Is cloven by the gleaming shafts of morn,

Ascending new with all his glittering train

To bring me peace, or strange tempestuous pain;

Or soft winds singing in the sacred grove

That keeps thy shrine, and where I talk with Love,

Watching the far-off sea whence hope is born.

VIII
LOVE’S HOPE

JOY, like the flashes of a fitful sun,

Falls on my storm-worn heart, and kindling, dies