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anthology of massachusetts poets-第7部分

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With the leaves' sound。



Then; we shall walk through dusty lanes

And pause beneath low…hanging boughs;

And there; while soft…hued beauty reigns

We'll make our vows。



Let others seek in spring for sighs

When love flames forth from every seed;

But love that blooms when nature dies

Is love indeed!



OLIVER JENKINS





ECHOS



TRAVELING at dusk the noisy city street;

I listened to the newsboys' strident cries

Of 〃Extra;〃 as with flying feet;

They strove to gain this man or that…their prize。

But one there was with neither shout nor stride;

And; having bought from him; I stood nearby;

Pondering the cruel crutches at his side;

Blaming the crowd's neglect; and wondering why…



When suddenly I heard a gruff voice greet

The cripple with 〃On time to…night?〃

Then; as he handed out the sheet;

The Youngster's answer…〃You're all right。

My other reg'lars are a little late。

They'll find I'm short one paper when they come;

You see; a strange guy bought one in the wait;

I tho't 'twould cheer him up…he looked so glum!〃



So; sheepishly I laughed; and went my way

For I had found a city's heart that day。



RUTH LAMBERT JONES





WAR PICTURES



〃GERMAN Retreat From Arras〃

〃Official Films〃…they came

After 〃Corinne and Her Minstrels〃

Had ministered to fame。



After 〃Corinne and Her Minstrels〃

Had pigeon…toed away;

We saw where bits of churches

And bits of horses lay。



We saw bleak desolation;

We saw no unscathed tree。

We shivered in our comfort

And murmured: 〃Can it be!〃



But later; walking homeward;

Repeating: 〃Is it true?〃

We brushed a khaki shoulder

And asked no more。  We knew!



RUTH LAMBERT JONES





AN OLD SONG



WHEN I was but a young lad;

And that is long ago;

I thought that luck loved every man;

And time his only foe;

And love was like a hawthorn bush

That blossomed every May;

And had but to choose his flower;

For that's the young lad's way。



Oh; youth's a thriftless squanderer;

It's easy come and spent;

And heavy is the going now

Where once the light foot went。

The hawthorn bush puts on its white;

The throstle whistles clear;

But Spring comes once for every man

Just once in all the year。



ARTHUR KETCHUM





ROADSIDE REST



SUCH quiet sleep has come to them!

The Springs and Autumns pass;

Nor do they know if it be snow

Or daisies in the grass。



All day the birches bend to hear

The river's undertone;

Across the hush a fluting thrush

Sings even…song alone。



But down their dream there drifts no sound;

The winds may sob and stir:

On the still breast of Peace they rest

And they are glad of her。



They ask not any giftthey mind

Nor any foot that fares;

Unheededly life passes by…

Such quiet sleep is theirs。



ARTHUR KETCHUM





OLD LIZETTE ON SLEEP



BED is the boon for me!

It's well to bake and sweep;

But hear the word of old Lizette:

It's better than all to sleep。



Summer and flowers are gay;

And morning light and dew;

But aged eyelids love the dark

Where never a light peeps through。



What!open…eyed; my dears?

Thinking your hearts will break。

There's nothing; nothing; nothing; I say;

That's worth the lying awake!



I learned it in my youth…

Love I was dreaming of!

I learned it from the needle…work

That took the place of love。

I learned it from the years

And what they brought about;

》From song; and from the hills of joy

Where sorrow sought me out。



It's good to dream and turn;

And turn and dream; or fall

To comfort with my pack of bones;

And know of nothing at all!



Yes; never know at all!

If prowlers mew or bark;

Nor wonder if it's three o'clock

Or four o'clock of the dark。



When the longer shades have fallen

And the last weariness

Has brought the sweetest gift of life;

The last forgetfulness。



If a sound as of old leaves

Stir the last bed I keep;

Then say; my dears: 〃It's old Lizette…

She's turning in her sleep!〃



AGNES LEE





MOTHERHOOD



MARY; the Christ long slain; passed silently。

Following the children joyously astir

Under the cedrus and the olive tree;

Pausing to let their laughter float to her。

Each voice an echo of a voice more dear;

She saw a little Christ in every face;

When lo; another woman; gliding near;

Yearned o'er the tender life that filled the place。

And Mary sought the woman's hand; and spoke:

〃I know thee not; yet know thy memory tossed

With all a thousand dreams their eyes evoke

Who bring to thee a child beloved and lost。



〃I; too; have rocked my little one;

O; He was fair!

