Not a note of any birdNor any motion’s hint is heard,Save from soaking thickets roundTrickle or water’s rushing sound,And from ghostly trees the dripOf runnel dews or whispering slipOf leaves, which in a body launchListlessly from the stagnant branchTo strew the marl, already strown,With litter sodden as its own,A rheum, like blight, hangs on the…
He lay, and those who watched him were amazedTo see unheralded beneath the lidsTwin tears, new-gathered at the price of pain,Start and at once run crookedly athwartCheeks channelled long by pain, never by tears.So desolate too the sigh next utteredThey had wept also, but his great lips moved,And bending down one heard, ‘A sprig of…
Of the simple passionate sun;And the Gods wither one by one;Proud-eyed Apollo’s bow is broken,And throned Zeus nods nor may be wokenBut by the song of spirits sevenQuiring in the midnight heavenOf a new world no more forlorn,Sith unto it a Babe is born,That in a propped, thatched stable lies,While with darkling, reverent eyesDusky Emperors,…
How suddenly the eastern curve was bright,As when the sun arises from his lair.But not the sun arose: It was thy hairShaken up heaven in tossing leagues of light.Since then I know that neither night nor dayMay I escape thee, O my heavenly hell!Awake, in dreams, thou springest to waylay;And should I dare to die,…
Doubled in chasing, all exultant cloudsThat ever flung fierce mist and eddying fireAcross heavens deeper than blue polar seasFled over the sceptre-spikes of the chestnuts,Over the speckle of the wych-elms’ green.She shouted; then stood still, hushed and abashedTo hear her voice so shrill in that gay roar,And suddenly her eyelashes were dimmed,Caught in tense tears…
How long I have wished for something I know well,But what that something is I cannot tell.So often at sunrise in sad tears I wakeShivering with longing for its sake;So often at noontide when the house is stillIt sickens me with its unbidden ill;So often at twilight it does not seem far,Not further than the…
The stonecrop’s fire and beyond the precipiceHow huge, how hushed the primrose evenfall!How softly, too, the white crane voyagesYon honeyed height of warmth and silence,whenceHe can look down on islet, lake and shoreAnd crowding woods and voiceless promontoriesOr, further gazing, view the magnificenceOf cloud- like mountains and of mountainous cloudOr ghostly wrack below the horizon…
The moonlight crept and glistened silent, solemn, sweet,Over dome and column, up empty, endless street;In the closed, scented gardens the rose loosed from the stemHer white showery petals; none regarded them;The starry thicket breathed odours to the sentinel palm;Silence possessed the city like a soul possessed by calm.Not a spark in the warren under the…
In my tired, helpless bodyI feel my sunk heart ache;But suddenly, loudlyThe far, the great guns shake.Is it sudden terrorBurdens my heart? My handFlies to my head. I listen…And do not understand.Is death so near, then?From this blazing light,Do I plunge suddenlyInto vortex? Night?Guns again! the quietShakes at the vengeful voice…It is terrible pleasureI do…
Blurred masks of stern or grinning stone,Unmeaning eyes and voices loud.Gaze dares not encounter gaze,…Humbled, I turn my head aside;When suddenly there is a face…Pale, subdued and grievous-eyed.Ah, I know that visage meek,Those trembling lips, the eyes that shineBut turn from that which they would seekWith an air piteous, divine!There is not a line or…
