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I stop and raise my hat。



I like the hunting of the hare;

New sports I hold in scorn。

I like to be as my fathers were;

In the days ere I was born。



Wilfrid Scawen Blunt '1840…1922'





INSCRIPTION IN A HERMITAGE



Beneath this stony roof reclined;

I soothe to peace my pensive mind;

And while; to shade my lowly cave;

Embowering elms their umbrage wave;

And while the maple dish is mine …

The beechen cup; unstained with wine …

I scorn the gay licentious crowd;

Nor heed the toys that deck the proud。



Within my limits; lone and still;

The blackbird pipes in artless trill;

Fast by my couch; congenial guest;

The wren has wove her mossy nest;

From busy scenes and brighter skies;

To lurk with innocence; she flies;

Here hopes in safe repose to dwell;

Nor aught suspects the sylvan cell。



At morn I take my customed round;

To mark how buds yon shrubby mound;

And every opening primrose count;

That trimly paints my blooming mount;

Or o'er the sculptures; quaint and rude;

That grace my gloomy solitude;

I teach in winding wreaths to stray

Fantastic ivy's gadding spray。



At eve; within yon studious nook;

I ope my brass…embossed book;

Portrayed with many a holy deed

Of martyrs; crowned with heavenly meed;

Then; as my taper waxes dim;

Chant; ere I sleep; my measured hymn;

And at the close; the gleams behold

Of parting wings; be…dropt with gold。



While such pure joys my bliss create;

Who but would smile at guilty state?

Who but would wish his holy lot

In calm oblivion's humble grot?

Who but would cast his pomp away;

To take my staff; and amice gray;

And to the world's tumultuous stage

Prefer the blameless hermitage?



Thomas Warton '1728…1790'





THE RETIREMENT



Farewell; thou busy world; and may

We never meet again;

Here I can eat and sleep and pray;

And do more good in one short day

Than he who his whole age outwears

Upon the most conspicuous theaters;

Where naught but vanity and vice appears。



Good God! how sweet are all things here!

How beautiful the fields appear!

How cleanly do we feed and lie!

Lord! what good hours do we keep!

How quietly we sleep!

What peace; what unanimity!

How innocent from the lewd fashion

Is all our business; all our recreation!



O; how happy here's our leisure!

O; how innocent our pleasure!

O ye valleys!  O ye mountains!

O ye groves; and crystal fountains!

How I love; at liberty;

By turns to come and visit ye!

Dear solitude; the soul's best friend;

That man acquainted with himself dost make;

And all his Maker's wonders to attend;

With thee I here converse at will;

And would be glad to do so still;

For it is thou alone that keep'st the soul awake。



How calm and quiet a delight

Is it; alone;

To read and meditate and write;

By none offended; and offending none!

To walk; ride; sit; or sleep at one's own ease;

And; pleasing a man's self; none other to displease。



O my beloved nymph; fair Dove;

Princess of rivers; how I love

Upon thy flowery banks to lie;

And view thy silver stream;

When gilded by a Summer's beam!

And in it all thy wanton fry

Playing at liberty;

And; with my angle; upon them

The all of treachery

I ever learned industriously to try!



Such streams Rome's yellow Tiber cannot show;

The Iberian Tagus; or Ligurian Po;

The Maese; the Danube; and the Rhine;

Are puddle…water; all; compared with thine;

And Loire's pure streams yet too polluted are

With thine; much purer; to compare;

The rapid Garonne and the winding Seine

Are both too mean;

Beloved Dove; with thee

To vie priority;

Nay; Tame and Isis; when conjoined; submit;

And lay their trophies at thy silver feet。



O my beloved rocks; that rise

To awe the earth and brave the skies!

From some aspiring mountain's crown

How dearly do I love;

Giddy with pleasure to look down;

And from the vales to view the noble heights above;

O my beloved caves! from dog…star's heat;

And all anxieties; my safe retreat;

What safety; privacy; what true delight;

In the artificial light

Your gloomy entrails make;

Have I taken; do I take!

How oft; when grief has made me fly;

To hide me from society

E'en of my dearest friends; have I;

In your recesses' friendly shade;

All my sorrows open laid;

And my most secret woes intrusted to your privacy!



Lord! would men let me alone;

What an over…happy one

Should I think myself to be …

Might I in this desert place;

(Which most men in discourse disgrace)

Live but undisturbed and free!

