Lonely I wander, weeping for my lost one!
[440] The original title given to this poem was The Lament of Alcyone, which was altered to its present one, on the suggestion of a friend. It was written in November 1834.
THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS.
INTELLECTUAL POWERS.
O Thought! O Memory! gems for ever heaping
High in the illumined chambers of the mind—
And thou, divine Imagination! keeping
Thy lamp’s lone star mid shadowy hosts enshrined;
How in one moment rent and disentwined,
At Fever’s fiery touch, apart they fall,