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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Songs, Sonnets & Miscellaneous Poems + +Author: Thomas Runciman + +Release Date: February 4, 2005 [EBook #14906] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONGS, SONNETS & MISCELLANEOUS POEMS *** + + + + +Produced by Steven Gibbs and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + +</pre> + + <h1>SONGS, SONNETS & MISCELLANEOUS POEMS</h1> + + <h3>BY</h3> + + <h2>THOMAS RUNCIMAN</h2> + + <h4>PRIVATELY PRINTED<br /> + MCMXXII</h4> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <div class="figcenter" style="width: 344px;"> + <img src="images/frontispiece.jpg" width="344" height="479" + alt="Thomas Runciman 1841–1909" title= + "Thomas Runciman 1841–1909" /> <b>Thomas Runciman + 1841–1909</b> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2>CONTENTS</h2> + + <p><a href="#INTRODUCTORY_NOTE"><b>INTRODUCTORY + NOTE</b></a><br /> + <br /> + <a href="#SONGS"><b>SONGS</b></a><br /> + <a href="#SONGSI"><b>I.</b></a><br /> + <a href="#SONGSII"><b>II.</b></a><br /> + <a href="#SONGSIII"><b>III.</b></a> <i>Metempsychosis.</i><br /> + <a href="#SONGSIV"><b>IV.</b></a><br /> + <a href="#SONGSV"><b>V.</b></a><br /> + <a href="#SONGSVI"><b>VI.</b></a><br /> + <a href="#SONGSVII"><b>VII.</b></a> <i>A Gurly Breeze in + Scotland.</i><br /> + <br /> + <a href="#SONNETS"><b>SONNETS</b></a><br /> + <a href="#SONNETSI"><b>I.</b></a> <i>A Hamadryad Dies.</i><br /> + <a href="#SONNETSII"><b>II.</b></a> <i>"Et in Arcadia ego + ..."</i><br /> + <a href="#SONNETSIII"><b>III.</b></a><br /> + <a href="#SONNETSIV"><b>IV.</b></a><br /> + <a href="#SONNETSV"><b>V.</b></a><br /> + <a href="#SONNETSVI"><b>VI.</b></a><br /> + <a href="#SONNETSVII"><b>VII.</b></a><br /> + <a href="#SONNETSVIII"><b>VIII.</b></a><br /> + <br /> + <a href="#MISCELLANEOUS_POEMS"><b>MISCELLANEOUS + POEMS</b></a><br /> + <a href="#MISCI"><b>I.</b></a><br /> + <a href="#MISCII"><b>II.</b></a> <i>An Afternoon + Soliloquy.</i><br /> + <a href="#MISCIII"><b>III.</b></a><br /> + <a href="#MISCIV"><b>IV.</b></a> <i>Revoke Not.</i><br /> + <a href="#MISCV"><b>V.</b></a><br /> + <a href="#MISCVI"><b>VI.</b></a> <i>Northumbria.—A + Dirge.</i><br /> + <a href="#MISCVII"><b>VII.</b></a> <i>Merely Suburban.</i><br /> + <a href="#MISCVIII"><b>VIII.</b></a> <i>Whistler versus Ruskin + Trial.</i><br /></p><!-- End Autogenerated TOC. --> + + <h2><a name="INTRODUCTORY_NOTE" id= + "INTRODUCTORY_NOTE"></a>INTRODUCTORY NOTE</h2> + + <p>Thomas Runciman was born in Northumberland in 1841, and died + in London in 1909. He was the second son of Walter Runciman of + Dunbar and Jean Finlay, his wife. In his youth he left the + beautiful coast where his father was stationed to go to school + and work in Newcastle. Artists of his name had been men of mark + in Scotland, and as he had their strong feeling for colour he was + allowed for a time to become a pupil of William Bell Scott, who + was on the fringe of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Throughout his + life he painted portraits and landscapes, but the latter were + what he loved. His work was not widely known, for he had a + nervous contempt for Exhibitions, and the first collection of his + landscapes in water-colour and oil was opened to the public at a + posthumous exhibition in Newcastle in 1911. He travelled from + time to time, and enjoyed living on the banks of the Seine, and + in other beautiful regions abroad.</p> + + <p>His poems were never offered for publication, although + critical essays of his appeared from time to time, as for + instance in the "London" of Henley and Stevenson. The Songs and + Sonnets were written for his own satisfaction, and were sent to a + few faithful friends and to members of his own family, who have + allowed me to collect and print them. The miscellaneous verses + were in many instances found in letters, and others written in + high spirits were rescued after his death from sketch books and + scraps of paper by his daughter, Kate Runciman Sellers, and by + his friend, Edward Nisbet.</p> + + <p>W.R.</p> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="SONGS" id="SONGS"></a>SONGS</h2> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="SONGSI" id="SONGSI"></a>I.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Though here fair blooms the rose and the woodbine waves + on high,<br /></span> <span>And oak and elm and bracken frond + enrich the rolling lea,<br /></span> <span>And winds as if + from Arcady breathe joy as they go by,<br /></span> <span>Yet + I yearn and I pine for my North Countrie.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>I leave the drowsing south and in dreams I northward + fly,<br /></span> <span>And walk the stretching moors that + fringe the ever-calling sea;<br /></span> <span>And am + gladdened as the gales that are so bitter-sweet go + by,<br /></span> <span>While grey clouds sweetly darken o'er + my North Countrie.