The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Part 123

_15 is all this sweet work Stacey ma.n.u.script; were these examples Harvard ma.n.u.script; are all these kissings 1819, 1824.

FRAGMENT: 'FOLLOW TO THE DEEP WOOD'S WEEDS'.

[Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Sh.e.l.ley", 1862.]

Follow to the deep wood's weeds, Follow to the wild-briar dingle, Where we seek to intermingle, And the violet tells her tale To the odour-scented gale, _5 For they two have enough to do Of such work as I and you.

THE BIRTH OF PLEASURE.

[Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Sh.e.l.ley", 1862.]

At the creation of the Earth Pleasure, that divinest birth, From the soil of Heaven did rise, Wrapped in sweet wild melodies-- Like an exhalation wreathing _5 To the sound of air low-breathing Through Aeolian pines, which make A shade and shelter to the lake Whence it rises soft and slow; Her life-breathing [limbs] did flow _10 In the harmony divine Of an ever-lengthening line Which enwrapped her perfect form With a beauty clear and warm.

FRAGMENT: LOVE THE UNIVERSE TO-DAY.

[Published by Mrs. Sh.e.l.ley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition.]

And who feels discord now or sorrow?

Love is the universe to-day-- These are the slaves of dim to-morrow, Darkening Life's labyrinthine way.

FRAGMENT: 'A GENTLE STORY OF TWO LOVERS YOUNG'.

[Published by Mrs. Sh.e.l.ley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition.]

A gentle story of two lovers young, Who met in innocence and died in sorrow, And of one selfish heart, whose rancour clung Like curses on them; are ye slow to borrow The lore of truth from such a tale? _5 Or in this world's deserted vale, Do ye not see a star of gladness Pierce the shadows of its sadness,-- When ye are cold, that love is a light sent From Heaven, which none shall quench, to cheer the innocent? _10

NOTE: _9 cold]told cj. A.C. Bradley.

For the metre cp. Fragment: To a Friend Released from Prison.

FRAGMENT: LOVE'S TENDER ATMOSPHERE.

[Published by Mrs. Sh.e.l.ley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition.]

There is a warm and gentle atmosphere About the form of one we love, and thus As in a tender mist our spirits are Wrapped in the ... of that which is to us The health of life's own life-- _5

FRAGMENT: WEDDED SOULS.

[Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Sh.e.l.ley", 1862.]

I am as a spirit who has dwelt Within his heart of hearts, and I have felt His feelings, and have thought his thoughts, and known The inmost converse of his soul, the tone Unheard but in the silence of his blood, _5 When all the pulses in their mult.i.tude Image the trembling calm of summer seas.

I have unlocked the golden melodies Of his deep soul, as with a master-key, And loosened them and bathed myself therein-- _10 Even as an eagle in a thunder-mist Clothing his wings with lightning.

FRAGMENT: 'IS IT THAT IN SOME BRIGHTER SPHERE'.

[Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Sh.e.l.ley", 1862.]

Is it that in some brighter sphere We part from friends we meet with here?

Or do we see the Future pa.s.s Over the Present's dusky gla.s.s?

Or what is that that makes us seem _5 To patch up fragments of a dream, Part of which comes true, and part Beats and trembles in the heart?

FRAGMENT: SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY.

[Published by Dr. Garnett, "Relics of Sh.e.l.ley", 1862.]

Is not to-day enough? Why do I peer Into the darkness of the day to come?

Is not to-morrow even as yesterday?

And will the day that follows change thy doom?

Few flowers grow upon thy wintry way; _5 And who waits for thee in that cheerless home Whence thou hast fled, whither thou must return Charged with the load that makes thee faint and mourn?

FRAGMENT: 'YE GENTLE VISITATIONS OF CALM THOUGHT'.

[Published by Mrs. Sh.e.l.ley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition.]

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, _5 While they remain, and ye, alas, depart!

FRAGMENT: MUSIC AND SWEET POETRY.

[Published by Mrs. Sh.e.l.ley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition.]