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6103 lines
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<title>Poetry</title>
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<h1 epub:type="title">Poetry</h1>
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<p>By <b epub:type="z3998:author z3998:personal-name">Georgia Douglas Johnson</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="#beautiful-eyes">Beautiful Eyes</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#fame">Fame</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#the-final-strain">The Final Strain</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#heritage">Heritage</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#the-heart-of-a-woman">The Heart of a Woman</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#the-dreams-of-the-dreamer">The Dreams of the Dreamer</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#gossamer">Gossamer</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sympathy">Sympathy</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#contemplation">Contemplation</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#dead-leaves">Dead Leaves</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#dawn">Dawn</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#elevation">Elevation</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#peace-1">Peace</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#whither">Whither?</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#quest">Quest</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#mate">Mate</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#emblems">Emblems</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#mirrored">Mirrored</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#repulse">Repulse</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#query">Query</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#pent">Pent</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#pages-from-life">Pages from Life</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#recall">Recall</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#gethsemane">Gethsemane</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#impelled">Impelled</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#eventide">Eventide</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#thrall">Thrall</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#youth">Youth</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#joy-1">Joy</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#posthumous">Posthumous</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#omega">Omega</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#tears-and-kisses">Tears and Kisses</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#isolation">Isolation</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#where">Where?</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#tired">Tired</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#smothered-fires">Smothered Fires</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#the-measure">The Measure</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#inevitably">Inevitably</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#modulations">Modulations</a>
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<a href="#memory">Memory</a>
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<a href="#rhythm">Rhythm</a>
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<a href="#gilead">Gilead</a>
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<a href="#foredoom">Foredoom</a>
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<a href="#wheneer-i-lift-my-eyes-to-bliss">Whene’er I Lift My Eyes to Bliss</a>
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<a href="#despair">Despair</a>
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<a href="#when-i-am-dead">When I Am Dead</a>
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<a href="#supreme">Supreme</a>
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<a href="#in-quest">In Quest</a>
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<a href="#recompense">Recompense</a>
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<a href="#poetry">Poetry</a>
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<a href="#what-need-have-i-for-memory">What Need Have I for Memory?</a>
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<a href="#a-fantasy">A Fantasy</a>
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<a href="#souvenir">Souvenir</a>
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<a href="#illusions">Illusions</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#transpositions">Transpositions</a>
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<a href="#the-willow">The Willow</a>
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<a href="#devastation">Devastation</a>
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<a href="#springtide">Springtide</a>
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<a href="#gloamtide">Gloamtide</a>
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<a href="#pendulum">Pendulum</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#deluge">Deluge</a>
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<li>
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<a href="#retrospect">Retrospect</a>
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<a href="#glamour">Glamour</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#the-return">The Return</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#loves-tendril">Love’s Tendril</a>
|
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#my-little-dreams">My Little Dreams</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-to-the-mantled">Sonnet to the Mantled</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#sonnet-to-those-who-see-but-darkly">Sonnet to Those Who See but Darkly</a>
|
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</li>
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<li>
|
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<a href="#brotherhood">Brotherhood</a>
|
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</li>
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<li>
|
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<a href="#let-me-not-lose-my-dream">Let Me Not Lose My Dream</a>
|
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</li>
|
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<li>
|
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<a href="#let-me-not-hate">Let Me Not Hate</a>
|
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</li>
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<li>
|
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<a href="#calling-dreams">Calling Dreams</a>
|
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</li>
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<li>
|
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<a href="#desire">Desire</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#sorrow-singers">Sorrow Singers</a>
|
||
</li>
|
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<li>
|
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<a href="#the-cross">The Cross</a>
|
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</li>
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||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#prejudice-1">Prejudice</a>
|
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</li>
|
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<li>
|
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<a href="#laocoon">Laocoön</a>
|
||
</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#moods">Moods</a>
|
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</li>
|
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<li>
|
||
<a href="#hegira">Hegira</a>
|
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</li>
|
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<li>
|
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<a href="#the-passing-of-the-ex-slave">The Passing of the Ex-Slave</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#the-octoroon">The Octoroon</a>
|
||
</li>
|
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<li>
|
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<a href="#aliens">Aliens</a>
|
||
</li>
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<li>
|
||
<a href="#concord">Concord</a>
|
||
</li>
|
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<li>
|
||
<a href="#the-mother">The Mother</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#maternity">Maternity</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#black-woman">Black Woman</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#one-of-the-least-of-these-my-little-one">“One of the Least of These, My Little One”</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#shall-i-say-my-son-youre-branded">Shall I Say, “My Son, You’re Branded?”</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#my-boy">My Boy</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#guardianship">Guardianship</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#utopia">Utopia</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#little-son">Little Son</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#benediction">Benediction</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#credo">Credo</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#promise-1">Promise</a>
|
||
</li>
|
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<li>
|
||
<a href="#the-suppliant">The Suppliant</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#hope">Hope</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#cosmopolite">Cosmopolite</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#fusion">Fusion</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#perspective">Perspective</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#when-i-rise-up">When I Rise Up</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#faith">Faith</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#we-face-the-future">We Face the Future</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#soldier">Soldier</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#homing-braves">Homing Braves</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#taps">Taps</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#peace-2">Peace</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#question">Question</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#the-initiate">The Initiate</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#bondage">Bondage</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#resolution">Resolution</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#eclipse">Eclipse</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#why">Why</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#husks">Husks</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#the-watcher">The Watcher</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#the-vanished-road">The Vanished Road</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#service">Service</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#to-the-martyred">To the Martyred</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#to-john-brown">To John Brown</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#to-abraham-lincoln">To Abraham Lincoln</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#to-william-stanley-braithwaite">To William Stanley Braithwaite</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#to-w-e-b-dubois-scholar">To <abbr epub:type="z3998:given-name">W. E. B.</abbr> DuBois—Scholar</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#to-ridgely-torrence-playwright">To Ridgely Torrence—Playwright</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#to-richard-r-wright-instructor">To Richard <abbr epub:type="z3998:given-name">R.</abbr> Wright—Instructor</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#to-samuel-coleridge-taylor-upon-hearing-his">To Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Upon Hearing His</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#to-emilie-bigelow-hapgood-philanthropist">To Emilie Bigelow Hapgood—Philanthropist</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#to-henry-lincoln-johnson-lawyer">To Henry Lincoln Johnson—Lawyer</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#to-mary-church-terrell-lecturer">To Mary Church Turrell—Lecturer</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#to-may-howard-jackson-sculptor">To May Howard Jackson—Sculptor</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#to-the-memory-of-inez-milholland">To the Memory of Inez Milholland</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#to-atlanta-university-its-founders-and-teachers">To Atlanta University—Its Founders and Teachers</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#to-love">To Love</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#africa">Africa</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#lesson">Lesson</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#pilgrimage">Pilgrimage</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#to-your-eyes">To Your Eyes</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#my-son">My Son</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#the-ordeal">The Ordeal</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#escape">Escape</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#the-riddle">The Riddle</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#souls-easter">Soul’s Easter</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#friendship">Friendship</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#toy">Toy</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#promise-2">Promise</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#prejudice-2">Prejudice</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#companion">Companion</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#lethe">Lethe</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#decay">Decay</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#the-true-america">The True American</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#wishes">Wishes</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#the-snarl">The Snarl</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#i-closed-my-shutters-fast-last-night">I Closed My Shutters Fast Last Night</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#footsteps">Footsteps</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#oh-night-of-love">Oh Night of Love</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#autumn">Autumn</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#thralldom">Thralldom</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#separation">Separation</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#loves-miracle">Love’s Miracle</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#proving">Proving</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#interim">Interim</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#good-bye">Good-Bye</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#a-paradox">A Paradox</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#how-my-heart-sinks">How My Heart Sinks</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#to-time">To Time</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#welt">Welt</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#review">Review</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#illusion">Illusion</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#parody">Parody</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#delusion">Delusion</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#sunset">Sunset</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#finis">Finis</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#ivy">Ivy</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#joy-2">Joy</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#one-day">One Day</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#attar">Attar</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#youths-progeny">Youth’s Progeny</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#i-wonder">I Wonder</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#values">Values</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#armageddon">Armageddon</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#le-soir" lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Le Soir</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#treasure">Treasure</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#retrospection">Retrospection</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#springtime">Springtime</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#destiny">Destiny</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#envoys">Envoys</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#i-want-to-die-while-you-love-me">I Want to Die While You Love Me</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#ecstasy">Ecstasy</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#pledge">Pledge</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#your-eyes">Your Eyes</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#amour">Amour</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#finality">Finality</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#in-love">In Love</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#fiction">Fiction</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
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<a href="#dead-days">Dead Days</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#break-break-my-heart">Break, Break My Heart</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#little-king">Little King</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#romance">Romance</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#falling-gods">Falling Gods</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#armor">Armor</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#divide">Divide</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#return">Return</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#song-of-the-sinner">Song of the Sinner</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#celibacy">Celibacy</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="#offering">Offering</a>
|
||
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|
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<li>
|
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<a href="#estrangement">Estrangement</a>
|
||
</li>
|
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<li>
|
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<a href="#recessional">Recessional</a>
|
||
</li>
|
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<li>
|
||
<a href="#sepulchre">Sepulchre</a>
|
||
</li>
|
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<li>
|
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<a href="#curtain">Curtain</a>
|
||
</li>
|
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<li>
|
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<a href="#afterglow">Afterglow</a>
|
||
</li>
|
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<li>
|
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<a href="#colophon">Colophon</a>
|
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<li>
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<a href="#uncopyright">Uncopyright</a>
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<h2 epub:type="title">Imprint</h2>
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<article id="beautiful-eyes" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
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<h2 epub:type="title">Beautiful Eyes</h2>
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<span>Eyes like the violet—in them I see</span>
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<span>All that is fair, that is holy to me!</span>
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<span>Eyes that shed fragrance, so constant, so true,</span>
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<span>Pure as a clear drop of morning dew.</span>
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<span>Eyes like the violet, gently along</span>
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<span>Lead me to vespers—to prayer and to song.</span>
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<span>Eyes like the violet, let me I pray</span>
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<span>Live within range of thy glances all day!</span>
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<article id="fame" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
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<h2 epub:type="title">Fame</h2>
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<span>Through the land of tribulation,</span>
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<span class="i1">O’er the river of despair,</span>
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<span>After love has all been wasted,</span>
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<span class="i1">After every song is sung;</span>
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<span>Late—too late, the world will crown you,</span>
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<span class="i1">Useless! Love and song are done.</span>
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<article id="the-final-strain" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
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<h2 epub:type="title">The Final Strain</h2>
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<p>
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<span>I climbed the craggy hill of fame,</span>
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<span class="i1">Heart-sore and wearily,</span>
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|
||
<span>Stood on her gleaming goal at length,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And sighed in ecstasy.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“O God,” I cried, “what bliss”—when lo!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Came stealing like a pall,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The strains of Life’s Last Symphony,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">In Prelude, to—<em>the call</em>.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="heritage" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Heritage</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Happy youth in joyous laughter,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Wafts me pensively alone</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O’er the winding way, where sorrow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Claims the Mantled for her own.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I can hear their voices ringing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Down the corridor of years,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As they lift their twilight faces,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Through a mist of falling tears!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-heart-of-a-woman" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Heart of a Woman</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The heart of a woman falls back with the night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And enters some alien cage in its plight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-dreams-of-the-dreamer" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Dreams of the Dreamer</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The dreams of the dreamer</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Are life-drops that pass</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The break in the heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">To the soul’s hour-glass.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The songs of the singer</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Are tones that repeat</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The cry of the heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">’Till it ceases to beat.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="gossamer" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Gossamer</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The peerless boon of innocence,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The first in nature’s list,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is fading, ere the rising sun</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The world awake has kist.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The early dew upon the grass,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The purity of morn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The glint that lies in virgin cheek,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Frail cobwebs—of the dawn.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sympathy" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Sympathy</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My joy leaps with your ecstasy,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">In sympathy divine;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The smiles that wreathe upon your lips.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Find sentinels on mine:</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Your lightest sigh I’m echoing,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I tremble with your pain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all your tears are falling</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">In my heart like bitter rain.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="contemplation" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Contemplation</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>We stand mute!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No words can paint such fragile imagery,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Those prismic gossamers that roll</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Beyond the sky-line of the soul;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We stand mute!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="dead-leaves" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Dead Leaves</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The breaking dead leaves ’neath my feet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A plaintive melody repeat,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Recalling shattered hopes that lie</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As relics of a bygone sky.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Again I thread the mazy past,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Back where the mounds are scattered fast—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Oh! foolish tears, why do you start,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>
