Locock, _Examination of the Shelley MSS.

in the Bodleian_, p.19.At the words "And monophalmic (_sic_) Polyphemes who haunt the pine-hills, flocked," the writing becomes illegible and the stanza is left incomplete.

Mr Forman explains the breaking-off in the same way.] Yet it was not always in this brutal and violent guise that Browning imagined power.

He was "ever a fighter," and had a sense as keen as Byron's, and far more joyous, for storm and turbulence; but he had also, as Byron had not, the finer sense which feels the universe tense with implicit energies, and the profoundest silences of Nature oppressive with the burden of life straining to the birth.

The stars in _Saul_ "beat with emotion" and "shot out in fire the strong pain of pent knowledge," and a "gathered intensity" is "brought to the grey of the hills"; upon the lovers of _In a Balcony_ evening comes "intense with yon first trembling star." Wordsworth's "quiet" is lonely, pensive, and serene; his stars are not beating with emotion, but "listening quietly." Browning's is hectic, bodeful, high-strung.