3810 lines
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3810 lines
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HTML
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<h1 epub:type="title">Poetry</h1>
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<p>By <b epub:type="z3998:author z3998:personal-name">Fernando Pessoa</b>.</p>
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<nav id="toc" epub:type="toc">
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<h2 epub:type="title">Table of Contents</h2>
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<ol>
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<li>
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<a href="#titlepage">Titlepage</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#imprint">Imprint</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#thirty-five-sonnets">35 Sonnets</a>
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<ol>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-1" epub:type="z3998:roman">I</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-2" epub:type="z3998:roman">II</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-3" epub:type="z3998:roman">III</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-4" epub:type="z3998:roman">IV</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-5" epub:type="z3998:roman">V</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-6" epub:type="z3998:roman">VI</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-7" epub:type="z3998:roman">VII</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-8" epub:type="z3998:roman">VIII</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-9" epub:type="z3998:roman">IX</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-10" epub:type="z3998:roman">X</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-11" epub:type="z3998:roman">XI</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-12" epub:type="z3998:roman">XII</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-13" epub:type="z3998:roman">XIII</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-14" epub:type="z3998:roman">XIV</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-15" epub:type="z3998:roman">XV</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-16" epub:type="z3998:roman">XVI</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-17" epub:type="z3998:roman">XVII</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-18" epub:type="z3998:roman">XVIII</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-19" epub:type="z3998:roman">XIX</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-20" epub:type="z3998:roman">XX</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-21" epub:type="z3998:roman">XXI</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-22" epub:type="z3998:roman">XXII</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-23" epub:type="z3998:roman">XXIII</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-24" epub:type="z3998:roman">XXIV</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-25" epub:type="z3998:roman">XXV</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-26" epub:type="z3998:roman">XXVI</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-27" epub:type="z3998:roman">XXVII</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-28" epub:type="z3998:roman">XXVIII</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-29" epub:type="z3998:roman">XXIX</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-30" epub:type="z3998:roman">XXX</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-31" epub:type="z3998:roman">XXXI</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-32" epub:type="z3998:roman">XXXII</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-33" epub:type="z3998:roman">XXXIII</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-34" epub:type="z3998:roman">XXXIV</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-35" epub:type="z3998:roman">XXXV</a>
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</li>
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</ol>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#english-poems">English Poems</a>
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<ol>
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<li>
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<a href="#antinous">Antinous</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#inscriptions">Inscriptions</a>
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<ol>
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<li>
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<a href="#inscriptions-1" epub:type="z3998:roman">I</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#inscriptions-2" epub:type="z3998:roman">II</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#inscriptions-3" epub:type="z3998:roman">III</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#inscriptions-4" epub:type="z3998:roman">IV</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#inscriptions-5" epub:type="z3998:roman">V</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#inscriptions-6" epub:type="z3998:roman">VI</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#inscriptions-7" epub:type="z3998:roman">VII</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#inscriptions-8" epub:type="z3998:roman">VIII</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#inscriptions-9" epub:type="z3998:roman">IX</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#inscriptions-10" epub:type="z3998:roman">X</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#inscriptions-11" epub:type="z3998:roman">XI</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#inscriptions-12" epub:type="z3998:roman">XII</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#inscriptions-13" epub:type="z3998:roman">XIII</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#inscriptions-14" epub:type="z3998:roman">XIV</a>
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</li>
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</ol>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#epithalamium">Epithalamium</a>
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<ol>
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<li>
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<a href="#epithalamium-1" epub:type="z3998:roman">I</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#epithalamium-2" epub:type="z3998:roman">II</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#epithalamium-3" epub:type="z3998:roman">III</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#epithalamium-4" epub:type="z3998:roman">IV</a>
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||
</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#epithalamium-5" epub:type="z3998:roman">V</a>
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||
</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#epithalamium-6" epub:type="z3998:roman">VI</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#epithalamium-7" epub:type="z3998:roman">VII</a>
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<section id="thirty-five-sonnets" epub:type="volume bodymatter">
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<h2 epub:type="title">35 Sonnets</h2>
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<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">I</h3>
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<span>Whether we write or speak or do but look</span>
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<span>We are ever unapparent. What we are</span>
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<span>Our soul from us is infinitely far.</span>
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<span>However much we give our thoughts the will</span>
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<span>To be our soul and gesture it abroad,</span>
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<span>Our hearts are incommunicable still.</span>
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<span>In what we show ourselves we are ignored.</span>
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<span>The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged</span>
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<span>Unto our very selves we are abridged</span>
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<span>When we would utter to our thought our being.</span>
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<span class="i2">We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,</span>
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<span class="i2">And each to each other dreams of others’ dreams.</span>
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<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">II</h3>
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<span>If that apparent part of life’s delight</span>
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<span>Our tingled flesh-sense circumscribes were seen</span>
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<span>Joy, flesh and life might prove but a gross screen.</span>
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<span>Haply Truth’s body is no eyable being,</span>
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<span>Appearance even as appearance lies,</span>
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<span>Haply our close, dark, vague, warm sense of seeing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is the choked vision of blindfolded eyes.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wherefrom what comes to thought’s sense of life? Nought.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All is either the irrational world we see</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or some aught-else whose being-unknown doth rot</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Its use for our thought’s use. Whence taketh me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">A qualm-like ache of life, a body-deep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Soul-hate of what we seek and what we weep.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-3" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">III</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When I do think my meanest line shall be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>More in Time’s use than my creating whole,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That future eyes more clearly shall feel me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In this inked page than in my direct soul;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When I conjecture put to make me seeing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Good readers of me in some aftertime,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thankful to some idea of my being</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That doth not even my with gone true soul rime;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>An anger at the essence of the world,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That makes this thus, or thinkable this wise,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Takes my soul by the throat and makes it hurled</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In nightly horrors of despaired surmise,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And I become the mere sense of a rage</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">That lacks the very words whose waste might ’suage.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-4" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">IV</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I could not think of thee as piecèd rot,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet such thou wert, for thou hadst been long dead;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet thou liv’dst entire in my seeing thought</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And what thou wert in me had never fled.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nay, I had fixed the moments of thy beauty—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy ebbing smile, thy kiss’s readiness,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And memory had taught my heart the duty</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To know thee ever at that deathlessness.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But when I came where thou wert laid, and saw</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The natural flowers ignoring thee sans blame,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the encroaching grass, with casual flaw,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Framing the stone to age where was thy name,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">I knew not how to feel, nor what to be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Towards thy fate’s material secrecy.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-5" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">V</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>How can I think, or edge my thoughts to action,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When the miserly press of each day’s need</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Aches to a narrowness of spilled distraction</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My soul appalled at the world’s work’s time-greed?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How can I pause my thoughts upon the task</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My soul was born to think that it must do</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When every moment has a thought to ask</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To fit the immediate craving of its cue?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The coin I’d heap for marrying my Muse</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And build our home i’th’ greater Time-to-be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Becomes dissolved by needs of each day’s use</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I feel beggared of infinity,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Like a true-Christian sinner, each day flesh-driven</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">By his own act to forfeit his wished heaven.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-6" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">VI</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>As a bad orator, badly o’er-book-skilled,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Doth overflow his purpose with made heat,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And, like a clock, winds with withoutness willed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What should have been an inner instinct’s feat;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or as a prose-wit, harshly poet turned,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lacking the subtler music in his measure,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With useless care labours but to be spurned,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Courting in alien speech the Muse’s pleasure;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I study how to love or how to hate,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Estranged by consciousness from sentiment,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With a thought feeling forced to be sedate</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Even when the feeling’s nature is violent;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">As who would learn to swim without the river,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">When nearest to the trick, as far as ever.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-7" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">VII</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thy words are torture to me, that scarce grieve thee—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That entire death shall null my entire thought;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I feel torture, not that I believe thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But that I cannot disbelieve thee not.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall that of me that now contains the stars</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be by the very contained stars survived?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus were Fate all unjust. Yet what truth bars</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>An all unjust Fate’s truth from being believed?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Conjecture cannot fit to the seen world</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A garment of its thought untorn or covering,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or with its stuffed garb forge an otherworld</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Without itself its dead deceit discovering;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">So, all being possible, an idle thought may</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Less idle thoughts, self-known no truer, dismay.