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Constantine Michaelides . Are you the toy of air light ? Have you no helm to steer ? A derelict each air sprite To every wind can veer ? Can your guns slay no slayer ? Your sailors hoist no sail ? Have you no magic sayer To conjure up a gale ? Is the orchid flower your magnet ? The waving grass your rope ? Is fickleness your signet ? Your only harbour Hope ? Oh Admiral , Red Admiral, On what sea do you sail ? What wind doth strain your creaking masts ? And whither drives the gale ? 124
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…; you and I were awake. Slowly the children crept to rest in the shadowy bushes, Slowly still the sun rose in the vacuous sky. Earth and air and our souls were faint in the heat of the noonday ; Slower and yet more slow moved your hand in my hair . Time stood still and the sun had paused his path in the heavens , Not a breath in the air ruffled the leaves of the bush . Even our hearts were still and the restless swarm of our kisses Paused and abandoned their flight resting yet on our lips . Yet , as a man in a swoon sees heaven and earth laid b…
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INDEX TO FIRST LINES . PAGE Fairies in the night have been .. . First a vague walking through the half -dark wood . . . For God's sake, let us laugh a little ... From muddy road to muddy lane Give me but the boat, I say ... ... Give me the nectar of your lips Gorse and the curving grass and the sun -heavy air were around us ... ... ... ... Here does she sit, her foot upon the wing ... Here in the evening curl white mists How did we meet , my love and I ... How splendid in the morning glows the lily 185 198 133 96 215 I built a palace high up in…
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Dermot Freyer . Like balls of snow That in mid air hover , The white chrysanthemums Sway and recover . Like balls of snow Splashed on a wall , The winds blow And the white flake - petals fall . Like balls of snow , When the moon is out , Dew - kissed , the white petals Fling pale fires about . All through the wild nights , Like balls of snow , The white chrysanthemums Toss to and fro .
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…tar in a clouded sky , A loyal blade for a cause betrayed , A breath from an age gone by . Sweet in a loveless world , Pure in a tainted air, Oh, who could see and not worship thee ? Lose thee and not despair ? 212
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…but how changed quite ! A world begins , where tree doth grow from tree . What dusky Earths , what Fires at all compare With thee , what Air , what Shadows lightly wrought , Thou living Water ! Settled softly there , Proud with the proud reality of Thought . 18
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J. d'AUBRAY BELL . SPRING IN MONTPARNASSE . HROUGH the more limpid air the live trams clash And pitch , with more impetuous speed imbued : Black trees that all the winter seemed to brood Thought - swathed start up with sudden emerald flash And stretchings out of myriad crumpled hands : Huge ship - like corner - houses that till now Lay listless and becalmed shake from their prow Pennons that thrill towards unknown spring - lands : The cafés spread their awning - leaves above An early crop of pert habitués ; The teeming boulevard Alickers and sw…
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…d . Is your land among orchids Where strange petals ensnare ? Are your dominions hundreds Which no adventurers dare ? Is your sea in the air light ? Your colours are they rays ? Your sailors girt for flower fight ? Your shoals a flowery maze ? Your masts are they the grass heads ? Your guns are they the boom Of insects in the marsh beds Where day light wars with gloom ? 123
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…nd stilly , And waits to catch the fallen rose , And clasp the broken lily . I dream she dwells in London still And breathes the evening air , And often walk to Primrose Hill And hope to meet her there . Once more together will we live , For ,I will find her yet : I have so little to forgive ; So much , I can 't forget .
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…ry must play alone." So Jimmy Price went home to bed, And Mary joined the restless dead . THE MAD MAGICIAN . BUILT a palace , high up in air, Tower and gallery , hall and stair . 1 Marble I wrought in, iron and gold . Ever and ever this house will hold . When I had made it fair and strong I set it drifting the wind along While I went seeking by hall and stair , Sure of finding my darling there . 185
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…f thorn , And the bare boughs make sad speeches And sighings forlorn . There 's death in the marshes reeking And death in the arm of the air , And our hearths to the mists are leaking And no warmth there . Sweet ye bards was the singing Of magical numbers ye made When summer her bounty was Ainging O’ er forest and glade . And we hearing forgot them after , When the mists lay still in the fen , Nor heeded nor needed , for laughter Was in us then .
