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With her sky…blue eyes amaze

And her sea…blue hair!



Marna with the trees' life

In her veins a…stir!

Marna of the aspen heart

Where the sudden quivers start!

Quick…responsive; subtle; wild!

Artless as an artless child;


Spite of all her reach of art!

Oh; to roam with her!



Marna with the wind's will;

Daughter of the sea!

Marna of the quick disdain;

Starting at the dream of stain!

At a smile with love aglow;

At a frown a statued woe;

Standing pinnacled in pain

Till a kiss sets free!



Down the world with Marna;

Daughter of the fire!

Marna of the deathless hope;

Still alert to win new scope

Where the wings of life may spread

For a flight unhazarded!

Dreaming of the speech to cope

With the heart's desire!



Marna of the far quest

After the divine!

Striving ever for some goal

Past the blunder…god's control!

Dreaming of potential years

When no day shall dawn in fears!

That's the Marna of my soul;

Wander…bride of mine!



Richard Hovey '1864…1900'





THE SEA GIPSY



I am fevered with the sunset;

I am fretful with the bay;

For the wander…thirst is on me 

And my soul is in Cathay。



There's a schooner in the offing;

With her topsails shot with fire;

And my heart has gone aboard her

For the Islands of Desire。



I must forth again to…morrow!

With the sunset I must be

Hull down on the trail of rapture

In the wonder of the Sea。



Richard Hovey '1864…1900'





A VAGABOND SONG



There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood …

Touch of manner; hint of mood;

And my heart is like a rhyme;

With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time。



The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry

Of bugles going by。

And my lonely spirit thrills

To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills。



There is something in October sets the gipsy blood astir;

We must rise and…follow her;

When from every hill of flame

She calls and calls each vagabond by name。



Bliss Carman '1861…1929'





SPRING SONG



Make me over; Mother April;

When the sap beings to stir!

When thy flowery hand delivers

All the mountain…prisoned rivers;

And thy great heart beats and quivers

To revive the days that were;

Make me over; Mother April;

When the sap begins to stir!



Take my dust and all my dreaming;

Count my heart…beats one by one;

Send them where the winters perish;

Then some golden noon recherish

And restore them in the sun;

Flower and scent and dust and dreaming;

With their heart…beats every one!



Set me in the urge and tide…drift

Of the streaming hosts a…wing!

Breast of scarlet; throat of yellow;

Raucous challenge; wooings mellow …

Every migrant is my fellow;

Making northward with the spring。

Loose me in the urge and tide…drift

Of the streaming hosts a…wing!



Shrilling pipe or fluting whistle;

In the valleys come again;

Fife of frog and call of tree…toad;

All my brothers; five or three…toed;

With their revel no more vetoed;

Making music in the rain;

Shrilling pipe or fluting whistle;

In the valleys come again。



Make me of thy seed to…morrow;

When the sap begins to stir!

Tawny light…foot; sleepy bruin;

Bright…eyes in the orchard ruin;

Gnarl the good life goes askew in;

Whiskey…jack; or tanager; …

Make me anything to…morrow;

When the sap begins to stir!



Make me even (How do I know?)

Like my friend the gargoyle there;

It may be the heart within him

Swells that doltish hands should pin him

Fixed forever in mid…air。

Make me even sport for swallows;

Like the soaring gargoyle there!



Give me the old clue to follow;

Through the labyrinth of night!

Clod of clay with heart of fire;

Things that burrow and aspire;

With the vanishing desire;

For the perishing delight; …

Only the old clue to follow;

Through the labyrinth of night!



Make me over; Mother April;

When the sap begins to stir!

Fashion me from swamp or meadow;

Garden plot or ferny shadow;

Hyacinth or humble burr!

Make me over; Mother April;

When the sap begins to stir!



Let me hear the far; low summons;

When the silver winds return;

Rills that run and streams that stammer;

Goldenwing with his loud hammer;

Icy brooks that brawl and clamor;

Where the Indian willows burn;

Let me hearken to the calling;

When the silver winds return;



Till recurring and recurring;

Long since wandered and come back;


Like a whim of Grieg's or Gounod's;

This same self; bird; bud; or Bluenose;

Some day I may capture (Who knows?)

Just the one last joy I lack;

Waking to the far new summons;

When the old spring winds come back。



For I have no choice of being;

When the sap begins to climb; …

Strong insistence; sweet intrusion;

Vasts and verges of illusion; …

So I win; to time's confusion;

The one perfect pearl of time;

Joy and joy and joy forever;

Till the sap forgets to climb!



