Even the figures, seen as it were but for a moment, are flashed before us in this manner:
With woful measures wan Despair
Low sullen sounds his grief beguiled
and
Dejected Pity at his side
Her soul-subduing voice applied
and the vision of hope with “eyes so fair” who
smiled and waved her golden hair.
In this ode Collins gives us also imaginative cameos, we might call them, vividly delineated and presented like the figures on the Grecian urn that inspired Keats. Thus: