Poem by George Darley

The Phoenix

   (from Nepenthe)

O BLEST unfabled Incense Tree,
That burns in glorious Araby,
With red scent chalicing the air,
Till earth-life grow Elysian there!

Half-buried to her flaming breast
In this bright tree, she makes her nest,
Hundred-sunned Phoenix! when she must
Crumble at length to hoary dust!

Her gorgeous deathbed! her rich pyre
Burnt up with aromatic fire!
Her urn, sight high from spoiler men!
Her birthplace when self-born again!

The mountainless green wilds among,
Here ends she her unechoing song!
With amber tears and odorous sighs
Mourned by the desert where she dies! 

1. Epigram - Written in an Album
2. Lenimina Laborum. 12. Memento Mori
3. Lenimina Laborum. 27. The Free-Booter
4. Lenimina Laborum. 29. In an Album
5. Lenimina Laborum. 3. Heroa

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