Might softly hover by a rose full-blown.

Heraldic, rich, the costly coverings

Sweep, fall'n in folds, pushed partly from her breast;

As through storm-broken clouds the full moon springs,

From these one orb of her pure bosom pressed.

She sleeps: and where the moteless moonbeams sink

Through blazoned panes—an immaterial snow—

In wide, white jets, the lion-fur seems to drink

With tawny jaws their wasted, winey glow.

Light-lidded sleep and holy dreams are hers,