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>For there's music in the storms, and there's colour in + the shades,<br /></span> <span>And there's joy e'en in the + sorrow widely brooding o'er the sea;<br /></span> <span>And + larger thoughts have birth among the moors and lowly + glades<br /></span> <span>And reedy mounds and sands of my + North Countrie.<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="SONGSII" id="SONGSII"></a>II.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span>You who know what easeful arms<br /></span> + <span>Silence winds about the dead,<br /></span> <span>Or + what far-swept music charms<br /></span> <span>Hearts that + were earth-wearied;<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>You who know—if aught be known<br /></span> + <span>In that everlasting Hush<br /></span> <span>Where the + life-born years are strewn,<br /></span> <span>Where the + eyeless ages rush,—<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Tell me, is it conscious rest<br /></span> <span>Heals + the whilom hurt of life?<br /></span> <span>Or is Nirvana + undistressed<br /></span> <span>E'en by memory of + strife?<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="SONGSIII" id="SONGSIII"></a>III.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span><i>Metempsychosis.</i><br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>When Grief comes this way by<br /></span> <span>With + her wan lip and drooping eye,<br /></span> <span>Bid her + welcome, woo her boldly;<br /></span> <span>Soon she'll look + on thee less coldly.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Her tears soon cease to flow.<br /></span> <span>'Tis + now not Grief but Joy we know;<br /></span> <span>From her + smiling face the roses<br /></span> <span>Tell the glad + metempsychosis.<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="SONGSIV" id="SONGSIV"></a>IV.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span class="i4">Life with the sun in it—<br /></span> + <span class="i8">Shaded by gloom!<br /></span> <span class= + "i4">Life with the fun in it—<br /></span> <span class= + "i8">Shadowed by Doom!<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Life with its Love ever haunted by Hate!<br /></span> + <span>Life's laughing morrows frowned over by + Fate!<br /></span> <span>Young Life's wild gladness still + waylaid by Age!<br /></span> <span>All its sweet badness + still mocking the sage!<br /></span> <span>What can e'er + measure the joy of its strife?<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span class="i4">What boundless leisure<br /></span> + <span class="i4">Count the heaped treasure<br /></span> + <span class="i4">Of woe, that's the pleasure<br /></span> + <span class="i4">And beauty of Life?<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="SONGSV" id="SONGSV"></a>V.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span class="i8">Once as the aureole<br /></span> + <span class="i8">Day left the earth,<br /></span> + <span class="i8">Faded, a twilight soul,<br /></span> + <span class="i8">Memory, had birth:<br /></span> <span>Young + were her sister souls, Sorrow and Mirth.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span class="i8">Dark mirrors are her eyes:<br /></span> + <span class="i8">Wherein who gaze<br /></span> <span class= + "i8">See wan effulgencies<br /></span> <span class= + "i8">Flicker and blaze—<br /></span> <span>Lorn + fleeting shadows of beautiful days.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span class="i8">Scan those deep mirrors well<br /></span> + <span class="i8">After long years:<br /></span> <span class= + "i8">Lo! what aforetime fell<br /></span> <span class="i8">In + rain of tears,<br /></span> <span>In radiant glamour-mist now + reappears.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span class="i8">See old wild gladness<br /></span> + <span class="i8">Tamed now and coy;<br /></span> <span class= + "i8">Grief that was madness<br /></span> <span class= + "i8">Turned into joy.<br /></span> <span>Fate cannot harry + them now, nor annoy.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span class="i8">Down from yon throbbing blue,<br /></span> + <span class="i8">Passionless, fair,<br /></span> <span class= + "i8">Still faces look on you,<br /></span> <span class= + "i8">Sunlit their hair,<br /></span> <span>With a slow smile + at your pleasure and care.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span class="i8">Life and death murmurings<br /></span> + <span class="i8">From their lips go<br /></span> <span class= + "i8">In vaster music-rings;<br /></span> <span class= + "i8">Outward they flow,<br /></span> <span>Tenderer, wilder, + than songs that we know.<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="SONGSVI" id="SONGSVI"></a>VI.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span>My love's unchanged—though time, + alas!