Deep in thy fathomless eyes, glows.—Canst not keep

Mine eyes from seeing!—Dark thy thought and deep

As that of some wild woman,—found asleep

By some lost knight upon a precipice,—

Whom he hath wakened with a sudden kiss:

As that of some frail elfin lady,—light

As are the foggy moonbeams,—filmy white,

Who waves diaphanous beauty on a cliff,

That, drowsing, purrs with moon-drenched pines; but if

The lone knight follow, foul fiends rise and drag