Passions wild and powers insane,

And thoughts with vulture beak, and quick Promethean pain!

Gloomy—gloomy is the day;

Tortured, tempest-tost the night;

Fevers that no founts allay—

Wild and wildering unrest—

Blessings festering into blight—

A gored and gasping breast!

From their lairs what terrors start,

At that deep earthquake voice—the earthquake of the heart!