Yea; fairer than the fairest sun;

And like its rays through amber spun

His sun…bright hair。

Still I can see it shine and shine。〃

〃Even so;〃 the woman said;〃was mine。〃



〃His ways were ever darling ways;〃…

And Mary smiled;

〃So soft; so clinging! Glad relays

Of love were all His precious days。

My little child!

My infinite star!  My music fled!〃

〃Even so was mine;〃 the woman said。



Then whispered Mary: 〃Tell me; thou;

Of thine。〃 And she:

〃O; mine was rosy as a boug



Blooming with roses; sent; somehow;

To bloom for me!

His balmy fingers left a thrill

Within my breast that warms me still。〃



Then gazed she down some wilder; darker

hour;

And said; when Mary questioned; knowing not;

〃Who art thou; mother of so sweet a flower?〃

〃I am the mother of Iscariot。〃



AGNES LEE





ESSEX



I



THY hills are kneeling in the tardy spring;

And wait; in supplication's gentleness;

The certain resurrection that shall bring

A robe of verdure for their nakedness。

Thy perfumed valleys where the twilights dwell;

Thy fields within the sunlight's living coil



Now promise; while the veins of nature swell;

Eternal recompense to human toil。

And when the sunset's final shades depart

The aspiration to completed birth

Is sweet and silent; as the soft tears start;

We know how wanton and how little worth

Are all the passions of our bleeding heart

That vex the awful patience of the earth。



II



Thine are the large winds and the splendid sun

Glutting the spread of heaven to the floor

Of waters rhythmic from far shore to shore;

And thine the stars; revealing one by one;

Thine the grave; lucent night's oblivion;

The tawny moon that waits below the skies;

Strange as the dawn that smote their blistered eyes

Who watched from Calvary when the Deed was done。

And thine the good brown earth that bares its

breast

To thy benign October; thine the trees

Lusty with fruitage in the late year's rest;





And thine the men whos@ blood has glorified

Thy name with Liberty Is divine decrees…

The men who loved thy soil and fought and died。

III



Toward thine Eastern window when the morn

Steals through the silver mesh of silent stars;

I come unlaurelled from the strenuous wars

Where men have fought and wept and died

Forlorn。



But here; across the early fields of corn;

The living silence dwelleth; and the gray

Sweet earth…mist; while afar the lisp of spray

Breathes from the ocean like a Triton's horn。

Open thy lattice; for the gage is won

For which this earth has journeyed though the

dust

Of shattered systems; cold about the sun;

And proved by sin; by mighty lives impearled;

A voice cries through the sunrise: 〃Time is

Just!〃

And falls like dew God's pity on the world



GEORGE CABOT LODGE



THE SONG OF THE WAVE

This is the song of the wave! The mighty one!

Child of the soul of silence; beating the air to

sound:

White as a live terror; as a drawn sword;

This is the wave。



II



This is the song of the wave; the white…maned steed

of the Tempest

Whose veins are swollen with life;

In whose flanks abide the four winds。

This is the wave。



III



This is the song of the wave!  The dawn leaped out

of the sea

And the waters lay smooth as a silver shield;

And the sun…rays smote on the waters like a golden

sword。

Then a wind blew out of the morning

And the waters rustled

And the wave was born!



IV

This is the song of the wave! The wind blew out of the noon



And the white sea…birds like driven foam

Winged in from the ocean that lay beyond the sky

And the face of the waters was barred with white;

For the wave had many brothers;

And the wave was strong!



V



This is the song of the wave! The wind blew out

of the sunset

And the west was lurid as Hell。

The black clouds closed like a tomb; for the sun was

dead。

Then the wind smote full as the breath of God;

And the wave called to its brothers;

〃This is the crest of life!〃



VI



This is the song of the wave; that rises to fall;

Rises a sheer green wall like a barrier of glass

That has caught the soul of the moonlight。

Caught and prisoned the moon…beams;

Its edge is frittered to foam。

This is the wave!



VII



This is the song of the wave; of the wave that falls…

Wild as a burst of day…gold blown through the

colours of morning

It shivers to infinite atoms up the rumbling steep

of sand。

This is the wave。



VIII



This is the song of the wave that died in the fullness

of life。

The prodigal this; that lavished its largess of

strength

In the lust of attainment。

Aiming at things for Heaven too high;

Sure in the pride of life; in the richness of strength。

So tried it the impossible height; till the end was

found:

Where ends the soul that yearns for the fillet of

morning stars;

The soul in the toils of the journeying worlds;

Whose eye is filled with the Image of God;

And the end is Death!



GEORGE CABOT LODGE







FRIMAIRE



DEAREST; we are like two flowers

Blooming in the garden;

A purple aster flower and a red one

Standing alone in a withered desolation。



The garden plants are sh
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