Tremble, ye proud, whose grandeur mocks the woe
Which props the column of unnatural state! 
You the plainings, faint and low,
From Misery’s tortured soul that flow, 40
Shall usher to your fate.

Tremble, ye conquerors, at whose fell command
The war-fiend riots o’er a peaceful land! 
You Desolation’s gory throng
Shall bear from Victory along 45
To that mysterious strand.

NOTE: 
10 murderer Esdaile manuscript; murders 1858.

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LOVE’S ROSE.

[Published (without title) by Hogg, “Life of Shelley”, 1858; dated 1810.  Included in the Esdaile manuscript book.]

1. 
Hopes, that swell in youthful breasts,
Live not through the waste of time! 
Love’s rose a host of thorns invests;
Cold, ungenial is the clime,
Where its honours blow. 5
Youth says, ‘The purple flowers are mine,’
Which die the while they glow.

2. 
Dear the boon to Fancy given,
Retracted whilst it’s granted: 
Sweet the rose which lives in Heaven, 10
Although on earth ’tis planted,
Where its honours blow,
While by earth’s slaves the leaves are riven
Which die the while they glow.

3. 
Age cannot Love destroy, 15
But perfidy can blast the flower,
Even when in most unwary hour
It blooms in Fancy’s bower. 
Age cannot Love destroy,
But perfidy can rend the shrine 20
In which its vermeil splendours shine.

NOTES: 
Love’s Rose—­The title is Rossetti’s, 1870.
2 not through Esdaile manuscript; they this, 1858.

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EYES:  A FRAGMENT.

[Published by Rossetti, “Complete Poetical Works of P. B. S.”, 1870; dated 1810.  Included (four unpublished eight-line stanzas) in the Esdaile manuscript book.)]

How eloquent are eyes! 
Not the rapt poet’s frenzied lay
When the soul’s wildest feelings stray
Can speak so well as they. 
How eloquent are eyes! 5
Not music’s most impassioned note
On which Love’s warmest fervours float
Like them bids rapture rise.

Love, look thus again,—­
That your look may light a waste of years, 10
Darting the beam that conquers cares
Through the cold shower of tears. 
Love, look thus again!

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ORIGINAL POETRY BY VICTOR AND CAZIRE.

[Published by Shelley, 1810.  A Reprint, edited by Richard Garnett, C.B., LL.D., was issued by John Lane, in 1898.  The punctuation of the original edition is here retained.]