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diff --git a/17936.txt b/17936.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b8345a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/17936.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1146 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems, by Sophia M. Almon + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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: Poems + +Author: Sophia M. Almon + +Release Date: March 6, 2006 [EBook #17936] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS *** + + + + +Produced by Thierry Alberto, Richard J. Shiffer, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. +(This file was produced from images generously made +available by the Canadian Institute for Historical +Microreproductions (www.canadiana.org). + + + + + + + + + +POEMS + + +BY + + +SOPHIE M. ALMON. + + + +(For Private Circulation.) + + + +_April, 1889:_ + +_Printed for the Author by J. J. Anslow._ + +_Windsor, N. S._ + + + + +CONTENTS. + + +_Sonnets_:-- + + Crows. + Futurity. + There is no God. + Disappointment. + A Shallow. + Triumph. + + * * * * * + +_Rondeaux_:-- + + I Will Forget. + When Summer Comes. + It Might Have Been. + Brother and Friend. + Pourquoi? + For our Love's Sake. + + * * * * * + + Echoes. + Noon. + Pictures. + Eurydice. + Slack Tide. + An Evening in October. + Parted. + Tout pour L'Amour. + Soothing. + + + + +CROWS. + + +They stream across the fading western sky + A sable cloud, far o'er the lonely leas; + Now parting into scattered companies, +Now closing up the broken ranks, still high +And higher yet they mount, while, carelessly, + Trail slow behind, athwart the moving trees + A lingering few, 'round whom the evening breeze +Plays with sad whispered murmurs as they fly. + +A lonely figure, ghostly in the dim + And darkening twilight, lingers in the shade + Of bending willows: "Surely God has laid +His curse on me," he moans, "my strength of limb + And old heart-courage fail me, and I flee + Bowed with fell terror at this augury." + + + + +FUTURITY. + + +What of our life when this frail flesh lies low + A withered clod, and the free soul has burst + Through the world-fetters? Not of souls accursed +With cherished lusts that mar them, those who sow +Evil and reap the harvest, and who bow + At Mammon's golden shrine, but those who thirst + For Truth, and see not,--spirits deep immersed +In doubt and trouble,--hearts that fain would know? + +The soul is satisfied. The spirit trained + For the divine, because the beautiful, +Now with the body gone, free and unstained, + Doubts swept away like clouds of scattering wool + Before a blast,--e'er Heaven's pure paths are trod + Is perfected to understand its God. + + + + +THERE IS NO GOD. + + +There is no God? If one should stand at noon + Where the glow rests, and the warm sunlight plays, + Where earth is gladdened by the cordial rays +And blossoms answering, where the calm lagoon +Gives back the brightness of the heart of June, + And he should say: "There is no sun"--the day's + Fair shew still round him,--should we lose the blaze +And warmth, and weep that day has gone so soon? + +Nay, there would be one word, one only thought, + "The man is blind!" and throbs of pitying scorn + Would rouse the heart, and stir the wondering mind. + We _feel_, and _see_, and therefore _know_,--the morn + With blush of youth ne'er left us till it brought + Promise of full-grown day. "The man is blind!" + + + + +DISAPPOINTMENT. + + +The light has left the hill-side. Yesterday + These skies shewed blue against the dusky trees, + The leaves' soft murmur in the evening breeze +Was music, and the waves danced in the bay. +Then was my heart, as ever, far away + With you,--and I could see you as one sees + A mirrored face,--and happiness and ease +And hope were mine, in spite of long delay. + +After these months of waiting, this is all! + Hope, dead, lies coffined, shrouded in despair, + With all the blessings of the outer air +Forgot, 'neath the black covering of a pall. + Only the darkening of the woodland ways, + A heart's low moaning over wasted days. + + + + +A SHADOW. + + +The world to-day is radiant, as I ne'er + Could picture it in wildest dreaming, when + For long, long hours I lay in flowery glen +Or wooded copse, and tried in vain to tear +The glamour from my eyes, and face the glare + And tumult of the busy world of men. + I staked my all, and won! and ne'er again +Can my blest spirit know a heart's despair. + +And yet--and yet--why should it be that now, + When all my heart has longed for is at last + Within my grasp, and I should be at rest, +A ghostly Something rising in the glow + Of Love's own fire, an uninvited guest, + Taunts me with just one memory of the past! + + + + +TRIUMPH. + + +The sky, grown dull through many waiting days, + Flashed into crimson with the sunrise charm, + So all my love, aroused to vague alarm, +Flushed into fire and burned with eager blaze. +I saw thee not as suppliant, with still gaze + Of pleading, but as victor,--and thine arm + Gathered me fast into embraces warm, +And I was taught the light of Love's dear ways. + +This day of triumph is no longer thine, + Oh conqueror, in calm exclusive power.