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… , I watched the sunken face expand , I watched the life creep back from death , I made him lord of earth and men And ruler over sea and air , Within my heart I loosed again The faint and frozen springs of prayer . II . Now as God waxed so I did wane , For through the dim millennial years Back to the utter source of pain He bore me surfeited with tears . Swift from the present , back through time , Swifter than spears the keen sun throws , He bore and set me in the slime Where our first father - man arose . A hairy beast , with furtive eye , An…
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… prayer is mighty with my will ; My purpose as a sword Flames through the adamant, to fill The gardens of the Lord With music , that the air be still , Dumb to its mighty chord . I stand above the tides of time And elemental strife : My figure stands above , sublime , Shadowing the Key of Life ; And the passion of my mighty rime Divides me as a knife . 62
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…naret Lay mirrored in the dreaming sea With strangely precious carvings set In chrysoprase and ebony , And metals , wrought in fashions fair Of filagree as light as air . The streets were full of cheerful noise ; Princes and burghers passed me by , And grave philosophers , and boys , And maidens with reluctant eye . And every robe was brightly kissed With green , and gold , and amethyst . Around the cities sacred groves , Fulfilled of sunny pleasure , lay , Soft with the rumour of the doves ; While sounds of singing far away Told how the priest…
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E N . da C. Andrade . * FRAGMENT. DECAUSE your face is with me in the dark Wrought out in fire and unattainable air, Because the past is with me and despair , Kindling the blackness bright with many a spark Of memory to make me writhe and weep : Because I cannot sleep For thorny to my side is all my bed , And all the night is stubble to my soul , And all my pillow nettles to my head Because my mouth demands a spell to say , And misery demands her lawful toll Of inexpressive words , which I must pay , I set my hands towards you through the gloom…
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…hoot , as the ripe cornfield you pass , A shudder down those golden ranks . On wall and window slant your hand And sidle up the garden stair ; Cherish each flower in all the land With soft encroachments of cool air . Lay your long fingers on the sea And shake your shadow at the sun , Darkly reminding him that he Relieve you when your work is done . Rally your wizardries , and wake A noonday panic cold and rude , Till ' neath the ferns the drowsy snake Is conscious of his solitude . Then as your sorcery declines Elaborate your pomp the more , So…
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…and empty the bower ; It was only an echo that sang in the tower. I went to the window and saw them stare At my palace hanging serene in air . I know they hate me : I hear them cry, The mad magician has learnt to fly ! ” “ What , I have found you ? This is your face , Clear in the gloom of the market - place : “ Quiet and clear in the turbid crowd , You , like a star in a wrack of cloud . “ Now you have seen me - now the surprise Dawns in the dark of your dreaming eyes . “ You ,- oh for you the palace , the song , You that I built it for fair a…
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…res to the melody of flutes . We bring you milk and maize ; wild figs and golden honey , And kindle fragrant incense ; to hallow all the air With fasting lips we pray , with fervent hearts we praise you, O bless our lowly offerings and hearken to our prayer. Guard our helpless lives and guide our patient labours, And cherish our dear vision like the jewels in your crests ; O spread your hooded watch for the safety of our slumbers , And soothe the troubled longings that clamour in our breasts . Swift are ye as streams and soundless as the dewfal…
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Robert Keable . *I HAVE A HOPE . I HAVE a hope of deep - set woods 1 Where brown curled beech leaves strew the ground , And silk - haired primrose leaves around Make way for buds in fair green hoods ; And where the small dog - violets try To hide ashamed from passers by . I have a hope of free wide braes Swept keenly by sea - scented winds , Where , brave and tossed , one often finds Sea pinks ; where gulls upon their ways Go crying in the vault above That there 's no quest like that of Love . I have a hope that I may sit Some distant June , wh…
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…hed , to see the wild swan fall . And still another shadow between the lawn and sun light The shadow of a red streak falling through the air Down in the river is the wounded swan 's death fight ; But his blood has splashed on the King 's White Daughter fair ; Splashed on her peacocks and on her pretty Page - boy , And lo ! there steals a music calling soft and faint Through the great gardens and orchards of the King 's joy From the ancient terraced thousand steps — " The Bride 's Descent .” Behold ! her true love is a prince enchanted , And he …