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If I look on Spring's soft heaven,—
 Something is not there which was
Winter's wondrous frost and snow, 5
Summer's clouds, where are they now?

 

FRAGMENT: A WANDERER

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, P. W., 1839, 1st ed.]

He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,
 Through the dim wildernesses of the mind;
Through desert woods and tracts, which seem
 Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.

 

FRAGMENT: LIFE ROUNDED WITH SLEEP

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, P. W., 1839, 2nd ed.]

The babe is at peace within the womb;
The corpse is at rest within the tomb:
 We begin in what we end.

 

FRAGMENT: 'I FAINT, I PERISH WITH MY LOVE!'

[Published by Rossetti, Complete P. W. of P. B. S., 1870.]

I faint, I perish with my love! I grow
 Frail as a cloud whose [splendours] pale
Under the evening's ever-changing glow:
 I die like mist upon the gale,
And like a wave under the calm I fail. 5

 

FRAGMENT: THE LADY OF THE SOUTH

[Published by Rossetti, Complete P. W. of P. B. S., 1870.]

Faint with love, the Lady of the South
 Lay in the paradise of Lebanon
Under a heaven of cedar boughs: the drouth
 Of love was on her lips; the light was gone
Out of her eyes— 5

 

FRAGMENT: ZEPHYRUS THE AWAKENER

[Published by Rossetti, Complete P. W. of P. B. S., 1870.]

Come, thou awakener of the spirit's ocean,
Zephyr, whom to thy cloud or cave
No thought can trace! speed with thy gentle motion!

 

FRAGMENT: RAIN

[Published by Rossetti, Complete P. W. of P. B. S., 1870.]

The gentleness of rain was in the wind.