-- +As evermore, through storm, and shade, and shine, + Your woe my pain, your joy my ecstasy, + We breathe together,--so this blessed hour + Of self-surrender makes my jubilee! + + + + +RONDEAU.--I WILL FORGET. + + +I will forget those days of mingled bliss + And dear delicious pain,--will cast from me + All dreams of what I know can never be, +Even the remembrance of that parting kiss. +I knew that some day it would come to this + In spite of all our sworn fidelity, + That I must banish even memory, +And, sorrowing, learn to say, nor say amiss + I will forget. + +I register this vow, and am content + That it be so. Ah me!--yet, if the door +Shut on our heaven might be asunder rent +Even now, and I could see the way we went, + I might retract my vow, and say no more + I will forget. + + + + +RONDEAU.--WHEN SUMMER COMES. + + +When summer comes, and when o'er hill and lea +The sun's strong wooing glow hath patiently + Shed o'er the earth long days his golden dower, + And then, by force of his own loving power, +Drawn the hard frost, and left it passive, free +To give forth all its sweets untiringly, +Shall not the day rise fair for thee and me, + And all life seem but as an opening flower + When summer comes? + +The days move slowly, young hearts yearn to be +Together always, cannot brook to see + Their love-days pass, and void each sunny hour, + Yet may we smile, e'en when fate's storm-clouds lower, +Waiting fulfilment of our hearts' decree + When summer comes. + + + + +RONDEAU.--IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. + + +It might have been so different a year + To what _has_ been; the summer's guileless play + Not all a jest, comes back to me to-day +In added sweetness, and provokes a tear. +Strange pictures rise, pass on, and disappear. + Drawn from your tender words of yesterday + When, looking in my eyes in the old way +You told me of your life, how passing dear + It might have been. + +Useless to dream, more useless to regret! + We might have lived and loved, nor lost the glow +Of Love's first sweet intensity;--to let +These foolish fancies die I strive,--and yet + I still must count it happiness to know + It might have been. + + + + +RONDEAU.--BROTHER AND FRIEND. + + +Brother and friend I found thee in the hour + Of need and day of trouble, strong and true.-- + In June's fair mirth, and when the sunrise hue +Shewed bright where joy had built his thoughtless bower, +Thou wert a child to sport with, something lower + Than a friend's need. I gave, methought, thy due,-- + An elder sister's gentleness, nor knew +That ere Spring dawned my soul would feel thy power. + Brother and Friend! + +A man, with a man's strength, and will, and fire, + I know thee, my Alcides; thus a god +For some fair soul to reverence, and desire +To own and worship. _I_ can place thee higher + To-day, in naming thee,--pain's paths just trod-- + Brother and Friend. + + + + +RONDEAU.--POURQUOI? + + +"Pourquoi," she breathed, then drooped her head, +(Pure snow-drifts to the sunset wed) + As all my weakness I confessed. + I shewed how I had done my best, +Though long ago I should have fled, +Knowing all hope, for me, was dead; +And now my heart would die, unfed. + She murmured low, (was it in jest?) + "Pourquoi?" + +That winsome face, all rosy red,-- +I turned towards me,--gone was dread! + She came as birdlings to their nest + At eventide; so was I blest +By that one precious, softly-said + "Pourquoi?" + + + + +RONDEAU.--FOR OUR LOVE'S SAKE. + + +For our Love's sake I bid thee stay, +Sweet, ere the hours flee away, + Beneath the old acacia tree + That waves its blossoms quiveringly, +And think awhile of early May: + +Of how the months have fled away, +And sunrise hour turned twilight gray, + While we have suffered smilingly + For our Love's sake. + +It may not be--that which we pray +For tearfully--but dare not say. + And yet if, Sweet, it may not be, + We still may suffer silently, +Watching our sunlight fade away, + For our Love's sake. + + + + +ECHOES. + + +A breath | A breath + And a sigh,-- | And a sigh,-- + How we fly | How we fly +From Death! | From Death!-- + | +A palm | Sing on + Warm pressed, | O our bird! + As we guessed | Thou art heard +Love's psalm. | Alone. + | +A word | We know + Breathed close, | No life, + And then rose | Neither strife, +The bird | Nor woe, + | +That cowers | Nor aught + In the wood | But this hour,-- + 'Mid a flood | Love's dower +Of flowers, | Dear bought.