|
||
<em>To break of dead leaves in the heart?</em>
|
||
</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="dawn" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Dawn</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Trailing night’s sand-sifted stars,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rainbows sweep, as day unbars,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fragrant essences of morn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bathe humanity—new-born!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="elevation" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Elevation</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There are highways in the soul,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Heights like pyramids that rise</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Far beyond earth-veilèd eyes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Sweeping through the barless skies</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">O’er the line where daylight dies—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There are highways in the soul!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="peace-1" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Peace</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I rest me deep within the wood,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Drawn by its silent call,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Far from the throbbing crowd of men</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">On nature’s breast I fall.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My couch is sweet with blossoms fair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">A bed of fragrant dreams,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And soft upon my ear there falls</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The lullaby of streams.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The tumult of my heart is stilled,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Within this sheltered spot,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Deep in the bosom of the wood,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Forgetting, and—forgot!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="whither" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Whither?</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Minutes swiftly throb and pass,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Shadows cross the dial-glass,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Speeding ever to some call,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Weary world and shadows, all.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Down the closing aisles of day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Tramping footsteps die away,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But no tidings thread the gloom,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">From the hushed and silent tomb.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="quest" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Quest</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The phantom happiness I sought</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">O’er every crag and moor;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I paused at every postern gate,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And knocked at every door;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>In vain I searched the land and sea,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">E’en to the inmost core,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The curtains of eternal night</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Descend—my search is o’er.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="mate" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Mate</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Our separate winding ways we trod,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Along the highways, unto God,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unbonded by the clasp of hand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Without a vow—we understand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Estranged for aye, the fusing kiss,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Omnipotent, we bide in this—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>
|
||
<em>They need no trammeling of bars</em>
|
||
</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>
|
||
<em>Whose souls were welded with the stars.</em>
|
||
</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="emblems" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Emblems</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A wordless kiss, a stifled sigh,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A trembling lip, a downcast eye,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">“Alas,” they say,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">“A-day, a-day,”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The cruse has failed, the lamp must die!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="mirrored" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Mirrored</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When lone and solitaire within your chamber,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">With lamp unlit, as evening shades unroll,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If you reveal the trail your thoughts are taking,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I then may read the riddle of your soul.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>For it is then, the tired mind unveiling,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Drifts stark into the holy after-glow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Within the hour of quiet meditation,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The tidal thoughts, like limpid waters, flow.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="repulse" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Repulse</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nobody cares when I am glad,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I beat upon their hearts in glee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">“Drink, drink joy’s brimming cup with me,”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">All echoless, my ecstasy—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nobody cares when I am glad.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nobody cares when I am sad,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Whene’er I seek compassion’s breast,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I falter wounded from my quest</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Back! back into my heart, sore prest—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nobody cares when I am sad.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="query" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Query</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Is she the sage who will not sip</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The cup love presses to her lip?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or she who drinks the mad cup dry,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And turns with smiling face—to die?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="pent" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Pent</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The rain is falling steadily</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Upon the thirsty earth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While dry-eyed, I remain, and calm</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Amid my own heart’s dearth.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Break! break!! ye flood-gates of my tears</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">All pent in agony,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rain, rain! upon my scorching soul</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And flood it as the sea!!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="pages-from-life" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Pages from Life</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Not for your tender eyes that shine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor for your red lips pulsing wine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I love you, dear: your soul divine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In sweet captivity, holds mine!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<hr/>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The tender eyes have lost their glow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The flagons of the lips run low,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The autumn trembles in the air—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>
|
||
<em>A woman passes solitaire!</em>
|
||
</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="recall" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Recall</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Winter—aback sweeps the inward eye,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fleet o’er the trail to a rose-wreathed sky,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Girt by a cordon of dreams I dwell</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Deep in the heart of the old-time spell.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Almost, the tones of your whispered word,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Almost! the thrill that your dear lips stirred,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Almost!! that wild pulsing throb again—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="dl2">
|
||
<span>Almost!!!—</span>
|
||
<span>(’Tis winter, the falling rain).</span>
|
||
</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="gethsemane" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Gethsemane</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Into the garden of sorrow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Some day we all must roam,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If not to-day, then to-morrow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bow ’neath its purple dome,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Out from the musk-laden banqueting halls,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Doffing our mirth-spangled vestments like thralls,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Softly we wend to Gethsemane,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In the hour that sorrow calls!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="impelled" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Impelled</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Athwart the sky the great sun sails,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through aeons thus, the daylight trails,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And man, living breath of the sod</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Beholding, in his heart knows God.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Throughout the night’s long brooding deep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Earth’s trustful children die-to-sleep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But with the whisperings of morn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Awake, unto the day, new-born.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The mystery of earth untold,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The great infinite, none behold,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Forge ever new the spiral chain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Revolving man to God again.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="eventide" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Eventide</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The silence of the brooding night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Enfolds me with its eerie light;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I lie upon its shadowed breast</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A pilgrim, wearying for rest.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nightfall! thy sable curtains steep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My very soul in solace deep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>God sends thee with thy soothing balms,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That I may falter to thy arms.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="thrall" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Thrall</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Fragile, tiny, just a sprite,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holding me a thrall bedight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stronger than a giant’s wand</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Serves the word of your command.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Out from rushing worlds, though low</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Should you whisper, I would know,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And would answer, though the breath</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be the gateway unto death.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="youth" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Youth</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The dew is on the grasses, dear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The blush is on the rose,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And swift across our dial-youth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">A shifting shadow goes.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The primrose moments, lush with bliss,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Exhale and fade away,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Life may renew the Autumn time,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">But nevermore the May!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="joy-1" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Joy</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There’s a soft rosy glow o’er the whole world to-day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There’s a freshness and fragrance that trembles in May,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There’s a lilt in the music that vibrates and thrills</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From the uttermost glades to the tops of the hills.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Oh! I am so happy, my heart is so light,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The shades and the shadows have vanished from sight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This wild pulsing gladness throbs like a sweet pain—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O soul of me, drink, ere night falleth again!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="posthumous" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Posthumous</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Of what avail the tardy showers,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To the famished summer flowers?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All in vain the rain-drops cry,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dead things never make reply.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Life’s belated cup of bliss,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Woo the weary lips to kiss,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When the singing is a sigh,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pulses quivering, to die.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="omega" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Omega</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The fragile fabric of our dream</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Drifts as a feather down life’s stream—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The long defile of empty days</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Grim silhouetted, mock my gaze.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Though oft escapes the stifled sigh,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A desert ever broods my eye—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Since you have utterly forgot,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>God grant that I remember not!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="tears-and-kisses" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Tears and Kisses</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There are tears sweet, refreshing like dewdrops that rise,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There are tears far too deep for the lakes of the eyes.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There are kisses like thistledown, fitfully sped,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There are kisses that live in the hearts of the dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="isolation" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Isolation</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Alone! yes, evermore alone—isolate each his way,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Though hand is echoing to hand vain sophistries of clay,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Within that veilèd, mystic place where bides the inmost soul,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No twain shall pass while tides shall wax, nor changing seasons roll.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Enisled, apart our pilgrimage, despite the arms that twine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Despite the fusing kiss that wields the magic charm of wine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Despite the interplay of sigh, the surge of sympathy,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We tread in solitude remote, the trail of destiny!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="where" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Where?</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I called you through the silent night</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Across the brooding deep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I sought you in the shadowland</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">From out the world—asleep;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No answer echoed to my call,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And now my way I thread</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>About the lowly mounds that rise</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Among the silent dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Though voiceless, you will hear my call,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Your soul will heed my cry,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Will rise, and mock the prison where</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Your bones recumbent lie.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="tired" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Tired</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I’m tired, days and nights to me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Drag on in slow monotony,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With not a single star in sight</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To lend a gleam of cheering light.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I’m tired, there are none to care</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That I am drifting to despair:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O shadows! take me to your breast</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For I am tired—I would rest.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="smothered-fires" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Smothered Fires</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A woman with a burning flame</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Deep covered through the years</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With ashes. Ah! she hid it deep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And smothered it with tears.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Sometimes a baleful light would rise</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">From out the dusky bed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And then the woman hushed it quick</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">To slumber on, as dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>At last the weary war was done</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The tapers were alight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And with a sigh of victory</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">She breathed a soft—good-night!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-measure" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Measure</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Fierce is the conflict—the battle of eyes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sure and unerring, the wordless replies,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Challenges flash from their ambushing caves—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Men, by their glances, are masters or slaves.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="inevitably" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Inevitably</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There’s nothing in the world that clings</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As does a memory that stings;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While happy hours fade and pass,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like shadows in a looking-glass.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="modulations" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Modulations</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The petals of the faded rose</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Commingle silently,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One with the atoms of the dust,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">One with the chaliced sea.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The essence of my fleeting youth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Caught in the web of time,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Exhales within the springing flowers</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Or breathes in love sublime.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="memory" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Memory</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Love’s roses I gathered, all dewy, in May,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My heart holds the breath of their attar to-day;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now, while the blasts of the winter winds ring,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I hear not the tempest, I’m dreaming of Spring.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="rhythm" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Rhythm</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Oh, my fancy teems with a world of dreams—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">They revolve in a glittering fire,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How they twirl and go with the tunes that flow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">On the breath of my soul-strung lyre.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="gilead" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Gilead</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Walk within thy own heart’s temple, child, and rest,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What you seek abides forever in thy breast,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Closer than thy folded arm</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is the soul-renewing-balm,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Walk within thy own heart’s temple, child, and rest.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="foredoom" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Foredoom</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Her life was dwarfed, and wed to blight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her very days were shades of night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her every dream was born entombed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her soul, a bud—that never bloomed.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="wheneer-i-lift-my-eyes-to-bliss" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Whene’er I Lift My Eyes to Bliss</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Whene’er I lift my eyes to bliss,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I stagger blind with pain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Afar into the folding night</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The silence, and the rain.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Whene’er I feel the urge of Spring,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">A throbbing, unknown woe</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Enfolds me; I am desolate</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">When love is calling low.