Softly the dream grows awakening — shimmering white of a city,
Splashes of crimson, the gay bougainvillea, the palms.
High in the infinite blue of its heaven a quiet cloud lingers,
Lost and forgotten of winds that have fallen asleep,
Fallen asleep to the tune of a Portuguese song in a garden.
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Wearing awhile a windy graceAnd passing like an autumn leaf.They wonder why I do not weep,They think it strange that I can sing,They say, ‘Her love was scarcely deepSince it has left so slight a sting.’They never saw my love, nor knewThat in my heart’s most secret placeI pity them as angels doMen who have…
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Ring on, ring on unendingly,Make all the hours a single hour,For when the dusk begins to flower,The man I love will come to me! . . .But no, go slowly as you will,I should not bid you hasten so,For while I wait for love to come,Some other girl is standing dumb,Fearing her love will go.IIOh…
Your mind and mine are such great lovers they
And on wild clouds of thought, naked togetherThey ride above us in extreme delight;We see them, we look up with a lone envyAnd watch them in their zone of crystal weatherThat changes not for winter or the night.
I sang my songs for the rest,
The tree of my song is bareOn its shining hill.For you came like a lordly wind,And the leaves were whirledFar as forgotten thingsPast the rim of the world.The tree of my song stands bareAgainst the blue —I gave my songs to the rest,Myself to you.
When I am dead and over me bright April
Though you shall lean above me broken-hearted,I shall not care.I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peacefulWhen rain bends down the bough;And I shall be more silent and cold-heartedThan you are now.
All beauty calls you to me, and you seem,
To reach me. You are as the wind I breatheHere on the ship’s sun-smitten topmost deck,With only light between the heavens and me.I feel your spirit and I close my eyes,Knowing the bright hair blowing in the sun,The eager whisper and the searching eyes.Listen, I love you. Do not turn your faceNor touch me. Only…