39 The wrecks of the tempest, like vapours of gold, Are consuming in sunrise

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Thou bearer of the quiver,

-Vis. of Sea, 127.

Whose sunlike shafts pierce tempest-wingèd Error,
As light may pierce the clouds when they dissever
In the calm regions of the orient day

-Ode to Lib. X.

41

I hear the pennons of her car Self-moving, like cloud charioted by flame;

-Ode to Lib. XVIII.

42 How glorious it will be to see her Majesty Flying above our heads, her petticoats Streaming like

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Or like a cloud dyed in the dying day
Unravelled on the blast from a white mountain;

-Ed. Tyr. 95.

one intense

Diffusion, one serene Omnipresence
Whose flowing outlines mingle in their flowing
Around her cheeks and utmost fingers glowing
With the unintermitted blood, which there
Quivers (as in a fleece of snow-like air
The crimson pulse of living morning quiver)

-Epips. 94.

Like pageantry of mist on an autumnal stream.

-Adon. XIII.

the moving pomp might seem

Like sulphurous clouds, half shattered by the storm,
They sweep the pale Ægean,

48 In the death hues of agony

49

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Lambently flashing from a fish,

Now Peter felt amused to see

Shades like a rainbow's rise and flee,
Mixed with a certain hungry wish.

the thunder smoke Is gathering on the mountains, like a cloak Folded across their shoulders broad and bare;

Such clouds as flit, Like splendour-winged moths about a taper, Round the red west when the sun dies in it

-Hell. 299.

-P. B. XXVI.

-Lett. to M. G. 116.

- Witch, III.

52 Its shape was such as summer melody
Of the south wind in spicy vales might give
To some light cloud bound from the golden dawn
To fairy isles of evening,

53

-Witch, LIII.

-Fragm. of Dram. 215.

See those thronging chariots Rolling like painted clouds before the wind Behind their solemn steeds

54 Oh, light us to the isles of the evening land!
Like floating Edens cradled in the glimmer
Of sunset, through the distant mist of years
Touched by departing hope, they gleam!

-Chas. I., I. 136.

-Chas. I., IV. 22.

55
and the sense
Of hope through her fine texture did suffuse
Such varying glow, as summer evening casts
On undulating clouds and deepening lakes.

56 Let us laugh and make our mirth,
At the shadows of the earth,

-D. W. 36:

-Invoc. to Mis. XII.

There streamed a sunlight vapour, like the standard

Of some ætherial host;

58 On one side of this jagged and shapeless hill There is a cave, from which there eddies up A pale mist like aerial gossamer,

-Ode to Nap. 44..

--Orph. 18.

59 The Fairy's frame was slight, yon fibrous cloud,
That catches but the palest tinge of even
And which the straining eye can hardly seize
When melting into eastern twilight's shadow,
Were scarce so thin, so slight

(b) WATER COLOUR.

60 With the sun's cloudless orb,

Whose rays of rapid light

Parted around the chariot's swifter course,
And fell like ocean's feathery spray

Dashed from the boiling surge

Before a vessel's prow.

61 For where the irresistible storm had cloven
That fearful darkness the blue sky was seen
Fretted with many a fair cloud interwoven
Most delicately, and the ocean green,
Beneath that opening spot of blue serene,
Quivered like burning emerald:

-Q. M. 94.

-D. W. 153.

-L. & C. I. 4.

62 Only 'twas strange to see the red commotion
Of waves like mountains o'er the sinking sphere
Of sunset sweep,

-L. & C. I. 15.

63 Beside that Image then I sate, while she
Stood, mid the throngs which ever ebbed and flowed
Like light amid the shadows of the sea
Cast from one cloudless star,

64

while tears pursued

Each other down her fair and listening cheek
Fast as the thoughts that fed them, like a flood
From sunbright dales;

65 And in that roof of crags a space was riven

-L. & C. V. 51.

-L. & C. VII. 2.

Thro' which there shone the emerald beams of heaven,

Shot thro' the lines of many waves inwoven,

Like sunlight thro' acacia woods at even, -L. & C. VII. 11.

66 Below the fountain's brink was richly paven

With the deep's wealth, coral and pearl, and sand
Like spangling gold,

67 When the summer wind faint odours brought
From mountain flowers, even as it passed
His cheek would change, as the noon-day sea
Which the dying breeze sweeps fitfully.

68 Beneath is spread like a green sea
The waveless plain of Lombardy,
Bounded by the vaporous air,
Islanded by cities fair;

-L. & C. VII. 13.

-R. & H. 1015.