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-8" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">VIII</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>How many masks wear we, and undermasks,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon our countenance of soul, and when,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If for self-sport the soul itself unmasks,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Knows it the last mask off and the face plain?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The true mask feels no inside to the mask</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But looks out of the mask by co-masked eyes.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whatever consciousness begins the task</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The task’s accepted use to sleepness ties.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like a child frighted by its mirrored faces,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Our souls, that children are, being thought-losing,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Foist otherness upon their seen grimaces</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And get a whole world on their forgot causing;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And, when a thought would unmask our soul’s masking,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Itself goes not unmasked to the unmasking.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-9" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">IX</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Oh to be idle loving idleness!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But I am idle all in hate of me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ever in action’s dream, in the false stress</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of purposed action never set to be.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like a fierce beast self-penned in a bait-lair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My will to act binds with excess my action,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Not-acting coils the thought with raged despair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And acting rage doth paint despair distraction.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like someone sinking in a treacherous sand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Each gesture to deliver sinks the more;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The struggle avails not, and to raise no hand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Though but more slowly useless, we’ve no power.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Hence live I the dead life each day doth bring,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Repurposed for next day’s repurposing.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-10" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">X</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>As to a child, I talked my heart asleep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With empty promise of the coming day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And it slept rather for my words made sleep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Than from a thought of what their sense did say.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For did it care for sense, would it not wake</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And question closer to the morrow’s pleasure?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would it not edge nearer my words, to take</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The promise in the meting of its measure?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So, if it slept, ’twas that it cared but for</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The present sleepy use of promised joy,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thanking the fruit but for the forecome flower</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which the less active senses best enjoy.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Thus with deceit do I detain the heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Of which deceit’s self knows itself a part.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-11" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XI</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Like to a ship that storms urge on its course,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By its own trials our soul is surer made.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The very things that make the voyage worse</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Do make it better; its peril is its aid.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And, as the storm drives from the storm, our heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Within the peril disimperilled grows;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A port is near the more from port we part—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The port whereto our driven direction goes.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If we reap knowledge to cross-profit, this</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From storms we learn, when the storm’s height doth drive—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That the black presence of its violence is</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The pushing promise of near far blue skies.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Learn we but how to have the pilot-skill,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And the storm’s very might shall mate our will.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-12" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XII</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>As the lone, frighted user of a night-road</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Suddenly turns round, nothing to detect,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet on his fear’s sense keepeth still the load</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of that brink-nothing he doth but suspect;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the cold terror moves to him more near</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of something that from nothing casts a spell,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That, when he moves, to fright more is not there,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And’s only visible when invisible</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So I upon the world turn round in thought,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And nothing viewing do no courage take,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But my more terror, from no seen cause got,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To that felt corporate emptiness forsake,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And draw my sense of mystery’s horror from</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Seeing no mystery’s mystery alone.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-13" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XIII</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When I should be asleep to mine own voice</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In telling thee how much thy love’s my dream,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I find me listening to myself, the noise</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of my words othered in my hearing them.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet wonder not: this is the poet’s soul.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I could not tell thee well of how I love,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Loved I not less by knowing it, were all</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My self my love and no thought love to prove.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What consciousness makes more by consciousness,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It makes less, for it makes it less itself,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My sense of love could not my love rich-dress</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Did it not for it spend love’s own love-pelf.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Poet’s love’s this (as in these words I prove thee):</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">I love my love for thee more than I love thee.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-14" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XIV</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>We are born at sunset and we die ere morn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the whole darkness of the world we know,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How can we guess its truth, to darkness born,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The obscure consequence of absent glow?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Only the stars do teach us light. We grasp</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Their scattered smallnesses with thoughts that stray,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And, though their eyes look through night’s complete mask,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet they speak not the features of the day.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Why should these small denials of the whole</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>More than the black whole the pleased eyes attract?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Why what it calls “worth” does the captive soul</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Add to the small and from the large detract?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">So, out of light’s love wishing it night’s stretch,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">A nightly thought of day we darkly reach.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-15" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XV</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Like a bad suitor desperate and trembling</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From the mixed sense of being not loved and loving,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who with feared longing half would know, dissembling</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With what he’d wish proved what he fears soon proving,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I look with inner eyes afraid to look,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet perplexed into looking, at the worth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This verse may have and wonder, of my book,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To what thoughts shall’t in alien hearts give birth.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But, as he who doth love, and, loving, hopes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet, hoping, fears, fears to put proof to proof,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And in his mind for possible proofs gropes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Delaying the true proof, lest the real thing scoff,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">I daily live, i’th’ fame I dream to see,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">But by my thought of others’ thought of me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-16" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XVI</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>We never joy enjoy to that full point</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Regret doth wish joy had enjoyèd been,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor have the strength regret to disappoint</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Recalling not past joy’s thought, but its mien.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet joy was joy when it enjoyèd was</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And after-enjoyed when as joy recalled,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It must have been joy ere its joy did pass</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And, recalled, joy still, since its being-past galled.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Alas! All this is useless, for joy’s in</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Enjoying, not in thinking of enjoying.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Its mere thought-mirroring gainst itself doth sin,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By mere reflecting solid life destroying,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Yet the more thought we take to thought to prove</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">It must not think, doth further from joy move.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-17" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XVII</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My love, and not I, is the egoist.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My love for thee loves itself more than thee;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ay, more than me, in whom it doth exist,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And makes me live that it may feed on me.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In the country of bridges the bridge is</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>More real than the shores it doth unsever;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So in our world, all of Relation, this</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is true—that truer is Love than either lover.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This thought therefore comes lightly to Doubt’s door—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If we, seeing substance of this world, are not</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mere Intervals, God’s Absence and no more,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hollows in real Consciousness and Thought.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And if ’tis possible to Thought to bear this fruit,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Why should it not be possible to Truth?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-18" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XVIII</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Indefinite space, which, by co-substance night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In one black mystery two void mysteries blends;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The stray stars, whose innumerable light</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Repeats one mystery till conjecture ends;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The stream of time, known by birth-bursting bubbles;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The gulf of silence, empty even of nought;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thought’s high-walled maze, which the outed owner troubles</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Because the string’s lost and the plan forgot:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When I think on this and that here I stand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The thinker of these thoughts, emptily wise,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holding up to my thinking my thing-hand</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And looking at it with thought-alien eyes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">The prayer of my wonder looketh past</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">The universal darkness lone and vast.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-19" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XIX</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Beauty and love let no one separate,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whom exact Nature did to each other fit,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Giving to Beauty love as finishing fate</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And to Love beauty as true colour of it.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let he but friend be who the soul finds fair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But let none love outside the body’s thought,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So the seen couple’s togetherness shall bear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Truth to the beauty each in the other sought.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I could but love thee out of mockery</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of love and thee and mine own ugliness;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Therefore thy beauty I sing and wish not thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thanking the Gods I long not out of place,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Lest, like a slave that for kings’ robes doth long,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Obtained, shall with mere wearing do them wrong.