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By the brimming soul of every creature! …

Joy…mad; dear Mother; am I。



Tongues; tongues for my joy; for my joy! more tongues! …

Oh; thanks to the thrush on the tree;

To the sky; and to all earth's blooms and songs!

They utter the heart in me。



David Atwood Wasson '1823…1887'





MY THRUSH



All through the sultry hours of June;

From morning blithe to golden noon;

And till the star of evening climbs

The gray…blue East; a world too soon;

There sings a Thrush amid the limes。



God's poet; hid in foliage green;

Sings endless songs; himself unseen;

Right seldom come his silent times。

Linger; ye summer hours serene!

Sing on; dear Thrush; amid the limes!



Nor from these confines wander out;

Where the old gun; bucolic lout;

Commits all day his murderous crimes:

Though cherries ripe are sweet; no doubt;

Sweeter thy song amid the limes。



May I not dream God sends thee there;

Thou mellow angel of the air;

Even to rebuke my earthlier rhymes

With music's soul; all praise and prayer?

Is that thy lesson in the limes?



Closer to God art thou than I:

His minstrel thou; whose brown wings fly

Through silent ether's summer climes。

Ah; never may thy music die!

Sing on; dear Thrush; amid the limes!



Mortimer Collins '1827…1876'





〃BLOW SOFTLY; THRUSH〃



Blow softly; thrush; upon the hush

That makes the least leaf loud;

Blow; wild of heart; remote; apart

From all the vocal crowd;

Apart; remote; a spirit note

That dances meltingly afloat;

Blow faintly; thrush!

And build the green…hid waterfall

I hated for its beauty; and all

The unloved vernal rapture and flush;

The old forgotten lonely time;

Delicate thrush!

Spring's at the prime; the world's in chime;

And my love is listening nearly;

O lightly blow the ancient woe;

Flute of the wood; blow clearly!

Blow; she is here; and the world all dear;

Melting flute of the hush;

Old sorrow estranged; enriched; sea…changed;

Breathe it; veery thrush!



Joseph Russell Taylor '1868…1933'





THE BLACK VULTURE



Aloof within the day's enormous dome;

He holds unshared the silence of the sky。

Far down his bleak; relentless eyes descry

The eagle's empire and the falcon's home …

Far down; the galleons of sunset roam;

His hazards on the sea of morning lie;

Serene; he hears the broken tempest sigh

Where cold sierras gleam like scattered foam。

And least of all he holds the human swarm …

Unwitting now that envious men prepare

To make their dream and its fulfillment one

When; poised above the caldrons of the storm;

Their hearts; contemptuous of death; shall dare

His roads between the thunder and the sun。



George Sterling '1869…1926'





WILD GEESE



How oft against the sunset sky or moon

I watched that moving zigzag of spread wings

In unforgotten Autumns gone too soon;

In unforgotten Springs!

Creatures of desolation; far they fly

Above all lands bound by the curling foam;

In misty lens; wild moors and trackless sky

These wild things have their home。

They know the tundra of Siberian coasts。

And tropic marshes by the Indian seas;

They know the clouds and night and starry hosts

From Crux to Pleiades。

Dark flying rune against the western glow …

It tells the sweep and loneliness of things;

Symbol of Autumns vanished long ago。

Symbol of coming Springs!



Frederick Peterson '1859…





TO A WATERFOWL



Whither; midst falling dew;

While glow the heavens with the last steps of day;

Far; through their rosy depths; dost thou pursue

Thy solitary way?



Vainly the fowler's eye

Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong;

As; darkly painted on the crimson sky;

Thy figure floats along。



Seek'st thou the plashy brink

Of weedy lake; or marge of river wide;

Or where the rocking billows rise and sink

On the chafed ocean…side?



There is a Power whose care

Teaches thy way along that pathless coast; …

The desert and illimitable air; …

Lone wandering; but not lost。



All day thy wings have fanned

At that far height; the cold; thin atmosphere;

Yet stoop not; weary; to the welcome land;

Though the dark night is near。



And soon that toil shall end;

Soon shalt thou find a summer home; and rest;

And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall bend;

Soon; o'er thy sheltered nest。



Thou'rt gone; the abyss of heaven

Hath swallowed up thy form; yet; on my heart

Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given;

And shall not soon depart。



He who; from zone to zone;

Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight;

In the long way that I must tread alone;

Will lead my steps aright。



William Cullen Bryant '1794…1878'





THE WOOD…DOVE'S NOTE



Meadows with yellow cowslips all aglow;

Glory of sunshine on the uplands bare;