69 And far on high the keen sky-cleaving mountains
From icy spires of sun-like radiance fling
The dawn, as lifted Ocean's dazzling spray,
From some Atlantic islet scattered up,

70 Spangles the wind with lamp-like water drops,

-Eug. H. 90.

-Sens. P. J. 82.

73 The plumed insects swift and free, Like golden boats on a sunny sea.

74 And wherever her airy footsteps trod, Her trailing hair from the grassy sod

Erased its light vestige, with shadowy sweep,

Like a sunny storm o'er the dark green deep. -Sens. P. II. 25.

75 Three days the flowers of the garden fair,

Like stars when the moon is awakened, were,

Or the waves of Baiæ, ere luminous

She floats up through the smoke of Vesuvius. -Sens. P. III. 1.

76 While the surf like a chaos of stars, like a rout 77, 78 Of death-flames, like whirlpools of fire-flowing iron With splendour and terror the black ship environ, 79 Or like sulphur-flakes hurled from a mine of pale fire In fountains spout o'er it.

80 And I was laid asleep, spirit and limb,
And all my being became bright or dim
As the moon's image in a summer sea,
According as she smiled or frowned on me ;

I see the waves upon the shore,
Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown:

- Vision of Sea, 18.

-Epips. 295.

-Epips. 436.

-Hell. 682.

—Stanzas near Nap. II.

85 This quicksilver no gnome has drunk-within
The walnut bowl it lies, veined and thin,
In colour like the wake of light that stains
The Tuscan deep, when from the moist moon rains
The inmost shower of its white fire-the breeze
Is still, blue heaven smiles o'er the pale seas.

86 The ripe corn under the undulating air Undulates like an ocean;

-Letter to M. G. 66.

-Letter to M. G. 119.

87 And down the earthquaking cataracts which shiver Their snow-like waters into golden air,

88 The water flashed like sunlight by the prow

-Witch, XLII.

-Witch, XLVI.

Of a noon-wandering meteor flung to Heaven;

89 To glide adown old Nilus, where he threads
Egypt and Æthiopia, from the steep

Of utmost Axumé, until he spreads,
Like a calm flock of silver-fleeced sheep,
His waters on the plain

90 And the sun's image radiantly intense

Burned on the waters of the well that glowed
Like gold, and threaded all the forest's maze
With winding paths of emerald fire;

91

Like a gloomy stain
On the emerald main

--Witch, LVII.

-Tr. of L. 345.

- Areth. III.

92

Alpheus rushed behind,

And under the caves,

Where the shadowy waves

Are as green as the forest's night :

-Areth. IV.

Or, with thy harmonizing ardours fill

And raise thy sons, as o'er the prone horizon

Thy lamp feeds every twilight wave with fire. Ode to N. 165.

94 Now all the tree-tops lay asleep

Like green waves on the sea,

95 O'er the thin texture of its frame

The varying periods painted changing glows,

As on a summer evening,

When soul-enfolding music floats around,
The stainless mirror of the lake

Re-images the eastern gloom

Mingling convulsively its purple lines
With sunset's burnished gold.

(c) THE SUN.

96 The moon arose and lo, the etherial cliffs Of Caucasus, whose icy summits shone Among the stars like sunlight,

97 A speck, a cloud, a shape, approaching grew, Like a great ship in the sun's sinking sphere Beheld afar at sea, and swift it came anear

98 And oft in cycles since, when darkness gave New weapons to thy foe, their sun-like fame Upon the combat shone

99 Day after day the burning sun rolled on Over the death-polluted land-it came Out of the east like fire,

100

-To Jane, 29.

-Q. M. 3.

- Alast. 352.

-L. & C. I. 6.

--L. & C. I. 32.

-L. & C. X. 13.

the day was dying :

Sudden the sun shone forth, its beams were lying
Like boiling gold on Ocean, strange to see,
And on the shattered vapours, which defying
The power of light in vain, tossed restlessly

In the red Heaven, like wrecks in a tempestuous sea.

101 And as the meteor's midnight flame

− L. & C. XI. 2.

Startles the dreamer, sun-like truth
Flashed on his visionary youth.

-R. & H. 617.

102 And the light which flushed through his waxen cheek
Grew faint, as the rose-like hues which flow
From sunset o'er the Alpine snow :

103 And that eternal honour which should live
Sun-like, above the reek of mortal fame.

104 Pity the self-despising slaves of Heaven,
Not me, within whose mind sits peace serene
As light in the sun, throned:

-R. & H. 1009.

-Cenci, V. iii. 31.

-Prom, I. 429.