I am drunk with the honey wine Of the moon-unfolded eglantine, Which fairies catch in hyacinth bowls. The bats, the dormice, and the moles Sleep in the walls or under the sward _5 Of the desolate castle yard; And when 'tis spilt on the summer earth Or its fumes arise among the dew, Their jocund dreams are full of mirth, They gibber their joy in sleep; for few _10 Of the fairies bear those bowls so new! *** FRAGMENT: A ROMAN'S CHAMBER. [Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition.] 1. In the cave which wild weeds cover Wait for thine aethereal lover; For the pallid moon is waning, O'er the spiral cypress hanging And the moon no cloud is staining. _5 2. It was once a Roman's chamber, Where he kept his darkest revels, And the wild weeds twine and clamber; It was then a chasm for devils. *** FRAGMENT: ROME AND NATURE. [Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition.] Rome has fallen, ye see it lying Heaped in undistinguished ruin: Nature is alone undying. *** VARIATION OF THE SONG OF THE MOON. [Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition.] ("PROMETHEUS UNBOUND", ACT 4.) As a violet's gentle eye Gazes on the azure sky Until its hue grows like what it beholds; As a gray and empty mist Lies like solid amethyst _5 Over the western mountain it enfolds, When the sunset sleeps Upon its snow; As a strain of sweetest sound Wraps itself the wind around _10 Until the voiceless wind be music too; As aught dark, vain, and dull, Basking in what is beautiful, Is full of light and love-- *** CANCELLED STANZA OF THE MASK OF ANARCHY. [Published by H. Buxton Forman, "The Mask of Anarchy" ("Facsimile of Shelley's manuscript"), 1887.] (FOR WHICH STANZAS 68, 69 HAVE BEEN SUBSTITUTED.) From the cities where from caves, Like the dead from putrid graves, Troops of starvelings gliding come, Living Tenants of a tomb. *** NOTE ON POEMS OF 1819, BY MRS. SHELLEY.