PAGE NO. misery, and the life-long blessing of her equally nobleminded brother. 328 cclxxxix This poem has an exaltation and a glory, joined with an exquisiteness of expression, which place it in the highest rank among the many masterpieces of its illustrious Author. 339 344 345 357 358 ccc interlunar swoon: interval of the moon's invisibility. ccciv Calpe: Gibraltar. Lofoden: the Maelstrom whirlpool off the N.W. coast of Norway. cccv This lovely poem refers here and there to a ballad by Hamilton on the subject better treated in 163 and 164. CCCXV Arcturi: seemingly used for northern stars. And wild roses, &c. Our language has perhaps no line modulated with more subtle sweetness. cccxvi Coleridge describes this poem as the fragment of a dream-vision, perhaps, an opium-dream?-which composed itself in his mind when fallen asleep after reading a few lines about 'the Khan Kubla' in Purchas' Pilgrimage. 362 cccxviii Pluto. Ceres' daughter: Proserpine. God of Torment: 370 cccxxi The leading idea of this beautiful description of a day's landscape in Italy appears to be-On the voyage of life are many moments of pleasure, given by the sight of Nature, who has power to heal even the worldliness and the uncharity of man. 371 375 376 377 378 1. 23 Amphitrite was daughter to Ocean. cccxxii 1. 21 Maenad: a frenzied Nymph, attendant on Dionysos in the Greek mythology. May we not call this the most vivid, sustained, and impassioned amongst all Shelley's magical personifications of Nature? 1. 5 Plants under water sympathize with the seasons of the land, and hence with the winds which affect them. Each cccxxiii Written soon after the death, by shipwreck, of the Kind: the human race. PAGE NO. 381 381 the Royal Saint: Henry VI. cccxxvii 155 cxxxiv These stanzas are by Richard Verstegan (c. 1635), a poet and antiquarian, published in his rare Odes (1601), under the title Our Blessed Ladies Lullaby, and reprinted by Mr. Orby Shipley in his beautiful Carmina Mariana (1893). The four stanzas here given form the opening of a hymn of twenty-four. BYRON, G. G. N. (continued). NUMBER ccxlvi On the Castle of Chillon Youth and Age Elegy CAMPBELL, Thomas (1777-1844). Lord Ullin's Daughter To the Evening Star Earl March look'd on his dying child Ye Mariners of England Battle of the Baltic Hohenlinden The Beech Tree's Petition Ode to Winter Song to the Evening Star The River of Life celiii cclxxv CCXXV cel cccx XXV xxvi 1 lii lv lix lxxvi lxxix |