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Forty…Two Poems
by James Elroy Flecker
Contents
To a Poet a thousand years hence
Riouperoux
The Town without a Market
The Balled of Camden Town
Mignon
Felo de se
Tenebris Interlucentem
Invitation to a young but learned friend 。 。 。
Balled of the Londoner
The First Sonnet of Bathrolaire
The Second Sonnet of Bathrolaire
The Masque of the Magi
The Balled of Hampstead Heath
Litany to Satan
The Translator and the Children
Opportunity
Destroyer of Ships; Men; Cities
War Song of the Saracens
Joseph and Mary
No Coward's Song
A Western Voyage
Fountains
The Welsh Sea
Oxford Canal
Hialmar speaks to the Raven
The Ballad of the Student in the South
The Queen's song
Lord Arnaldos
We that were friends
My Friend
Ideal
Mary Magdalen
I rose from dreamless hours
Prayer
A Miracle of Bethlehem
Gravis Dulcis Immutabilis
Pillage
The Ballad of Zacho
Pavlovna in London
The Sentimentalist
Don Juan in Hell
The Ballad of Iskander
TO A POET
A THOUSAND YEARS HENCE
I who am dead a thousand years;
And wrote this sweet archaic song;
Send you my words for messengers
The way I shall not pass along。
I care not if you bridge the seas;
Or ride secure the cruel sky;
Or build consummate palaces
Of metal or of masonry。
But have you wine and music still;
And statues and a bright…eyed love;
And foolish thoughts of good and ill;
And prayers to them who sit above?
How shall we conquer? Like a wind
That falls at eve our fancies blow;
And old Moeonides the blind
Said it three thousand years ago。
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。
RIOUPEROUX
High and solemn mountains guard Riouperoux;
… Small untidy village where the river drives a mill:
Frail as wood anemones; white and frail were you;
And drooping a little; like the slender daffodil。
Oh I will go to France again; and tramp the valley through;
And I will change these gentle clothes for clog and corduroy;
And work with the mill…hands of black Riouperoux;
And walk with you; and talk with you; like any other boy。
THE TOWN WITHOUT A MARKET
There lies afar behind a western hill
The Town without a Market; white and still;
For six feet long and not a third as high
Are those small habitations。 There stood I;
Waiting to hear the citizens beneath
Murmur and sigh and speak through tongueless teeth。
When all the world lay burning in the sun
I heard their voices speak to me。 Said one:
〃Bright lights I loved and colours; I who find
That death is darkness; and has struck me blind。〃
Another cried: 〃I used to sing and play;
But here the world is silent; day by day。〃
And one: 〃On earth I could not see or hear;
But with my fingers touched what I was near;
And knew things round and soft; and brass from gold;
And dipped my hand in water; to feel cold;
And thought the grave would cure me; and was glad
When the time came to lose what joy I had。〃
Soon all the voices of a hundred dead
Shouted in wrath together。 Someone said;
〃I care not; but the girl was sweet to kiss
At evening in the meadows。〃 〃Hard it is〃
Another cried; 〃to hear no hunting horn。
Ah me! the horse; the hounds; and the great grey morn
When I rode out a…hunting。〃 And one sighed;
〃I did not see my son before I died。〃
A boy said; 〃I was strong and swift to run:
Now they have tied my feet: what have I done?〃
A man; 〃But it was good to arm and fight
And storm their cities in the dead of night。〃
An old man said; 〃I read my books all day;
But death has taken all my books away。〃
And one; 〃The popes and prophets did not well
To cheat poor dead men with false hopes of hell。
Better the whips of fire that hiss and rend
Than painless void proceeding to no end。〃
I smiled to hear them restless; I who sought
Peace。 For I had not loved; I had not fought;
And books are vanities; and manly strength
A gathered flower。 God grant us peace at length!
I heard no more; and turned to leave their town
Before the chill came; and the sun went down。
Then rose a whisper; and I seemed to know
A timorous man; buried long years ago。
〃On Earth I used to shape the Thing that seems。
Master of all men; give me back my dreams。
Give me that world that never failed me then;
The hills I made and peopled with tall men;
The palace that I built and called my home;
My cities which could break the pride of Rome;
The three queens hidden in the sacred tree;
And those white cloudy folk who sang to me。
O death; why hast thou covered me so deep?
I was thy sister's child; the friend of Sleep。〃
Then said my heart; Death takes and cannot give。
Dark with no dream is hateful: let me live!