And faint and far; with sweet elusive flow;

The Wood…dove's plaintive call;

〃O where! where! where!〃



Straight with old Omar in the almond grove

From whitening boughs I breathe the odors rare

And hear the princess mourning for her love

With sad unwearied plaint;

〃O where! where! where!〃



New madrigals in each soft pulsing throat …

New life upleaping to the brooding air …

Still the heart answers to that questing note;

〃Soul of the vanished years;

O where! where! where!〃



Emily Huntington Miller '1833…1913'















THE SEA













SONG FOR ALL SEAS; ALL SHIPS



I

To…day a rude brief recitative;

Of ships sailing the seas; each with its special flag or ship…signal;

Of unnamed heroes in the ships … of waves spreading and spreading

  far as the eye can reach;

Of dashing spray; and the winds piping and blowing;

And out of these a chant for the sailors of all nations; Fitful;

  like a surge。



Of sea…captains young or old; and the mates; and of all intrepid sailors;

Of the few; very choice; taciturn; whom fate can never surprise nor 

  death dismay;

Picked sparingly without noise by thee; old ocean; chosen by thee;

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time; and unitest nations;

Suckled by thee; old husky nurse; embodying thee;

Indomitable; untamed as thee。



(Ever the heroes on water or on land; by ones or twos appearing;

Ever the stock preserved and never lost; though rare; enough for 

  seed preserved。)



II

Flaunt out; O sea; your separate flags of nations!

Flaunt out visible as ever the various ship…signals!

But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man one

  flag above all the rest;

A spiritual woven signal for all nations; emblem of man elate above death;

Token of all brave captains and all intrepid sailors and mates;

And all that went down doing their duty;

Reminiscent of them; twined from all intrepid captains young or old;

A pennant universal; subtly waving all time; o'er all brave sailors;

All seas; all ships。



Walt Whitman '1819…1892'





STANZAS

From 〃The Triumph of Time〃




I will go back to the great sweet mother; …

Mother and lover of men; the Sea。

I will go down to her; I and none other;

Close with her; kiss her; and mix her with me;

Cling to her; strive with her; hold her fast;

O fair white mother; in days long past

Born without sister; born without brother;

Set free my soul as thy soul is free。



O fair green…girdled mother of mine;

Sea; that art clothed with the sun and the rain;

Thy sweet hard kisses are strong like wine;

Thy large embraces are keen like pain。

Save me and hide me with all thy waves;

Find me one grave of thy thousand graves;

Those pure cold populous graves of thine;

Wrought without hand in a world without stain。



I shall sleep; and move with the moving ships;

Change as the winds change; veer in the tide;

My lips will feast on the foam of thy lips;

I shall rise with thy rising; with thee subside;

Sleep; and not know if she be; if she were;

Filled full with life to the eyes and hair。

As a rose is fulfilled to the rose…leaf tips

With splendid summer and perfume and pride。



This woven raiment of nights and days;

Were it once cast off and unwound from me;

Naked and glad would I walk in thy ways;

Alive and aware of thy waves and thee;

Clear of the whole world; hidden at home;

Clothed with the green; and crowned with the foam;

A pulse of the life of thy straits and bays;

A vein in the heart of the streams of the Sea。



Fair mother; fed with the lives of men;

Thou art subtle and cruel of heart; men say;

Thou hast taken; and shalt not render again;

Thou art full of thy dead; and cold as they。

But death is the worst that comes of thee;

Thou art fed with our dead; O Mother; O Sea;

But when hast thou fed on our hearts? or when

Having given us love; hast thou taken away?



O tender…hearted; O perfect lover;

Thy lips are bitter; and sweet thine heart。

The hopes that hurt and the dreams that hover;

Shall they not vanish away and apart?

But thou; thou art sure; thou art older than earth;

Thou art strong for death and fruitful of birth;

Thy depths conceal and thy gulfs discover;

From the first thou wert; in the end thou art。



Algernon Charles Swinburne '1837…1909'





THE SEA


From 〃Childe Harold's Pilgrimage〃



There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;

There is a rapture on the lonely shore;

There is society where none intrudes

By the deep Sea; and music in its roar:

I love not Man the less; but Nature more;

From these our interviews; in which I steal

From all I may be; or have been before;

To mingle with the Universe; and feel

What I can ne'er express; yet can not all conceal。



Roll on; thou deep and dark blue Ocean; roll!

Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;

Man marks the earth with ruin; his control

Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain

The wrecks are all thy deed; nor doth remain

A shadow of man's ravage; save his own;

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