• 1805–1875
    a Being cleaves the moonlit air,
      With eyes of dew and plumes of fire,
    New-born, immortal, strong and fair;
            Glance ere he goes!
    His feet are shrouded like the dead,
      But in his face a wild desire
    Breaks like the dawn that flushes red,
            And like a rose.

    The stars shine out above his path,...