Here; in this despised recess;

Would I; maugre Winter's cold;

And the Summer's worst excess;

Try to live out to sixty full years old;

And; all the while;

Without an envious eye

On any thriving under Fortune's smile;

Contented live; and then contented die。



Charles Cotton '1630…1687'





THE COUNTRY FAITH



Here in the country's heart;

Where the grass is green;

Life is the same sweet life

As it e'er hath been。



Trust in a God still lives;

And the bell at morn

Floats with a thought of God

O'er the rising corn。



God comes down in the rain;

And the crop grows tall …

This is the country faith

And best of all!



Norman Gale '1862…





TRULY GREAT



My walls outside must have some flowers;

My walls within must have some books;

A house that's small; a garden large;

And in it leafy nooks:



A little gold that's sure each week;

That comes not from my living kind;

But from a dead man in his grave;

Who cannot change his mind:



A lovely wife; and gentle too;

Contented that no eyes but mine

Can see her many charms; nor voice

To call her beauty fine:



Where she would in that stone cage live;

A self made prisoner; with me;

While many a wild bird sang around;

On gate; on bush; on tree。



And she sometimes to answer them;

In her far sweeter voice than all;

Till birds; that loved to look on leaves;

Will doat on a stone wall。



With this small house; this garden large;

This little gold; this lovely mate;

With health in body; peace at heart …

Show me a man more great。



William H。 Davies '1870…





EARLY MORNING AT BARGIS



Clear air and grassy lea;

Stream…song and cattle…bell …

Dear man; what fools are we

In prison…walls to dwell!



To live our days apart

From green things and wide skies;

And let the wistful heart

Be cut and crushed with lies!



Bright peaks! … And suddenly

Light floods the placid dell;

The grass…tops brush my knee:

A good crop it will be;

So all is well!

O man; what fools are we

In prison…walls to dwell!



Hermann Hagedorn '1882…





THE CUP



The cup I sing is a cup of gold

Many and many a century old;

Sculptured fair; and over…filled

With wine of a generous vintage; spilled

In crystal currents and foaming tides

All round its luminous; pictured sides。

Old Time enameled and embossed

This ancient cup at an infinite cost。

Its frame he wrought of metal that run

Red from the furnace of the sun。

Ages on ages slowly rolled

Before the glowing mass was cold;

And still he toiled at the antique mold; …

Turning it fast in his fashioning hand;

Tracing circle; layer; and band;

Carving figures quaint and strange;

Pursuing; through many a wondrous change;

The symmetry of a plan divine。

At last he poured the lustrous wine;

Crowned high the radiant wave with light;

And held aloft the goblet bright;

Half in shadow; and wreathed in mist

Of purple; amber; and amethyst。



This is the goblet from whose brink

All creatures that have life must drink:

Foemen and lovers; haughty lord;

And sallow beggar with lips abhorred。

The new…born infant; ere it gain

The mother's breast; this wine must drain。

The oak with its subtle juice is fed;

The rose drinks till her cheeks are red;

And the dimpled; dainty violet sips

The limpid stream with loving lips。

It holds the blood of sun and star;

And all pure essences that are:

No fruit so high on the heavenly vine;

Whose golden hanging clusters shine

On the far…off shadowy midnight hills;

But some sweet influence it distils

That slideth down the silvery rills。

Here Wisdom drowned her dangerous thought;

The early gods their secrets brought;

Beauty; in quivering lines of light;

Ripples before the ravished sight:

And the unseen mystic spheres combine

To charm the cup and drug the wine。



All day I drink of the wine; and deep

In its stainless waves my senses steep;

All night my peaceful soul lies drowned

In hollows of the cup profound;

Again each morn I clamber up

The emerald crater of the cup;

On massive knobs of jasper stand

And view the azure ring expand:

I watch the foam…wreaths toss and swim

In the wine that o'erruns the jeweled rim: …

Edges of chrysolite emerge;

Dawn…tinted; from the misty surge:

My thrilled; uncovered front I lave;

My eager senses kiss the wave;

And drain; with its viewless draught; the lore

That kindles the bosom's secret core;

And the fire that maddens the poet's brain

With wild sweet ardor and heavenly pain。



John Townsend Trowbridge '1827…1916'





A STRIP OF BLUE



I do not own an inch of land;

But all I see is mine; …

The orchards and the mowing…fields;

The lawns and gardens fine。

The winds my tax…collectors are;

They bring me tithes divine; …

Wild scents and subtle essences;

A tribute rare and free;

And; more magnificent than all;

My window keeps for me

A glimpse of blue immensity; …

A little strip of sea。



Richer am I than he who owns

Great fleets and argosies;

I have a share in every ship

Won by the inland breeze

To loiter on yon airy road

Above the apple…trees。

I freight them with my untold dreams;

Each bears my own picked crew;

And nobler cargoes wait for them

Than ever India knew; …

My ship
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