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="despair" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Despair</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The curtains of twilight are drawn in the west</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And vespers are sweet on the air,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While I, through my leafless, ungarlanded way</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">But pause at the gates of despair.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Good-bye to the hopes that were never fulfilled,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Good-bye to the fond dreams that failed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Good-bye to my dead that has never been born,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Good-bye to love’s ship that ne’er sailed.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="when-i-am-dead" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">When I Am Dead</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When I am dead, withhold, I pray, your blooming legacy;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Beneath the willows did I bide, and they should cover me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I longed for light and fragrance, and I sought them far and near,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O, it would grieve me utterly, to find them on my bier!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="supreme" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Supreme</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The fairest lips are those we kiss,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With greatest ecstasy and bliss;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The brightest eyes, are those that shine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unchangingly through changing time;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The greatest love is that we know,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When life is just an afterglow.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="in-quest" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">In Quest</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>With the first blush of morning, my soul is awing,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Away o’er the phantom lands free, wandering,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I seek thee in hamlet, in woodland, and hall,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Till night-shades, enfolding my tired heart, fall.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yet ever and alway, like the thrush in a tree,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My heart lifts its preluding love-song to thee;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I call through the days, through the long weary years,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And slumber at night-fall, refreshed by my tears.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="recompense" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Recompense</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Roses after rain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pleasure after pain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Happiness will soothe the sigh,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Smiles await the tear-dimmed eye—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bloom will follow blight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Daylight trails the night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Life is sweeter</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Love is deeper</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In the heart’s twilight!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="poetry" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Poetry</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Behold! the living thrilling lines</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That course the blood like madd’ning wines,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And leap with scintillating spray</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Across the guards of ecstasy.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The flame that lights the lurid spell</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Springs from the soul’s artesian well,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Its fairy filament of art</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Entwines the fragments of a heart.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="what-need-have-i-for-memory" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">What Need Have I for Memory?</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What need have I for memory,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">When not a single flower</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Has bloomed within life’s desert</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">For me, one little hour.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What need have I for memory</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Whose burning eyes have met</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The corse of unborn happiness</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Winding the trail regret?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="a-fantasy" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">A Fantasy</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I breathe the lyric of my love</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Across the twilit way,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The gentle echoes bear it on</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Beyond the edge of day:</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>All vibrant is the melody</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The silences repeat,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My song is but my longing heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Pulsated with its beat.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>It winds amid the dusky ways</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Where far mysteries shine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To find amid God’s trackless space,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">One answering song to mine.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="souvenir" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Souvenir</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A little hour of sunshine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">A little while of joy,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We winnow in our harvesting</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">From all the world’s alloy.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>None, none, are so benighted,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Who journey up life’s hill,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But have some treasured memory,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Which lives all vibrant still.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="illusions" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Illusions</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Who hath not built his castles in the free and open air?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who hath not dreamed his rosy dreams, more fair than all the fair?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who hath not seen his castles fall, all scattered to the ground?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who bears his dream unshattered, from the dream-land where they’re found?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="transpositions" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Transpositions</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Smiles do not always echo cheer,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Nor tear-drops measure grief,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For sorrow seeks a gilded mask,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And joy in tears, relief.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-willow" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Willow</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When life is young, without a care,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Alone we walk, and free:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The world, a splendid merry round</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Of rhythmic melody.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Before the end, grim sorrow calls</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Into each mortal ear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When friendship fades to memories,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And love lies in its bier.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then, then it is that sympathy</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Is holden close and dear;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ah, then life’s consolation comes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Commingled with a tear.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="devastation" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Devastation</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O love, you have shorn me, and rifled my heart,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>You have torn down the shrine from the innermost part,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And through it now rushes a grief, sadly-wild,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That breaks as the plaint of a sorrowing child.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="springtide" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Springtide</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>All deep there stirs the throb of Spring,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Its vital pulse I’m answering,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Swift to its dominant I merge,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One with its undulating surge;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My heart awakes to virile tone</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And breaks—unanswered, and alone.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="gloamtide" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Gloamtide</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The shades of the gloaming around me are stealing,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The lure of the dusk through the silences call,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While blossoming incense comes mutely appealing,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And choiring wood-voices, vespering, fall.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Immersed in the deep of my dim sylvan-bower,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Upborne on the breast of its emerald tide,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I drift with the gleam of the vanishing hour</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Afar—where my uttermost longings abide.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="pendulum" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Pendulum</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I have swung to the uttermost reaches of pain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Mid the echo of sighs, and a deluge of rain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But ah! I rebound to the limits of bliss,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On the rapturous swing of an infinite kiss.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="deluge" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Deluge</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A whisper at twilight, a sigh through the night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A strain of soft music, a perfume so light,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Will sweep as a feather the bulwark of years,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To surges of rapture, or rivers of tears.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="retrospect" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Retrospect</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Love’s kisses spurned so long ago,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dead as the years, that o’er them flow;—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now, my gilded treasuries</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would I might give—for memories.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="glamour" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Glamour</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O come while youth’s bright rosy veil</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Beguiles your eyes and mine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let’s tread the asphodel of bliss,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And drink life’s magic wine:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Soon time will rend the gossamer,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">To wisdom’s cruelty,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While we are blind, my love, be kind,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">For soon, too soon, we see!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-return" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Return</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Again we meet—a flashing glance,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And then, to scabbard, goes the lance,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While thoughts troop on in cavalcade</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Adown the wide aisles time has made.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Back in the glow of yesterday,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With tender troth you rode away,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The sheen of rainbows in our eyes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That swept the rim of other skies.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And now a writhing worm am I,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Beneath a doomed love’s lensing eye,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let me but stagger, far from sight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To hide my anguish, in the night.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="loves-tendril" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Love’s Tendril</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Sweeter far than lyric rune</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is my baby’s cooing tune;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Brighter than the butterflies</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are the gleams within her eyes;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Firmer than an iron band</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Serves the zephyr of her hand;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Deeper than the ocean’s roll</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sounds her heart-beat in my soul.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="my-little-dreams" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">My Little Dreams</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I’m folding up my little dreams</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Within my heart tonight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And praying I may soon forget</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The torture of their sight.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>For time’s deft fingers scroll my brow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">With fell relentless art—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I’m folding up my little dreams</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Tonight, within my heart.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-to-the-mantled" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Sonnet to the Mantled</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And they shall rise and cast their mantles by,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Erect and strong and visioned, in the day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That rings the knell of Curfew o’er the sway</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of prejudice—who reels with mortal cry</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To lift no more her leprous, blinded eye,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Reft of the fetters, far more cursed than they</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which held dominion o’er human clay,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The spirit soars aloft where rainbows lie.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Like joyful exiles swift returning home—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The rhythmic chanson of their eager feet,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While voices strange to ecstasy, long dumb,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Break forth in major rhapsodies, full sweet.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Into the very star-shine, lo! they come</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wearing the bays of victory complete!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sonnet-to-those-who-see-but-darkly" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Sonnet to Those Who See but Darkly</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Their gaze uplifting from shoals of despair</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like phantoms groping enswathed from the light</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Up from miasmic depths, children of night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Surge to the piping of Hope’s dulcet lay,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Souled like the lily, whose splendors declare</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>God’s mazèd paradox—purged of all blight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Out from the quagmire, unsullied and fair.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Life holds her arms o’er the festering way,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Smiles, as their faith-sandalled rushes prevail,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Slowly the sun rides the marge of the day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wine to the lips sorely anguished and pale;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On, ever on, do the serried ranks sway</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Charging the ultimate, rending the veil.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="brotherhood" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Brotherhood</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Come, brothers all!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall we not wend</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The blind-way of our prison-world</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By sympathy entwined?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall we not make</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The bleak way for each other’s sake</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Less rugged and unkind?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O let each throbbing heart repeat</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The faint note of another’s beat</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To lift a chanson for the feet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That stumble down life’s checkered street.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="let-me-not-lose-my-dream" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Let Me Not Lose My Dream</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Let me not lose my dream, e’en though I scan the veil with eyes unseeing through their glaze of tears,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let me not falter, though the rungs of fortune perish as I fare above the tumult, praying purer air,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let me not lose the vision, gird me, Powers that toss the worlds, I pray!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hold me, and guard, lest anguish tear my dreams away!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="let-me-not-hate" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Let Me Not Hate</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Let me not hate, although the bruising world decries my peace,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Gives me no quarter, hounds me while I sleep;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would snuff the candles of my soul and sear my inmost dreamings.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Let me not hate, though girt by vipers, green and hissing through the dark;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I fain must love. God help me keep the altar-gleams that flicker wearily, anon,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On down the world’s grim night!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="calling-dreams" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Calling Dreams</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The right to make my dreams come true</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I ask, nay, I demand of life,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor shall fate’s deadly contraband</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Impede my steps, nor countermand.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Too long my heart against the ground</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Has beat the dusty years around,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now, at length, I rise, I wake!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And stride into the morning-break!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="desire" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Desire</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ope! ye everlasting doors, unto my soul’s demand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I would go forward, fare beyond these dusty boulevards,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Faint lights and fair allure me all insistently</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I must stand within the halls resplendent, of my dreams.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sorrow-singers" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Sorrow Singers</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hear their viol-voices ringing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Down the corridor of years,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As they lift their twilight faces</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Through a mist of falling tears!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-cross" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Cross</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>All day the world’s mad mocking strife,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The venomed prick of probing knife,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The baleful, subtle leer of scorn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That rims the world from morn to morn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While reptile-visions writhe and creep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Into the very arms of sleep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To quench the fitful burnished gleams:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A crucifixion in my dreams!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="prejudice-1" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Prejudice</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>These fell miasmic rings of mist, with ghoulish menace bound,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like noose-horizons tightening my little world around,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They still the soaring will to wing, to dance, to speed away,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And fling the soul insurgent back into its shell of clay:</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Beneath incrusted silences, a seething Etna lies,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The fire of whose furnaces may sleep—<em>but never dies!</em></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="laocoon" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Laocoön</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>This spirit-choking atmosphere</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">With deadly serpent-coil</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Entwines my soaring-upwardness</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And chains me to the soil,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where’er I seek with eager stride</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">To gain yon gleaming height,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These noisesome fetters coil aloft</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And snare my buoyant flight.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O, why these aspirations bold,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">These rigours of desire,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That surge within so ceaselessly</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Like living tongues of fire?