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diff --git a/30669.txt b/30669.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fc962a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/30669.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1012 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Father of Women, by Alice Meynell + + +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: A Father of Women + and other poems + + +Author: Alice Meynell + + + +Release Date: December 13, 2009 [eBook #30669] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A FATHER OF WOMEN*** + + +Transcribed from the 1917 Burns & Oates Ltd edition by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org + + + + + + A FATHER OF WOMEN + AND OTHER POEMS + + + by + Alice Meynell + + * * * * * + + BURNS & OATES Ltd + 28 Orchard Street + London W + 1917 + + _To_ + _V. L._ + + THE CONTENTS +A Father of Women Page 7 +Length of Days: To the Early Dead in Battle 9 +Nurse Edith Cavell 11 +Summer in England, 1914 12 +To Tintoretto in Venice 14 +A Thrush Before Dawn 16 +The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries 18 +To O--, of her Dark Eyes 19 +The Treasure 20 +A Wind of Clear Weather in England 22 +In Sleep 23 +The Divine Privilege 24 +Free Will 26 +The Two Questions 27 +The Lord's Prayer 29 +Easter Night 30 + +A FATHER OF WOMEN + + + AD SOROREM E. B. + + "_Thy father was transfused into thy blood_." + + _Dryden_: _Ode to Mrs. Anne Killigrew_. + + Our father works in us, + The daughters of his manhood. Not undone + Is he, not wasted, though transmuted thus, + And though he left no son. + + Therefore on him I cry + To arm me: "For my delicate mind a casque, + A breastplate for my heart, courage to die, + Of thee, captain, I ask. + + "Nor strengthen only; press + A finger on this violent blood and pale, + Over this rash will let thy tenderness + A while pause, and prevail. + + "And shepherd-father, thou + Whose staff folded my thoughts before my birth, + Control them now I am of earth, and now + Thou art no more of earth. + + "O liberal, constant, dear! + Crush in my nature the ungenerous art + Of the inferior; set me high, and here, + Here garner up thy heart." + + Like to him now are they, + The million living fathers of the War-- + Mourning the crippled world, the bitter day-- + Whose striplings are no more. + + The crippled world! Come then, + Fathers of women with your honour in trust; + Approve, accept, know them daughters of men, + Now that your sons are dust. + + + + +LENGTH OF DAYS +TO THE EARLY DEAD IN BATTLE + + + There is no length of days + But yours, boys who were children once. Of old + The past beset you in your childish ways, + With sense of Time untold! + + What have you then forgone? + A history? This you had. Or memories? + These, too, you had of your far-distant dawn. + No further dawn seems his, + + The old man who shares with you, + But has no more, no more. Time's mystery + Did once for him the most that it can do: + He has had infancy. + + And all his dreams, and all + His loves for mighty Nature, sweet and few, + Are but the dwindling past he can recall + Of what his childhood knew. + + He counts not any more + His brief, his present years. But O he knows + How far apart the summers were of yore, + How far apart the snows. + + Therefore be satisfied; + Long life is in your treasury ere you fall; + Yes, and first love, like Dante's. O a bride + For ever mystical! + + Irrevocable good,-- + You dead, and now about, so young, to die,-- + Your childhood was; there Space, there Multitude, + There dwelt Antiquity. + + + + +NURSE EDITH CAVELL + + +Two o'clock, the morning of October 12th, 1915. + + To her accustomed eyes + The midnight-morning brought not such a dread + As thrills the chance-awakened head that lies + In trivial sleep on the habitual bed. + + 'Twas yet some hours ere light; + And many, many, many a break of day + Had she outwatched the dying; but this night + Shortened her vigil was, briefer the way. + + By dial of the clock + 'Twas day in the dark above her lonely head. + "This day thou shalt be with Me." Ere the cock + Announced that day she