[1] With these lines may be compared Shelley, Dedication to the Revolt of Islam:—
And through thine eyes, e’en in thy soul, I see
A lamp of vestal fire burning eternally.
[2] Lowlihead a favourite word with Chaucer and Spenser.
[3] 1830. Wifehood.
[4] 1830. Blenched.
[5] 1830 and all before 1853. Through.
[6] 1830. Through.
Mariana
“Mariana in the moated grange.”—Measure for Measure.
First printed in 1830.
This poem as we know from the motto prefixed to it was suggested by Shakespeare (Measure for Measure, iii., 1, “at the moated grange resides this dejected Mariana,”) but the poet may have had in his mind the exquisite fragment of Sappho:—
δέδυκε μὲν ἁ σελάννα
καὶ Πληϊαδες, μέδαι δὲ
νύκτες, παρὰ δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὥρα,
ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.