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And why these glowing forms of hope</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">That scintillate and shine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If naught of all that burnished dream</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Can evermore be mine?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>It cannot be, fate does not mock,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And man’s untoward decree</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall not forever thus confine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">My life’s entirety,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My every fibre fierce rebels</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Against this servile role,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all my being broods to break</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">This death-grip from my soul!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="moods" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Moods</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My heart is pregnant with a great despair</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With much beholding of my people’s care,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Mid blinded prejudice and nurtured wrong,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Exhaling wantonly the days along:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I mark Faith’s fragile craft of cheering light</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Tossing imperiled on the sea of night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And then, enanguished, comes my heart’s low cry,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“God, God! I crave to learn the reason why!”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Again, in spirit loftily I soar</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With wingèd vision through earth’s outer door,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In such an hour, it is mine to see,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In frowning fortune smiling destiny!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="hegira" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Hegira</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Oh, black man, why do you northward roam, and leave all the farm lands bare?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is your house not warm, tightly thatched from storm, and a larder replete your share?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And have you not schools, fit with books and tools the steps of your young to guide?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then what do you seek, in the north cold and bleak, ’mid the whirl of its teeming tide?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I have toiled in your cornfields, and parched in the sun, I have bowed ’neath your load of care,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I have patiently garnered your bright golden grain, in season of storm and fair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With a smile I have answered your glowering gloom, while my wounded heart quivering bled,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Trailing mute in your wake, as your rosy dawn breaks, while I curtain the mound of my dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Though my children are taught in the schools you have wrought, they are blind to the sheen of the sky,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For the brand of your hand, casts a pall o’er the land, that enshadows the gleam of the eye,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My sons, deftly sapped of the brawn-hood of man, self-rejected and impotent stand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My daughters, unhaloed, unhonored, undone, feed the lust of a dominant land.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I would not remember, yet could not forget, how the hearts beating true to your own,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>You’ve tortured, and wounded, and filtered their blood ’till a budding Hegira has blown.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Unstrange is the pathway to Calvary’s hill, which I wend in my dumb agony,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Up its perilous height, in the pale morning light, to dissever my own from the tree.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And so I’m away, where the sky-line of day sets the arch of its rainbow afar,<br/></span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To the land of the north, where the symbol of worth sets the broad gates of combat ajar!<br/></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-passing-of-the-ex-slave" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Passing of the Ex-Slave</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Swift melting into yesterday,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The tortured hordes of ebon-clay;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No more is heard the plaintive strain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The rhythmic chaunting of their pain.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Their mounded bodies dimly rise</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To fill the gulf of sacrifice,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And o’er their silent hearts below</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The mantled millions softly go.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Some few remaining still abide,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Gnarled sentinels of time and tide,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now mellowed by a chastened glow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which lighter hearts will never know.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Winding into the silent way,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Spent with the travail of the day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So royal in their humble might</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These uncrowned Pilgrims of the Night!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-octoroon" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Octoroon</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>One drop of midnight in the dawn of life’s pulsating stream</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Marks her an alien from her kind, a shade amid its gleam;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Forevermore her step she bends insular, strange, apart—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And none can read the riddle of her wildly warring heart.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The stormy current of her blood beats like a mighty sea</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Against the man-wrought iron bars of her captivity.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For refuge, succor, peace and rest, she seeks that humble fold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whose every breath is kindliness, whose hearts are purest gold.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="aliens" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Aliens</h2>
|
||
<p epub:type="bridgehead">(To You—Everywhere! Dedicated)</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>They seem to smile as others smile, the masquerader’s art</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Conceals them, while, in verity, they’re eating out their heart,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Betwixt the two contending stones of crass humanity</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They lie, the fretted fabric of a dual dynasty.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A single drop, a sable strain debars them from their own—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The others—fold them furtively, but God! they are alone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Blown by the fickle winds of fate far from the traveled mart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To die, when they have quite consumed the morsel of their heart.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When man shall lift his lowered eyes to meet the moon of truth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall break the shallow shell of pride and wax in ways of ruth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He cannot hate, for love shall reign untrammelled in the soul,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While peace shall spread a rainbow o’er the earth from pole to pole.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="concord" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Concord</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nor shall I in sorrow repine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But offer a paean of praise</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To the infinite God of my days</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who marshals the pivoting spheres</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through the intricate maze of the years,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who loosens the luminous flood</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That lightens the purlieus of men,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I shall not in sorrow repine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To break the eternal Amen!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-mother" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Mother</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The mother soothes her mantled child</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With incantation sad and wild;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A deep compassion brims her eye</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And stills upon her lips, the sigh.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Her thoughts are leaping down the years,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O’er branding bars, through seething tears,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her heart is sandaling his feet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Adown the world’s corroding street.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then, with a start she dons a smile</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His tender yearnings to beguile,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And only God will ever know</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The wordless measure of her woe.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="maternity" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Maternity</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Proud?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Perhaps—and yet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I cannot say with surety</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That I am happy thus to be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Responsible for this young life’s embarking.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is he not thrall to prevalent conditions?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Does not the day loom dark apace</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To weave its cordon of disgrace</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Around his lifted throat?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is not this mezzotint enough and surfeit</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For such prescience?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ah, did I dare</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Recall the pulsing life I gave,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And fold him in the kindly grave!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Proud?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Perhaps—could I but ever so faintly scan</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The broad horizon of a man</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Swept fair for his dominion—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So hesitant and half-afraid</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I view this babe of sorrow!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="black-woman" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Black Woman</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Don’t knock at my door, little child,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I cannot let you in,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>You know not what a world this is</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Of cruelty and sin.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wait in the still eternity</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Until I come to you,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The world is cruel, cruel, child,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I cannot let you in!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Don’t knock at my heart, little one,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I cannot bear the pain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of turning deaf-ear to your call</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Time and time again!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>You do not know the monster men</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Inhabiting the earth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be still, be still, my precious child,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I must not give you birth!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="one-of-the-least-of-these-my-little-one" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">“One of the Least of These, My Little One”</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The infant eyes look out amazed upon the frowning earth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A stranger, in a land now strange, child of the mantled-birth;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Waxing, he wonders more and more; the scowling grows apace;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A world, behind its barring doors, reviles his ebon face:</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yet from this maelstrom issues forth a God-like entity,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That loves a world all loveless, and smiles on Calvary!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="shall-i-say-my-son-youre-branded" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Shall I Say, “My Son, You’re Branded?”</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Shall I say, “My son, you’re branded in this country’s pageantry,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By strange subtleties you’re tethered, and no forum sets you free?”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall I mark the young lights fading through your soul-enchannelled eye,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As the dusky pall of shadows screen the highway of your sky?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Or shall I, with love prophetic, bid you dauntlessly arise,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Spurn the handicap that clogs you, taking what the world denies,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bid you storm the sullen fortress wrought by prejudice and wrong</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With a faith that shall not falter, in your heart and on your tongue!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="my-boy" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">My Boy</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I hear you singing happily,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">My boy of tarnished mien,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lifting your limpid, trustful gaze</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">In innocence serene.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A thousand javelins of pain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Assault my heaving breast</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When I behold the storm of years</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">That beat without your nest.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O sing, my lark, your matin song</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Of joyous rhapsody,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Distil the sweetness of the hours</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">In gladsome ecstasy.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>For time awaits your buoyant flight</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Across the bar of years,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sing, sing your song, my bonny lark,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Before it melts in tears!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="guardianship" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Guardianship</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>That dusky child upon your knee</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is breath of God’s eternity;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Direct his vision to the height—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let naught obscure his royal right.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Although the highways to renown</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are iron-barred by fortune’s frown,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Tis his to forge the master-key</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That wields the locks of destiny!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="utopia" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Utopia</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>God grant you wider vision, clearer skies, my son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With morning’s rosy kisses on your brow;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>May your wild yearnings know repose,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And storm-clouds break to smiles</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As you sweep on with spreading wings</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unto a waiting sunset!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="little-son" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Little Son</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The very acme of my woe,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The pivot of my pride,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My consolation, and my hope</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Deferred, but not denied.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The substance of my every dream,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The riddle of my plight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The very world epitomized</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">In turmoil and delight.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="benediction" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Benediction</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Go forth, my son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Winged by my heart’s desire!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Great reaches, yet unknown,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Await</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For your possession.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I may not, if I would,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Retrace the way with you,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My pilgrimage is through,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But life is calling you!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fare high and far, my son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A new day has begun,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy star-ways must be won!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="credo" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Credo</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I believe in the ultimate justice of Fate;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That the races of men front the sun in their turn;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That each soul holds the title to infinite wealth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In fee to the will as it masters itself;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That the heart of humanity sounds the same tone</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In impious jungle, or sky-kneeling fane.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I believe that the key to the life-mystery</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lies deeper than reason and further than death.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I believe that the rhythmical conscience within</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is guidance enough for the conduct of men.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="promise-1" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Promise</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Through the moil and the gloom they have issued</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">To the steps of the upwinding hill,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where the sweet, dulcet pipes of tomorrow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">In their preluding rhapsodies trill.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>With a thud comes a stir in the bosom,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">As there steals on the sight from afar,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through a break of a cloud’s coiling shadow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The gleam of a bright morning star!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-suppliant" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Suppliant</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Long have I beat with timid hands upon life’s leaden door,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Praying the patient, futile prayer my fathers prayed before,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet I remain without the close, unheeded and unheard,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And never to my listening ear is borne the waited word.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Soft o’er the threshold of the years there comes this counsel cool:<br/></span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool!<br/></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="hope" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Hope</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Frail children of sorrow, dethroned by a hue,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The shadows are flecked by the rose sifting through,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The world has its motion, all things pass away,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No night is omnipotent, there must be day.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The oak tarries long in the depth of the seed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But swift is the season of nettle and weed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Abide yet awhile in the mellowing shade,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And rise with the hour for which you were made.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The cycle of seasons, the tidals of man</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Revolve in the orb of an infinite plan.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We move to the rhythm of ages long done,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And each has his hour—to dwell in the sun!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="cosmopolite" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Cosmopolite</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Not wholly this or that,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But wrought</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of alien bloods am I,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A product of the interplay</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of traveled hearts.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Estranged, yet not estranged, I stand</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All comprehending;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From my estate</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I view earth’s frail dilemma;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Scion of fused strength am I,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All understanding,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor this nor that</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Contains me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="fusion" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Fusion</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>How deftly does the gardener blend</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This rose and that</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To bud a new creation,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>More gorgeous and more beautiful</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Than any parent portion,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And so,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I trace within my warring blood</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The tributary sources,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They potently commingle</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And sweep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With new-born forces!