Happy, happy glowing fire! + 

Fragrant air! delicious light! + 

Let me to my glooms retire! + 

I to green-weed rivers bright! + 

Happy, happy glowing fire! + 

Dazzling bowers of soft retire, + 

Ever let my nourish’d wing, + 

Like a bat’s, still wandering, + 

Faintly fan your fiery spaces, + 

Spirit sole in deadly places. + 

In unhaunted roar and blaze, + 

Open eyes that never daze, + 

Let me see the myriad shapes + 

Of men, and beasts, and fish, and apes, + 

Portray’d in many a fiery den, + 

And wrought by spumy bitumen. + 

On the deep intenser roof, + 

Arched every way, aloof, + 

Let me breathe upon my skies, + 

And anger their live tapestries; + 

Free from cold, and every care, + 

Of chilly rain, and shivering air. + 

Spright of Fire! away! away! + 

Or your very roundelay + 

Will sear my plumage newly budded + 

From its quilled sheath, and studded + 

With the self-same dews that fell + 

On the May-grown Asphodel. + 

Spright of Fire⁠—away! away! + 

Spright of Fire⁠—away! away! + 

Zephyr, blue-eyed Faery, turn, + 

And see my cool sedge-shaded urn, + 

Where it rests its mossy brim + 

’Mid water-mint and cresses dim; + 

And the flowers, in sweet troubles, + 

Lift their eyes above the bubbles, + 

Like our Queen, when she would please + 

To sleep, and Oberon will tease. + 

Love me, blue-eyed Faery! true, + 

Soothly I am sick for you. + 

Gentle Breama! by the first + 

Violet young nature nurst, + 

I will bathe myself with thee, + 

So you sometime follow me + 

To my home, far, far, in west, + 

Far beyond the search and quest + 

Of the golden-browed sun. + 

Come with me, o’er tops of trees, + 

To my fragrant palaces, + 

Where they ever floating are + 

Beneath the cherish of a star + 

Call’d Vesper, who with silver veil + 

Ever hides his brilliance pale, + 

Ever gently-drowsed doth keep + 

Twilight for the Fays to sleep. + 

Fear not that your watery hair + 

Will thirst in drouthy ringlets there; + 

Clouds of stored summer rains + 

Thou shalt taste, before the stains + 

Of the mountain soil they take, + 

And too unlucent for thee make. + 

I love thee, crystal Faery, true! + 

Sooth I am as sick for you! + 

Out, ye aguish Faeries, out! + 

Chilly lovers, what a rout + 

Keep ye with your frozen breath, + 

Colder than the mortal death. + 

Adder-eyed Dusketha, speak, + 

Shall we leave them, and go seek + 

In the earth’s wide entrails old + 

Couches warm as theirs is cold? + 

O for a fiery gloom and thee, + 

Dusketha, so enchantingly + 

Freckle-wing’d and lizard-sided! + 

By thee, Spright, will I be guided! + 

I care not for cold or heat; + 

Frost and flame, or sparks, or sleet, + 

To my essence are the same;⁠— + 

But I honour more the flame. + 

Spright of fire, I follow thee + 

Wheresoever it may be; + 

To the torrid spouts and fountains, + 

Underneath earth-quaked mountains; + 

Or, at thy supreme desire, + 

Touch the very pulse of fire + 

With my bare unlidded eyes. + 

Sweet Dusketha! paradise! + 

Off, ye icy Spirits, fly! + 

Frosty creatures of the sky! + 

Breathe upon them, fiery Spright! + 

Away! away to our delight! + 

Go, feed on icicles, while we + 

Bedded in tongued flames will be. + 

Lead me to these fev’rous glooms, + 

Spright of Fire! + 

Me to the blooms, + 

Blue eyed Zephyr of those flowers + 

Far in the west where the May-cloud lowers: + 

And the beams of still Vesper, where winds are all whist, + 

Are shed thro’ the rain and the milder mist, + 

And twilight your floating bowers. + 