How rich is the language here employed, how exquisite the lilt of "soft purple-lidded sleep." Not even Tennyson in "The Lotus Eaters" has done anything better than this. And how delicately expressed is the idea embodied in the lines—
"There in the green heart of some garden close
Queen Venus with the shepherd at her side,
Her warm soft body like the briar rose
Which should be white yet blushes at its pride—"
or, how tender the fancy that inspired
"So when men bury us beneath the yew
Thy crimson-stained mouth a rose will be,
And thy soft eyes lush bluebells dimmed with dew."
None but a poet could have written those lines; the stately wording of the second line is purposely chosen to enhance the perfect simplicity of the third.
The poems comprised within "The Fourth Movement" include the "Impression," "Le Reveillon," the first verse of which runs—
"The sky is laced with fitful red,
The circling mists and shadows flee,
The dawn is rising from the sea,
Like a white lady from her bed—"
which inspired the parodist with—
(By Oscuro Wildgoose)