<br /></span> <span>Turns silver-gilt the golden + mass<br /></span> <span>Of flowing hair, and pales, I + wis,<br /></span> <span>The rose that deepened with that + kiss—<br /></span> <span>The first—before our + marriage was.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>And though the fields of corn and grass,<br /></span> + <span>So radiant then, as summers pass<br /></span> + <span>Lose something of their look of bliss,<br /></span> + <span class="i5">My love's unchanged.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Our tiny girl's a sturdy lass;<br /></span> <span>Our + boy's shrill pipe descends to bass;<br /></span> <span>New + friends appear, the old we miss;<br /></span> <span>My + <i>Love</i> grows old ... in spite of this<br /></span> + <span class="i5">My love's unchanged.<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="SONGSVII" id="SONGSVII"></a>VII.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span><i>A Gurly Breeze in Scotland.</i><br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>A gurly breeze swept from the pool<br /></span> + <span>The Autumn peace so blue and cool,<br /></span> + <span>Which all day long had dreamed thereon<br /></span> + <span>Of men and things aforetime gone,<br /></span> + <span>Their vanished joy, their ended dule:<br /></span> + <span>So glooms the sea, so sounds her brool,<br /></span> + <span>As from the East at eve comes on<br /></span> + <span class="i4">A gurly breeze.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Sense yields to Fancy 'neath whose rule<br /></span> + <span>This inland scene is quickly full<br /></span> <span>Of + ocean moods wherein I con<br /></span> <span>As in a picture; + quickly gone.<br /></span> <span>To what sweet use the mind + may school<br /></span> <span class="i4">A gurly + breeze!<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="SONNETS" id="SONNETS"></a>SONNETS</h2> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="SONNETSI" id="SONNETSI"></a>I.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span><i>A Hamadryad Dies.</i><br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Low mourned the Oread round the Arcadian + hills;<br /></span> <span>The Naiad murmured and the Dryad + moaned;<br /></span> <span>The meadow-maiden left her + daffodils<br /></span> <span>To join the Hamadryades who + groaned<br /></span> <span>Over a sister newly fallen + dead.<br /></span> <span>That Life might perish out of + Arcady<br /></span> <span>From immemorial times was never + said;<br /></span> <span>Yet here one lay dead by her dead + oak-tree.<br /></span> <span>"Who made our Hamadryad cold and + mute?"<br /></span> <span>The others cried in sorrow and in + wonder.<br /></span> <span>"I," answered Death, close by in + ashen suit;<br /></span> <span>"Yet fear not me for this, nor + start asunder;<br /></span> <span>Arcadian life shall keep + its ancient zest<br /></span> <span>Though I be here. My + name?—is it not Rest?"<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="SONNETSII" id="SONNETSII"></a>II.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span><i>"Et in Arcadia ego ..."</i><br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>"What traveller soever wander here<br /></span> + <span>In quest of peace and what is best of + pleasure,<br /></span> <span>Let not his hope be overcast and + drear<br /></span> <span>Because I, Death, am here to fix the + measure<br /></span> <span>Of life, even in blameless + Arcady.<br /></span> <span>Bay, laurel, myrtle, ivy never + sere,<br /></span> <span>And fields flower-decorated all the + year,<br /></span> <span>And streams that carry secrets to + the sea,<br /></span> <span>And hills that hold back + something evermore<br /></span> <span>Though wild their + speech with clouds in thunder-roar,—<br /></span> + <span>Yea, every sylvan sight and peaceful tone<br /></span> + <span>Are thine to give thy days their purer + zest.<br /></span> <span>Let not the legend grieve thee on + this stone.<br /></span> <span>I Death am here. What then? My + name is Rest."<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="SONNETSIII" id="SONNETSIII"></a>III.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Despairless! Hopeless! Quietly I wait<br /></span> + <span>On these unpeopled tracks the happy close<br /></span> + <span>Of Day, whose advent rang with noise + elate,<br /></span> <span>Whose later stage was quick with + mirthful shows<br /></span> <span>And clasping loves, with + hate and hearty blows,<br /></span> <span>And dreams of + coming gifts withheld by Fate<br /></span> <span>From morrow + unto morrow, till her great<br /></span> <span>Dread eyes + 'gan tell of other gifts than those,<br /></span> <span>And + her advancing wings gloomed like a pall;<br /></span> + <span>Her speech foretelling joy became a dirge<br /></span> + <span>As piteous as pitiless; and all<br /></span> <span>My + company had passed beyond the verge<br /></span> <span>And + lost me ere Fate raised her blinding wings....