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dramatic lyrics-第15部分
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‘‘With chance not easily defied;
‘‘With an end somewhere undescried。''
No fear!…or if a fear be born
This minute; it dies out in scorn。
Fear? I shall see her in three days
And one night; now the nights are short;
Then just two hours; and that is morn。
IN A YEAR。
I。
Never any more;
While I live;
Need I hope to see his face
As before。
Once his love grown chill;
Mine may strive:
Bitterly we re…embrace;
Single still。
II。
Was it something said;
Something done;
Vexed him? was it touch of hand;
Turn of head?
Strange! that very way
Love begun:
I as little understand
Love's decay。
III。
When I sewed or drew;
I recall
How he looked as if I sung;
…Sweetly too。
If I spoke a word;
First of all
Up his cheek the colour sprang;
Then he heard。
IV。
Sitting by my side;
At my feet;
So he breathed but air I breathed;
Satisfied!
I; too; at love's brim
Touched the sweet:
I would die if death bequeathed
Sweet to him。
V。
‘‘Speak; I love thee best!''
He exclaimed:
‘‘Let thy love my own foretell!''
I confessed:
‘‘Clasp my heart on thine
‘‘Now unblamed;
‘‘Since upon thy soul as well
‘‘Hangeth mine!''
VI。
Was it wrong to own;
Being truth?
Why should all the giving prove
His alone?
I had wealth and ease;
Beauty; youth:
Since my lover gave me love;
I gave these。
VII。
That was all I meant;
…To be just;
And the passion I had raised;
To content。
Since he chose to change
Gold for dust;
If I gave him what he praised
Was it strange?
VIII。
Would he loved me yet;
On and on;
While I found some way undreamed
…Paid my debt!
Gave more life and more;
Till; all gone;
He should smile ‘‘She never seemed
‘‘Mine before。
IX。
‘‘What; she felt the while;
‘‘Must I think?
‘‘Love's so different with us men!''
He should smile:
‘‘Dying for my sake…
‘‘White and pink!
‘‘Can't we touch these bubbles then
‘‘But they break?''
X。
Dear; the pang is brief;
Do thy part;
Have thy pleasure! How perplexed
Grows belief!
Well; this cold clay clod
Was man's heart:
Crumble it; and what comes next?
Is it God?
WOMEN AND ROSES。
I。
I dream of a red…rose tree。
And which of its roses three
Is the dearest rose to me?
II。
Round and round; like a dance of snow
In a dazzling drift; as its guardians; go
Floating the women faded for ages;
Sculptured in stone; on the poet's pages。
Then follow women fresh and gay;
Living and loving and loved to…day。
Last; in the rear; flee the multitude of maidens;
Beauties yet unborn。 And all; to one cadence;
They circle their rose on my rose tree。
III。
Dear rose; thy term is reached;
Thy leaf hangs loose and bleached:
Bees pass it unimpeached。
IV。
Stay then; stoop; since I cannot climb;
You; great shapes of the antique time!
How shall I fix you; fire you; freeze you;
Break my heart at your feet to please you?
Oh; to possess and be possessed!
Hearts that beat 'neath each pallid breast!
Once but of love; the poesy; the passion;
Drink but once and die!…In vain; the same fashion;
They circle their rose on my rose tree。
V。
Dear rose; thy joy's undimmed;
Thy cup is ruby…rimmed;
Thy cup's heart nectar…brimmed。
VI。
Deep; as drops from a statue's plinth
The bee sucked in by the hyacinth;
So will I bury me while burning;
Quench like him at a plunge my yearning;
Eyes in your eyes; lips on your lips!
Fold me fast where the cincture slips;
Prison all my soul in eternities of pleasure;
Girdle me for once! But no…the old measure;
They circle their rose on my rose tree。
VII。
Dear rose without a thorn;
Thy bud's the babe unborn:
First streak of a new morn。
VIII。
Wings; lend wings for the cold; the clear!
