I.
the Plain was grassy, wild and bare,
Wide, wild and open to the air,
Which had built up everywhere
  An under-roof of doleful gray.
With an inner voice the river ran,
Adown it floated a dying swan,
  And loudly did lament.
It was...

A Fragment
HE clasps the crag with hookèd hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

  the eagle, did ye see him fall?—
    Aflight beyond mid-air
Erewhile his mighty pinions bore him,
His eyry left, the sun before him;
    And not a bird could dare
To match with that tremendous motion,
Through fire and flood, ’twixt sky and ocean...

Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire,
Whose modest form, so delicately fine,
        Was nursed in whirling storms
        And cradled in the winds;

Thee, when young Spring first questioned Winter’s sway,
And dared the sturdy blusterer to the fight,...

The shapes that frowned before the eyes
  Of the early world have fled,
And all the life of earth and skies,
  Of streams and seas, is dead.

Forgotten is the Titan’s fame,
  The dread Chimæra now
Is but a mild innocuous flame
  Upon a...