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="perspective" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Perspective</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Some day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I shall be glad that it was mine to be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A dark fore-runner of a race burgeoning;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I then shall know</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The secret of life’s Calvary,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And bless the thorns</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That wound me!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="when-i-rise-up" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">When I Rise Up</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When I rise above the earth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And look down on the things that fetter me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I beat my wings upon the air,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or tranquil lie,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Surge after surge of potent strength</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like incense comes to me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When I rise up above the earth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And look down upon the things that fetter me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="faith" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Faith</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The faint lose faith</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When in the tomb their all is laid,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And there returns</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No echoing of weal or woe.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The strong hope on,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They see the clods close over head,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The grass grow green,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No word is said,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And yet—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A little world within the world</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are we,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Daily our hearts’ high yearnings fade,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are buried!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>New ones are made—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are crucified!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span><em>And yet</em>—</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="we-face-the-future" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">We Face the Future</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The hour is big with sooth and sign, with errant men at war,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While blood of alien, friend, and foe imbues the land afar,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And we, with sable faces pent, move with the vanguard line,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shod with a faith that Springtime keeps, and all the stars opine.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="soldier" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Soldier</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Though I should weep until the judgment,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How would it serve—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Brave men are fighting, women speed them,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Tis a day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of crucial conflict!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My son, sometimes it seems I’d rather hold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>You safe beneath my heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Than send you forth!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But lo! The sun is red and weaker children go!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Though I should weep until the judgment,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How would it serve!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I’ll close my eyes and smile, O Son of Mine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your cause is kingly!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Step proud and confident, worthy your mother;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be firm and brave, O Son of Mine, be strong,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For terror waxeth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Speed swift away,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Though I should weep until the judgment …</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="homing-braves" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Homing Braves</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There’s music in the measured tread</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of those returning from the dead</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like scattered flowers from a plain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So lately crimson, with the slain.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No more the sound of shuffled feet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall mark the poltroon on the street,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor shifting, sodden, downcast eye</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Reveal the man afraid to die.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>They shall have paid full, utterly</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The price of peace across the sea,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When, with uplifted glance, they come</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To claim a kindly welcome home.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nor shall the old-time daedal sting</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of prejudice, their manhood wing,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor heights, nor depths, nor living streams</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stand in the pathway of their dreams!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="taps" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Taps</h2>
|
||
<figure id="illustration-1">
|
||
<img alt="An excerpt from “Taps.”" 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epub:type="z3998:illustration se:image.color-depth.black-on-transparent"/>
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</figure>
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<p>
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<span>They are embosomed in the sod,</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span class="i1">In still and tranquil leisure,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
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<span>Their lives they’ve cast like trifles down,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
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<span class="i1">To serve their country’s pleasure.</span>
|
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</p>
|
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<p>
|
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<span>Nor bugle call, nor mother’s voice,</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span class="i1">Nor moody mob’s unreason,</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>Shall break their solace and repose</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span class="i1">Through swiftly changing season.</span>
|
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</p>
|
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<p>
|
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<span>O graves of men who lived and died</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span class="i1">Afar from life’s high pleasures,</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>Fold them in tenderly and warm</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
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<span class="i1">With manifold fond measures.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
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<article id="peace-2" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
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<h2 epub:type="title">Peace</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Peace on a thousand hills and dales,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Peace in the hearts of men</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While kindliness reclaims the soil</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Where bitterness has been.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The night of strife is drifting past,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The storm of shell has ceased,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Disrupted is the cordon fell,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Sweet charity released.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Forth from the shadow, swift we come</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Wrought in the flame together,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All men as one beneath the sun</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">In brotherhood forever.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="question" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Question</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Where are the brave men, where are the strong men?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pygmies rise</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And spawn the earth.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Weak-kneed, weak-hearted, and afraid,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Afraid to face the counsel of their timid hearts,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Afraid to look men squarely,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Down they gaze—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With fatal fascination</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Down, down—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Into the whirling maggot sands</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of prejudice.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-initiate" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Initiate</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The woes of flesh are naught</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To one who knows</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The agony of soul!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Twere but the thud of wind and rain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon the roof.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The woes of flesh are naught</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To one who knows!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="bondage" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Bondage</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Many cages round me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bar on bar</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stand grim, forbidding!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ghostly pressures</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Clutch my heart.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I gaze with eyes unseeing—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whereunto may I wander free?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Alas, alas!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My garden walks lie inwardly!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="resolution" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Resolution</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>With but one life full certified,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And that of every gleam denied</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My portion,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Close to the unrelenting sod,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>E’en as my fathers dumbly trod,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I’ve slumbered;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But now a surging, wild unrest</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Uproots the poppies from my breast,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My soul awake, erect! anew!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I stand and face the star-swept blue,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And swear to make my dreams come true!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="eclipse" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Eclipse</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Aflounder the uncompassed darkness of doubt</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">In search of the path to the goal</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That lies at the end of our transient day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The ultimate bourne of the soul;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I grasp into nothingness, feebly essay</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">To clasp but a willow, a stone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And grope through the stepless, unechoing gloom</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Unanswered, unsuccored, alone!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="why" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Why</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The verdure sleeps in winter,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Awakes with April rain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The sun swings low—’tis night—ascends,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And lo! ’tis morn again:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The world spins on triumphant</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Across a trackless sky,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And man seeks evermore in vain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The primal reason why.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O whither are we rushing?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And wherefrom were we torn?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We breathe from out the silences,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And breathless, back are borne.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Deep in the soul are voices</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Returning this reply:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It took a God to make us,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Only God can answer why!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="husks" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Husks</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Forever and forevermore,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Across the heights, the deeps,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Spurred by an ever-flaming zeal</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">That slumbers not, nor sleeps—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We chase the furtive form of fame</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Beyond the edge of dusk,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To bear within our arms at length,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">An empty mocking, husk!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-watcher" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Watcher</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The long, grim years with iron tread</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Move down the shuttered isle</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of time’s unrecking labyrinth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Paved with forgotten dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And I, a feather in their wake,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Gaze long and tremblingly</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Into these sunless corridors,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Praying the light to break!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-vanished-road" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Vanished Road</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>We’re wending the trail of the vanishing road,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With a song and a shout, just to lighten the load,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That lies in the heart, filled with queries and cares,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For never a traveler knows where he fares.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But on with a jest, and rollicksome cheer,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With laughter that leaps, as a veil, for the tear;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The world’s weary caravan finds that abode</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That lies at the end of the vanishing road.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="service" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Service</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When we count out our gold at the end of the day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And have filtered the dross that has cumbered the way,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Oh, what were the hold of our treasury then</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Save the love we have shown to the children of men?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="to-the-martyred" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">To the Martyred</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O sacrificial throng whose lives</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Build up the yawning deeps</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O’er which we pass reflectively</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">To broader lights and sweeps.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Know, that we hold with reverence</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The signal price you paid,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all our trophies, one by one,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Upon your bier are laid.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="to-john-brown" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">To John Brown</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>We lift a song to you across the day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which bears through travailing the seed you spread</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In terror’s morning, flung with fingers red</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In blood of tyrants, who debarred the way</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To Freedom’s dawning. Hearken to the lay</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Chanted by dusky millions, soft and mellow-keyed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In minor measure, Martyr of the Freed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A song of memory across the day.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Truth cannot perish though the earth erase</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The royal signals, leaving not a trace,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And time still burgeoneth the fertile seed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Though he is crucified who wrought the deed:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O Alleghanies, fold him to your breast</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Until the judgment! Sentinel his rest!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="to-abraham-lincoln" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">To Abraham Lincoln</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Within the temple of our heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your sacred memory dwells apart,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where ceaselessly a censor swings</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Alight with fragrant offerings;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor time, nor tide, nor circumstance</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Can dim this grand remembrance,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all the blood of Afric hue</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Beats in one mighty tide—for you!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="to-william-stanley-braithwaite" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">To William Stanley Braithwaite</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When time has rocked the present age to sleep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And lighter hearts are lilting to the sway</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of rhythmic poesy’s enhanced lay,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Recurring sequences shall fitly keep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your fame eternal, as they lightly sweep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Aside the curtain to that potent day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When you in primal fervor led the way</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unto Apollo’s narrow winding steep.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>None shall forget your travail, utter, sore,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That oped the golden avenue of song,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When, like a knight, so errantly you bore</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The mantled children valiantly along,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Their homage as a rising incense sweet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall permeate the heavens at your feet!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="to-w-e-b-dubois-scholar" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">To <abbr epub:type="z3998:given-name">W. E. B.</abbr> DuBois—Scholar</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Grandly isolate as the god of day—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Blazing an orbit through the dank and gloom</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of misty morning, far and fair you loom,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Flooding the dimness with your golden ray—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Cheering the mantled on the thorn-set way,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Teaching of Faith and Hope o’er the tomb,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where both, though buried, spring to newer bloom—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Strengthened and sweet from the mound of decay.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Soft! strains of Sanctus we lift on the air,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ere Nunc Dimittus at last shall be sung,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sing we our Sanctus to fitly declare</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Blessings that well up from hearts sorely wrung.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lead, lead us on o’er the furthermost stair—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Light of our impotence! Joy of our tongue!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="to-ridgely-torrence-playwright" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">To Ridgely Torrence—Playwright</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>All hail! fair vistas break upon the view,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The gates swing wide and free with clanging sound,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rejoice! a mighty champion is found,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Son of the morning, prescient and true.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon the threshold of a cycle new</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He stands, and sentinels its virgin ground,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Seer in his poet-visioning profound,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Presaging vaster reaches—skies more blue.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lifting their misty glances to the day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The prismic children pass the erstwhile bars,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Exultant, swiftly, boundingly they stray,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Awhile forgetful of deep, hidden scars</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus, as a golden legend time shall tell</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of him who wrought so mightily and well!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="to-richard-r-wright-instructor" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">To Richard <abbr epub:type="z3998:given-name">R.</abbr> Wright—Instructor</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Son of a race, whose dusky visage shows</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The heel of fortune, those who walk unfree</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Though cradled in the hold of liberty,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whose shackled spirit every gamut knows</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Hate’s cadenza, through whose warm blood flows</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The royal ransom of love’s dynasty,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Scion of these, he strides to meet his foes.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Erect, unbending, note his sable brow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The rugged furrows where deep feelings plough,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The step of vigor and the noble air,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The subtle halo of his wintry hair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Up from the furnace of the Earth’s red sea</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A man is fashioned for the years to be!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="to-samuel-coleridge-taylor-upon-hearing-his" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">To Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Upon Hearing His</h2>
