Nature and Elements

The evening star,

Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat

There Leviathan

Him there they found

Not that fair field

Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

To perish rather, swallowed up and lost

And when night

A shout that tore hell’s concave, and beyond

So when the sun in bed,

So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed,

So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed,

Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies,

Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies,

Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more

Meadows trim with daisies pied,

Hide me from day’s garish eye.

Far from all resort of mirth,

The lark ascending.

My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns,

Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune.

It was the schooner Hesperus,

Dark behind it rose the forest,

Dark behind it rose the forest,