The Indian Serenade (Lines apparently belonging to that Poem) From Calderon's Cisma d'Ingalaterra (by Medwin and Shelley) THE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. EARLY POEMS. VOL. III. TO COLERIDGE. ΔΑΚΡΥΣΙ ΔΙΟΙΣΩ ΠΟΤΜΟΝ ̓ΑΠΟΤΜΟΝ. I. OH there are spirits in the air, And genii of the evening breeze, And gentle ghosts with eyes as fair As starbeams among twilight trees : Such lovely ministers to meet Oft hast thou turned from men thy lonely feet. II. With mountain-winds, and babbling springs, Of these inexplicable things, Thou didst hold commune, and rejoice III. And thou hast sought in starry eyes To a fond faith! Still dost thou pine? I IV. Ah wherefore didst thou build thine hope Of love or moving thoughts to thee That natural scenes or human smiles Could steal the power to wind thee in their wiles? V. Yes, all the faithless smiles are fled Whose falsehood left thee broken-hearted; Night's ghosts and dreams have now departed: But changed to a foul fiend through misery. VI. This fiend, whose ghastly presence ever STANZAS-APRIL 1814. AWAY! the moor is dark beneath the moon, Away! the gathering winds will call the darkness soon, Away, away! to thy sad and silent home; Pour bitter tears on its desolated hearth; Watch the dim shades as like ghosts they go and come, |