...she sings, ' Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many-colour'd wings. III. 3. ' The verse adorn again ' f Fierce War, and faithful Love, ' And Truth severe, by fairy Fiction drest. ' In J buskin'd measures move ' Pale Grief, and pleasing Pain, ' With Horrour, Tyrant of the throbbing breast....

...unnatural taste imposed on him by his time there is at least as much nature in unlyrical abstractions like Pale Grief, and pleasing Pain, With Horror, Tyrant of the throbbing breast as in the meaningless and crudely lyrical Ullalume of the romantic Poe. As the lavas that restlessly...

...of Heaven her manycoloured wings. III. 3 'The verse adorn again Fierce War, and faithful Love, 125 And Truth severe, by fairy Fiction drest. In buskined...Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast. 130 A Voice, as of the Cherub-Choir, Gales from blooming Eden bear; And distant warblings lessen on...

...(1794-1805) to the poems of Thomas Gray. Ostensibly pictorializing Gray's homage to Spenser in The Bard ('The verse adorn again / Fierce War, and faithful Love, / And Truth severe, by fairy Fiction drest' 125-7), tne illustration is of a gargantuan, youthful, curly-haired, and heavily robed figure whose...

...eventual triumph of poetry, the bard turns from Edward and his forces, and plunges headlong to his death: 'The verse adorn again 'Fierce war and faithful love, 'And truth severe, by fairy fiction dressed. 'In buskined measures move 'Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, 'With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing...

...people. The emotive power of poetry is ascribed to its combination of reason with a wild imagination: The verse adorn again Fierce war and faithful love, And truth severe, by fairy fiction dressed. In buskined measures move Pale grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing...