
January 25, 1798
Compare Wordsworth's "A Night-Piece", lines 1-16 http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww123.html.
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Canto IV
Queen Mab (1813)
January 25, 1798
Compare Wordsworth's "A Night-Piece", lines 1-16 http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww123.html.
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The Lost Pleiad
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
Era la notte allor ch'alto riposo
Han l'onde e i venti, e parea muto il mondo,
Gli animai lassi, e quei che 'l mare ondoso,
O de' liquidi laghi alberga il fondo,
E chi si giace in tana, o in mandra ascoso,
E i pinti augelli nell’oblio giocondo
Sotto il silenzio de' secreti orrori
Sopían gli affanni, e raddolciano i cori.
Canto II, stanza 96 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far,
Was pinned with a single star.”
Death in Disguise (Boston edition, 1833), line 227. A number of variants are reported:
While twilight's curtain gathering far
Is pinned with a single diamond star.
Now twilight lets her curtain down,
And pins it with a star.
Compare: "And drew my midnight curtain with fingers bloody red", Thomas Hood, Dream of Eugene Aram; "The moon is a silver pinhead vast, That holds the heavens tent-hangings fast", William R. Alger, "The Use of the Moon", Poetry of the Orient (1865), p. 178.
The Lost Star from The Literary Souvenir, 1828
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
No. 465, Ode (23 August 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Thalaba the Destroyer http://www.litgothic.com/Texts/thalaba_frag.html, Bk. I, st. 1 (1800).