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-20" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XX</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When in the widening circle of rebirth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To a new flesh my travelled soul shall come,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And try again the unremembered earth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With the old sadness for the immortal home,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall I revisit these same differing fields</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And cull the old new flowers with the same sense,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That some small breath of foiled remembrance yields,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of more age than my days in this pretence?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall I again regret strange faces lost</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of which the present memory is forgot</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And but in unseen bulks of vagueness tossed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Out of the closed sea and black night of Thought?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Were thy face one, what sweetness will’t not be,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Though by blind feeling, to remember thee!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-21" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XXI</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thought was born blind, but Thought knows what is seeing.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Its careful touch, deciphering forms from shapes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Still suggests form as aught whose proper being</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mere finding touch with erring darkness drapes.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet whence, except from guessed sight, does touch teach</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That touch is but a close and empty sense?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How does mere touch, self-uncontented, reach</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For some truer sense’s whole intelligence?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The thing once touched, if touch be now omitted,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stands yet in memory real and outward known,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So the untouching memory of touch is fitted</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With sense of a sense whereby far things are shown</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">So, by touch of untouching, wrongly aright,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Touch’ thought of seeing sees not things but Sight.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-22" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XXII</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My soul is a stiff pageant, man by man,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of some Egyptian art than Egypt older,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Found in some tomb whose rite no guess can scan,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where all things else to coloured dust did moulder.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whate’er its sense may mean, its age is twin</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To that of priesthoods whose feet stood near God,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When knowledge was so great that ’twas a sin</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And man’s mere soul too man for its abode.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But when I ask what means that pageant I</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And would look at it suddenly, I lose</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The sense I had of seeing it, nor can try</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Again to look, nor hath my memory a use</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">That seems recalling, save that it recalls</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">An emptiness of having seen those walls.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-23" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XXIII</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Even as upon a low and cloud-domed day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When clouds are one cloud till the horizon,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Our thinking senses deem the sun away</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And say “ ’tis sunless” and “there is no sun”;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And yet the very day they wrong truth by</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is of the unseen sun’s effluent essence,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The very words do give themselves the lie,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The very thought of absence comes from presence:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Even so deem we through Good of what is evil.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He speaks of light that speaks of absent light,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And absent god, becoming present devil,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is still the absent god by essence’ right.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">The withdrawn cause by being withdrawn doth get</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">(Being thereby cause still) the denied effect.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-24" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XXIV</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Something in me was born before the stars</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And saw the sun begin from far away.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Our yellow, local day on its wont jars,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For it hath communed with an absolute day.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through my Thought’s night, as a worn robe’s heard trail</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That I have never seen, I drag this past</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That saw the Possible like a dawn grow pale</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On the lost night before it, mute and vast.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It dates remoter than God’s birth can reach,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That had no birth but the world’s coming after.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So the world’s to me as, after whispered speech,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The cause-ignored sudden echoing of laughter.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">That ’t has a meaning my conjecture knows,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">But that ’t has meaning’s all its meaning shows.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-25" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XXV</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>We are in Fate and Fate’s and do but lack</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Outness from soul to know ourselves its dwelling,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And do but compel Fate aside or back</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By Fate’s own immanence in the compelling.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We are too far in us from outward truth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To know how much we are not what we are,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And live but in the heat of error’s youth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet young enough its acting youth to ignore.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The doubleness of mind fails us, to glance</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At our exterior presence amid things,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sizing from otherness our countenance</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And seeing our puppet will’s act-acting strings.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">An unknown language speaks in us, which we</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Are at the words of, fronted from reality.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-26" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XXVI</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The world is woven all of dream and error</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And but one sureness in our truth may lie—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That when we hold to aught our thinking’s mirror</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We know it not by knowing it thereby.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For but one side of things the mirror knows,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And knows it colded from its solidness.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A double lie its truth is; what it shows</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By true show’s false and nowhere by true place.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thought clouds our life’s day-sense with strangeness, yet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Never from strangeness more than that it’s strange</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Doth buy our perplexed thinking, for we get</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But the words’ sense from words—knowledge, truth, change.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">We know the world is false, not what is true.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Yet we think on, knowing we ne’er shall know.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-27" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XXVII</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>How yesterday is long ago! The past</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is a fixed infinite distance from to-day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And bygone things, the first-lived as the last,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In irreparable sameness far away.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How the to-be is infinitely ever</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Out of the place wherein it will be Now,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like the seen wave yet far up in the river,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which reaches not us, but the new-waved flow!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This thing Time is, whose being is having none,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The equable tyrant of our different fates,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who could not be bought off by a shattered sun</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or tricked by new use of our careful dates.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">This thing Time is, that to the grave will bear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">My heart, sure but of it and of my fear.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-28" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XXVIII</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The edge of the green wave whitely doth hiss</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon the wetted sand. I look, yet dream.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Surely reality cannot be this!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Somehow, somewhere this surely doth but seem!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The sky, the sea, this great extent disclosed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of outward joy, this bulk of life we feel,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is not something, but something interposed.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Only what in this is not this is real.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If this be to have sense, if to be awake</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For the rarer potion mine own dreams I’ll take</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And for truth commune with imaginings,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Holding a dream too bitter, a too fair curse,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">This common sleep of men, the universe.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-29" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XXIX</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My weary life, that lives unsatisfied</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On the foiled off-brink of being e’er but this,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To whom the power to will hath been denied</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the will to renounce doth also miss;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My sated life, with having nothing sated,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In the motion of moving poisèd aye,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Within its dreams from its own dreams abated—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This life let the Gods change or take away.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For this endless succession of empty hours,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like deserts after deserts, voidly one,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Doth undermine the very dreaming powers</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And dull even thought’s active inaction,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Tainting with fore-unwilled will the dreamed act</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Twice thus removed from the unobtained fact.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-30" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XXX</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I do not know what truth the false untruth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of this sad sense of the seen world may own,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or if this flowered plant bears also a fruit</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unto the true reality unknown.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But as the rainbow, neither earth’s nor sky’s,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stands in the dripping freshness of lulled rain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A hope, not real yet not fancy’s, lies</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Athwart the moment of our ceasing pain.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Somehow, since pain is felt yet felt as ill,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hope hath a better warrant than being hoped;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Since pain is felt as aught we should not feel</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Man hath a Nature’s reason for having groped,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Since Time was Time and age and grief his measures,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Towards a better shelter than Time’s pleasures.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-31" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XXXI</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I am older than Nature and her Time</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By all the timeless age of Consciousness,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And my adult oblivion of the clime</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where I was born makes me not countryless.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ay, and dim through my daylight thoughts escape</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yearnings for that land where my childhood dreamed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which I cannot recall in colour or shape</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But haunts my hours like something that hath gleamed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And yet is not as light remembered,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor to the left or to the right conceived;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all round me tastes as if life were dead</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the world made but to be disbelieved.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Thus I my hope on unknown truth lay; yet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">How but by hope do I the unknown truth get?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-32" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XXXII</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When I have sense of what to sense appears,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sense is sense ere ’tis mine or mine in me is.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When I hear, Hearing, ere I do hear, hears.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When I see, before me abstract Seeing sees.