Of cool sweet dew and radiance mild
The moon a web of silence weaves
In the still garden where a child
Gathers the simple salad leaves.
A moondew stars her hanging hair
And moonlight kisses her young brow
And, gathering, she sings an air:
Fair as the wave is, fair, art thou!
Be mine, I pray, a waxen ear
To shield me from her childish croon
And mine a shielded heart for her
Who gathers simples of the moon.
The leaves lie thick upon the wayOf memories.Staying a little by the wayOf memories shall we depart.Come, my beloved, where I maySpeak to your heart.
Are you not weary of ardent ways,Lure of the fallen seraphim?Tell no more of enchanted days.Your eyes have set man’s heart ablazeAnd you have had your will of him.Are you not weary of ardent ways?Above the flame the smoke of praiseGoes up from ocean rim to rim.Tell no more of enchanted days.Our broken cries and…
Your lean jaws grin with. LashYour itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh.Love’s breath in you is stale, worded or sung,As sour as cat’s breath,Harsh of tongue.This grey that staresLies not, stark skin and bone.Leave greasy lips their kissing. NoneWill choose her what you see to mouth upon.Dire hunger holds his hour.Pluck forth your…
Do you hear the night wind and the sighsOf harps playing unto Love to uncloseThe pale gates of sunrise?When all things repose, do you aloneAwake to hear the sweet harps playTo Love before him on his way,And the night wind answering in antiphonTill night is overgone?Play on, invisible harps, unto Love,Whose way in heaven is…
Where the gay winds do most desireTo run in companies.There, where the gay winds stay to wooThe young leaves as they pass,My love goes slowly, bending toHer shadow on the grass;And where the sky’s a pale blue cupOver the laughing land,My love goes lightly, holding upHer dress with dainty hand.
Vales and many a wasted sun,Oread let thy laughter run,Till the irreverent mountain airRipple all thy flying hair.Lightly, lightly — – ever so:Clouds that wrap the vales belowAt the hour of evenstarLowliest attendants are;Love and laughter song-confessedWhen the heart is heaviest.
