日期:2007-11-10 To Cleis I have a fair daughter with a form like a golden flower,Cleis, the beloved. Sapphic fragment. When the dusk was wet with dew,Cleis, did the muses nineListen in a silent line While your mother sang to you? Did they weep or did they smileWhen... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-10 Paris in Spring The city's all a-shiningBeneath a fickle sun, A gay young wind's a-blowing,The little shower is done. But the rain-drops still are clingingAnd falling one by one Oh it's Paris, it's Paris,And spring-time has begun. I know the Bois is... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-10 Madeira from the Sea Out of the delicate dream of the distance an emerald emerges Veiled in the violet folds of the air of the sea; Softly the dream grows awakening -shimmering white of a city, Splashes of crimson, the gay bougainvillea, the palms.... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-10 City Vignettes I Dawn The greenish sky glows up in misty reds,The purple shadows turn to brick and stone, The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds,And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone. II Dusk The city's street, a roaring blackened streamWall... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-10 By the Sea Beside an ebbing northern sea While stars awaken one by one, We walk together, I and he. He woos me with an easy grace That proves him only half sincere; A light smile flickers on his face. To him love-making is an art, And as a flutist... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-10 On the Death of Swinburne He trod the earth but yesterday, And now he treads the stars.He left us in the April timeHe praised so often in his rhyme, He left the singing and the lyre and went his way. He drew new music from our tongue, A music subtly... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-10 Triolets I Love looked back as he took his flight,And lo, his eyes were filled with tears. Was it for love of lost delight Love looked back as he took his flight? Only I know while day grew night,Turning still to the vanished years, Love looked bac... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-10 Vox Corporis The beast to the beast is calling,And the soul bends down to wait; Like the stealthy lord of the jungle,The white man calls his mate. The beast to the beast is calling,They rush through the twilight sweet, But the soul is a wary hunter,... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-10 A Ballad of Two Knights Two knights rode forth at early dawnA-seeking maids to wed, Said one, My lady must be fair,With gold hair on her head. Then spake the other knight-at-arms:I care not for her face, But she I love must be a doveFor purity and g... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-10 Christmas Carol The kings they came from out the south,All dressed in ermine fine, They bore Him gold and chrysoprase,And gifts of precious wine. The shepherds came from out the north,Their coats were brown and old, They brought Him little new-born l... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-10 The Faery Forest The faery forest glimmeredBeneath an ivory moon, The silver grasses shimmeredAgainst a faery tune. Beneath the silken silenceThe crystal branches slept, And dreaming thro' the dew-fallThe cold white blossoms wept.... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-10 A Fantasy Her voice is like clear waterThat drips upon a stone In forests far and silentWhere Quiet plays alone. Her thoughts are like the lotusAbloom by sacred streams Beneath the temple archesWhere Quiet sits and dreams. Her kisses are the rosesTha... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-11-10 A Minuet of Mozart's Across the dimly lighted roomThe violin drew wefts of sound,Airily they wove and wound And glimmered gold against the gloom. I watched the music turn to light,But at the pausing of the bow,The web was broken and the glow Was drow... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-29 The Prayer My answered prayer came up to me,And in the silence thus spake he: O you who prayed for me to come,Your greeting is but cold and dumb. My heart made answer:You are fair,But I have prayed too long to care. Why came you not when all was ne... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-29 Two Songs for a Child I Grandfather's Love They said he sent his love to me,They wouldn't put it in my hand, And when I asked them where it wasThey said I couldn't understand. I thought they must have hidden it,I hunted for it all the day, And when I... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-29 On the Tower Under the leaf of many a Fable lies the Truth for those who look for it. Jami. On the Tower(A play in one act.)The Knight. The Lady. Voices of men and women on the ground at the foot of the tower. The voice of the Knight's Page. The to... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-29 K.Kiss me at last, my love. L.Oh, my sweet lord, I am too tired to kiss.Look how the earth is like an emerald,With rivers veined and flawed with fallow fields. K.(Lifting her veil)Then I kiss you, a thousand thousand kissesFor all the days ere I ha... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-29 how much we love. K.May they not see us?All of them have loved. L.But you have been an enemy, my lord,With walls between us and with moss-grown moats,Now on a sudden must I kiss your mouth?I who was taught before I learned to speakThat all my house... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-29 Young Love I I cannot heed the words they say,The lights grow far away and dim, Amid the laughing men and maidsMy eyes unbidden seek for him. I hope that when he smiles at meHe does not guess my joy and pain, For if he did, he is too kindTo ever look... 阅读全文>> 日期:2007-10-29 Apology(For Eleanor Rogers Cox) For blows on the fort of evil That never shows a breach, For terrible life-long races To a goal no foot can reach, For reckless leaps into darkness With hands outstretched to a star, There is jubilation in Heaven Whe... 阅读全文>> |
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