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With tiny fretful spear; or from its lair

The waking stag had leapt across the rill

And roused the ouzel; or the lizard crept

Athwart the sunny rock; beneath the grass their bodies slept。



And when day brake; within that silver shrine

Fed by the flames of cressets tremulous;

Queen Venus knelt and prayed to Proserpine

That she whose beauty made Death amorous

Should beg a guerdon from her pallid Lord;

And let Desire pass across dread Charon's icy ford。





III





In melancholy moonless Acheron;

Farm for the goodly earth and joyous day

Where no spring ever buds; nor ripening sun

Weighs down the apple trees; nor flowery May

Chequers with chestnut blooms the grassy floor;

Where thrushes never sing; and piping linnets mate no more;



There by a dim and dark Lethaean well

Young Charmides was lying; wearily

He plucked the blossoms from the asphodel;

And with its little rifled treasury

Strewed the dull waters of the dusky stream;

And watched the white stars founder; and the land was like a dream;



When as he gazed into the watery glass

And through his brown hair's curly tangles scanned

His own wan face; a shadow seemed to pass

Across the mirror; and a little hand

Stole into his; and warm lips timidly

Brushed his pale cheeks; and breathed their secret forth into a

sigh。



Then turned he round his weary eyes and saw;

And ever nigher still their faces came;

And nigher ever did their young mouths draw

Until they seemed one perfect rose of flame;

And longing arms around her neck he cast;

And felt her throbbing bosom; and his breath came hot and fast;



And all his hoarded sweets were hers to kiss;

And all her maidenhood was his to slay;

And limb to limb in long and rapturous bliss

Their passion waxed and waned; … O why essay

To pipe again of love; too venturous reed!

Enough; enough that Eros laughed upon that flowerless mead。



Too venturous poesy; O why essay

To pipe again of passion! fold thy wings

O'er daring Icarus and bid thy lay

Sleep hidden in the lyre's silent strings

Till thou hast found the old Castalian rill;

Or from the Lesbian waters plucked drowned Sappho's golden quid!



Enough; enough that he whose life had been

A fiery pulse of sin; a splendid shame;

Could in the loveless land of Hades glean

One scorching harvest from those fields of flame

Where passion walks with naked unshod feet

And is not wounded; … ah! enough that once their lips could meet



In that wild throb when all existences

Seemed narrowed to one single ecstasy

Which dies through its own sweetness and the stress

Of too much pleasure; ere Persephone

Had bade them serve her by the ebon throne

Of the pale God who in the fields of Enna loosed her zone。









POEMS









REQUIESCAT







Tread lightly; she is near

Under the snow;

Speak gently; she can hear

The daisies grow。



All her bright golden hair

Tarnished with rust;

She that was young and fair

Fallen to dust。



Lily…like; white as snow;

She hardly knew

She was a woman; so

Sweetly she grew。



Coffin…board; heavy stone;

Lie on her breast;

I vex my heart alone;

She is at rest。



Peace; Peace; she cannot hear

Lyre or sonnet;

All my life's buried here;

Heap earth upon it。



AVIGNON







SAN MINIATO







See; I have climbed the mountain side

Up to this holy house of God;

Where once that Angel…Painter trod

Who saw the heavens opened wide;



And throned upon the crescent moon

The Virginal white Queen of Grace; …

Mary! could I but see thy face

Death could not come at all too soon。



O crowned by God with thorns and pain!

Mother of Christ!  O mystic wife!

My heart is weary of this life

And over…sad to sing again。



O crowned by God with love and flame!

O crowned by Christ the Holy One!

O listen ere the searching sun

Show to the world my sin and shame。







ROME UNVISITED







I。





The corn has turned from grey to red;

Since first my spirit wandered forth

From the drear cities of the north;

And to Italia's mountains fled。



And here I set my face towards home;

For all my pilgrimage is done;

Although; methinks; yon blood…red sun

Marshals the way to Holy Rome。



O Blessed Lady; who dost hold

Upon the seven hills thy reign!

O Mother without blot or stain;

Crowned with bright crowns of triple gold!



O Roma; Roma; at thy feet

I lay this barren gift of song!

For; ah! the way is steep and long

That leads unto thy sacred street。





II。





And yet what joy it were for me

To turn my feet unto the south;

And journeying towards the Tiber mouth

To kneel again at Fiesole!



And wandering through the tangled pines

That break the gold of Arno's stream;

To see the purple mist and gleam

Of morning on the Apennines



By many a vineyard…hidden home;

Orchard and olive…garden grey;

Till from the drear Campagna's way

The seven hills bear up the dome!