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I am part Soul part I in all I touch—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Soul by that part I hold in common with all,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I the spoiled part, that doth make sense such</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As I can err by it and my sense mine call.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The rest is wondering what these thoughts may mean,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That come to explain and suddenly are gone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like messengers that mock the message’ mien,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Explaining all but the explanation;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">As if we a ciphered letter’s cipher hit</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And find it in an unknown language writ.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-33" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XXXIII</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He that goes back does, since he goes, advance,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Though he doth not advance who goeth back,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And he that seeks, though he on nothing chance,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>May still by words be said to find a lack.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This paradox of having, that is nought</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In the world’s meaning of the things it screens,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is yet true of the substance of pure thought</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And there means something by the nought it means.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For thinking nought does on nought being confer,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As giving not is acting not to give,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And, to the same unbribed true thought, to err</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is to find truth, though by its negative.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">So why call this world false, if false to be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Be to be aught, and being aught Being to be?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-34" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XXXIV</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Happy the maimed, the halt, the mad, the blind—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All who, stamped separate by curtailing birth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Owe no duty’s allegiance to mankind</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor stand a valuing in their scheme of worth!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But I, whom Fate, not Nature, did curtail,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By no exterior voidness being exempt,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Must bear accusing glances where I fail,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fixed in the general orbit of contempt.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fate, less than Nature in being kind to lacking,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Giving the ill, shows not as outer cause,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Making our mock-free will the mirror’s backing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which Fate’s own acts as if in itself shows;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And men, like children, seeing the image there,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Take place for cause and make our will Fate bear.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-35" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XXXV</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Good. I have done. My heart weighs. I am sad.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The outer day, void statue of lit blue,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is altogether outward, other, glad</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At mere being not-I (so my aches construe).</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I, that have failed in everything, bewail</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nothing this hour but that I have bewailed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For in the general fate what is’t to fail?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Why, fate being past for Fate, ’tis but to have failed.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whatever hap or stop, what matters it,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sith to the mattering our will bringeth nought?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With the higher trifling let us world our wit,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Conscious that, if we do’t, that was the lot</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">The regular stars bound us to, when they stood</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Godfathers to our birth and to our blood.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="english-poems" epub:type="volume bodymatter">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">English Poems</h2>
|
||
<article id="antinous" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Antinous</h3>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The rain outside was cold in Hadrian’s soul.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The boy lay dead</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On the low couch, on whose denuded whole,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To Hadrian’s eyes, whose sorrow was a dread,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The shadowy light of Death’s eclipse was shed.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The boy lay dead, and the day seemed a night</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Outside. The rain fell like a sick affright</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Nature at her work in killing him.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Memory of what he was gave no delight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Delight at what he was dead and dim.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O hands that once had clasped Hadrian’s warm hands,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whose cold now found them cold!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O hair bound erstwhile with the pressing bands!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O eyes half-diffidently bold!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O bare female male-body such</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As a god’s likeness to humanity!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O lips whose opening redness erst could touch</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lust’s seats with a live art’s variety!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O fingers skilled in things not to be told!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O tongue which, counter-tongued, made the blood bold!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O complete regency of lust throned on</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Raged consciousness’s spilled suspension!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These things are things that now must be no more.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The rain is silent, and the Emperor</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sinks by the couch. His grief is like a rage,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For the gods take away the life they give</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And spoil the beauty they made live.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He weeps and knows that every future age</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is looking on him out of the to-be;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His love is on a universal stage;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A thousand unborn eyes weep with his misery.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Antinous is dead, is dead for ever,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is dead for ever and all loves lament.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Venus herself, that was Adonis’ lover,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Seeing him, that newly lived, now dead again,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lends her old griefs renewal to be blent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With Hadrian’s pain.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now is Apollo sad because the stealer</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of his white body is for ever cold.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No careful kisses on that nippled point</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Covering his heart-beats’ silent place restore</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His life again to ope his eyes and feel her</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Presence along his veins Love’s fortress hold.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No warmth of his another’s warmth demands.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now will his hands behind his head no more</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Linked, in that posture giving all but hands,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On the projected body hands implore.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The rain falls, and he lies like one who hath</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Forgotten all the gestures of his love</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And lies awake waiting their hot return.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But all his arts and toys are now with Death.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This human ice no way of heat can move;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These ashes of a fire no flame can burn.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O Hadrian, what will now thy cold life be?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What boots it to be lord of men and might?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His absence o’er thy visible empery</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Comes like a night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor is there morn in hopes of new delight.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now are thy nights widowed of love and kisses;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now are thy days robbed of the night’s awaiting;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now have thy lips no purpose for thy blisses,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Left but to speak the name that Death is mating</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With solitude and sorrow and affright.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thy vague hands grope, as if they had dropped joy.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To hear that the rain ceases lift thy head,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And thy raised glance take to the lovely boy.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Naked he lies upon that memoried bed;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By thine own hand he lies uncovered.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There was he wont thy dangling sense to cloy,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And uncloy with more cloying, and annoy</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With newer uncloying till thy senses bled.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>His hand and mouth knew games to reinstal</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Desire that thy worn spine was hurt to follow.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sometimes it seemed to thee that all was hollow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In sense in each new straining of sucked lust.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then still new turns of toying would he call</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To thy nerves’ flesh, and thou wouldst tremble and fall</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Back on thy cushions with thy mind’s sense hushed.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“Beautiful was my love, yet melancholy.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He had that art, that makes love captive wholly,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of being slowly sad among lust’s rages.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now the Nile gave him up, the eternal Nile.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Under his wet locks Death’s blue paleness wages</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now war upon our wishing with sad smile.”</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Even as he thinks, the lust that is no more</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Than a memory of lust revives and takes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His senses by the hand, his felt flesh wakes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all becomes again what ’twas before.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The dead body on the bed starts up and lives</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And comes to lie with him, close, closer, and</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A creeping love-wise and invisible hand</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At every body-entrance to his lust</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whispers caresses which flit off yet just</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Remain enough to bleed his last nerve’s strand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O sweet and cruel Parthian fugitives!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So he half rises, looking on his lover,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That now can love nothing but what none know.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Vaguely, half-seeing what he doth behold,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He runs his cold lips all the body over.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And so ice-senseless are his lips that, lo!,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He scarce tastes death from the dead body’s cold,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But it seems both are dead or living both</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And love is still the presence and the mover.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then his lips cease on the other lips’ cold sloth.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah, there the wanting breath reminds his lips</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That from beyond the gods hath moved a mist</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Between him and this boy. His finger-tips,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Still idly searching o’er the body, list</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For some flesh-response to their waking mood.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But their love-question is not understood:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The god is dead whose cult was to be kissed!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He lifts his hand up to where heaven should be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And cries on the mute gods to know his pain.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let your calm faces turn aside to his plea,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O granting powers! He will yield up his reign.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In the still deserts he will parchèd live,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In the far barbarous roads beggar or slave,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But to his arms again the warm boy give!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Forego that space ye meant to be his grave!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Take all the female loveliness of earth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And in one mound of death its remnant spill!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But, by sweet Ganymede, that Jove found worth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And above Hebe did elect to fill</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His cup at his high feasting, and instil</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The friendlier love that fills the other’s dearth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The clod of female embraces resolve</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To dust, O father of the gods, but spare</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This boy and his white body and golden hair!