met the Immortal Dead. + + + + +SUMMER IN ENGLAND, 1914 + + + On London fell a clearer light; + Caressing pencils of the sun + Defined the distances, the white + Houses transfigured one by one, + The "long, unlovely street" impearled. + O what a sky has walked the world! + + Most happy year! And out of town + The hay was prosperous, and the wheat; + The silken harvest climbed the down; + Moon after moon was heavenly-sweet + Stroking the bread within the sheaves, + Looking twixt apples and their leaves. + + And while this rose made round her cup, + The armies died convulsed. And when + This chaste young silver sun went up + Softly, a thousand shattered men, + One wet corruption, heaped the plain, + After a league-long throb of pain. + + Flower following tender flower; and birds, + And berries; and benignant skies + Made thrive the serried flocks and herds.-- + Yonder are men shot through the eyes. + Love, hide thy face + From man's unpardonable race. + + * * * * * + + Who said "No man hath greater love than this, + To die to serve his friend?" + So these have loved us all unto the end. + Chide thou no more, O thou unsacrificed! + The soldier dying dies upon a kiss, + The very kiss of Christ. + + + + +TO TINTORETTO IN VENICE + + +_The Art of Painting had in the Primitive years looked with the light_, +_not towards it_. _Before Tintoretto's date_, _however_, _many painters +practised shadows and lights_, _and turned more or less sunwards_; _but +he set the figure between himself and a full sun_. _His work is to be +known in Venice by the splendid trick of an occluded sun and a shadow +thrown straight at the spectator_. + +_Tintoretto's thronged_ "_Procession to Calvary_" _and his_ +"_Crucifixion_," _incidentally named_, _are two of the greatest of his +multitude of works in Venice_. + + Master, thy enterprise, + Magnificent, magnanimous, was well done, + Which seized, the head of Art, and turned her eyes-- + The simpleton--and made her front the sun. + + Long had she sat content, + Her young unlessoned back to a morning gay, + To a solemn noon, to a cloudy firmament, + And looked upon a world in gentle day. + + But thy imperial call + Bade her to stand with thee and breast the light, + And therefore face the shadows, mystical, + Sombre, translucent, vestiges of night, + + Yet glories of the day. + Eagle! we know thee by thy undaunted eyes + Sky-ward, and by thy glooms; we blow thy way + Ambiguous, and those halo-misted dyes. + + Thou Cloud, the bridegroom's friend + (The bridegroom sun)! Master, we know thy sign: + A mystery of hues world-without-end; + And hide-and-seek of gamesome and divine; + + Shade of the noble head + Cast hitherward upon the noble breast; + Human solemnities thrice hallowed; + The haste to Calvary, the Cross at rest. + + Look sunward, Angel, then! + Carry the fortress-heavens by that hand; + Still be the interpreter of suns to men; + And shadow us, O thou Tower! for thou shalt stand. + + + + +A THRUSH BEFORE DAWN + + + A voice peals in this end of night + A phrase of notes resembling stars, + Single and spiritual notes of light. + What call they at my window-bars? + The South, the past, the day to be, + An ancient infelicity. + + Darkling, deliberate, what sings + This wonderful one, alone, at peace? + What wilder things than song, what things + Sweeter than youth, clearer than Greece, + Dearer than Italy, untold + Delight, and freshness centuries old? + + And first first-loves, a multitude, + The exaltation of their pain; + Ancestral childhood long renewed; + And midnights of invisible rain; + And gardens, gardens, night and day, + Gardens and childhood all the way. + + What Middle Ages passionate, + O passionless voice! What distant bells + Lodged in the hills, what palace state + Illyrian! For it speaks, it tells, + Without desire, without dismay, + Some morrow and some yesterday. + + All-natural things! But more--Whence came + This yet remoter mystery? + How do these starry notes proclaim + A graver still divinity? + This hope, this sanctity of fear? + _O innocent throat_! _O human ear_! + + + + +THE TWO SHAKESPEARE TERCENTENARIES: +OF BIRTH, 1864: OF DEATH, 