5.

I set her on my pacing steed,

And nothing else saw all day long; For sideways would she lean, and sing A faery's song.

6.

I made a garland for her head,

And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;

She look'd at me as she did love,

And made sweet moan.

7.

She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild, and manna dew;
And sure in language strange she said,
I love thee true.

8.

She took me to her elfin grot,

And there she gaz'd and sighed deep, And there I shut her wild sad eyesSo kiss'd to sleep.

9.

And there we slumber'd on the moss,
And there I dream'd, ah woe betide,
The latest dream I ever dream'd
On the cold hill side.

IO.

I saw pale kings, and princes too,

Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; Who cry'd-" La belle Dame sans merci Hath thee in thrall!"

II.

I saw their starv'd lips in the gloom
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke, and found me here
On the cold hill side.

12.

And this is why I sojourn here

Alone and palely loitering,

Though the sedge is wither'd from the lake,
And no birds sing.

SONNET.

Written on a Blank Page in Shakespeare's Poems, facing

A LOVER'S COMPLAINT.

BRIGHT star, would I were stedfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,

Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask

Of snow upon the mountains and the moors-
No-yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,

Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,

Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,

Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever-or else swoon to death.

OTHO THE GREAT

A TRAGEDY,

IN FIVE ACTS.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

OTHO THE GREAT, Emperor of Germany.
LUDOLPH, his Son.

CONRAD, Duke of Franconia.

ALBERT, a Knight, favoured by Otho.

SIGIFRED, an Officer, friend of Ludolph.

Nobles, Knights, Attendants, and Soldiers.

ERMINIA, Niece of Otho.

AURANTHE, Conrad's Sister.

Ladies and Attendants.

SCENE. The Castle of Friedburg, its vicinity, and the

Hungarian Camp.

TIME. One Day.