| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Phantasmion. A Fairy Tale (1837)
IX. “Yon Changeful Cloud” | | By Sarah Coleridge (1802–1850) |
| | (From Chapter XXVII.)
YON changeful cloud will soon thy aspect wear— | |
| So bright it grows:—and now, by light winds shaken | |
| O ever seen yet ne’er to be o’ertaken! | |
| Those waving branches seem thy billowy hair. | |
| The cypress glades recall thy pensive air; | 5 |
| Slow rills, that wind like snakes amid the grass, | |
| Thine eye’s mild sparkle fling me as they pass, | |
| Yet murmuring cry, This fruitless quest forbear! | |
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| Nay e’en amid the cataract’s loud storm, | |
| Where foamy torrents from the crags are leaping, | 10 |
| Methinks I catch swift glimpses of thy form, | |
| Thy robe’s light folds in airy tumult sweeping; | |
| Then silent are the falls: ’mid colours warm | |
| Gleams the bright maze beneath their splendour sleeping. | | | | |
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