<br /></span> + <span>Hark! through the dusk a bird "at heaven's gate + sings."<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="SONNETSIV" id="SONNETSIV"></a>IV.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span>"Despairless? Hopeless? Join the cheerful + hunt<br /></span> <span>Whose hounds are Science, high + Desires the steeds,<br /></span> <span>And Misery the quarry. + Use and Wont<br /></span> <span>No help to human anguish + bring, that bleeds<br /></span> <span>For all two thousand + years of Christian deeds.<br /></span> <span>Let Use and Wont + in styes still feed and grunt,<br /></span> <span>Or, bovine, + graze knee-deep in flowering meads.<br /></span> <span>Mount! + follow! Onward urge Life's dragon-hunt!"<br /></span> + <span>—So cries the sportsman brisk at break of + day.<br /></span> <span>"The sound of hound and horn is well + for thee,"<br /></span> <span>Thus I reply, "but I have other + prey;<br /></span> <span>And friendly is my quest as you may + see.<br /></span> <span>Though slow my pace, full surely in + the dark<br /></span> <span>I'll chance on it at last, though + none may mark."<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="SONNETSV" id="SONNETSV"></a>V.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Hopeless! Despairless! like that Indian + wise<br /></span> <span>Free of desire, save no desire to + know.<br /></span> <span>To gain that sweet Nirvana each one + tries,<br /></span> <span>Thinks to assuage soul-wearing + passion so.<br /></span> <span>From the white rest, the + ante-natal bliss,<br /></span> <span>Not loth, the wondrous + wondering soul awakes;<br /></span> <span>Now drawn to that + illusion, now to this,<br /></span> <span>With gathering + strength each devious pathway takes;<br /></span> <span>Till + at the noon of life his aims decline;<br /></span> + <span>Evermore earthward bend the tiring eyes,<br /></span> + <span>Evermore earthward, till with no surprise<br /></span> + <span>They see Nirvana from Earth's bosom shine.<br /></span> + <span>The still kind mother holds her child + again<br /></span> <span>In blank desirelessness without a + stain.<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="SONNETSVI" id="SONNETSVI"></a>VI.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span>He comes to me like air on parching grass;<br /></span> + <span>His eyes are wells where truth lives, found at + last;<br /></span> <span>Summer is fragrant should he this + way pass;<br /></span> <span>His calm love is a chain that + binds me fast....<br /></span> <span>Yet often melancholy + will forecast<br /></span> <span>That time when I shall have + grown old—when he—<br /></span> <span>Still + rapturous in his struggle with life's + blast—<br /></span> <span>Shall give a pitying side + glance to me,<br /></span> <span>Who skirt the fog-fringe of + eternity,<br /></span> <span>Straining mine eyes to catch + what shadowy sign<br /></span> <span>Of good or evil omen + there may be,<br /></span> <span>Yet no sure good nor evil + can divine:<br /></span> <span>Only some hints of doubtful + sound and light,<br /></span> <span>That lonelier leave the + uncompanioned night.<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="SONNETSVII" id="SONNETSVII"></a>VII.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span>She scanned the record of Beethoven's + thought,<br /></span> <span>And made the dumb chords speak + both clear and low,<br /></span> <span>And spread the dead + man's voice till I was caught<br /></span> <span>Away, and + now seemed long and long ago.<br /></span> <span>Methought in + Tellus' bosom still I lay,<br /></span> <span>While centuries + like steeds tramped overhead,<br /></span> <span>To the wild + rhythms that, by night and day,<br /></span> <span>From + nature and man's passions still are made.<br /></span> + <span>The music of their motion as they pranced<br /></span> + <span>Lulled me to flawless ease as of a God;<br /></span> + <span>Never upon me pain or pleasure chanced;<br /></span> + <span>Unknown the dew of bliss, or fate's hard + rod.<br /></span> <span>Thus dreamed I ... But I know our + mother Earth<br /></span> <span>Waits to give back the peace + she reft at birth.<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="SONNETSVIII" id="SONNETSVIII"></a>VIII.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span>By mead and marsh and sandhill clad with + bent,<br /></span> <span>Soothed by the wistful musings of + the wind<br /></span> <span>That in scarce listening ears are + mildly dinned,<br /></span> <span>On plods the traveller till + the day be spent,<br /></span> <span>And day-dreams end in + dreamless night at last.<br /></span> <span>He hears, beyond + the grey bent's silken waves,<br /></span> <span>The + foam-embroidered waters ever cast<br /></span> <span>On + sighing sands and into echoing caves.