t darkens_, _what darkens_?--'_tis 158
heaven's high roof_]

In a revised Manuscript of uncertain date, but _c_
1860-70, this poem is entitled _Hecla and Etna_, the
first line reading:

"_What darkens_? _It is the wide arch of the sky_."

The Violet-Gatherer. [_Pale the moon her light was 159
shedding_]

Ode to a Mountain-Torrent. [_How lovely art thou in thy 164
tresses of foam_]

Previously printed in _The Monthly Magazine_, _October_,
1823, p. 244.

In _The Monthly Magazine_ the eighth stanza reads:

_O pause for a time_,--_for a short moment stay_;
_Still art thou streaming_,--_my words are in
vain_;
_Oft-changing winds_, _with tyrannical sway_,
_Lord there below on the time-serving main_!

In Romantic Ballads it reads:

_Abandon_, _abandon_, _thy headlong career_--
_But downward thou rushest_--_my words are in
vain_,
_Bethink thee that oft-changing winds domineer_
_On the billowy breast of the time-serving main_.

Runic Verses. [_O the force of Runic verses_] 167

Thoughts on Death. [_Perhaps_ '_tis folly_, _but still 169
I feel_]

Previously printed (under the tentative title _Death_,
and with some small textual variations) in _The Monthly
Magazine_, _October_, 1823, p. 245.

Birds of Passage. [_So hot shines the sun upon Nile's 171
yellow stream_]

The Broken Harp. [_O thou_, _who_, '_mid the forest 173
trees_]

Scenes. [_Observe ye not yon high cliff's brow_] 175

The Suicide's Grave. [_The evening shadows fall upon 182
the grave_]

NOTE.--Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for the
first time in this volume.

There is at present no copy of the First Issue of the First Edition of
_Romantic Ballads_, with the original Title-page, in the Library of the
British Museum.

[Picture: Manuscript of the Death Raven]

[Picture: Manuscript of Sir John]

[Picture: Manuscript of Saint Oluf and the Trolds]

[Picture: Manuscript of Svend Vonved--1830]

[Picture: Manuscript of The Tournament, 1854]

[Picture: Manuscript of Vidrik Verlandson--1854]

[Picture: Manuscript of Elvir Hill]

[Picture: Manuscript of Marsk Stig's Daughter]

Second Issue: 1826

Romantic Ballads, / Translated from the Danish; / and / Miscellaneous
Piec