-- + | +Till Love's | Death's voice + Heart sighs, | Is away, + Like the cries | And we may +Of doves,-- | Rejoice. + | +Then sings | The bird + His song, | Of our song + Beating strong | May be long +White wings,-- | Unheard, + | +Heart clear | But, Dear, + Though faint, | Bend low; + Like a saint | It is now +In prayer.-- | We hear. + | +He reigns | Dear Heart + In power, | Your kiss!-- + And Love's hour | After this +Disdains. | We part. + | +Forget | A breath + For a day | And a sigh,-- + All his sway, | How we fly +Life's fret. | From Death! + + + + +NOON. + + +No ripple stirs the water, + No song-bird wakes the grove, +Calm noon-tide sways his sceptre, + And hushes even love. + +On earth the sun-god bending + Poureth his wondrous store; +The soft-tongued tide, advancing, + Laps the unconscious shore. + +The long, low isle of marsh-land + Stretches in weary waste, +By sloping sand-banks guarded, + By winding weeds embraced. + +Comes clearly from the open + The plash of distant oars,-- +Over the rocky headland + The snow-white sea-gull soars. + +I see as if through dream-clouds, + I hear from far away. +The scorched air breathes its opiate, + The drowsy fancies stay; + +I have no hopes or longings, + I scarce can feel your kiss,-- +For thought, and joy and worship, + Another hour than this! + + + + +PICTURES. + + +The full-orbed Paschal moon; dark shadows flung +On the brown Lenten earth; tall spectral trees +Stand in their huge and naked strength erect, +And stretch wild arms towards the gleaming sky. +A motionless girl-figure, face upraised +In the strong moonlight, cold and passionless. + + * * * * * + +A proud spring sunset; opal-tinted sky, +Save where the western purple, pale and faint +With longing for her fickle Love,--content +Had merged herself into his burning red. +A fair young maiden, clad in velvet robe +Of sombre green, stands in the golden glow, +One hand held up to shade her dazzled eyes, +A bunch of white Narcissus at her throat. + + * * * * * + +November's day, dark, leaden, lowering,-- +Grey purple shadows fading on the hills; +Dreary and desolate the far expanse +And gloomy sameness of the open plain. +A peasant woman, in white wimpled hood, +White vest, and scarlet petticoat, surveys +The meadow, with rough hands crossed on her breast. + + * * * * * + +A shining, shimmering, gracious, golden day; +The sated summer's all-pervading hush; +Warm luscious tints, glowing in earth and sky. +On a low mossy bank, a little child, +His golden curls twined in the reedy grass, +Clutching within his tear-stained feverish hands +The yellow blossoms of the Celandine, +Sobs out his heart in passionate childish grief. + + + + +EURYDICE. + + +Oh come, Eurydice! + The Stygian deeps are past + Well-nigh; the light dawns fast. +Oh come, Eurydice! + +The gods have heard my song! + My love's despairing cry + Filled hell with melody,-- +And the gods heard my song. + +I knew no life but thee; + Persephone was moved; + She, too, hath lived, hath loved; +She saw I lived for thee. + +I may not look on thee, + Such was the gods' decree;-- + Till sun and earth we see +No kiss, no smile for thee! + +The way is rough, is hard; + I cannot hear thy feet + Swift following; speak, my Sweet,-- +Is the way rough and hard? + +"Oh come, Eurydice!" + I turn: "our woe is o'er, + I will not lose thee more!" +I cry: "Eurydice!" + +O father Hermes, help! + I see her fade away + Back from the dawning ray; +Dear Father Hermes, help! + +One swift look,--all is lost! + Wild heaven-arousing cries + Pierce to the dull dead skies; +My heaven, my all is lost! + +The unrelenting gods + Refuse me. "No," say they, + "Thy chance is thrown away." +Fierce unrelenting gods! + +The sky is blue no more, + The spring-tide airs are bleak, + I find not her I seek, +The earth is fair no more! + +I loathe all earth, all life! + These Thracian women gaze + And whispering, go their ways, +Seeing I loathe my life. + +Only my song remains. + I may not cease to sing, + Though hot tears start and sting, +The song that still remains, + +Even--"Come Eurydice!" + The sea rolls on in pain, + Echoing the note again: +"Lost, lost Eurydice!" + +And still the sea moves on, + The woods give back the thrill + "Eurydice!" and still +The quiet sea moves on. + +The years, Eurydice, + The long unquiet years + Heed not or sighs or tears, +Oh Heart, Eurydice! + + + + +SLACK TIDE. + + +My boat is still in the reedy cove +Where the rushes hinder its onward course, +For I care not now if we rest or move +O'er the slumberous tide to the river's source. + +My boat is fast in the tall dank weeds +And I lay my oars in silence by, +And lean, and draw the slippery reeds +Through my listless fingers carelessly. + +The babbling froth of the surface foam +Clings close to the side of my moveless boat, +Like endless meshes of honeycomb,-- +And I break it off, and send it afloat. + +A faint wind stirs, and I drift along +Far down the stream to its utmost bound, +And the thick white foam-flakes gathering strong +Still cling, and follow, and fold around. + +Oh! the weary green of the weedy waste, +The thickening scum of the frothy foam, +And the torpid heart by the reeds embraced +And shrouded and held in its cheerless home. + +The fearful stillness of wearied calm, +The tired quiet of ended strife, +The echoed note of a heart's sad psalm, +The sighing end of a wasted life.