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Maybe thy better Ganymede thou feel’st</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That he should be, and out of jealous care</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From Hadrian’s arms to thine his beauty steal’st.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He was a kitten playing with lust, playing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With his own and with Hadrian’s, sometimes one</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And sometimes two, now linking, now undone;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now leaving lust, now lust’s high lusts delaying;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now eyeing lust not wide, but from askance</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Jumping round on lust’s half-unexpectance;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now softly gripping, then with fury holding,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now playfully playing, now seriously, now lying</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By th’ side of lust looking at it, now spying</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which way to take lust in his lust’s withholding.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thus did the hours slide from their tangled hands</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And from their mixed limbs the moments slip.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now were his arms dead leaves, now iron bands;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now were his lips cups, now the things that sip;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now were his eyes too closed and now too looking;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now were his uncontinuings frenzy working;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now were his arts a feather and now a whip.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>That love they lived as a religion</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Offered to gods that come themselves to men.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sometimes he was adorned or made to don</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Half-vestures, then in statued nudity</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Did imitate some god that seems to be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By marble’s accurate virtue men’s again.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now was he Venus, white out of the seas;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now was he Apollo, young and golden;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now as Jove sate he in mock judgment over</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The presence at his feet of his slaved lover;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now was he an acted rite, by one beholden,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In ever-repositioned mysteries.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now he is something anyone can be.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O stark negation of the thing it is!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O golden-haired moon-cold loveliness!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Too cold! too cold! and love as cold as he!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Love through the memories of his love doth roam</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As through a labyrinth, in sad madness glad,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now calls on his name and bids him come,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now is smiling at his imaged coming</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That is i’th’ heart like faces in the gloaming—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mere shining shadows of the forms they had.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The rain again like a vague pain arose</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And put the sense of wetness in the air.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Suddenly did the Emperor suppose</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He saw this room and all in it from far.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He saw the couch, the boy, and his own frame</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Cast down against the couch, and he became</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A clearer presence to himself, and said</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These words unuttered, save to his soul’s dread:</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“I shall build thee a statue that will be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To the continued future evidence</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of my love and thy beauty and the sense</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That beauty giveth of divinity.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Though death with subtle uncovering hands remove</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The apparel of life and empire from our love,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet its nude statue, that thou dost inspirit,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All future times, whether they will’t or not,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall, like a gift a forcing god hath brought,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Inevitably inherit.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“Ay, this thy statue shall I build, and set</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon the pinnacle of being thine, that Time</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By its subtle dim crime</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Will fear to eat it from life, or to fret</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With war’s or envy’s rage from bulk and stone.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fate cannot be that! Gods themselves, that make</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Things change, Fate’s own hand, that doth overtake</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The gods themselves with darkness, will draw back</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From marring thus thy statue and my boon,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Leaving the wide world hollow with thy lack.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“This picture of our love will bridge the ages.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It will loom white out of the past and be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Eternal, like a Roman victory,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In every heart the future will give rages</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of not being our love’s contemporary.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“Yet oh that this were needed not, and thou</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wert the red flower perfuming my life,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The garland on the brows of my delight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The living flame on altars of my soul!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would all this were a thing thou mightest now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Smile at from under thy death-mocking lids</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And wonder that I should so put a strife</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Twixt me and gods for thy lost presence bright;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Were there nought in this but my empty dole</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And thy awakening smile half to condole</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With what my dreaming pain to hope forbids.”</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thus went he, like a lover who is waiting,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From place to place in his dim doubting mind.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now was his hope a great intention fating</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Its wish to being, now felt he was blind</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In some point of his seen wish undefined.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When love meets death we know not what to feel.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When death foils love we know not what to know.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now did his doubt hope, now did his hope doubt;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now what his wish dreamed the dream’s sense did flout</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And to a sullen emptiness congeal.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then again the gods fanned love’s darkening glow.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“Thy death has given me a higher lust—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A flesh-lust raging for eternity.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On mine imperial fate I set my trust</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That the high gods, that made me emperor be,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Will not annul from a more real life</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My wish that thou should’st live for e’er and stand</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A fleshly presence on their better land,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>More lovely yet not lovelier, for there</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No things impossible our wishes mar</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor pain our hearts with change and time and strife.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“Love, love, my love! thou art already a god.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This thought of mine, which I a wish believe,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is no wish, but a sight, to me allowed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By the great gods, that love and can give</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To mortal hearts, under the shape of wishes—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of wishes having undiscovered reaches—,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A vision of the real things beyond</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Our life-imprisoned life, our sense-bound sense.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ay, what I wish thee to be thou art now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Already. Already on Olympic ground</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou walkest and art perfect, yet art thou,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For thou needst no excess of thee to don</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Perfect to be, being perfection.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“My heart is singing like a morning bird.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A great hope from the gods comes down to me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And bids my heart to subtler sense be stirred</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And think not that strange evil of thee</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That to think thee mortal would be.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“My love, my love, my god-love! Let me kiss</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On thy cold lips thy hot lips now immortal,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Greeting thee at Death’s portal’s happiness,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For to the gods Death’s portal is Life’s portal.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“Were no Olympus yet for thee, my love</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would make thee one, where thou sole god mightst prove,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I thy sole adorer, glad to be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy sole adorer through infinity.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That were a universe divine enough</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For love and me and what to me thou art.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To have thee is a thing made of gods’ stuff</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And to look on thee eternity’s best part.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“But this is true and mine own art: the god</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou art now is a body made by me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For, if thou art now flesh reality</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Beyond where men age and night cometh still,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Tis to my love’s great making power thou owest</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That life thou on thy memory bestowest</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And mak’st it carnal. Had my love not held</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>An empire of my mighty legioned will,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou to gods’ consort hadst not been compelled.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“My love that found thee, when it found thee did</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But find its own true body and exact look.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Therefore when now thy memory I bid</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Become a god where gods are, I but move</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To death’s high column’s top the shape it took</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And set it there for vision of all love.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“O love, my love, put up with my strong will</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of loving to Olympus, be thou there</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The latest god, whose honey-coloured hair</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Takes divine eyes! As thou wert on earth, still</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In heaven bodifully be and roam,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A prisoner of that happiness of home,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With elder gods, while I on earth do make</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A statue for thy deathlessness’ seen sake.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“Yet thy true deathless statue I shall build</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Will be no stone thing, but that same regret</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By which our love’s eternity is willed.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One side of that is thou, as gods see thee</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now, and the other, here, thy memory.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My sorrow will make that men’s god, and set</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy naked memory on the parapet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That looks upon the seas of future times.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Some will say all our love was but our crimes;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Others against our names the knives will whet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of their glad hate of beauty’s beauty, and make</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Our names a base of heap whereon to rake</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The names of all our brothers with quick scorn.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet will our presence, like eternal Morn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ever return at Beauty’s hour, and shine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Out of the East of Love, in light to enshrine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>New gods to come, the lacking world to adorn.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“All that thou art now is thyself and I.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Our dual presence has its unity</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In that perfection of body which my love,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By loving it, became, and did from life</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Raise into godness, calm above the strife</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of times, and changing passions far above.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“But since men see more with the eyes than soul,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Still I in stone shall utter this great dole;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Still, eager that men hunger by thy presence,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I shall to marble carry this regret</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That in my heart like a great star is set.