I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.
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Miraculous oil, odour of violet.But under heavy loads of trampled clayLie bodies of the vampires full of blood;Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.
Scene: A circle of Druidic stones
O sister of sorrowful gaze!Where the roses in scarlet are heavyAnd dream of the end of their days,You move in another dominionAnd hang o’er the historied stone:Unpruned in your beautiful pinionWho wander and whisper alone.All: Come away while the moon’s in the woodland,We’ll dance and then feast in a dairy.Though youngest of all in our…
I
Man runs his course;A brand, or flaming breath.Comes to destroyAll those antinomiesOf day and night;The body calls it death,The heart remorse.But if these be rightWhat is joy?IIA tree there is that from its topmost boughIs half all glittering flame and half all greenAbounding foliage moistened with the dew;And half is half and yet is all…
HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half-light,I would spread the cloths under your feet:But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
I THINK it better that in times like these
We have no gift to set a statesman right;He has had enough of medding who can pleaseA young girl in the indolence of her youth,Or an old man upon a winter’s night.
O HURRY where by water among the trees
When they have but looked upon their images —Would none had ever loved but you and I!Or have you heard that sliding silver-shoedPale silver-proud queen-woman of the sky,When the sun looked out of his golden hood? —O that none ever loved but you and I!O hurty to the ragged wood, for thereI will drive all…