3、Hope

　　Hope Was but a timid friend;
　　She sat without the grated den,
　　Watching how my fate would tend,
　　Even as selfish-hearted men.
　　
　　She was cruel in her fear;
　　Through the bars one dreary day,
　　I looked out to see her there,
　　And she turned her face away!
　　
　　Like a false guard, false watch keeping,
　　Still, in strife, she whispered peace;
　　She would sing while I was weeping;
　　If I listened, she would cease.
　　
　　False she was, and unrelenting;
　　When my last joys strewed the ground,
　　Even Sorrow saw, repenting,
　　Those sad relics scattered round;
　　
　　Hope, whose whisper would have given
　　Balm to all my frenzied pain,
　　Stretched her wings, and soared to heaven,
　　Went, and ne'er returned again!

4、The night is darkening round me,
　　The wild winds coldly blow;
　　But a tyrant spell has bound me,
　　And I cannot, cannot go.
　　
　　The giant trees are bending
　　Their bare boughs weighed with snow ;
　　The storm is fast descending,
　　And yet I cannot go. 【复沓】
　　
　　Clouds beyond clouds above me,
　　Wastes beyond wastes below ;
　　But nothing drear can move me :
　　I will not, cannot go.
【诗题从词到句，叙事性突出】
5、Alone I sat the summer day
　　Had died in smiling light away
　　I saw it die I watched it fade
　　From misty hill and breezeless glade
　　
　　And thoughts in my soul were rushing
　　And my heart bowed beneath their power
　　And tears within my eyes were gushing
　　Because I could not speak the feeling
　　The solemn joy around me stealing
　　In that divine untroubled hour
　　
　　I asked my self O why has heaven
　　Denied the precious gift to me
　　The glorious gift to many given
　　To speak their thoughts in poetry
　　
　　Dreams have encircled me I said
　　From careless childhood's sunny time
　　Visions by ardent fancy fed
　　Since life was in its morning prime
　　
　　But now when I had hoped to sing
　　My fingers strike a tuneless string
　　And still the burden of the strain
　　Is strive no more 'tis all in vain

6、I am the only being whose doom
　　No tongue would ask no eye would mourn
　　I never caused a thought of gloom
　　A smile of joy since I was born
　　
　　In secret pleasure - secret tears
　　This changeful life has slipped away
　　As friendless after eighteen years
　　As lone as on my natal day 【无友、孤零】
　　
　　There have been times I cannot hide
　　There have been times when this was drear
　　When my sad soul forgot its pride
　　And longed for one to love me here
　　
　　But those were in the early glow
　　Of feelings since subdued by care
　　And they have died so long ago
　　I hardly now believe they were
　　
　　First melted off the hope of youth
　　Then Fancy's rainbow fast withdrew
　　And then experience told me truth 【经验与真理】
　　In mortal bosoms never grew
　　
　　'Twas grief enough to think mankind
　　All hollow servile insincere -
　　But worse to trust to my own mind
　　And find the same corruption there

7"The Sun Has Set"
　　
　　The sun has set, and the long grass now
　　Waves dreamily in the evening wind; 【死境；夕照的神话原型，对应死亡母题】
　　And the wild bird has flown from that old gray stone
　　In some warm nook a couch to find.
　　
　　In all the lonely landscape round
　　I see no light and hear no sound,
　　Except the wind that far away
　　Come sighing o'er the healthy sea. 【最初的激情早已寂灭，诗人或已预知到死神临近的步履……】