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.

LINES.

• • When the lamp is shattered
  • The light in the dust lies dead—
  • When the cloud is scattered
  • The rainbow’s glory is shed.
  • When the lute is broken,
  • Sweet tones are remembered not;
  • When the lips have spoken,
  • Loved accents are soon forgot.
• • As music and splendour
  • Survive not the lamp and the lute,
  • The heart’s echoes render
  • No song when the spirit is mute:—
  • No song but sad dirges,
  • Like the wind through a ruined cell,
  • Or the mournful surges
  • That ring the dead seaman’s knell.
• • When hearts have once mingled
  • Love first leaves the well-built nest,
  • The weak one is singled
  • To endure what it once possest.
  • O, Love! who bewailest
  • The frailty of all things here,
  • Why choose you the frailest
  • For your cradle, your home and your bier?
• • Its passions will rock thee
  • As the storms rock the ravens on high:
  • Bright reason will mock thee,
  • Like the sun from a wintry sky.
  • From thy nest every rafter
  • Will rot, and thine eagle home
  • Leave the naked to laughter,
  • When leaves fall and cold winds come.