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…lsford . Look above , look below , look around you far and wide Dank grass , bent trees and nothing else you see ! He is too young to be alone , I should be at his side And oh that I were there with him beneath the rolling sea . 207
Aelfrida Tillyard . * A MOTHER, ON HER SON 'S 21st BIRTHDAY . M Y son is mine no more . He is a man , IVI And as a man he meets his life alone. I'm grown as some madonna carved of stone, To kneel before , to honour, and forget. He was the child I made and now a man I thought his very blood was mine ; I made his soul and with it did entwine My soul, my life , my very self - and yet He is not I , he stands alone, a man . He cannot see I made him as he is, Gave him the breath of beauty with my kiss, · Taught him the tune of pain , with eyelids wet…
…We shall outlive the last ; One shall die and one shall flee With terror in his train , And earth shall eat the stones , and we Shall be alone again .' 177
Robert Keable . But in the dark harsh night beyond the gate Wherein He went alone and dumb to doom , My soul went down to hell and read its fate , And rose again to serve Him , and to wait . I knew His weakness called me to be strong ; I knew that I must travel where He trod ; And that , although the path be hard and long , His eyes would pierce me yet , alive with song . It has been so: and never did I doubt His word that lakeside morning by the fire ; First battle ; then the song of them that shout ! Go quickly , lad ; they come to lead me ou…
JOHN PRESLAND . THE BALLAD OF A SEA -NYMPH . HERE the water meets the sands All alone sat she, Wrung her hair with chilly hands That glimmered mistily . Phosphorescent were the drips From her hair she wrung , And like moonlight on her lips Were the words she sung. White she was, as white as foam 'Neath a moonlit sky, And the treasures of her home On her brow did lie . There he found her , he , a man , Wandering by the sea , And desire through him ran Misty white was she . There he wooed her , wooed her long , Till , within her eyes , Where were…
James Elroy Flecker . O friend unseen , unborn , unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue , Read out my words at night, alone : I was a poet, I was young . Since I can never see your face, And never shake you by the hand, I send my soul through time and space To greet you . You will understand . TENEBRIS INTERLUCENTEM . A LINNET who had lost her way n Sang on a blackened bough in Hell, Till all the ghosts remembered well The trees , the wind, the golden day . At last they knew that they had died When they heard music in that land , And some…
…l we seek the dim ideal As the moth the star , How for women can we feel That our seekings bar ? " Where the water meets the sands , All alone sat she , With her head between her hands , Facing from the sea . 160
…htened poor Mary away , Poor Mary, who wanted so much to play . She was standing there by the old tombstone; And now poor Mary must play alone." So Jimmy Price went home to bed, And Mary joined the restless dead . THE MAD MAGICIAN . BUILT a palace , high up in air, Tower and gallery , hall and stair . 1 Marble I wrought in, iron and gold . Ever and ever this house will hold . When I had made it fair and strong I set it drifting the wind along While I went seeking by hall and stair , Sure of finding my darling there . 185
…he strong In your music be stronger , the stricken Take heart in your song ! HOAR FROST. AIRIES in the night have been , T With the moon alone to see , And about the ivy's green Wrought a silver filigree ; Bound the jasmin to the wall With a flimsy , flashing wire ; Turned the pampas grasses tall Into standing tongues of fire ;
… lies at Bethlehem . (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) The root of David shoots a stem . (O Holy Spirit , shadow Her !) She lies alone amid the kine. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) The straw is fragrant as with wine . (O Holy Spirit , shadow Her !) There are three kings upon the road . (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) She hath thrice blessed the Name of God . (O Holy Spirit, shadow Her !) There stands her star above the sky, (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) She hath thrice blessed the Trinity . (O Holy Spiri…
…rd , at twenty - five, Gave up pretending to be alive : This, says her tombstone under the tree, Happened in 1743 . Now , as Jimmy plays alone, All his pretty fellows gone Home to supper , home to bed , Mary rises from the dead. Just her very self again Mary rises , prim and plain . Jimmy, scared to death almost, Shut his eyes to hide the ghost . Mary cried to him : “ Never fear , I won 't hurt you , Jimmy dear : It's only Mary , poor Mary Ford , Tired of resting in the Lord . 182
…ndred world I hold , I care not though the cities fall And the green earth go cold . THE THREE HILLS . THERE were three hills that stood alone With woods about their feet . They dreamed quiet when the sun shone And whispered when the rain beat . They wore all three their coronals Till men with houses came And scored their heads with pits and walls And thought the hills were tame . Red and white when day shines bright , They hide the green for miles ; Where are the old hills gone ? At night The moon looks down and smiles . 176
… on the sand, And softly through the silence beat the bells Along the golden road to Samarkand. A MERCHANT We travel not for trafficking alone : By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned : For lust of knowing what should not be known We make the golden journey to Samarkand . 82
… draw out water with the rod Made luminous with light of power . I seal each aeon 's period , And wait the moment and the hour . Aloof , alone , unloved , I stand With love and worship in my hand . I commune with the Gods ; I wait Their summons , and I fire the brand . I speak their Word ; and there is Fate . 53
H . 0 . Meredith . And all their secrets tell. Friendship of delight is dear But ever questionable ; Sorrow alone can fix love over fear , Throned upon certainty , all doubts removed . Even so' tis nothing God to have proved Mid colours of the day , Nothing to find his footsteps in the stars : For these are bright , Filling our soul with vintage of delight , Poured from inexhaustible jars Quenching dismay . But if man found him in the infinity Beyond the infinities of time and place , The space that is no space , The time that is no time , A La…
…de on pale lagoons Where hangs reflected one pale star ; Or deep in the green solitudes Of still erect entrancéd woods . 0, in the woods alone lying , Scarce a bough in the wind sighing , Gaze I long with fervid power At leaf and branch and grass and flower , Breathe I breaths of trembling sight Shed from great urns of green delight , Take I draughts and drink them up Poured from many a stalk and cup . 174
…ant veil, And the fixed familiar stones restore The old appearance -buried core , The moveless and essential me, The eternal personality Alone enduring first and last ? No, this I have known in other ways, In other places, other days. Not only here , on this one peak , Do fixity and beauty speak Of the delusiveness of change Of the transparency of form , The bootless stress of minds that range , The awful calm behind the storm . In many places , many days , The invaded soul receives the rays Of countries she was nurtured in , Speaks in her sile…
…e in the nest is folded every weary wing , Hushed all the joyful voices ; and we , who hold you dear , Eastward we turn , and homeward , alone , remem bering . . . Day that I loved , day that I loved , the Night is here ! 23
… would forget the breeze That sudden stirs at nightfall in the trees And with the first bright peep of stars is Aled. My soul starts out alone without a dread And longs to drink oblivion to the lees . But if from out my sombre life I flung Some spark of song that sprang afire and sung Such strains as woke your song to answer mine , Memory be brazier for the sacred fire , And unforgetting praise your priests ' attire . I would be mortal and my words divine. 197
…nd all barrier of the azure haze , The garment of the days , Which the sun weaves of shattered light and air The sun deceives , Darkness alone all secrets doth declare . Not when the heart is glad and swells with loud Paean of youth , Or triumph of maturer years , Can it draw near to knowledge . Tears And sorrow , sorrow , are the soul of truth . Not because all is sadness Inevitably : the joys that do obscure Are no less real Than sorrows which reveal ; But joy the spendthrift reckons not in pence The things that make his gladness , But grief …