love Love—though he has wings,
  • And like light can flee,
  • But above all other things,
  • Spirit, I love thee—
  • Thou art love and life! O come,
  • Make once more my heart thy home.