CHAPTER III.
POEMS WRITTEN PRIOR TO THE DEATH OF ARTHUR
HALLAM.
"Regret is dead, but love is more
Than in the summers that are flown,
For I myself with these have grown
To something greater than before;
Than in the summers that are flown,
For I myself with these have grown
To something greater than before;
"Which makes appear the songs I made
As echoes out of weaker times,
As half but idle brawling rhymes,
The sport of random sun and shade."
As echoes out of weaker times,
As half but idle brawling rhymes,
The sport of random sun and shade."
The period comprised under the above title is one of three years; from 1830 to 1833.
There is nothing artificial in this arrangement of the early productions of our poet; for, as will be seen, he continued silent for nearly ten years after the death of his friend. It is also indispensable to the right understanding of "In Memoriam" that we should see what