|
||
<figure id="illustration-2">
|
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<img alt="An excerpt from “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.”" 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<br/>
|
||
<span>Loved as a toy—not understood,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Child of a dusky father, bold;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Frail little captive, exiled, cold.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Oft when the brooding planets sleep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>You through their drowsy empires creep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Flinging your arms through their empty space,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Seeking the breast of an unknown face.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="to-emilie-bigelow-hapgood-philanthropist" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">To Emilie Bigelow Hapgood—Philanthropist</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Far from the seried ranks you sway,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Firm in your own believing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In that frail brotherhood, who stray</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Sore anguishing, sore grieving.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Such hands as yours, adown the years</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Enchain a faith unbroken,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They stay the dreary waste of tears,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And lift to Hope a token!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="to-henry-lincoln-johnson-lawyer" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">To Henry Lincoln Johnson—Lawyer</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Quite firmly did you stand, and unafraid</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Before that haughty bar that sought to hold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>You fettered, lest you strengthen and grow bold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To break a clearing through that fetid glade</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which their benighted prejudice had made;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They taunted you with darkling hints of gold,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Preferring you were bought as you had sold,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They weaved their webs like spiders in the shade.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But as a giant in the falling night</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of storm, you forged afore with ruthless tread,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To offer up your heart’s blood in the fight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Forgetting self, unmindful, unafraid,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor pausing until thrice acclaimed the right</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To rally in the tents of those you led.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="to-mary-church-terrell-lecturer" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">To Mary Church Turrell—Lecturer</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A pioneer, she blazed a trail of light</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through murky shadows, with a lithesome tread</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unto those forums, where Hope’s beams are shed:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Straight through the mighty cordon of the night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rapt with a vision, soul-born, clear and bright,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Leaving the South of frigid wrong, she sped</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Into the North, where hearts glow warm instead,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A people’s tragedy to there recite.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hope’s liquid pipings lift their tender lay,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Morning is waking, flushed with rosy gleam,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Night with its shadow winds with yesterday</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Adown the world-way as an inky stream,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Seed time and harvest deftly interplay,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And Life’s fruition is its vital dream!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="to-may-howard-jackson-sculptor" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">To May Howard Jackson—Sculptor</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>You saw the vision in the face of clay,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And fixed it through the magic of a hand</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Obedient unto the will’s command,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In forms impervious to Time’s decay:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Historian of bloods that interplay</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Confusedly within a cryptic land,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>You’ve chiseled, and your work of art shall stand</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To gem the archives of a better day.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Alone, far from the touch of kindred mind,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>You’ve mounted with a grim, determined zeal,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Despite environment austere, unkind,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or frozen-fingers clenched to your appeal,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>You’ve held the ardor of your first ideal,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Robed in a queenly majesty, resigned.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="to-the-memory-of-inez-milholland" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">To the Memory of Inez Milholland</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Folded in silent veils of sleep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">You calmly rest,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For God hath spoken, should we weep?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">He knoweth best.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But rather let us garner still</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">While yet we may,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And meet you in His Holy Hill</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">On that Great Day!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="to-atlanta-university-its-founders-and-teachers" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">To Atlanta University—Its Founders and Teachers</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Pass down the aisle of buried years to-night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And stand uncovered in that holy place</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where noble structures lift their hallowed height</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Beneath a bending Heaven’s chaste embrace,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The fruit of those who scorned the path of ease,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To buckle on the armaments of care</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like to the Son of Man Himself, were these</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who gave themselves for brother men—less fair.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Before the blinding footlights of to-day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We man our parts within Life’s tragic play,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Full mindful of the earnest love and care</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That keeps eternal watch and vigil there;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor do they need fair monuments and scrolls—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Their memories are deathless in our souls.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="to-love" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">To Love</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Life’s little hour is fleet, so fleet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But love’s is fleeter still,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So let us lift the chalice dear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And drink, and drink until</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The shadows lengthen to repose</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And fierce desires still,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then may our souls view tranquilly</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The low-light o’er the hill!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="africa" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Africa</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O what a privilege <em>to be</em>—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Breath of The Breath Eternal;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To have the life,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To have the strife</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of that dark mystery</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A son of Africa, whose blood</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holds nations all in fee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Commanding by one sultry drop</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The whole identity;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She whispers at the gate of birth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And lo! the rainbow on the earth.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="lesson" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Lesson</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I’ve learned of life this bitter truth:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hope not between the crumbling walls</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of mankind’s gratitude to find repose,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But rather,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Build within thy own soul</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fortresses!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="pilgrimage" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Pilgrimage</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lend me a candle by whose light</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I may discern the road</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which winds into that magic path</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">That leads to love’s abode.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="to-your-eyes" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">To Your Eyes</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>In your deep autumnal eyes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mystery’s dark shadow lies,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>None may pass unchallenged there,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Something vestal,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Something rare</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stays the plunging, pagan tread—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One hesitates,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One bows the head.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="my-son" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">My Son</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Stronger than man-made bars, the chain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That rounds your life’s arena,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Deeper than hell the anchor sweeps</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That stills your young desires;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Darker than night the inward look</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That meditation offers,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Redder than blood the future years</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Roll down the hills of torture!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But ah! you were not made for this,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And life is but preluding—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The major theme shall hold its sway</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When full awake, not dreaming,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your ebon foot shall press the sod</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where immortelles are blooming;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Beyond the glaze of fevered years</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I see—<strong>the day is coming</strong>!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-ordeal" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Ordeal</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ho: my brother,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pass me not by so scornfully</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I’m doing this living of being black,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Perhaps I bear your own life-pack,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And heavy, heavy is the load</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That bends my body to the road.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But I have kept a smile for fate,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I neither cry, nor cringe, nor hate,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Intrepidly, I strive to bear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This handicap: The planets wear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The Maker’s imprint, and with mine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I swing into their rhythmic line;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I ask—only for destiny,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mine, not thine.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="escape" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Escape</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Shadows, shadows,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hug me round</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So that I shall not be found</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By sorrow:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She pursues me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Everywhere,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I can’t lose her</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Anywhere.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Fold me in your black</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Abyss,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She will never look</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In this—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shadows, shadows,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hug me round</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In your solitude</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Profound.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-riddle" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Riddle</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>White men’s children spread over the earth—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A rainbow suspending the drawn swords of birth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Uniting and blending the races in one</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The world man—cosmopolite—everyman’s son!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He channels the stream of the red blood and blue,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Behold him! A Triton—the peer of the two;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unriddle this riddle of “outside in”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>White men’s children in black men’s skin.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="souls-easter" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Soul’s Easter</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Something has died when the lily lifts</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The shaft of its God-turned head,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Something has faded and perished that now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Lies under the lily’s door dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Something has died when the heart exhales</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Its attar of roses rare;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bow at the tomb when the soul leaps forth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">A flame on the midnight air!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="friendship" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Friendship</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Last night you lost the rarest thing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Life ever gave to you.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It was a friendship that was deep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Unvarying and true.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I’m sorry that you have it not</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Because you need it so;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When one has killed the flower’s root</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">How can it ever grow?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="toy" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Toy</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>You deck my doby lavishly,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I’m sleek and overfed;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And yet my soul is perishing,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Denied of daily bread.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>You make a plaything of my life,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">My every trust betray,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And when I would be penitent,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">You kiss my prayers away.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="promise-2" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Promise</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>If you can laugh along the road,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Although you bend beneath a load</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Of sorrow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your hope-lit eyes shall surely see</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A rainbow sweep eternity</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Tomorrow.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="prejudice-2" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Prejudice</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The world is dark,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I cannot see my way!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Eternal clouds</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Obscure the light of day—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I seek a break, a rift, a little space,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There to behold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One God-illumined place!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="companion" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Companion</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No, never quite alone am I.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of ill why should I borrow?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No matter where my footsteps bend</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There also follows sorrow.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And she has taught my lips to sing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A rapt and dauntless measure</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While all the world goes envying</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My mellow noted treasure.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No, I have never walked alone!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And as I face tomorrow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If I am bereft of joy</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I know there will be sorrow.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="lethe" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Lethe</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I do not ask for love—ah! no,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Nor friendship’s happiness,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These were relinquished long ago</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I search for something less.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I seek a little, tranquil bark</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">In which to drift at ease</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Awhile, and then quite silently</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">To sink in quiet seas.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="decay" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Decay</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Swift-footed Time, how eagerly you go</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Across the swaying summer grasses bed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As on in breathless haste you hurry me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To Winter with its chilling winds and snow.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The noontide hour is fading—in my hair</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The furtive shadows caper and recline.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I tell my beads of amethyst and gold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So near at end, so passing dear and fair.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-true-america" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The True American</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>America, here is your son, born of your iron heel,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Black blood and red and white contend along this frame of steel.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The thorns deep in his brow are set and yet he does not cower,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He goes with neither fears nor tears to crucifixion hour.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor yet does hatred blur his view of mankind’s frail parade,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From his commanding triple coign, all prejudices fade.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The ebbing nations coalesce in him and flow as one,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The bright shining rainbow sweeping back to God at set of sun!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mark well the surety of tread, the new song high in air,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The new note in the nation’s throat, as permanent as prayer.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>America, regard your son, The Cosmopolitan,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The pattern of posterity, The True American.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="wishes" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Wishes</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I’m tired of pacing the petty round of the ring of the thing I know—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I want to stand on the daylight’s edge and see where the sunsets go.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I want to sail on a swallow’s tail and peep through the sky’s blue glass.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I want to see if the dreams in me shall perish or come to pass.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I want to look through the moon’s pale crook and gaze on the moon-man’s face.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I want to keep all the tears I weep and sail to some unknown place.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="the-snarl" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">The Snarl</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Too late to roll the tangled skein</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The knot is taut, what might have been</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Passed with the pangs of yesterday—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The secret page of history.