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus, even in stone, our love shall stand so great</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In thy statue of us, like a god’s fate,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Our love’s incarnate and discarnate essence,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That, like a trumpet reaching over seas</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And going from continent to continent,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Our love shall speak its joy and woe, death-blent,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Over infinities and eternities.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“And here, memory or statue, we shall stand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Still the same one, as we were hand in hand</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor felt each other’s hand for feeling.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Men still will see me when thy sense they take.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The entire gods might pass, in the vast wheeling</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of the globed ages. If but for thy sake,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That, being theirs, hadst gone with their gone band,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They would return, as they had slept to wake.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“Then the end of days when Jove were born again</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And Ganymede again pour at his feast</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would see our dual soul from death released</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And recreated unto joy, fear, pain—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All that love doth contain;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Life—all the beauty that doth make a lust</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of love’s own true love, at the spell amazed;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And, if our very memory wore to dust,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By some gods’ race of the end of ages must</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Our dual unity again be raised.”</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>It rained still. But slow-treading night came in,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Closing the weary eyelids of each sense.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The very consciousness of self and soul</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Grew, like a landscape through dim raining, dim.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The Emperor lay still, so still that now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He half forgot where now he lay, or whence</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The sorrow that was still salt on his lips.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>All had been something very far, a scroll</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rolled up. The things he felt were like the rim</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That haloes round the moon when the night weeps.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>His head was bowed into his arms, and they</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On the low couch, foreign to his sense, lay.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His closed eyes seemed open to him, and seeing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The naked floor, dark, cold, sad and unmeaning.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His hurting breath was all his sense could know.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Out of the falling darkness the wind rose</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And fell; a voice swooned in the courts below;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the Emperor slept.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i11">The gods came now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And bore something away, no sense knows how,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On unseen arms of power and repose.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="inscriptions" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Inscriptions</h3>
|
||
<section id="inscriptions-1" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">I</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>We pass and dream. Earth smiles. Virtue is rare.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Age, duty, gods weigh on our conscious bliss.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hope for the best and for the worst prepare.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That sum of purposed wisdom speaks in this.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="inscriptions-2" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">II</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Me, Chloe, a maid, the mighty fates have given,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who was nought to them, to the peopled shades.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus the gods will. My years were but twice seven.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I am forgotten in my distant glades.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="inscriptions-3" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">III</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>From my villa on the hill I long looked down</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon the muttering town;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then one day drew (life sight-sick, dull hope shed)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My toga o’er my head</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>(The simplest gesture being the greatest thing)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like a raised wing.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="inscriptions-4" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">IV</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Not Cecrops kept my bees. My olives bore</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Oil like the sun. My several herd lowed far.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The breathing traveller rested by my door.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The wet earth smells still; dead my nostrils are.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="inscriptions-5" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">V</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I conquered. Far barbarians hear my name.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Men were dice in my game,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But to my throw myself did lesser come:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I threw dice, Fate the sum.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="inscriptions-6" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">VI</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Some were as loved, some as prizes prized.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A natural wife to the fed man my mate,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I was sufficient to whom I sufficed.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I moved, slept, bore and aged without a fate.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="inscriptions-7" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">VII</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I put by pleasure like an alien bowl.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stern, separate, mine, I looked towards where gods seem.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From behind me the common shadow stole.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dreaming that I slept not, I slept my dream.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="inscriptions-8" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">VIII</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Scarce five years passed ere I passed too.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Death came and took the child he found.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No god spared, or fate smiled at, so</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Small hands, clutching so little round.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="inscriptions-9" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">IX</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There is a silence where the town was old.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Grass grows where not a memory lies below.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We that dined loud are sand. The tale is told.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The far hoofs hush. The inn’s last light doth go.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="inscriptions-10" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">X</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>We, that both lie here, loved. This denies us.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My lost hand crumbles where her breasts’ lack is.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Love’s known, each lover is anonymous.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We both felt fair. Kiss, for that was our kiss.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="inscriptions-11" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XI</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I for my city’s want fought far and fell.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I could not tell</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What she did want, that knew she wanted me.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her walls be free,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her speech keep such as I spoke, and men die,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That she die not, as I.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="inscriptions-12" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XII</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Life lived us, not we life. We, as bees sip,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Looked, talked and had. Trees grow as we did last.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We loved the gods but as we see a ship.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Never aware of being aware, we passed.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="inscriptions-13" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XIII</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The work is done. The hammer is laid down.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The artisans, that built the slow-grown town,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Have been succeeded by those who still built.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All this is something lack-of-something screening.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The thought whole has no meaning</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But lies by Time’s wall like a pitcher spilt.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="inscriptions-14" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XIV</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>This covers me, that erst had the blue sky.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This soil treads me, that once I trod. My hand</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Put these inscriptions here, half knowing why;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Last, and hence seeing all, of the passing band.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="epithalamium" epub:type="z3998:poem">
|
||
<h3 epub:type="title">Epithalamium</h3>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-1" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">I</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Set ope all shutters, that the day come in</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like a sea or a din!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let not a nook of useless shade compel</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thoughts of the night, or tell</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The mind’s comparing that some things are sad,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For this day all are glad!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Tis morn, ’tis open morn, the full sun is</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Risen from out the abyss</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where last night lay beyond the unseen rim</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of the horizon dim.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now is the bride awaking. Lo! she starts</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To feel the day is home</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whose too-near night will put two different hearts</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To beat as near as flesh can let them come.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Guess how she joys in her feared going, nor opes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her eyes for fear of fearing at her joy.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now is the pained arrival of all hopes.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With the half-thought she scarce knows how to toy.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Oh, let her wait a moment or a day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And prepare for the fray</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For which her thoughts not ever quite prepare!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With the real day’s arrival she’s half wroth.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Though she wish what she wants, she yet doth stay.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her dreams yet merged are</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In the slow verge of sleep, which idly doth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The accurate hope of things remotely mar.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-2" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">II</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Part from the windows the small curtains set</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sight more than light to omit!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Look on the general fields, how bright they lie</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Under the broad blue sky,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Cloudless, and the beginning of the heat</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Does the sight half ill-treat!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The bride hath wakened. Lo! she feels her shaking</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Heart better all her waking!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her breasts are with fear’s coldness inward clutched</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And more felt on her grown,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That will by hands other than hers be touched</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And will find lips sucking their budded crown.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lo! the thought of the bridegroom’s hands already</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Feels her about where even her hands are shy,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And her thoughts shrink till they become unready.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She gathers up her body and still doth lie.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She vaguely lets her eyes feel opening.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In a fringed mist each thing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Looms, and the present day is truly clear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But to her sense of fear.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like a hue, light lies on her lidded sight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And she half hates the inevitable light.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-3" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">III</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Open the windows and the doors all wide</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lest aught of night abide,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or, like a ship’s trail in the sea, survive</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What made it there to live!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She lies in bed half waiting that her wish</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Grow bolder or more rich</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To make her rise, or poorer, to oust fear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And she rise as a common day were here.