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"OH, THAT A CHARIOT OF CLOUD WERE MINE!"

OH, that a chariot of cloud were mine!

Of cloud which the wild tempest weaves in air, When the moon over the ocean's line

Is spreading the locks of her bright gray hair. Oh, that a chariot of cloud were mine!

I would sail on the waves of the billowy wind To the mountain peak and the rocky lake, And the

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"THE FIERCE BEASTS

THE fierce beasts of the woods and wildernesses Track not the steps of him who drinks of it; For the light breezes, which forever fleet Around its margin, heap the sand thereon.

HE WANDERS

He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,
Through the dim wildernesses of the mind;
Through desert woods and tracts, which seem
Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.

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Oh, that a Chariot of Cloud were Mine!" || Fragment of a Sony. Forman. A Cloud Chariot, Dowden. Published by Garnett,

1862, dated 1817.

"The Fierce Beasts' || The Stream's Margin, Dowden. Published by Rossetti, 1870, dated 1818.

“He wanders" || Wandering, Forman; A Wanderer, Dowden. Published by Mrs. Shelley, 18391, dated 1821.

THE DESERTS OF SLEEP

I WENT into the deserts of dim sleep

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That world which, like an unknown wilderness, Bounds this with its recesses wide and deep.

A DREAM

METHOUGHT I was a billow in the crowd

Of common men, that stream without a shore, That ocean which at once is deaf and loud; That I, a man, stood amid many more

By a wayside

which the aspect bore

Of some imperial metropolis,

Where mighty shapes - pyramid, dome, and

tower

Gleamed like a pile of crags.

THE HEART'S TOMB

AND where is truth? On tombs? for such to thee
Has been my heart-and thy dead memory
Has lain from childhood, many a changeful year,
Unchangingly preserved and buried there.

The Deserts of Sleep, Forman. Published by Rossetti, 1870, dated 1820.

A Dream, Forman. Published by Rossetti, 1870, dated 1821. The Heart's Tomb || Dead but not forgotten, Forman; The Tomb of Memory, Dowden. Published by Mrs. Shelley, 18391, dated 1819.

1 on in, Rossetti conj.

HOPE, FEAR, AND DOUBT

SUCH hope, as is the sick despair of good,
Such fear, as is the certainty of ill,

Such doubt, as is pale Expectation's food
Turned while she tastes to poison, when the will

Is powerless, and the spirit

"ALAS! THIS IS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT LIFE WAS."

ALAS! this is not what I thought life was.
I knew that there were crimes and evil men,
Misery and hate; nor did I hope to pass

Untouched by suffering, through the rugged glen.
In mine own heart I saw as in a glass

The hearts of others

And when

I went among my kind, with triple brass
Of calm endurance my weak breast I armed,
To bear scorn, fear, and hate, a woful mass !

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CROWNED

AND that I walk thus proudly crowned withal Is that 'tis my distinction; if I fall,

Hope, Fear, and Doubt, Forman. Published by Garnett, 1862, dated 1820.

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"Alas! this is not what I thought Life was joined with preceding fragment by Forman. Published by Mrs. Shelley, 18391, dated 1820.

Crowned Couplets, Forman. Published by Mrs. Shelley, 18391, dated 1821.

I shall not weep out of the vital day,
To-morrow dust, nor wear a dull decay.

"GREAT SPIRIT

GREAT Spirit whom the sea of boundless thought
Nurtures within its unimagined caves,

In which thou sittest sole, as in my mind,
Giving a voice to its mysterious waves.

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"O THOU IMMORTAL DEITY"

O THOU immortal deity

Whose throne is in the depth of human thought,
I do adjure thy power and thee

By all that man may be, by all that he is not,
By all that he has been and yet must be!

"YE GENTLE VISITATIONS

YE gentle visitations of calm thought,

Moods like the memories of happier earth, Which come arrayed in thoughts of little worth, Like stars in clouds by the weak winds enwrought,

But that the clouds depart and stars remain,
While they remain, and ye, alas, depart!

3 weep || creep, Rossetti, conj.

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Great Spirit" || Invocation, Forman. Published by Rossetti. 1870, dated 1821.

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O Thou Immortal Deity" || Invocation, Forman. Published by Mrs. Shelley, 18392, dated 1821.

"Ye Gentle Visitations" || Calm Thoughts, Forman; Visitation of Calm Thought, Dowden. Published by Mrs. Shelley, 1839', dated 1819.

"MY THOUGHTS"

My thoughts arise and fade in solitude,
The verse that would invest them melts away
Like moonlight in the heaven of spreading day :
How beautiful they were, how firm they stood,
Flecking the starry sky like woven pearl!

My Thoughts Thoughts, Forman; Thoughts in Solitude, Dowden. Published by Mrs. Shelley, 18391, dated 1817.

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