Part 2

A breath of the mountains, fresh born in the regions majestic, THE POETRY OF KEATS, 31

The song of a nightingale sent thro’ a slumbrous valley, VIOLETS, 31

Violets, shy violets! ANGELIC LOVE, 32

Angelic love that stoops with heavenly lips TWILIGHT MUSIC, 34

Know you the low pervading breeze REQUIEM, 36

Where faces are hueless, where eyelids are dewless, THE FLOWER OF THE RUINS, 37

Take thy lute and sing THE RAPE OF AURORA, 40

Never, O never, SOUTH-WEST WIND IN THE WOODLAND, 42

The silence of preluded song— WILL O’ THE WISP, 46

Follow me, follow me, SONG, 49

Fair and false! No dawn will greet SONG, 50

Two wedded lovers watched the rising moon, SONG, 51

I cannot lose thee for a day, DAPHNE, 52

Musing on the fate of Daphne, LONDON BY LAMPLIGHT, 68

There stands a singer in the street, SONG, 73

Under boughs of breathing May, PASTORALS, 74

How sweet on sunny afternoons, TO A SKYLARK, 74

O skylark! I see thee and call thee joy! SONG—SPRING, 85

When buds of palm do burst and spread SONG—AUTUMN, 85

When nuts behind the hazel-leaf SORROWS AND JOYS, 86

Bury thy sorrows, and they shall rise SONG, 88

The Flower unfolds its dawning cup, SONG, 89

Thou to me art such a spring ANTIGONE, 90

The buried voice bespake Antigone. ‘SWATHED ROUND IN MIST AND CROWN’D WITH CLOUD,’ 92 SONG, 93

No, no, the falling blossom is no sign THE TWO BLACKBIRDS, 94

A Blackbird in a wicker cage, JULY, 96

Blue July, bright July, SONG, 98

I would I were the drop of rain SONG, 99