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That she would be a bride in bed with man</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The parts where she is woman do insist</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And send up messages that shame doth ban</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From being dreamed but in a shapeless mist.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She opes her eyes, the ceiling sees above</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shutting the small alcove,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And thinks, till she must shut her eyes again,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Another ceiling she this night will know,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Another house, another bed, she lain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In a way she half guesses; so</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She shuts her eyes to see not the room she</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Soon will no longer see.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-4" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">IV</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Let the wide light come through the whole house now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like a herald with brow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Garlanded round with roses and those leaves</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That love for its love weaves!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Between her and the ceiling this day’s ending</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A man’s weight will be bending.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lo! with the thought her legs she twines, well knowing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A hand will part them then;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fearing that entering in her, that allowing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That will make softness begin rude at pain.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If ye, glad sunbeams, are inhabited</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By sprites or gnomes that dally with the day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whisper her, if she shrink that she’ll be bled,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That love’s large bower is doored in this small way.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-5" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">V</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now will her grave of untorn maidenhood</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be dug in her small blood.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Assemble ye at that glad funeral</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And weave her scarlet pall,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O pinings for the flesh of man that often</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Did her secret hours soften</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And take her willing and unwilling hand</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where pleasure starteth up.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Come forth, ye moted gnomes, unruly band,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That come so quick ye spill your brimming cup;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ye that make youth young and flesh nice</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the glad spring and summer sun arise;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ye by whose secret presence the trees grow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Green, and the flowers bud, and birds sing free,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When with the fury of a trembling glow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The bull climbs on the heifer mightily!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-6" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">VI</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Sing at her window, ye heard early wings</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In whose song joy’s self sings!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Buzz in her room along her loss of sleep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O small flies, tumble and creep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Along the counterpane and on her fingers</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In mating pairs. She lingers.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Along her joined-felt legs a prophecy</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Creeps like an inward hand.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Look how she tarries! Tell her: fear not glee!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Come up! Awake! Dress for undressing! Stand!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Look how the sun is altogether all!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Life hums around her senses petalled close.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Come up! Come up! Pleasure must thee befall!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Joy to be plucked, O yet ungathered rose!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-7" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">VII</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now is she risen. Look how she looks down,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>After her slow down-slid night-gown,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On her unspotted while of nakedness</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Save where the beast’s difference from her white frame</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hairily triangling black below doth shame</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her to-day’s sight of it, till the caress</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of the chemise cover her body. Dress!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stop not, sitting upon the bed’s hard edge,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stop not to wonder at by-and-by, nor guess!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>List to the rapid birds i’th’ window ledge!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Up, up and washed! Lo! she is up half-gowned,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For she lacks hands to have power to button fit</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The white symbolic wearing, and she’s found</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By her maids thus, that come to perfect it.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-8" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">VIII</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Look how over her seeing-them-not her maids</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Smile at each other their same thought of her!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Already is she deflowered in others’ thoughts.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With curious carefulness of inlocked braids,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With hands that in the sun minutely stir,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One works her hair into concerted knots.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Another buttons tight the gown; her hand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Touching the body’s warmth of life, doth band</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her thoughts with the rude bridegroom’s hand to be.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The first then, on the veil placed mistily,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lays on her head, her own head sideways leaning,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The garland soon to have no meaning.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The other, at her knees, makes the white shoon</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fit close the trembling feet, and her eyes see</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The stockinged leg, road upwards to that boon</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where all this day centres its revelry.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-9" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">IX</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now is she gowned completely, her face won</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To a flush. Look how the sun</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shines hot and how the creeper, loosed, doth strain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To hit the heated pane!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She is all white, all she’s awaiting him.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her eyes are bright and dim.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her hands are cold, her lips are dry, her heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pants like a pursued hart.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-10" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">X</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now is she issued. List how all speech pines</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then bursts into a wave of speech again!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now is she issued out to where the guests</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Look on her daring not to look at them.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The hot sun outside shines.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A sweaty oiliness of hot life rests</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On the day’s face this hour.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A mad joy’s pent in each warm thing’s hushed power.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-11" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XI</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hang with festoons and wreaths and coronals</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The corridors and halls!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be there all round the sound of gay bells ringing!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let there be echoing singing!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pour out like a libation all your joy!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shout, even ye children, little maid and boy</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whose belly yet unfurred yet whitely decks</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A sexless thing of sex!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shout out as if ye knew what joy this is</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>You clap at in such bliss!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-12" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XII</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>This is the month and this the day.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ye must not stay.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sally ye out and in warm clusters move</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To where beyond the trees the belfry’s height</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Does in the blue wide heaven a message prove,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Somewhat calm, of delight.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now flushed and whispering loud sally ye out</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To church! The sun pours on the ordered rout,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all their following eyes clasp round the bride:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They feel like hands her bosom and her side;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like the inside of the vestment next her skin,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They round her round and fold each crevice in;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They lift her skirts up, as to tease or woo</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The cleft hid thing below;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And this they think at her peeps in their ways</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And in their glances plays.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-13" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XIII</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No more, no more of church or feast, for these</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are outward to the day, like the green trees</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That flank the road to church and the same road</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Back from the church, under a higher sun trod.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These have no more part than a floor or wall</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In the great day’s true ceremonial.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The guests themselves, no less than they that wed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hold these as nought but corridors to bed.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So are all things, that between this and dark</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Will be passed, a dim work</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of minutes, hours seen in a sleep, and dreamed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Untimed and wrongly deemed.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The bridal and the walk back and the feast</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are all for each a mist</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where he sees others through a blurred hot notion</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of drunk and veined emotion,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And a red race runs through his seeing and hearing,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A great carouse of dreams seen each on each,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Till their importunate careering</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A stopped, half-hurting point of mad joy reach.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-14" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XIV</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The bridegroom aches for the end of this and lusts</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To know those paps in sucking gusts,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To put his first hand on that belly’s hair</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And feel for the lipped lair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The fortress made but to be taken, for which</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He feels the battering ram grow large and itch.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The trembling glad bride feels all the day hot</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On that still cloistered spot</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where only her nightly maiden hand did feign</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A pleasure’s empty gain.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And, of the others, most will whisper at this,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Knowing the spurt it is;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And children yet, that watch with looking eyes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Will now thrill to be wise</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In flesh, and with big men and women act</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The liquid tickling fact</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For whose taste they’ll in secret corners try</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They scarce know what still dry.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-15" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XV</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Even ye, now old, that to this come as to</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your past, your own joy throw</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Into the cup, and with the younger drink</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That which now makes you think</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of what love was when love was. (For not now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your winter thoughts allow).</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Drink with the hot day, the bride’s sad joy and</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The bridegroom’s haste inreined,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The memory of that day when ye were young</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And, with great paeans sung</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Along the surface of the depths of you,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>You paired and the night saw</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The day come in and you did still pant close,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And still the half-fallen flesh distending rose.