THE BALLAD OF CAMDEN TOWN
I walked with Maisie long years back
The streets of Camden Town;
I splendid in my suit of black;
And she divine in brown。
Hers was a proud and noble face;
A secret heart; and eyes
Like water in a lonely place
Beneath unclouded skies。
A bed; a chest; a faded mat;
And broken chairs a few;
Were all we had to grace our flat
In Hazel Avenue。
But I could walk to Hampstead Heath;
And crown her head with daisies;
And watch the streaming world beneath;
And men with other Maisies。
When I was ill and she was pale
And empty stood our store;
She left the latchkey on its nail;
And saw me nevermore。
Perhaps she cast herself away
Lest both of us should drown:
Perhaps she feared to die; as they
Who die in Camden Town。
What came of her? The bitter nights
Destroy the rose and lily;
And souls are lost among the lights
Of painted Piccadilly。
What came of her? The river flows
So deep and wide and stilly;
And waits to catch the fallen rose
And clasp the broken lily。
I dream she dwells in London still
And breathes the evening air;
And often walk to Primrose Hill;
And hope to meet her there。
Once more together we will live;
For I will find her yet:
I have so little to forgive;
So much; I can't forget。
MIGNON
Knowest thou the land where bloom the lemon trees;
And darkly gleam the golden oranges?
A gentle wind blows down from that blue sky;
Calm stands the myrtle and the laurel high。
Knowest thou the land? So far and fair!
Thou; whom I love; and I will wander there。
Knowest thou the house with all its rooms aglow;
And shining hall and columned portico?
The marble statues stand and look at me。
Alas; poor child; what have they done to thee?
Knowest thou the land? So far and fair。
My Guardian; thou and I will wander there。
Knowest thou the mountain with its bridge of cloud?
The mule plods warily: the white mists crowd。
Coiled in their caves the brood of dragons sleep;
The torrent hurls the rock from steep to steep。
Knowest thou the land? So far and fair。
Father; away! Our road is over there!
FELO DE SE
The song of a man who was dead
Ere any had heard of his song;
Or had seen this his ultimate song;
With the lines of it written in red;
And the sound of it steady and strong。
When you hear it; you know I am dead。
Not because I was weary of life
As pallid poets are:
My star was a conquering star;
My element strife。
I am young; I am strong; I am brave;
It is therefore I go to the grave。
Now to life and to life's desire;
And to youth and the glory of youth;
Farewell; for I go to acquire;
By the one road left me; Truth。
Though a great God slay me with fire
I will shout till he answer me。 Why?
(One soul and a Universe; why?)
And for this it is pleasant to die。
For years and years I have slumbered;
And slumber was heavy and sweet;
But the last few moments are numbered
Like trampling feet that beat。
I shall walk with the stars in their courses;
And hear very soon; very soon;
The voice of the forge of the Forces;
And ride on a ridge of the moon;
And sing a celestial tune。
TENEBRIS INTERLUCENTEM
A linnet who had lost her way
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 someone there stole forth a hand
To draw a brother to his side。
INVITATION
TO A YOUNG BUT LEARNED FRIEND TO ABANDON ARCHAEOLOGY FOR THE MOMENT; AND
PLAY ONCE MORE WITH HIS NEGLECTED MUSE。
In those good days when we were young and wise;
You spake to music; you with the thoughtful eyes;
And God looked down from heaven; pleased to hear
A young man's song arise so firm and clear。
Has Fancy died? The Morning Star gone cold?
Why are you silent? Have we grown so old?
Must I alone keep playing? Will not you;
Lord of the Measures; string your lyre anew?
Lover of Greece; is this the richest store
You bring us;withered leaves and dusty lore;
And broken vases widowed of their wine;
To brand you pedant while you stand divine?
Decorous words beseem the learned lip;
But Poets have the nicer scholarship。
In English glades they watch the Cyprian glow;
And all the Maenad melodies they know。
They hear strange voices in a London street;
And track the silver gleam of rushing feet;
And these are things that come not to the view
Of slippered dons who read a codex through。
O honeyed Poet; will you praise no more
The moonlit garden and the midnight shore?
Brother; have you forgotten how to sing
The story of that weak and cautious king
Who reigned two hundred years in Trebizond?
You who would ever strive to pierce beyond
Love's ecstacy; Life's vision; is it well
We should not know the tales you have to tell?
BALLAD OF THE LONDONER
Evening falls on the smoky walls;
And the railings drip with rain;
And I will cross the old river
To see my girl again。
The great and solemn…gliding tram;
Love's still…mysterious car;
Has many a light of gold and white;
And a single dark red star。
I know a garden in a street
Which no one ever knew;
I know a rose beyond the Thames;
Where flowers are pale an
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