What is far conquers what is near。
Roses will bloom nor want beholders;
Sprung from the dust where our flesh moulders。
What shall arrive with the cycle's change?
A novel grace and a beauty strange。
I will make an Eve; be the artist that began her;
Shaped her to his mind!…Alas! in like manner
They circle their rose on my rose tree。
BEFORE。
I。
Let them fight it out; friend! things have gone too far。
God must judge the couple: leave them as they are
…Whichever one's the guiltless; to his glory;
And whichever one the guilt's with; to my story!
II。
Why; you would not bid men; sunk in such a slough;
Strike no arm out further; stick and stink as now;
Leaving right and wrong to settle the embroilment;
Heaven with snaky hell; in torture and entoilment?
III。
Who's the culprit of them? How must he conceive
God…the queen he caps to; laughing in his sleeve;
‘‘ 'Tis but decent to profess oneself beneath her:
‘‘Still; one must not be too much in earnest; either!''
IV。
Better sin the whole sin; sure that God observes;
Then go live his life out! Life will try his nerves;
When the sky; which noticed all; makes no disclosure;
And the earth keeps up her terrible composure。
V。
Let him pace at pleasure; past the walls of rose;
Pluck their fruits when grape…trees graze him as he goes!
For he 'gins to guess the purpose of the garden;
With the sly mute thing; beside there; for a warden。
VI。
What's the leopard…dog…thing; constant at his side;
A leer and lie in every eye of its obsequious hide?
When will come an end to all the mock obeisance;
And the price appear that pays for the misfeasance?
VII。
So much for the culprit。 Who's the martyred man?
Let him bear one stroke more; for be sure he can!
He that strove thus evil's lump with good to leaven;
Let him give his blood at last and get his heaven!
VIII。
All or nothing; stake it! Trust she God or no?
Thus far and no farther? farther? be it so!
Now; enough of your chicane of prudent pauses;
Sage provisos; sub…intents and saving…clauses!
IX。
Ah; ‘‘forgive'' you bid him? While God's champion lives;
Wrong shall be resisted: dead; why; he forgives。
But you must not end my friend ere you begin him;
Evil stands not crowned on earth; while breath is in him。
X。
Once more…Will the wronger; at this last of all;
Dare to say; ‘‘I did wrong;'' rising in his fall?
No?…Let go then! Both the fighters to their places!
While I count three; step you back as many paces!
AFTER。
Take the cloak from his face; and at first
Let the corpse do its worst!
How he lies in his rights of a man!
Death has done all death can。
And; absorbed in the new life he leads;
He recks not; he heeds
Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike
On his senses alike;
And are lost in the solemn and strange
Surprise of the change。
Ha; what avails death to erase
His offence; my disgrace?
I would we were boys as of old
In the field; by the fold:
His outrage; God's patience; man's scorn
Were so easily borne!
I stand here now; he lies in his place:
Cover the face!
THE GUARDIAN…ANGEL。
A PICTURE AT FANO。
I。
Dear and great Angel; wouldst thou only leave
That child; when thou hast done with him; for me!
Let me sit all the day here; that when eve
Shall find performed thy special ministry;
And time come for departure; thou; suspending
Thy flight; mayst see another child for tending;
Another still; to quiet and retrieve。
II。
Then I shall feel thee step one step; no more;
From where thou standest now; to where I gaze;
…And suddenly my head is covered o'er
With those wings; white above the child who prays
Now on that tomb…and I shall feel thee guarding
Me; out of all the world; for me; discarding
Yon heaven thy home; that waits and opes its door。
III。
I would not look up thither past thy head
Because the door opes; like that child; I know;
For I should have thy gracious face instead;
Thou bird of God! And wilt thou bend me low
Like him; and lay; like his; my hands together;
And lift them up to pray; and gently tether
Me; as thy lamb there; with thy garment's spread?
IV。
If this was ever granted; I would rest
My bead beneath thine; while thy healing hands
Close…covered both my eyes beside thy breast;
Pressing the brain; which too much thought expands;
Back to its prop
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