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Red blood and white and black combine—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Can you dissever yours from mine?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Such motifs are not thus undone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like prowess might command the sun.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Too late to roll the tangled skein,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At first perhaps, this might have been,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Tis now too hard and passing late</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To disentwine the threads of Fate!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="i-closed-my-shutters-fast-last-night" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">I Closed My Shutters Fast Last Night</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I closed my shutters fast last night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Reluctantly and slow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So pleading was the purple sky</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With all the lights hung low;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I left my lagging heart outside</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Within the dark alone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I heard it singing through the gloom</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A wordless, anguished tone.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon my sleepless couch I lay</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Until the tranquil morn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Came through the silver silences</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To bring my heart forlorn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Restoring it with calm caress</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unto its sheltered bower,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While whispering: “Await, await</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your golden, perfect hour.”</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="footsteps" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Footsteps</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Passing ever, early, late,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No fond footsteps seek my gate,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But down the winding road they wend</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To some other journey’s end.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yet—I would not have them wait</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Here within my guarded gate,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Certain footsteps I shall know,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And for them I listen low!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="oh-night-of-love" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Oh Night of Love</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Oh night of love, your rapt ecstatic hours</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Were mine, the languor of their pale perfume</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pervades me, kisses in a fountain-fire,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Surround me—fetter and consume.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Oh night of love, your groves of strange content</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Project a thralldom over coming days;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Exalted, derelict, and blind I wend</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unmindfully along Life’s misty ways.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="autumn" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Autumn</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Believe me–when I say</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That love like yours, at this belated hour,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Overwhelms me—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stills the fount of thought!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I move as one new-born—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And strange to swift transitions</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As from my prison door</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I gaze</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Into a blinding sunlight!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="thralldom" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Thralldom</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Your voice keeps ringing down the day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">In accents soft and mild,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">With which you have beguiled</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And wooed me as a child.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Your presence bounds my every way</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And thrills me in its fold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">With phantom hands that hold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Like cherished chains of gold.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="separation" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Separation</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Within your pulsing day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There must be little space</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For visions of my face</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To lure your thoughts away.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yet, I would have it so,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To bear alone the pain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That saddens love’s refrain.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pray God you never know!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="loves-miracle" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Love’s Miracle</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So like a boundless, soundless sea</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The miracle of love to me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With all the world a rosy dream</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sailing upon a silver stream,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While I, a fairy in mid-air,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Am dancing, dancing everywhere.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hark! do you hear the thunder peal?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I care not what it would reveal,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Tomorrow will be yesterday</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When I am shivering and gray:</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I will not heed the prompter’s ring</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let others answer, I shall sing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And dance the merrier—away!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I’ll live and live and live—today!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="proving" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Proving</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Were you a leper bathed in wounds</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And by the world denied,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I’d share your fatal exile</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">As a privilege, with pride.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>You are the very sun, the moon,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The starlight of my soul,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The sounding motif of my heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Its impetus and goal!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="interim" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Interim</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The days lie dark between our jeweled meetings</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like wintry burials.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My heart bows low before the cheerless hearth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Until your voice rings through the gloom</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And bids me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wake!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And live!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="good-bye" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Good-Bye</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Let’s say “Good-bye”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor wait Love’s latest breath</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Poised now so lightly on the wing of Death,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While yet within our eyes one fervent gleam</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Remains to hallow this, a passing dream:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yes, yes “Good-bye,”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For it is best to part</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While Love’s low light still burns</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Within the heart!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="a-paradox" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">A Paradox</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I know you love me better cold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Strange as the pyramids of old</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Responselessly.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But I am frail, and spent and weak</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With surging torrents that bespeak</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A living fire.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So, like a veil, my poor disguise</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is draped to save me from your eyes’</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Deep challenges.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fain would I fling this robe aside</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And from you, in your bosom hide</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Eternally.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Alas! you love me better cold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like frozen pyramids of old</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unyieldingly?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="how-my-heart-sinks" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">How My Heart Sinks</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>How my heart sinks when I behold the sad reflection of my face,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A wan and wistful wound, with oh, such meagre grace;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How can you hold me dear withal and conjure charms withdrawn.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or does the Autumn twilight hold a charm unknown to dawn?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hold! Do not speak! some day perchance, I’ll read the message dire</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Within the ashes of the flame, the aftermath of fire,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ere then perhaps I shall have found the highways of the soul</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where one may read uncrucified, the blood-words of the scroll.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Till then, uphold illusion’s veil before my gaze the while</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That I may gather strength to fuse from agony, a smile!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="to-time" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">To Time</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Day by day the threads of white</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Muliply, Oh! hour-glass!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How passing swift your bright sands pass,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fain would I hold you,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Linger, bide</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Until these surges shall subside,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That sweep me forward unto bliss,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Oh! charging sun, I bid you rest,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Break not your arrow in my breast!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="welt" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Welt</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Would I might mend the fabric of my youth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which daily flaunts its tatters to my eyes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would I might compromise awhile with truth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Until love’s moon, now waxing, wanes and dies.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>For I would go a further while with you</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And draing this Cup of Joy so passing fair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which meets my parching lips like cooling dew</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Ere time has brushed cold fingers through my hair.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="review" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Review</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I fear my power impotent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To hold you leal and full content,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Some hapless look or word perchance</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dispels the glamour of romance;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I tremble lest some stranger fair</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Arrest you—cause you to compare</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The meagre charms which I possess</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With some resplendent loveliness.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>How far removed from Youth’s command</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The trembling sceptre in my hand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As miserly within the glass</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I mark Love’s fleeting hours pass.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="illusion" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Illusion</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Oh! for the veils of my far-away youth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shielding my heart from the blaze of the truth;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Why did I stray from their foldings and grow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Into the sadness that follows—to know.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Impotent atom with desolate gaze</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Treading Life’s treacherous, intricate maze—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Oh for the veils, for the veils of my youth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shielding my heart from the blaze of the truth!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="parody" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Parody</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>You came,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The tapestries of love</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Were shining in the sun,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My wishes settled down content</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>About you as you stood.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I looked into your cryptic eyes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And thought I understood;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But no—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The splendor of your gaudy robe</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Grew dimmer day by day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I wondered,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Searched within my soul to seize the mystery.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The answer staggered me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Aghast,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like one at bay,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I gazed with open eyes of thought upon you,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>God! ’twas true—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A mockery, a parody,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Had come to me—in you!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="delusion" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Delusion</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>You gave me your hand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I held it to be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The last word, the dear word,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The soul’s entity;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I cherished it, treasured it,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Only to find</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I held but a gauntlet—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That I had been blind!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sunset" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Sunset</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And now—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As one who closes up the house and goes uncaring where</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He may forget the scenes of home ’mid foreign climes and air,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I bar the chamber of my heart and seal the past within</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To wander down the city’s road amid the whirr and din.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The long years seem impassable, the morning has no smile,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With naught behind these barring doors and nothing else worth while,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like some lone pilgrim without hope, I stumble on my way,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who lifts no futile plea for sun, but asks for clouds less grey.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="finis" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Finis</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I looked death calmly in the face</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And placed my hand within his hand</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And said:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Come, come, let us away</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For I have lost the magic key</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Opening the portals of desire—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My wishes cumber in the dust,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And life is stagnant</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i6">in</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i8">my</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i10">heart!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="ivy" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Ivy</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I am a woman</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which means</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I am insufficient</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I need—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Something to hold me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or perhaps uphold.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I am a woman.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="joy-2" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Joy</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There’s nothing certain, nothing sure</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Save sorrow. Fragile happiness</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was never fashioned to endure;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For joy repels the perfect claim</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And answers to no certain name;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How furtively we scan the mist</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Perchance amid the gloom to find</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Some moments rare and rapture-kist.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="one-day" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">One Day</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Good-bye dear day of sunshine, rain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">In flooding torrents pours</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Its liquid footsteps on my roof,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Its fingers on my doors.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>While I sit tranquilly within</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And tell my beads of joy,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holding a peace within my heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Which nothing can destroy.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="attar" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Attar</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Fire—tears—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the torture-chamber,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With the last maddening turn of the screw—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Only thus</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is one precious drop distilled</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of the attar of rose</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of the heart.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="youths-progeny" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Youth’s Progeny</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Oh the sad little dreams of the dim yesteryear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lying cold, still and stark in the dust of their bier,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How the heart hurries back, all the long weary way,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Just to bid them good-night at the close of the day.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="i-wonder" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">I Wonder</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I wonder—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i3">as I see them pass unheeded down the way,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>(The women who were once beloved, imperious and gay)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Holding with frail, pale hands the cup</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Life’s discarded wine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If memories</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are bliss enough</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To make the dregs—divine!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="values" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Values</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>All the pretty baubles spread</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are not the answer to my need,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These tinseled trappings but beguile</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This journeying, while deep within</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A want unspeakable resides,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That throbs and throbs unceasingly—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So hungering—no banquet spread</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Can tempt it, and no golden wine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Make it forget: I balance it—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The world flies upward in the scale!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Always, unsoothed, unquieted,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It aches and aches across the days</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And sears the nights that sum my life.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="armageddon" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Armageddon</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>In the silence and the dark</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I fought with dragons;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I was battered, beaten sore</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But rose again;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On my knees I fought still rising</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In my pain:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In the dark I fought with dragons.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Weary tears</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Cease your flowing,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Even now the dawn appears!