<br /></span> <span>And + from the west, where the last sunset glow<br /></span> + <span>Still lingers on the border hills afar,<br /></span> + <span>Come pastoral sounds, attenuate and low,<br /></span> + <span>Thence where the night shall bring, 'neath cloud and + star,<br /></span> <span>Silence to yearn o'er folk worn with + day's strife,<br /></span> <span>Lost in blank sleep to hope, + regret, death, life.<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span>[<i>An alternative ending</i>:<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>While from the West comes murmuring earthly + noise,<br /></span> <span>Sweet, slumberous, attenuate and + afar;<br /></span> <span>Sad sunglows in the border mountains + poise,<br /></span> <span>There where he knows to-night, mid + cloud and star,<br /></span> <span>Silence shall yearn o'er + folk worn out with strife,<br /></span> <span>Lost in blank + sleep to hope, regret, death, life.]<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="MISCELLANEOUS_POEMS" id= + "MISCELLANEOUS_POEMS"></a>MISCELLANEOUS POEMS</h2> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="MISCI" id="MISCI"></a>I.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span>What though my voice cease like a moan o' the + wind?<br /></span> <span>Not the less shall I<br /></span> + <span>Cast on this life a kindly eye,<br /></span> <span>Glad + if through its mystery<br /></span> <span>Faint gleams of + love and truth glance o'er my mind.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>What though I end like a spring leaf shed on the + wind?<br /></span> <span>Restrained by pure-eyed Sorrow's + hand,<br /></span> <span>Lithe Joy through this wondrous + land<br /></span> <span>Leads me; nothing have I + scanned<br /></span> <span>Unmixed with good. Fate's sharpest + stroke is kind.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>To me, thoughts lived of old anew are born<br /></span> + <span>From glances at the unsullied sea,<br /></span> + <span>Or breath of morning purity,<br /></span> <span>From + cloud or blown grass tossing free,<br /></span> <span>Or + frail dew quivering on leaf, rose or thorn.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>What though behind me all is mist and + shade,<br /></span> <span>Yet warmth of afterglow bathes + all.<br /></span> <span>Hallowed spirits move and + call<br /></span> <span>Each to me, a willing + thrall,<br /></span> <span>With kindly speech of mountain, + plain or glade.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Before me, through the veil that covers + all,<br /></span> <span>Rays of a vasty Dawn strike + high<br /></span> <span>To the zenith of the + sky.<br /></span> <span>Intense, yet low as true love's + sigh,<br /></span> <span>Prophetic voices to my spirit + call.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>So, though my voice cease like a moan o' the + wind,<br /></span> <span>Not the less shall I<br /></span> + <span>Cast on life a kindly eye,<br /></span> <span>Glad if + through its mystery<br /></span> <span>Stray gleams of love + and truth illume my mind.<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="MISCII" id="MISCII"></a>II.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span><i>An Afternoon Soliloquy.</i><br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>How good some years of life may be!<br /></span> + <span>Ah, once it was not guessed by me,<br /></span> + <span>Past years would shine, like some bright + sea,<br /></span> <span>In golden dusks of + memory.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Ere then the music of the dawn<br /></span> <span>From + me had long since surged away;<br /></span> <span>And in the + disillusioned day<br /></span> <span>Of chill mid-life I + plodded on.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Anon a fuller music thrilled<br /></span> <span>My + world with meaning undertones,<br /></span> <span>That + elegized our vanished ones,<br /></span> <span>And told how + Lethe's banks are filled<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>With wordless calm, and wistful rest,<br /></span> + <span>And sweet large silence, solemn sleep,<br /></span> + <span>And brooding shadows cool and deep,<br /></span> + <span>And grand oblivions, undistressed.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>No more 'twas "Lethe rolling doom,"<br /></span> + <span>But Lethe calling, "Come to me,<br /></span> <span>And + wash away all memory<br /></span> <span>And taint of what + precedes the tomb;<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>And know the changeless afterthought,<br /></span> + <span>Half guessed, half named from age to age,<br /></span> + <span>Wherein I quench the flame and rage<br /></span> + <span>And sorrow with which life is fraught."<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="MISCIII" id="MISCIII"></a>III.