Adonais
; and, in a suppressed stanza of the same poem, the poet speaks of Hunt's "sweet and earnest looks," "soft smiles," and "dark and night-like eyes." The words inscribed on Shelley's tomb—"
Cor Cordium
"—were Hunt's choice. In his various papers Hunt zealously championed his friends. In the
Examiner
for September to October, 1819, he defended Shelley's personal character; in the same paper for June to July, 1817, he praised Keats's first volume of
Poems
; he reviewed "Lamia" in the
Indicator
for August 2-9, 1820, and "La Belle Dame sans Merci" in that for May 10, 1820. In his