1429 The Sensitive Plant like one forbid

Wept,

-Sens. Plant, III. 82.

1430 But the mandrakes, and toadstools, and docks and darnels Rose like the dead from their ruined charnels,

1431 Whether the Sensitive Plant, or that Which within its boughs like a spirit sat

1432

Now felt this change, I cannot say.

The heavy dead hulk

On the living sea rolls an inanimate bulk,

-Sens. Plant, III. 116.

-Sens. Plant, Concl. I.

Like a corpse on the clay which is hungering to fold
Its corruption around it.

Vision of Sea, 31.

1433 Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

-West Wind, I.

1434 Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, 1435 I arise and unbuild it again

1436

1437

1438

the odours deep

Of flowers, which like lips murmuring in their sleep
Of the sweet kisses that had lulled them there,
Breathed but of her to the enamoured air;

Let the fixed bayonet

Gleam with sharp desire to wet
Its bright point in English blood
Looking keen as one for food.

like children chidden

-Cloud, 83.

--Epips. 202.

-Mask, LXXVII.

At her command they [sc. billows] ever came and went

1442 The works of faith and slavery, so vast,
So sumptuous, yet withal so perishing!
Even as the corpse that rests beneath their wall.

-Witch, LI.

-D. W. II. 109.

-D. W. II. 314.

Even as a child beneath its mother's love
Is strengthened in all excellence, and grows
Fairer and nobler with each passing year.

-D. W. II. 326.

1444

and that tall flower that wets

Like a child, half in tenderness and mirth-
Its mother's face with heaven-collected tears,

When the low wind, its playmate's voice, it hears.

1445 And like a dying lady, lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapt in a gauzy veil,
Out of her chamber, led by the insane
And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,
The moon arose up in the murky east,

1448 Making the wintry world appear

-Question, II.

-Waning Moon.

-Prol. Hell. 196.

-Zucca, VI.

Like one on whom thou smilest, dear. To Jane, Invitation, 19.

NATURAL PHENOMENA TO ANIMALS-ART PRODUCTS TO ANIMALS, AND VICE VERSA.

1449

1450

Higher and higher still

Their [sc. waves] fierce necks writhed beneath the tempest's

scourge,

Like serpents struggling in a vulture's grasp.

-Alast. 323.

The glaciers creep

Like snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains
Slow, rolling on:

1451 That land is like an eagle, whose young gaze
Feeds on the noon-tide beam, whose golden plume
Floats moveless on the storm, and in the blaze
Of sun-rise gleams when Earth is wrapt in gloom :

-Mont Blanc.

-L. & C. XI. xxiii.

1452 And he tamed fire which like some beast of prey
Most terrible but lovely, played beneath
The frown of man.

-Prom. II. iv. 66..

Gives up her stars, and like a flock of sheep
They pass before his eyes, are numbered, and roll on.

-Prom. IV. 418.

1454 And none ever trembled and panted with bliss,
In the garden, the field, or the wilderness,
Like the doe in the noon-tide with love's sweet want
As the companionless Sensitive Plant.

-Sens. P. I. 9..

1455 All loathliest weeds began to grow,

Whose coarse leaves were splashed with many a speck,
Like the water-snake's belly and the toad's back.

-Sens. P. III. 31.

1456 And at its outlet flags

Dammed it up with roots knotted like water-snakes.

-Sens. P. III. 72.

1457 And a northern whirlwind, wandering about Like a wolf that had smelt a dead child out,

-Sens. P. III. 110.

1459 Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion

1458 Who crowd [sc. tigers] side by side, and have driven, like a crank, The deep grip of their claws through the vibrating plank

(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)

-Vision of Sea, 43.

-West Wind, I.

1460 With wings folded I rest on my airy nest As still as a brooding dove.

-Cloud, 43.

1461 And I laugh to see them [sc. stars] whirl and flee Like a swarm of golden bees.

--Cloud, 53.

1464 How glorious it will be to see her Majesty

Streaming like

her petticoats

1466 And palisades of tusks, sharp as a bayonet.

1467 Our bark is as an albatross, whose nest Is a far Eden in the purple East;

1468 The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn.

1469 When the exulting elements in scorn

lay

Sleeping in beauty on their mangled prey
As panthers sleep;

-Ed. Tyr. II. i. 95.

--Ed. Tyr. II. i. 144.

-Epips. 416.

-Hell. 1062.

-Letter to M. G. 40.

1470 Couched on the fountain like a panther tame, One of the twain at Evan's feet that sat,

In joyous expectation lay the boat.

-Witch, XXXIV.

1471 And there its fruit lay like a sleeping lizard Under the shadows

1472 The splendour-winged worlds disperse Like wild doves scattered.

-Unfin. Drama, 205.

-Prol. Hell. 54.

1477 And felt the boat speed o'er the tranquil sea

Like a torn cloud before the hurricane.

-Alast. 314.

1482 We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;
How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver,
Streaking the darkness radiantly! yet soon-
Night closes round, and they are lost for ever.

1483 Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings
Give various response to each varying blast,
To whose frail frame no second motion brings
One mood or modulation like the last.

1484 When all that we know, or feel, or see, Shall pass like an unreal mystery

1485

1486

1487

-Mutability, 1.

-Mutability, 5.

-There is no work, 17.

For the very spirit fails,
Driven like a homeless cloud from steep to steep
That vanishes among the viewless gales.

The race

Of man flies far in dread; his work and dwelling
Vanish, like smoke before the tempest's stream,
And their place is not known.

Mont Blanc, 57.

-Mont Blanc, 117.

The vast clouds fled,

Countless and swift as leaves on autumn's tempest shed.

1488 The pallid semicircle of the moon
Past on in slow and moving majesty;
Its upper horn arrayed in mists, which soon

-L. & C. I. iv.

But slowly fled, like dew beneath the beams of noon.

-L. & C. I. v.

1489 Even like a bark, which from a chasm of mountains,
Dark, vast, and overhanging, on a river

Which there collects the strength of all its fountains,
Comes forth, whilst with the speed its frame doth quiver,
Sails, oars, and stream, tending to one endeavour;

So from that chasm of light a winged Form

On all the winds of heaven approaching ever

Floated, dilating as it came the storm

Pursued it with fierce blasts, and lightnings swift and warm.

-L. & C. I. vii.

-L. & C. I. xiii.

1490 Then soar-as swift as smoke from volcano springs.

1491 I looked, and we were sailing pleasantly,

Swift as a cloud between the sea and sky,

-L. & C. I. xlvii.

1492 Even as a storm let down beneath the ray
Of the still moon, my spirit onward past,
Beneath truth's steady beams upon its tumult cast.

-L. & C. II. xii.

1493 In sudden panic those false murderers fled, Like insect tribes before the northern gale: -L. & C. V. viii.

1494 And all the shapes of this grand scenery shifted Like restless clouds before the steadfast sun

-L. & C. V. xviii.