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span>The Love that speaks in word and kiss,<br /></span> + <span>That dyes the cheek and fires the eye,<br /></span> + <span>Through surface signs of shallow bliss<br /></span> + <span>That, quickly born, may quickly die;<br /></span> + <span>Sweet, sweet are these to man and woman;<br /></span> + <span>Who thinks them poor is less than human.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>But I do know a quavering tone,<br /></span> <span>And + I do know lack-lustre eyes,<br /></span> <span>Behind the + which, dumb and alone,<br /></span> <span>A stronger Love his + labour plies:<br /></span> <span>He cannot sing or dance or + toy—<br /></span> <span>He works and sighs for other's + joy.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>In gloom he tends the growth of food,<br /></span> + <span>While others joy in sun and flowers:<br /></span> + <span>None knows the passion of his mood<br /></span> + <span>Save they who know what bitter hours<br /></span> + <span>Are his whose heart, alive to beauty,<br /></span> + <span>Yet dies to it and lives for duty.<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="MISCIV" id="MISCIV"></a>IV.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span><i>Revoke Not.</i><br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Long is it since they ceased to look on + light,<br /></span> <span>To thrill with hope in our fond + human way.<br /></span> <span>Why grudge them rest in their + sweet ancient night,<br /></span> <span class="i6">Ungrieved, + if never gay,<br /></span> <span class="i6">Eased from Life's + sorry day?<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Is it because at times when storms subside<br /></span> + <span>Through which thou oarest Life's ill-fitted + bark,<br /></span> <span>Dreams rise, from sounds of lapping + of the tide,<br /></span> <span class="i6">To veil the + daylight stark,<br /></span> <span class="i6">Its anguish and + its cark?<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>What was their joy here? Absence of great + pain?<br /></span> <span>Some music in lamentings of the + wind?<br /></span> <span>The mystic whispers of the dripping + rain?<br /></span> <span class="i6">Sad yearnings toward + their kind?<br /></span> <span class="i6">Ruth for old loves + that pined?<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>For these would'st thou revoke their flawless + rest?<br /></span> <span>Restore hope unfulfilled which they + knew here?<br /></span> <span>Oh! well they fare, safe + sheltered in that nest<br /></span> <span class="i6">Of + silence, far from fear,<br /></span> <span class="i6">Their + memory not yet sere.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Take thou no joy in any passing dream<br /></span> + <span>Of revocation from their stainless state!<br /></span> + <span>Love them: haste on, till thou to others + seem<br /></span> <span class="i6">As these to + thee—their mate,<br /></span> <span class="i6">A waning + name, a date!<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Till then, the low keen sound of Life's + "Alas!"<br /></span> <span>Change as thou canst to themes in + every key,<br /></span> <span>That so for thee and others + time may pass<br /></span> <span>Full of presagings of + content to be<br /></span> <span class="i6">Age-long in that + far bourne,<br /></span> <span class="i6">Till thought end, + quite outworn.<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="MISCV" id="MISCV"></a>V.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span><i>"And there shall be no night there and + they<br /></i></span> need no candle, and neither light of + the sun;<br /> + <span>for the Lord God giveth them Light."</span><br /> + </div> + </div> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Your place is Heaven, a stormless nightless + home?<br /></span> <span>Then we twain never more shall live + together<br /></span> <span>Such days of gladdest thought as + here, whilom,<br /></span> <span>We spent amid the change of + earthly weather.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>No white young day like hope smiles in yon + east,<br /></span> <span>Or, westering, cleaves wild-omened + scarlet glooms;<br /></span> <span>No frosty breezes wreathe + your woods in mist;<br /></span> <span>No breaker o'er + Heaven's glassy ocean booms.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>No scents of delvéd dewy soil + arise;<br /></span> <span>No storm-blue pall in state hangs + hill or lea;<br /></span> <span>No nightly seas swirl in grey + agonies;<br /></span> <span>Nor old Earth's sweet decays dye + herb or tree.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Do wan gold tints shot on the midnight air<br /></span> + <span>Herald the moon that loiters far away?<br /></span> + <span>Or moony sea-gleams peep and beckon there<br /></span> + <span>From sapphire dark or mystic silver grey?<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>No, not the olden pleasure shall be there<br /></span> + <span>We knew, before the grass sprang o'er your + breast;<br /></span> <span>Yet that is yours which here + hearts cannot share—<br /></span> <span>Heaven's summer + peace eterne and noonday rest.