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-16" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XVI</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No matter now or past or future. Be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lovers’ age in your glee!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Give all your thoughts to this great muscled day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That like a courser tears</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The bit of Time, to make night come and say</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The maiden mount now her first rider bears!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Flesh pinched, flesh bit, flesh sucked, flesh girt around,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Flesh crushed and ground,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These things inflame your thoughts and make ye dim</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In what ye say or seem!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rage out in naked glances till ye fright</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your ague of delight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In glances seeming clothes and thoughts to hate</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That fleshes separate!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stretch out your limbs to the warm day outside,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To feel it while it bide!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For the strong sun, the hot ground, the green grass,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Each far lake’s dazzling glass,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And each one’s flushed thought of the night to be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are all one joy-hot unity.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-17" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XVII</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>In a red bacchic surge of thoughts that beat</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On the mad temples like an ire’s amaze,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In a fury that hurts the eyes, and yet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Doth make all things clear with a blur around,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The whole group’s soul like a glad drunkard sways</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And bounds up from the ground!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ay, though all these be common people heaping</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To church, from church, the bridal keeping,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet all the satyrs and big pagan haunches</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That in taut flesh delight and teats and paunches,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And whose course, trailing through the foliage, nears</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The crouched nymph that half fears,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In invisible rush, behind, before</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This decent group move, and with hot thoughts store</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The passive souls round which their mesh they wind,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The while their rout, loud stumbling as if blind,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Makes the hilled earth wake echoing from her sleep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To the lust in their leap.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-18" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XVIII</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Io! Io! There runs a juice of pleasure’s rage</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through these frames’ mesh,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That now do really ache to strip and wage</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon each others’ flesh</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The war that fills the womb and puts milk in</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The teats a man did win,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The battle fought with rage to join and fit</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And not to hurt or hit!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Io! Io! Be drunken like the day and hour!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shout, laugh and overpower</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With clamour your own thoughts, lest they a breath</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Utter of age or death!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now is all absolute youth, and the small pains</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That thrill the filled veins</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Themselves are edged in a great tickling joy</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That halts ever ere it cloy.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Put out of mind all things save flesh and giving</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The male milk that makes living!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rake out great peals of joy like grass from ground</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In your o’ergrown soul found!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Make your great rut dispersedly rejoice</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With laugh or voice,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As if all earth, hot sky and tremulous air</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A mighty cymbal were!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-19" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XIX</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Set the great Flemish hour aflame!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your senses of all leisure maim!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Cast down with blows that joy even where they hurt</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The hands that mock to avert!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All things pick up to bed that lead ye to</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be naked that ye woo!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Tear up, pluck up, like earth who treasure seek,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When the chest’s ring doth peep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The thoughts that cover thoughts of the acts of heat</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This great day does intreat!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now seem all hands pressing the paps as if</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They meant them juice to give!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now seem all things pairing on one another,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hard flesh soft flesh to smother,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And hairy legs and buttocks balled to split</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>White legs mid which they shift.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet these mixed mere thoughts in each mind but speak</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The day’s push love to wreak,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The man’s ache to have felt possession,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The woman’s man to have on,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The abstract surge of life clearly to reach</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The bodies’ concrete beach.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet some work of this doth the real day don.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now are skirts lifted in the servants’ hall,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the whored belly’s stall</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>Ope to the horse that enters in a rush,</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>Half late, too near the gush.</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>And even now doth an elder guest emmesh</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>A flushed young girl in a dark nook apart,</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>And leads her slow to move his produced flesh.</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>Look how she likes with something in her heart</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>To feel her hand work the protruded dart!</span>
|
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</p>
|
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</section>
|
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<section id="epithalamium-20" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
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<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XX</h4>
|
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<p>
|
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<span>But these are thoughts or promises or but</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>Half the purpose of rut,</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>And this is lust thought-of or futureless</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>Or used but lust to ease.</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>Do ye the circle true of love pretend,</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>And, what Nature, intend!</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>Do ye actually ache</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The horse of lust by reins of life to bend</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And pair in love for love’s creating sake!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bellow! Roar! Stallions be or bulls that fret</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On their seed’s hole to get!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Surge for that carnal complement that will</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your flesh’s young juice thrill</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To the wet mortised joints at which you meet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The coming life to greet,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In the tilled womb that will bulge till it do</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The plenteous curve of spheric earth renew!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="epithalamium-21" epub:type="z3998:subchapter">
|
||
<h4 epub:type="ordinal z3998:roman">XXI</h4>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And ye, that wed to-day, guess these instincts</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of the concerted group in hints</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yourselves from Nature naturally have,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And your good future brave!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Close lips, nude arms, felt breasts and organ mighty,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Do your joy’s night work rightly!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Teach them these things, O day of pomp of heat!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Leave them in thoughts such as must make the feat</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of flesh inevitable and natural as</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pissing when wish doth press!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let them cling, kiss and fit</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Together with natural wit,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And let the night, coming, teach them that use</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For youth is in abuse!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let them repeat the link, and pour and pour</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Their pleasure till they can no more!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ay, let the night watch over their repeated</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Coupling in darkness, till thought’s self, o’erheated,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Do fret and trouble, and sleep come on hurt frames,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And, mouthing each one’s names,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They in each other’s arms dream still of love</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And something of it prove!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And, if they wake, teach them to recommence,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For an hour was far hence;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Till their contacted flesh, in heat o’erblent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With joy, sleep sick, while, spent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The stars, the sky pale in the East and shiver</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where light the night doth sever,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And with clamour of joy and life’s young din</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The warm new day come in.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
</article>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<article id="meantime" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Meantime</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Far away, far away,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Far away from here …</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There is no worry after joy</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Or away from fear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Far away from here.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her lips were not very red,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Nor her hair quite gold.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her hands played with rings.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">She did not let me hold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her hands playing with gold.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She is something past,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Far away from pain.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Joy can touch her not, nor hope</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Enter her domain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Neither love in vain.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Perhaps at some day beyond</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Shadows and light</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She will think of me and make</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">All me a delight</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">All away from sight.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="spell" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Spell</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>From the moonlit brink of dreams</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">I stretch foiled hands to thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O borne down other streams</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Than eye can think to see!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O crowned with spirit-beams!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">O veiled spirituality!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My dreams and thoughts abate</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Their pennons at thy feet,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O angel born too late</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">For fallen men to meet!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In what new sensual state</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Could our twined lives feel sweet?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What new emotion must</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">I dream to think thee mine?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What purity of lust?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">O tendrilled as a vine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Around my caressed trust!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">O dream-pressed spirit-wine!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<section id="colophon" epub:type="colophon backmatter">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Colophon</h2>
|
||
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was compiled from poetry published between <time>1918</time> and <time>1923</time> by<br/>
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