Isabel

Saturn

Isabel is a tragic lover of Saturn, caught in a doomed romance overshadowed by his melancholy and cosmic burdens.

Hum

Hum offers quiet comfort to Isabel, sharing her grief over Saturn's emotional distance.

Saturn

Isabel is a tragic lover of Saturn, caught in a doomed romance overshadowed by his melancholy and cosmic burdens.

Saturn

Isabel is a tragic lover of Saturn, caught in a doomed romance overshadowed by his melancholy and cosmic burdens.

Hum

Hum offers quiet comfort to Isabel, sharing her grief over Saturn's emotional distance.

Song: Hush, Hush! Tread Softly!

The beloved, addressed as 'sweet Isabel,' whose eyes and lips are the speaker's only light.

I

Addressed as 'sweet Isabel,' she is the beloved being urged to move silently.

II

The speaker's beloved, whose eyes and lips are the only light desired in the darkness.

Isabella, or the Pot of Basil

The protagonist who falls in love with Lorenzo, mourns his death, and dies after her basil pot is stolen.

Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil I

Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel, deeply in love with Lorenzo.

II

Her thoughts are consumed by Lorenzo; she echoes his name in her music and embroidery.

III

The beloved whose beauty and presence are the focus of the speaker's devotion.

IV

The lady whose boon Lorenzo intends to ask, growing paler with longing.

V

Isabella's cheek grows pale and thin, like a young mother's, indicating her lovesickness.

VII

Observes Lorenzo's pale forehead and speaks his name tenderly, her expression completing her unspoken question.

VIII

The recipient of Lorenzo's confession, addressed as 'O Isabella'.

XI

Meets secretly with Lorenzo in a bower before dusk.

XIII

Isabella's great distress is referenced as an example of love's bitterness.

XIV

Fair lady dwelling with her two brothers, enriched by their ancestral merchandise.

XVIII

Referred to as 'Fair Isabella' in her 'downy nest,' indicating her hidden, innocent state.

XXI

Isabel is loved by Lorenzo, and her brothers are angry that she returns his affection.

XXII

Though not directly present, her brothers' plot is driven by their disapproval of her love for Lorenzo.

XXV

The lady whose laugh and smile are seen through the lattice.

XXVI

Bids Lorenzo goodbye and chants merrily as he goes.

XXVII

Isabel is not directly present but is the implied cause of the brothers' murderous intent.

XXIX

Isabel is deceived by her brothers' false story about Lorenzo's departure and is urged to give up hope.

Isabel's Lament

Weeps alone for lost pleasures, broods over luxury, and imagines Lorenzo's image in the dusk.

XXXI

Isabel experiences a shift from selfishness to a deeper, tragic passion and sorrow for her absent love.

XXXII

Isabel's beauty decays gradually, mirroring the autumn landscape.

XXXIII

Anxiously awaits Lorenzo, questioning her brothers with a pale eye.

XXXIV

The subject of the chapter, who is awakened from a state of drowsy ignorance by a deadly realization.

XXXV

The recipient of the vision, witnessing Lorenzo's ghost at her couch.

XXXVI

Isabella hangs on the music of the pale shadow's speech.

XXXVII

The poor girl protected by the basil plant's magic light from phantom fears.

XXXVIII

Addressed by Lorenzo; she is asked to shed a tear for him.

XLI

Isabel is the central figure, waking in distress after the Spirit's departure.

XLII

Speaker reflecting on crime and betrayal, possibly referencing her brother's actions.

XLIII

Resolves to secretly visit the forest to find Lorenzo's clay and sing a lullaby.

XLIV

Whispers to the aged Dame and shows a knife, then smiles despite the grim discovery.

XLV

Isabel is depicted kneeling by Lorenzo, embodying a grief far deeper than the idle musings of a churchyard visitor.

XLVI

Isabel gazes at the grave and begins to dig with her knife.

XLVII

Isabel mourns deeply, handling a soiled glove with a cold kiss and placing it in her bosom, then continues her work.

XLVIII

Labors over the basil plant with grim determination, not stamping or raving.

L

Isabel mourns over the dead love, kissing it and moaning.

LI

Isabel cares for the basil plant with devotion, combing its leaves and weeping over it.

LII

Tends to the basil plant with devotion, using a silken scarf and her tears.

LIII

Isabel is so consumed by sorrow that she forgets the stars, moon, sun, and all of nature, focusing only on her basil plant.

LIV

She feeds the basil plant with her tears, nurturing it from her grief.

LVI

Isabel is withering toward death, compared to a palm cut for its balm.

LVII

Isabel is observed weeping continually by her brethren, who question her rejection of a noble suitor.

LVIII

Isabel is seen drooping by the basil plant, her sorrow and attachment to the plant puzzling her brothers.

LIX

Isabel is depicted as devotedly tending to her basil plant, weeping over it and rarely leaving its side.

LX

Her basil pot is stolen by the brothers.

LXI

Sweet Isabel is dying a lonely death after her basil plant was taken.

LXII

Grieving and searching for her lost basil plant, speaking to it with love and sorrow.

LXIII

Dies forlorn, imploring for her Basil to the last.