<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="MISCVI" id="MISCVI"></a>VI.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span><i>Northumbria.—A Dirge.</i><br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Dirge the sorrows by time made dim:<br /></span> + <span class="i2"><i>Seas are sullen in rain and + mist.</i><br /></span> <span>Regret the woes that behind us + swim:<br /></span> <span class="i2"><i>Sullen's the north and + grey the east.</i><br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Black boats speck the horizon's rim:<br /></span> + <span class="i2"><i>The north is heavy and grey the + east.</i><br /></span> <span>They plash to shore in unison + grim:<br /></span> <span class="i2"><i>The breakers roar + through rain and mist.</i><br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Ah! the ravening Dane of old!<br /></span> <span class= + "i2"><i>Joys are born of time and sorrow.</i><br /></span> + <span>He was beautiful, cruel and bold:<br /></span> + <span class="i2"><i>Death yesterday is life + to-morrow.</i><br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>The slain lie stark on bented mounds:<br /></span> + <span class="i2"><i>Winds are calling in rain and + mist.</i><br /></span> <span>There's blood and smoke and wide + red wounds,<br /></span> <span class="i2">And black boats + make to north and east.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Through murky weltering seas they row:<br /></span> + <span class="i2"><i>Dirge the eyes their deeds made + dim.</i><br /></span> <span>Wives at their conning smile and + glow,<br /></span> <span class="i2">And hail them on the + horizon's rim.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>There's peace on low mounds and shallow + dells,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Yellow rag-wort and + sea-reed grey,<br /></span> <span>And thrumming and booming + of village bells:<br /></span> <span class="i2"><i>Dirge the + lives of that faded day.</i><br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="MISCVII" id="MISCVII"></a>VII.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span><i>Merely Suburban.</i><br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Dry light reverberates, colour withdrawing<br /></span> + <span>Into a sky so white, sight cannot follow + it.<br /></span> <span>While in the shadows cast, rich hues, + intenser<br /></span> <span>Far than in light spaces, offer + me gladness.<br /></span> <span>Sun reigns triumphantly, + thinning all vapour<br /></span> <span>Into translucency, + through which the foliage<br /></span> <span>Bears out in + sparkles of full golden greenery.<br /></span> <span>O'er + this, short dashes of keen grey-green masses + lie;<br /></span> <span>Even the cooler tints, pitched in + this higher key—<br /></span> <span>Purpling and + greening greys—are fierce as fires.<br /></span> + <span>All the vast universe lives in one + beautiful<br /></span> <span>Summer—made lambent light, + offering gladness.<br /></span> <span>Who can accept of it? + Hearts where no echo rings<br /></span> <span>Wildly + recalling deeds done by old Destiny—<br /></span> + <span>Deeds of finality, darkening the + spirit—<br /></span> <span>Rousing the echoes of + thought to reverberate<br /></span> <span>Ever and ever + "Alas!" evermore.<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Once in a burning day's brightness like + this,<br /></span> <span>Sad I awaited the quenching forever + of<br /></span> <span>Light that had mantled and flickered + and ebbed out<br /></span> <span>Unto some twilight of hope + and of reason.<br /></span> <span>Out of his own unto future + time's darkness<br /></span> <span>Wistfully gazed he, as one + who unhelped floats,<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Swept by a current past land out to sea.<br /></span> + <span>He started alertly with laughter and + mockery,<br /></span> <span>Loud at its height with the + rapture of contest.<br /></span> <span>For him the light + focusses now to one vision,<br /></span> <span>Shot through + its beautiful heart with black terror,<br /></span> + <span>Terror from weakness, remorse and + leave-taking.<br /></span> <span>To his scared eye the day's + bitter brightness<br /></span> <span>Circles about the dark + doorway set open<br /></span> <span>Awaiting his entrance ere + shut to for ever.<br /></span> <span>Ever he harkens to + voices behind him<br /></span> <span>Dolefully hinting defect + and omission;<br /></span> <span>Cruelly shouting: "This, + this was the true path;<br /></span> <span>Here greatness + lay, by humility guarded,<br /></span> <span>She whom thou + soughtest through mountains of pride!<br /></span> <span>What + avails tenderness now so belated?<br /></span> <span>What + gaining love with no deed as its child?"