Which clanged along the mountain's marble brow, And filled with frozen light the chasm below. FRAGMENT IV. THOU art the wine whose drunkenness is all Catch thee, and feed from their o'erflowing bowls Investest1 it; and when the heavens are blue Its desarts and its mountains, till they wear In spring, which moves the unawakened forest, That which from thee they should implore:-the weak A garment whom thou clothest not? 1 In the Posthumous Poems this line stands thus, a foot short, Invests it; and when heavens are bluebut in the collected editions it is given as in the text. Mr. Rossetti substitutes investeth for investest. 10 15 5 FRAGMENT OF A LATER PART.1 HER hair was brown, her spherèd eyes were brown, Yet when the spirit flashed beneath, there came LINES.1 I. THE cold earth slept below; With a chilling sound, From caves of ice and fields of snow, The breath of night like death did flow II. The wintry hedge was black, On the bare thorn's breast, Whose roots, beside the pathway track, Which the frost had made between. III. Thine eyes glowed in the glare Of the moon's dying light; As a fen-fire's beam, On a sluggish stream, 1 Placed by Mrs. Shelley among the vember, 1815," inscribed at the end. "Early Poems," with the date "No Gleams dimly-so the moon shone there, And it yellowed the strings of thy tangled hair That shook in the wind of night. IV. The moon made thy lips pale, beloved; On thy dear head Its frozen dew, and thou didst lie Where the bitter breath of the naked sky First our pleasures die-and then 1 Mrs. Shelley places this poem among those of 1820. These are dead, the debt is due, IV. All things that we love and cherish, LINES. 1 1. THAT time is dead for ever, child, We look on the past And stare aghast At the spectres wailing, pale and ghast, II. The stream we gazed on then, rolled by; But we yet stand In a lone land, Like tombs to mark the memory Of hopes and fears, which fade and flee2 1 Mrs. Shelley places this among poems of 1817: in the Posthumous Poems it is dated at the end," Novem ber 5th, 1817." 2 In Mr. Rossetti's edition flee is changed to fly. |