Make me over in the morning

From the rag…bag of the world!

Scraps of dream and duds of daring;

Home…brought stuff from far sea…faring;

Faded colors once so flaring;

Shreds of banners long since furled!

Hues of ash and glints of glory;

In the rag…bag of the world!



Let me taste the old immortal

Indolence of life once more;

Not recalling nor foreseeing;

Let the great slow joys of being

Well my heart through as of yore!

Let me taste the old immortal

Indolence of life once more!



Give me the old drink for rapture;

The delirium to drain;

All my fellows drank in plenty

At the Three Score Inns and Twenty

From the mountains to the main!

Give me the old drink for rapture;

The delirium to drain!



Only make me over; April;

When the sap begins to stir!

Make me man or make me woman;

Make me oaf or ape or human;

Cup of flower or cone of fir;

Make me anything but neuter

When the sap begins to stir!



Bliss Carman '1861…1929'





THE MENDICANTS



We are as mendicants who wait

Along the roadside in the sun。

Tatters of yesterday and shreds

Of morrow clothe us every one。



And some are dotards; who believe

And glory in the days of old;

While some are dreamers; harping still

Upon an unknown age of gold。



Hopeless or witless!  Not one heeds;

As lavish Time comes down the way

And tosses in the suppliant hat

One great new…minted gold To…day。



Ungrateful heart and grudging thanks;

His beggar's wisdom only sees

Housing and bread and beer enough;

He knows no other things than these。



O foolish ones; put by your care!

Where wants are many; joys are few;

And at the wilding springs of peace;

God keeps an open house for you。



But that some Fortunatus' gift

Is lying there within his hand;

More costly than a pot of pearls;

His dullness does not understand。



And so his creature heart is filled;

His shrunken self goes starved away。

Let him wear brand…new garments still;

Who has a threadbare soul; I say。



But there be others; happier few;

The vagabondish sons of God;

Who know the by…ways and the flowers;

And care not how the world may plod。



They idle down the traffic lands;

And loiter through the woods with spring;

To them the glory of the earth

Is but to hear a bluebird sing。



They too receive each one his Day;

But their wise heart knows many things

Beyond the sating of desire;

Above the dignity of kings。



One I remember kept his coin;

And laughing flipped it in the air;

But when two strolling pipe…players

Came by; he tossed it to the pair。



Spendthrift of joy; his childish heart

Danced to their wild outlandish bars;

Then supperless he laid him down

That night; and slept beneath the stars。



Bliss Carman '1861…1929'





THE JOYS OF THE ROAD



Now the joys of the road are chiefly these:

A crimson touch on the hard…wood trees;



A vagrant's morning wide and blue;

In early fall; when the wind walks; too;



A shadowy highway cool and brown

Alluring up and enticing down



From rippled water to dappled swamp;

From purple glory to scarlet pomp;



The outward eye; the quiet will;

And the striding heart from hill to hill;



The tempter apple over the fence;

The cobweb bloom on the yellow quince;



The palish asters along the wood; …

A lyric touch of the solitude;



An open hand; an easy shoe;

And a hope to make the day go through; …



Another to sleep with; and a third

To wake me up at the voice of a bird;



The resonant far…listening morn;

And the hoarse whisper of the corn;



The crickets mourning their comrades lost;

In the night's retreat from the gathering frost;



(Or is it their slogan; plaintive and shrill;

As they beat on their corselets; valiant still?)



A hunger fit for the kings of the sea;

And a loaf of bread for Dickon and me;



A thirst like that of the Thirsty Sword;

And a jug of cider on the board;



An idle noon; a bubbling spring;

The sea in the pine…tops murmuring;



A scrap of gossip at the ferry;

A comrade neither glum nor merry;



Asking nothing; revealing naught;

But minting his words from a fund of thought。



A keeper of silence eloquent;

Needy; yet royally well content;



Of the mettled breed; yet abhorring strife;

And full of the mellow juice of life;



A taster of wine; with an eye for a maid

Never too bold; and never afraid;



Never heart…whole; never heart…sick;

(These are the things I worship in Dick)



No fidget and no reformer; just

A calm observer of ought and must;



A lover of books; but a reader of man;

No cynic and no charlatan;



Who never defers and never demands;

But; smiling; takes the world in his hands; …



Seeing it good as when God first saw

And gave it the weight of his will for law。



And O the joy that is never won;

But follows and follows the journey
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