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="le-soir" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 lang="fr" epub:type="title" xml:lang="fr">Le Soir</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Mute-lipped—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i8">unquestioning grim-visaged Fate,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I cleave the shadows toward the Western Gate;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And yet—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i8">my lagging heart still holds</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mute-arms outstretched</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unto earth’s gleaming folds.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Who knows?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i8">perhaps Hope’s blossoms spray</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In lush profusion</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O’er the edge of day!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="treasure" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Treasure</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What matters though love’s dream shall pass,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Since from the throbbing hour-glass</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One golden-throated moment prest</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Its attared incense to my breast.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Since I have known the purple gleam</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That lifts above me—can I deem</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The way unlighted—when I go</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Encircled by love’s afterglow?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="retrospection" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Retrospection</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>After all—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i6">mine is the joy</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which naught can lessen or destroy.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For love has led my flying feet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where immortelles are springing sweet,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And everlasting skies of gold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are memories, when earth is cold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And though our future paths should lie</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Estranged, as star-ways, through the sky,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I shall not look reproof, nor find</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Within this pass a charge unkind,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And lightly sorrow shall be met</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For I can never know regret.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="springtime" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Springtime</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Again it is the vibrant May,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The bursting buds, the leafing trees,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The fragrant, undulating breeze,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Call to my heart in subtlest way:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Come! Come! it is a holiday.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The streamlet with unending song,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Beneath its silver veil of mist</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Seems flowing, flowing, to some tryst,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">While I—with inner surges strong,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Find incomplete the day, and long.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="destiny" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Destiny</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I know my love is seeing me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As restless rivers seek the sea,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Across the night, across the days</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That snare the intervening ways.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I know my love is seeking me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As Time must seek Eternity,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When nights are very still I hear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His footsteps, coming, coming near!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="envoys" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Envoys</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Love calls me tonight</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In the beat of the rain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through the cold little drops</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On my bare window-pane;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Calls and calls through the dark</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like a whispered refrain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Tapping soft on my heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through the bare window pane.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="i-want-to-die-while-you-love-me" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">I Want to Die While You Love Me</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I want to die while you love me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">While yet you hold me fair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While laughter lies upon my lips</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And lights are in my hair.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I want to die while you love me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And bear to that still bed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your kisses—turbulent, unspent,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">To warm me when I’m dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I want to die while you love me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Oh, who would care to live,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Til love has nothing more to ask</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And nothing more to give.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="ecstasy" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Ecstasy</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Not less than this, beloved,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This beaming, highmost ray</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That sweeps in royal splendor</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Across our perfect day.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Not less than this—far rather</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That we should say “adieu,”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With every rose in Eden</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Abloom for me and you.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="pledge" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Pledge</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>With kisses I’ll awake you love</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So tenderly at morn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The pledges of my fealty</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Diunally reborn.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>We’ll thread life’s way together love,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And when the fading light</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dips softly over western hills</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I’ll kiss your eyes good-night.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="your-eyes" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Your Eyes</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Your eyes—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dark pools, so calm and deep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A thousand ages in them sleep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A dreaming world within them lies,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all my hopes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of paradise!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="amour" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Amour</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Kiss me!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And let the hours bloom triumphantly</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Before life’s little sun has set</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I am old.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Love me!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The day is fleet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I …</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Am far too passionate</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To die!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="finality" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Finality</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When love’s triumphant day is done,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Go forward! leave me to the night</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Beneath the coldly staring stars,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The waiting winter and its blight.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>For I would never hold the heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That mutely quivers to be free,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unfurl your restless wings—away!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And leave the emptiness to me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="in-love" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">In Love</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I lived in Hell the other day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Its fires wrapt me angrily,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But now their horrors fall and fade</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like ghosts that memory has made.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I lived in Hell even today,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How swift the fierce flames die away—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Submerged with kisses, I forget,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With tears upon my pillows yet.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="fiction" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Fiction</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah! love!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I shall not seek to penetrate</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your webbed gauze</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor tease my heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By queries deep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But hold you tenderly;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The day is evening,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I must cull my flowers</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Ere dark.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="dead-days" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Dead Days</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Dead days of rapture and despair</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I would your hours exhume,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Renew their wildness once again</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Their rigors and perfume.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="break-break-my-heart" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Break, Break My Heart</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Break, break my heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For love is done,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The pale light trails the dying sun—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And night awaits—no hope—no stars</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Darkness</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hide my scars!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="little-king" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Little King</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>From worshipping I now arise</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stunned and aghast, with open eyes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I see the real, the little you</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I thought so gallant, brave and true.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A pity yet is mine, I fear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Since wherefore comes this falling tear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For none among your fawning throng</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Will love you well, nor love you long.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="romance" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Romance</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When I was young</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i11">I used to say:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Romance <em>will come</em> riding by</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I shall surely smile</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And play with him awhile.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When I grew older</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i11">then I said:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Romance <em>may come</em> riding by</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I wonder shall I smile</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And play with him awhile?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But now—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i6">Alas! I only say:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Romance <em>never will</em> come by</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I shall never smile</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He has been dead the while!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="falling-gods" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Falling Gods</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Confusion, desuetude and gloom,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">The travailing of sound,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fell desolation in my soul,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And agony profound;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The gods are falling heavily</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And for all time to be,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And never more my heart shall know</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">A shrine to Deity!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="armor" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Armor</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>You cannot hurt me any more</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">For I am armored now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I can look into your face</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">With cool, unfevered brow.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The tranquil river meets the sea,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">My life flows on at rest,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unurged, untorn, but oh, my God!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I love the old way best!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="divide" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Divide</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Your lightest breath may fan my cheek</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your whisper stir me when you speak,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And yet—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The teeming planets play</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Between your heart—and mine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Today.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="return" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Return</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like the pines intoning</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Though some solitary gloom,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My errant throughts go pattering</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>About love’s ancient tomb,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And though no breath of incense rare</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lies round the shattered cup,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A banquet weird, the fragments</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where the ghost of love</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>May sup.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="song-of-the-sinner" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Song of the Sinner</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Just a bit of ashes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Grey, grey ashes—spent—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>God! how fierce the fires burned</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Down to this content.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Just a bit of ashes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Not a single spark</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lives in this residuum</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Crumbling cold and dark.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Just a bit of ashes—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To the judgment day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I go with my memories—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pray, sweet virgin, pray!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="celibacy" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Celibacy</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Where is the love that might have been</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Flung to the far ends of Earth?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In my body stamping around,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In my body like a hound</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Leashed and restless—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Biding time!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="offering" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Offering</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I seek no tokens of you dear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I only ask to give</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The purple flower of my heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And you will let it live.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I ask no fealty or plight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">I only pray that you</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>May find earth’s barren places bright</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Perhaps, because it grew.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And when for you the final sun</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Moves toward the darkening West,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I shall be lingering to place</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Love’s flower on your breast.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="estrangement" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Estrangement</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Some day I shall be dead, and pride</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Which kept me from your feet,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall be the burden of the song</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">My cold lips shall repeat.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And some day when you too shall find</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">A pillow in the sod,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would you then spurn an hour with me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Above—where daisies nod?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="recessional" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Recessional</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Consider me a memory—a dream</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That passed away,</span>
|
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<br/>
|
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<span>Or yet, a flower that has blown and shattered—</span>
|
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<br/>
|
||
<span>In a day;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For passion sleeps, alas, and keeps no vigil</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With the years,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And wakens to no conjuring</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of orison or tears.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Consider me a melody</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That served its simple turn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or but the residue of fire</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That settles in the urn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For love defies pure reasoning</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And undeterred flows</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Within—without</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The vassal heart!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Its reasoning—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who knows?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="sepulchre" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Sepulchre</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I have mounded the corpse of my sorrow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">And wreathed it with roses fair</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That none who may pass on the morrow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">May know what lies buried there.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="curtain" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Curtain</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When one has lived</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Tis not so hard</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To fold the hands,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To say, “Good-night,”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And creep away</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Behind the dark;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But ’tis not strange</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The heart rebels</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When sounds of night</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ring down the day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That was a weary, joyless way</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From early dawn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To setting sun:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How eagerly we trail the light</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For crumbs of happiness we fend,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And struggle, struggle—to the end!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<article id="afterglow" epub:type="z3998:poem bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Afterglow</h2>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Through you I entered heaven and hell,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Knew rapture and despair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I flitted o’er the plains of earth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And scaled each shining stair:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Drank deep the waters of content,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And drained the cup of gall,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was regal and was impotent,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was suzerain and thrall.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now, by Reflection’s placid pool</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On evening’s mellowed brow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I smile across the backward way</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And pledge anew my vow;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For every glancing, golden gleam,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I offer gladly—pain!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I would give a thousand world</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To live it all again!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</article>
|
||
<section id="colophon" epub:type="colophon backmatter">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Colophon</h2>
|
||
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