-- + +The reeds cling close, and my cradle sways, +And the white gull dips in the waters' barm, +And the heart asleep in the twilight haze +Feels not its earth-bonds, knows not alarm. + + + + +AN EVENING IN OCTOBER + + +Evening has thrown her hushing garment round +This little world; no harsh or jarring sound +Disturbs my reverie. The room is dark, +And kneeling at the window I can mark +Each light and shadow of the scene below. +The placid glistening pools, the streams that flow +Through the red earth, left by the hurrying tide; +The ridge of mountain on the farther side +Shewing more black for many twinkling lights +That come and go about the gathering heights. +Below me lie great wharves, dreary and dim, +And lumber houses crowding close and grim +Like giant shadowed guardians of the port, +With towering chimneys outlined tall and swart +Against the silver pools. Two figures pace +The wharf in ghostly silence, face from face. +O'er the black line of mountain, silver-clear +In faint rose-tint of vaporous evening air, +Sinketh the bright suspicion of a wing, +The slim curved moon, who in shy triumphing +Hideth her face. Above, the rose-tint pales +Into a silver opal, hills and dales +Of cloudy glory, fading high alone +Into a tender blue-grey monotone.-- +And then I thought: "ere that fair, slender moon +Has rounded grown and full, (so soon, so soon!) +Our hearts' desire accomplished we shall see +Dear one, all light, and joy, and ecstasy!" + + + + +PARTED. + + +My spirit holds you, Dear, + Though worlds away,"-- +This to their absent ones + Many can say. + +"Thoughts, fancies, hopes, desires, + All must be yours; +Sweetest my memories still + Of our past hours." + +_I_ can say more than this + Now, lover mine,-- +Here can I feel your kiss + Warmer than wine, + +Feel your arms folding me, + Know that quick breath +That aye my soul would stir + Even in death. + +'Tis not a memory, Love, + Thoughts of the past, +Fleeting remembrances + Which may not last,-- + +But, as I shut my eyes + Know I the sign +That you are here, yourself, + Bodily, mine.-- + +So, Love, I cannot say + "My spirit flies +Over the widening space, + Under dull skies, + +To where _your_ spirit is,"-- + Though I may know +Seas part us, earth divides, + It is not so + +Here to me, now, for you + Lean on my heart. +Who says that you and I + Ever can part?-- + + + + +TOUT POUR L'AMOUR. + + +The world may rage without, + Quiet is here; +Statesmen may toil and shout, + Cynics may sneer; +The great world,--let it go,-- +June warmth be March's snow, +I care not,--be it so + Since I am here. + +Time was when war's alarm + Called for a fear, +When sorrow's seeming harm + Hastened a tear. +Naught care I now what foe +Threatens, for scarce I know +How the year's seasons go + Since I am here. + +This is my resting-place + Holy and dear, +Where pain's dejected face + May not appear; +This is the world to me, +Earth's woes I will not see, +But rest contentedly + Since I am here. + +Is't your voice chiding, Love, + My mild career, +My meek abiding, Love, + Daily so near?-- +"Danger and loss," to me? +Ah, Sweet, I fear to see +No loss but loss of _thee_, + And I am here. + + + + +SOOTHING. + + +I aimless wandered thro' the woods, and flung +My idle limbs upon a soft brown bank, +Where, thickly strewn, the worn-out russet leaves +Rustled a faint remonstrance at my tread. +The yellow fungi, shewing pallid stems, +The mossy lichen creeping o'er the stones +And making green the whitened hemlock-bark, +The dull wax of the woodland lily-bud, +On these my eye could rest, and I was still. +No sound was there save a low murmured cheep +From an ambitious nestling, and the slow +And oft-recurring plash of myriad waves +That spent their strength against the unheeding shore. +Over and through a spreading undergrowth +I saw the gleaming of the tranquil sea. +The woody scent of mosses and sweet ferns, +Mingled with the fresh brine, and came to me, +Bringing a laudanum to my ceaseless pain; +A quietness stole in upon me then, +And o'er my soul there passed a wave of peace. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems, by Sophia M. 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