• From “Queen Mab”
    IF solitude hath ever led thy steps
    To the wild ocean’s echoing shore,
      And thou hast lingered there
      Until the sun’s broad orb
    Seemed resting on the burnished wave,
      Thou must have marked the lines
    Of purple gold that motionless
        Hung o’er the sinking sphere:
      Thou must have marked the billowy...

  • There ’s a city that lies in the Kingdom of Clouds,
      In the glorious country on high,
    Which an azure and silvery curtain enshrouds,
      To screen it from mortal eye;

    A city of temples and turrets of gold,
      That gleam by a sapphire sea,
    Like jewels more splendid than earth may behold,
      Or are dreamed of by you and by me.

    And...