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STANZA.

[Published by Rossetti, “Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.”, 1870.  Connected by Dowden with the preceding.]

If I walk in Autumn’s even
While the dead leaves pass,
If I look on Spring’s soft heaven,—­
Something is not there which was
Winter’s wondrous frost and snow, 5
Summer’s clouds, where are they now?

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FRAGMENT:  A WANDERER.

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, “Poetical Works”, 1839, 1st edition.]

He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,
Through the dim wildernesses of the mind;
Through desert woods and tracts, which seem
Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.

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FRAGMENT:  LIFE ROUNDED WITH SLEEP.

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, “Poetical Works”, 1839, 2nd edition.]

The babe is at peace within the womb;
The corpse is at rest within the tomb: 
We begin in what we end.

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FRAGMENT:  ‘I FAINT, I PERISH WITH MY LOVE!’.

[Published by Rossetti, “Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.”, 1870.]

I faint, I perish with my love!  I grow
Frail as a cloud whose [splendours] pale
Under the evening’s ever-changing glow: 
I die like mist upon the gale,
And like a wave under the calm I fail. 5

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FRAGMENT:  THE LADY OF THE SOUTH.

[Published by Rossetti, “Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.”, 1870.]

Faint with love, the Lady of the South
Lay in the paradise of Lebanon
Under a heaven of cedar boughs:  the drouth
Of love was on her lips; the light was gone
Out of her eyes—­ 5

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FRAGMENT:  ZEPHYRUS THE AWAKENER.

[Published by Rossetti, “Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.”, 1870.]

Come, thou awakener of the spirit’s ocean,
Zephyr, whom to thy cloud or cave
No thought can trace! speed with thy gentle motion!

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FRAGMENT:  RAIN.

[Published by Rossetti, “Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.”, 1870.]

The gentleness of rain was in the wind.

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FRAGMENT:  ‘WHEN SOFT WINDS AND SUNNY SKIES’.

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, “Poetical Works”, 1839, 1st edition.]

When soft winds and sunny skies
With the green earth harmonize,
And the young and dewy dawn,
Bold as an unhunted fawn,
Up the windless heaven is gone,—­ 5
Laugh—­for ambushed in the day,—­
Clouds and whirlwinds watch their prey.