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…lower not, blossom in no new spring- tide ; Fields where grass nor herb nor abounding darnel Flourish ; fields more barren, devoid, than oceans Pasture ungarnered. Deserts, stone as arid as sand, savannahs Black with wrecks, a wilderness evil, fruitless ; Still, to me, a land of the bluest heaven Studded with silver. Castles bleak and bare as the wrath of ocean, Wasted wall and tower, as the blast had risen, Taken keep and donjon, and hurled them earth- ward, Rent and uprooted.
1899 · PDF PAGE 41
THE TALE OF ARCHAIS 33 Until the glint and glory of the place Grew oer the blue dim line of ocean. It was a temple never built of man, Being of marble white, and all unhewn, Above a cliff, about whose base were strewn Boulders of amethyst or malachite. Save these the cliffs rose sheer, a dazzling white, Six hundred feet from ocean ; so divine Was the tall precipice, that from the shrine A child might fling a stone and splash it in the brine. Within whose silver courts and lily bowers The Queen of Love led Charicles ; white flowers Blushed ever…
1899 · PDF PAGE 91
…l away Till the break of day. ARCHAIS In the arms of love at last Love is anchored fast, Firm beyond the rage of Heaven, safe beyond the ocean blast. CHARICLES In the arms of love close prest, And thy tender breast Pillows now my happy head ; softly breezes from the west Both Stir the ring-doves nest.
1899 · PDF PAGE 86
… thy fold ! Star of the morning, fling thy blossom near us ! Phoibos, re-kindle us with molten gold ! Starbeams and woven tresses of the ocean, Flowers of the rolling mountains and the lea, Trees, and innumerable flocks and herds, Wild cattle and bright birds, Tremble above the sea With song more noble, the divinest potion Of poets wonder and bards melody ! ARCHAIS Cold is the kiss of the stars to the sea, The kiss of the earth to the orient grey That heralds the day ; Warmer the kiss of a love that is free As the wind of the sea, Quick and r…
1899 · PDF PAGE 12
…light Born from the Cimmerian darkness of the hollow womb of Night, By the father of the gods, And the seasons periods To Eternity, the ocean flooded with the river, Light Ouranos ! Wave wide thy pinions Azure in the azure air, Over the serene dominions That our love has made so fair : Hark, O Heaven ! Hail thy sister, Earth, ex- panding everywhere With the blossom of Gods smile. Hark, old Ouranos, awhile To the music welling up From the sea of molten glass,
1899 · PDF PAGE 10
…. Are the roses dead to-day ? Is the wine spilt ? Is the flute Broken ? Is thy lover fled ? Has the dancer danced away ? Is the voice of ocean mute ? Is the hour of dreamland dead ? Nay, the slumbers of thine head Shall be until thy lures. Love shall gird thee as a garment while thy very life endures Sing, lute, sing a sweeter measure, Drown the wild discordant notes, Life, sob out thy chant of pleasure (Love a lure, and life a treasure) As a thousand thrushes passion Throbbed it from a thousand throats, In the wild Hesperian garden, in the ol…
1899 · PDF PAGE 90
…den weather, Free of tyranny and tether, Roam the world, linked hand in hand, Moonlight for your sleep, and breezes Fresh from where the Ocean freezes, And the cold Aurora stands With new lilies in her hands. Happy lovers, twilight falls, Let us leave you for a while, Guarding all the golden walls With the weapon of a smile. Silver arrows from the maiden With new labours laden
1899 · PDF PAGE 54
46 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS So stood she there, with eyes of victory Fixed on the sun, about to sink his rays Beneath the ocean, that the pallid bays Fringed with white foam. But, as in pity, yet The sun forgot his chariot, nor would set, Since as he sank the maiden thought to leap Within the bosom of the vaulted deep From that high pedestal. And seeing this, That yet an hour was left her, Archais Lift up her voice and prayed with zeal divine To Aphrodite, who from her far shrine Heard and flew fast to aid over the night-clad brine. PRAYER OF ARCHAI…
1899 · PDF PAGE 71
…to endurance strong, As from desire to the power to long, From man to woman with a strange swift motion, Like tide and ebb upon a summer ocean. Thus he went forth a girl ; his steps he presses Through sickly wastes and burning wildernesses To the lascivious shade of Idas deep recesses
1899 · PDF PAGE 69
… Charicles grey eyes were luminous With love-reflections multitudinous As lilies in the spring. Again was seen As in a mirror, like the ocean green, The admirable birth of Loves eternal Queen. So Charicles a moment was amazed. A moment ; then, contemptuous, he gazed With curling lip on her, and sourly scorns Her petty miracle : The deed adorns Too well a queen whose promises are foam. And she, indignant, would have hied her home And left him to despair, but pitying His soul struck through with darts : A bitter Thing (She cried) thou …
1899 · PDF PAGE 68
…ous potency of mandragore Ready to strike. And then a change came oer Its turbid mass, that shook, and grew divine, A million-twinkling ocean of bright brine That seemed to spread beyond the horizon, Whence, stirred by strange emotions of the sun, Waves rolled upon it, and a wind arose And lashed it with insatiable blows Into a surging labyrinth of foam, Boiling up into heavens unchanging dome Of brightest aether ; then, its womb uncloses To bring to birth a garden of white roses, Whence, on a mystic shell of pearl, is borne A goddess, bosome…
1899 · PDF PAGE 53
…th its kiss ; and in the night Were crowned with that unutterable light That is a brilliance of solemn black, Glistening wide across the ocean track Of white-sailed ships and many mariners. So, on the tallest spire, where wakes and whirrs The eagle when dawn strikes his eyrie, came The maiden, clad in the abundant flame Of setting sun, with shapely shoulders bare, And even the glory of her midday hair Was bound above her head ; so, naked pure, Fixed in that purpose, which the gods endure With calm despair, the purpose to be passed Into the circ…