<br /></span> + <span>Whitening intenselier ever to setting<br /></span> + <span>Down sank the last sun save one he should gaze + on.<br /></span> <span>In the next dawning, with dull + apprehensiveness,<br /></span> <span>Groped he mid recent and + older remembrance,<br /></span> <span>Mingled with mad vain + desires for a helping hand;<br /></span> <span>Then off + reeled his soul from my speechless adieus.<br /></span> + <span>Once more the whole blaze triumphed through the + welkin,<br /></span> <span>Bitter in brightness in memory for + ever.<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h2><a name="MISCVIII" id="MISCVIII"></a>VIII.</h2> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <span><i>Whistler versus Ruskin Trial.</i><br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Critic John cam here to view<br /></span> <span class= + "i8">Ha, ha, the viewin' o't!<br /></span> <span>Lindsay's + picture shop bran new,<br /></span> <span class="i8">Ha, ha, + the viewin' o't!<br /></span> <span>John, he cast his head + fu' high,<br /></span> <span>Looked asklent and unco' + skeigh,<br /></span> <span>Vowed he'd gar James stand + abeigh:<br /></span> <span class="i8">Ha, ha, the viewin' + o't!<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>John he nayther ramps nor roars,<br /></span> + <span class="i8">Ha, ha, the viewin' o't!<br /></span> + <span>Soft gans hame and writes in "Fors"—<br /></span> + <span class="i8">Ha, ha, the viewin' o't!<br /></span> + <span>Writes, and wi' ae critic-puff<br /></span> <span>Blaws + James oot, like can'le snuff:<br /></span> <span>Sweers in + Art he's just a muff!<br /></span> <span class="i8">Ha, ha, + the viewin' o't!<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Englan' heurs and rubs her ee,<br /></span> + <span class="i8">Ha, ha, the viewin' o't!<br /></span> + <span>"Just as I had guessed," quo' she:<br /></span> + <span class="i8">Ha, ha, the viewin' o't!<br /></span> + <span>No so James. He to the Judge<br /></span> <span>Cries, + "John he ca's my noketurns 'fudge':<br /></span> <span>That's + a lee—spoke in a grudge."<br /></span> <span class= + "i8">Ha, ha, the viewin' o't!<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Ca' up Michael! Ca' up Moore!<br /></span> <span class= + "i8">Ha, ha, the viewin' o't!<br /></span> <span>Bring up + Wills—he's kenned before!<br /></span> <span class= + "i8">Ha, ha, the viewin' o't!<br /></span> <span>Midmay + Michael's ta'en his stan',<br /></span> <span>Moore and Wills + say Whistler' gran',<br /></span> <span>Nae better work done + in this lan':<br /></span> <span class="i8">Ha, ha, the + viewin' o't!<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Now bring Jones—let's hear his min':<br /></span> + <span class="i8">Ha, ha, the viewin' o't!<br /></span> + <span>Out spake he: "Jim's work's rale fine,"<br /></span> + <span class="i8">Ha, ha, the viewin' o't!<br /></span> + <span>"An' were't like Titian's here or mine,<br /></span> + <span>A' this or that, I'd no decline<br /></span> <span>To + say they're rather like muneshine."<br /></span> <span class= + "i8">Ha, ha, the viewin' o't!<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>Run in Frith. Says he: "Dear me!"<br /></span> + <span class="i8">Ha, ha, the viewin' o't!<br /></span> + <span>"For my pairt here's nowt like me:"<br /></span> + <span class="i8">Ha, ha, the viewin' o't!<br /></span> + <span>"Nothing is like nature here.<br /></span> + <span>Where's the detail roun' an' clear,<br /></span> + <span>Such as in my work appear?"<br /></span> <span class= + "i7">Ha, ha, the viewin' o't!<br /></span> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <span>How it cam let lawyers tell:<br /></span> <span class= + "i8">Ha, ha, the provin' o't!<br /></span> <span>Jury bodies + luik fu' swell:<br /></span> <span class="i8">Ha, ha, the + provin' o't!<br /></span> <span>"John's no right, yet Jim's + no wrang!<br /></span> <span>Art's made of nocht but peut an' + slang!<br /></span> <span>Half a bawbee! Hame let's + gang!"<br /></span> <span class="i8">Ha, ha, the provin' + o't!<br /></span> + </div> + </div> + <hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + <h5>ONE HUNDRED & FIFTY COPIES OF THIS<br /> + BOOK HAVE BEEN PRINTED BY HAND<br /> + FOR THE RIGHT HONOURABLE<br /> + WALTER RUNCIMAN AT<br /> + THE TEMPLE SHEEN<br /> + PRESS MARCH<br /> + MCMXXII</h5> + + <div class="figcenter" style="width: 150px;"> + <img src="images/bush.png" width="150" height="214" alt= + "[Printer's device]" title="[Printer's device]" /> + </div> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Songs, Sonnets & Miscellaneous Poems +by Thomas Runciman + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONGS, SONNETS & MISCELLANEOUS POEMS *** + +***** This file should be named 14906-h.htm or 14906-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/9/0/14906/ + +Produced by Steven Gibbs and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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