The Stars peep behind her and peer.
or of--
The sanguine Sunrise, with his meteor eyes,
the reader is carried back, by dint of the virgin freshness of the poet's imagination, to the time when the phenomena of Nature were first moulded into mythology.
This kinship to the myth is very clear in the finest of all his poems, the Ode to the West Wind, when the poet says to the wind:
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,...
Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's commotion,
Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed.
Shook from the tangled boughs of heaven and ocean.
Angels of rain and lightning, there are spread