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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;



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