Make a green space among the silent bowers, Surrounded by the columns and the towers All overwrought with branch-like traceries and the mute Persuasion of unkindled melodies, Odors and gleams and murmurs, which the lute Of the blind pilot-spirit of the blast Stirs as it sails, now grave and now acute, Wakening the leaves and waves ere it has passed To such brief unison as on the brain One tone, which never can recur, One accent never to return again. has cast, The world is full of Woodmen who expel OTHO I THOU wert not, Cassius, and thou couldst not be, Last of the Romans, though thy memory claim From Brutus his own glory, and on thee Rests the full splendor of his sacred fame; Otho. Published, i., ii., by Mrs. Shelley, 18391, iii., by Garnett, 1862. Composed, 1817. Nor he who dared make the foul tyrant quail II 'Twill wrong thee not-thou wouldst, if thou couldst feel, Abjure such envious fame - great Otho died In his own blood. A deed it was to bring pride, though full of gentle Such pride as from impetuous love may spring, III Dark is the realm of grief: but human things Those may not know who cannot weep for them. MADDALO, a Courtier. MALPIGLIO, a Poet. TASSO PIGNA, a Minister. MADDALO No access to the Duke! You have not said That the Count Maddalo would speak with him? ii. 5 bring, Boscombe MS. || buy, Mrs. Shelley, 18391. PIGNA Did you inform his Grace that Signor Pigna MALPIGLIO The Lady Leonora cannot know That I have written a sonnet to her fame, In which I Venus and Adonis. You should not take my gold and serve me not. ALBANO In truth I told her, and she smiled and said, "If I am Venus, thou, coy Poesy, Art the Adonis whom I love, and he The Erymanthian boar that wounded him." Oh, trust to me, Signor Malpiglio, Those nods and smiles were favors worth the zechin. MALPIGLIO The words are twisted in some double sense PIGNA How are the Duke and Duchess occupied ? ALBANO Buried in some strange talk. The Duke was lean ing, His finger on his brow, his lips unclosed. But when we cease to breathe and move I thought, but not as now I do, Keen thoughts and bright of linkèd lore, II And still I love and still I think, And if I think, my thoughts come fast, Song. Published by Mrs. Shelley, 1824. III Sometimes I see before me flee still watching it, Till by the grated casement's ledge MARENGHI I LET those who pine in pride or in revenge, II A massy tower yet overhangs the town, III Another scene ere wise Etruria knew Its second ruin through internal strife, And tyrants through the breach of discord threw The chain which binds and kills. As death to life, Marenghi, Rossetti || Mazenghi, Mrs. Shelley, 1824. Published, vii.-xv., by Mrs. Shelley, 1824, i.-xxviii., by Rossetti, 1870. posed, 1818. Com |