and next year the same colour reappears, more expressively, in a cloud,
"wholly bright,
With a rich and amber light."
The two women in "The Two Graves," during a momentous pause, are found discussing whether the rays of the sun are green or amber; a valley is
"Tinged yellow with the rich departing light;"
seen through corn at evening,
"The level sunshine glimmers with green light;"
and there is the carefully observed
"western sky And its peculiar tint of yellow green."
"The Ancient Mariner" is full of images of light and luminous colour in sky and sea; Glycine's song in "Zapolya" is the most glittering poem in our language, with a soft glitter like that of light seen through water. And he is continually endeavouring, as later poets have done on a more deliberate theory, to suffuse sound with colour or make colours literally a form of music; as in an early poem
"Where melodies round honey-dropping flowers,
Footless and wild, like birds of Paradise,
Nor pause, nor perch, hovering on untamed wing."