III。





A pilgrim from the northern seas …

What joy for me to seek alone

The wondrous temple and the throne

Of him who holds the awful keys!



When; bright with purple and with gold

Come priest and holy cardinal;

And borne above the heads of all

The gentle Shepherd of the Fold。



O joy to see before I die

The only God…anointed king;

And hear the silver trumpets ring

A triumph as he passes by!



Or at the brazen…pillared shrine

Holds high the mystic sacrifice;

And shows his God to human eyes

Beneath the veil of bread and wine。





IV。





For lo; what changes time can bring!

The cycles of revolving years

May free my heart from all its fears;

And teach my lips a song to sing。



Before yon field of trembling gold

Is garnered into dusty sheaves;

Or ere the autumn's scarlet leaves

Flutter as birds adown the wold;



I may have run the glorious race;

And caught the torch while yet aflame;

And called upon the holy name

Of Him who now doth hide His face。



ARONA







HUMANITAD







It is full winter now:  the trees are bare;

Save where the cattle huddle from the cold

Beneath the pine; for it doth never wear

The autumn's gaudy livery whose gold

Her jealous brother pilfers; but is true

To the green doublet; bitter is the wind; as though it blew



From Saturn's cave; a few thin wisps of hay

Lie on the sharp black hedges; where the wain

Dragged the sweet pillage of a summer's day

From the low meadows up the narrow lane;

Upon the half…thawed snow the bleating sheep

Press close against the hurdles; and the shivering house…dogs creep



From the shut stable to the frozen stream

And back again disconsolate; and miss

The bawling shepherds and the noisy team;

And overhead in circling listlessness

The cawing rooks whirl round the frosted stack;

Or crowd the dripping boughs; and in the fen the ice…pools crack



Where the gaunt bittern stalks among the reeds

And flaps his wings; and stretches back his neck;

And hoots to see the moon; across the meads

Limps the poor frightened hare; a little speck;

And a stray seamew with its fretful cry

Flits like a sudden drift of snow against the dull grey sky。



Full winter:  and the lusty goodman brings

His load of faggots from the chilly byre;

And stamps his feet upon the hearth; and flings

The sappy billets on the waning fire;

And laughs to see the sudden lightening scare

His children at their play; and yet; … the spring is in the air;



Already the slim crocus stirs the snow;

And soon yon blanched fields will bloom again

With nodding cowslips for some lad to mow;

For with the first warm kisses of the rain

The winter's icy sorrow breaks to tears;

And the brown thrushes mate; and with bright eyes the rabbit peers



From the dark warren where the fir…cones lie;

And treads one snowdrop under foot; and runs

Over the mossy knoll; and blackbirds fly

Across our path at evening; and the suns

Stay longer with us; ah! how good to see

Grass…girdled spring in all her joy of laughing greenery



Dance through the hedges till the early rose;

(That sweet repentance of the thorny briar!)

Burst from its sheathed emerald and disclose

The little quivering disk of golden fire

Which the bees know so well; for with it come

Pale boy's…love; sops…in…wine; and daffadillies all in bloom。



Then up and down the field the sower goes;

While close behind the laughing younker scares

With shrilly whoop the black and thievish crows;

And then the chestnut…tree its glory wears;

And on the grass the creamy blossom falls

In odorous excess; and faint half…whispered madrigals



Steal from the bluebells' nodding carillons

Each breezy morn; and then white jessamine;

That star of its own heaven; snap…dragons

With lolling crimson tongues; and eglantine

In dusty velvets clad usurp the bed

And woodland empery; and when the lingering rose hath shed



Red leaf by leaf its folded panoply;

And pansies closed their purple…lidded eyes;

Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy

Unload their gaudy scentless merchandise;

And violets getting overbold withdraw

From their shy nooks; and scarlet berries dot the leafless haw。



O happy field! and O thrice happy tree!

Soon will your queen in daisy…flowered smock

And crown of flower…de…luce trip down the lea;

Soon will the lazy shepherds drive their flock

Back to the pasture by the pool; and soon

Through the green leaves will float the hum of murmuring bees at

noon。



Soon will the glade be bright with bellamour;

The flower which wantons love; and those sweet nuns

Vale…lilies in their snowy vestiture

Will tell their beaded pearls; and carnations

With mitred dusky leaves will scent the wind;

And straggling traveller's…joy each hedge with yellow stars will

bind。



Dear bride of Nature and most bounteous spr
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