[ { "title": "Ode to the Moon", "author": "Robinson", "lines": [ "PALE GODDESS of the witching hour;", "Blest Contemplation's placid friend;", "Oft in my solitary bow'r,", "I mark thy lucid beam", "From thy crystal car descend,", "Whitening the spangled heath, and limpid sapphire stream.", "", "And oft, amidst the shades of night", "I court thy undulating light;", "When Fairies dance around the verdant ring,", "Or frisk beside the bubbling spring,", "When the thoughtless SHEPHERD'S song", "Echoes thro' the silent air,", "As he pens his fleecy care,", "Or plods with saunt'ring gait, the dewy meads along.", "", "CHASTE ORB! as thro' the vaulted sky", "Feath'ry clouds transparent sail;", "When thy languid, weeping eye,", "Sheds its soft tears upon the painted vale;", "As I ponder o'er the floods,", "Or tread with listless step, th'embow'ring woods,", "O, let thy transitory beam,", "Soothe my sad mind, with FANCY'S aëry dream.", "", "Wrapt in REFLECTION, let me trace", "O'er the vast ethereal space,", "Stars, whose twinkling fires illume", "Dark-brow'd NIGHT'S obtrusive gloom;", "Where across the concave wide;", "Flaming METEORS swiftly glide;", "Or along the milky way,", "Vapours shoot a silvery ray;", "And as I mark, thy faint reclining head,", "Sinking on Ocean's pearly bed;", "Let REASON tell my soul, thus all things fade.", "", "The Seasons change, the \"garish SUN\"", "When Day's burning car hath run", "Its fiery course, no more we view,", "While o'er the mountain's golden head,", "Streak'd with tints of crimson hue,", "Twilight's filmy curtains spread,", "Stealing o'er Nature's face, a desolating shade.", "", "Yon musky FLOW'R, that scents the earth;", "The SOD, that gave its odours birth;", "The ROCK, that breaks the torrent's force;", "The VALE, that owns its wand'ring course;", "The woodlands where the vocal throng", "Trill the wild melodious song;", "Thirsty desarts, sands that glow,", "Mountains, cap'd with flaky snow;", "Luxuriant groves, enamell'd fields,", "All, all, prolific Nature yields,", "Alike shall end; the sensate HEART,", "With all its passions, all its fire,", "Touch'd by FATE'S unerring dart,", "Shall feel its vital strength expire;", "Those eyes, that beam with FRIENDSHIP'S ray,", "And glance ineffable delight,", "Shall shrink from LIFE'S translucid day,", "And close their fainting orbs, in DEATH'S impervious night.", "", "Then what remains for mortal pow'r;", "But TIME'S dull journey to beguile;", "To deck with joy, the winged hour,", "To meet its sorrows with a patient smile;", "And when the toilsome pilgrimage shall end,", "To greet the tyrant, as a welcome friend." ], "linecount": "64" }, { "title": "Fragment: To the Moon", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "lines": [ "Bright wanderer, fair coquette of Heaven,", "To whom alone it has been given", "To change and be adored for ever,", "Envy not this dim world, for never", "But once within its shadow grew", "One fair as--" ], "linecount": "6" }, { "title": "To the Moon", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "lines": [ "Art thou pale for weariness", "Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,", "Wandering companionless", "Among the stars that have a different birth,--", "And ever changing, like a joyless eye", "That finds no object worth its constancy?", "", "Thou chosen sister of the Spirit,", "That grazes on thee till in thee it pities..." ], "linecount": "8" }, { "title": "Homer's Hymn to the Moon", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "lines": [ "Daughters of Jove, whose voice is melody,", "Muses, who know and rule all minstrelsy", "Sing the wide-winged Moon! Around the earth,", "From her immortal head in Heaven shot forth,", "Far light is scattered--boundless glory springs;", "Where'er she spreads her many-beaming wings", "The lampless air glows round her golden crown.", "", "But when the Moon divine from Heaven is gone", "Under the sea, her beams within abide,", "Till, bathing her bright limbs in Ocean's tide,", "Clothing her form in garments glittering far,", "And having yoked to her immortal car", "The beam-invested steeds whose necks on high", "Curve back, she drives to a remoter sky", "A western Crescent, borne impetuously.", "Then is made full the circle of her light,", "And as she grows, her beams more bright and bright", "Are poured from Heaven, where she is hovering then,", "A wonder and a sign to mortal men.", "", "The Son of Saturn with this glorious Power", "Mingled in love and sleep--to whom she bore", "Pandeia, a bright maid of beauty rare", "Among the Gods, whose lives eternal are.", "", "Hail Queen, great Moon, white-armed Divinity,", "Fair-haired and favourable! thus with thee", "My song beginning, by its music sweet", "Shall make immortal many a glorious feat", "Of demigods, with lovely lips, so well", "Which minstrels, servants of the Muses, tell." ], "linecount": "29" }, { "title": "To the Moonbeam", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "lines": [ "Moonbeam, leave the shadowy vale,", "To bathe this burning brow.", "Moonbeam, why art thou so pale,", "As thou walkest o'er the dewy dale,", "Where humble wild-flowers grow?", "Is it to mimic me?", "But that can never be;", "For thine orb is bright,", "And the clouds are light,", "That at intervals shadow the star-studded night.", "", "Now all is deathy still on earth;", "Nature's tired frame reposes;", "And, ere the golden morning's birth", "Its radiant hues discloses,", "Flies forth its balmy breath.", "But mine is the midnight of Death,", "And Nature's morn", "To my bosom forlorn", "Brings but a gloomier night, implants a deadlier thorn.", "", "Wretch! Suppress the glare of madness", "Struggling in thine haggard eye,", "For the keenest throb of sadness,", "Pale Despair's most sickening sigh,", "Is but to mimic me;", "And this must ever be,", "When the twilight of care,", "And the night of despair,", "Seem in my breast but joys to the pangs that rankle there." ], "linecount": "28" } ]