1916. + + + TO SHAKESPEARE + + Longer than thine, than thine, + Is now my time of life; and thus thy years + Seem to be clasped and harboured within mine. + O how ignoble this my clasp appears! + + Thy unprophetic birth, + Thy darkling death: living I might have seen + That cradle, marked those labours, closed that earth. + O first, O last, O infinite between! + + Now that my life has shared + Thy dedicated date, O mortal, twice, + To what all-vain embrace shall be compared + My lean enclosure of thy paradise? + + To ignorant arms that fold + A poet to a foolish breast? The Line, + That is not, with the world within its hold? + So, days with days, my days encompass thine. + + Child, Stripling, Man--the sod. + Might I talk little language to thee, pore + On thy last silence? O thou city of God, + My waste lies after thee, and lies before. + + + + +TO O--, OF HER DARK EYES + + + Across what calm of tropic seas, + 'Neath alien clusters of the nights, + Looked, in the past, such eyes as these? + Long-quenched, relumed, ancestral lights! + + The generations fostered them; + And steadfast Nature, secretwise-- + Thou seedling child of that old stem-- + Kindled anew thy dark-bright eyes. + + Was it a century or two + This lovely darkness rose and set, + Occluded by grey eyes and blue, + And Nature feigning to forget? + + Some grandam gave a hint of it-- + So cherished was it in thy race, + So fine a treasure to transmit + In its perfection to thy face. + + Some father to some mother's breast + Entrusted it, unknowing. Time + Implied, or made it manifest, + Bequest of a forgotten clime. + + Hereditary eyes! But this + Is single, singular, apart:-- + New-made thy love, new-made thy kiss, + New-made thy errand to my heart. + + + + +THE TREASURE + + + Three times have I beheld + Fear leap in a babe's face, and take his breath, + Fear, like the fear of eld + That knows the price of life, the name of death. + + What is it justifies + This thing, this dread, this fright that has no tongue, + The terror in those eyes + When only eyes can speak--they are so young? + + Not yet those eyes had wept. + What does fear cherish that it locks so well? + What fortress is thus kept? + Of what is ignorant terror sentinel? + + And pain in the poor child, + Monstrously disproportionate, and dumb + In the poor beast, and wild + In the old decorous man, caught, overcome? + + Of what the outposts these? + Of what the fighting guardians? What demands + That sense of menaces, + And then such flying feet, imploring hands? + + Life: There's nought else to seek; + Life only, little prized; but by design + Of Nature prized. How weak, + How sad, how brief! O how divine, divine! + + + + +A WIND OF CLEAR WEATHER IN ENGLAND + + + O what a miracle wind is this + Has crossed the English land to-day + With an unprecedented kiss, + And wonderfully found a way! + + Unsmirched incredibly and clean, + Between the towns and factories, + Avoiding, has his long flight been, + Bringing a sky like Sicily's. + + O fine escape, horizon pure + As Rome's! Black chimneys left and right, + But not for him, the straight, the sure, + His luminous day, his spacious night. + + How keen his choice, how swift his feet! + Narrow the way and hard to find! + This delicate stepper and discreet + Walked not like any worldly wind. + + Most like a man in man's own day, + One of the few, a perfect one: + His open earth--the single way; + His narrow road--the open sun. + + + + +IN SLEEP + + + I dreamt (no "dream" awake--a dream indeed) + A wrathful man was talking in the park: + "Where are the Higher Powers, who know our need + And leave us in the dark? + + "There are no Higher Powers; there is no heart + In God, no love"--his oratory here, + Taking the paupers' and the cripples' part, + Was broken by a tear. + + And then it seemed that One who did create + Compassion, who alone invented pity, + Walked, as though called, in at that north-east gate, + Out from the muttering city; + + Threaded the little crowd, trod the brown grass, + Bent o'er the speaker close, saw the tear rise, + And saw Himself, as one looks in a glass, + In those impassioned eyes. + + + + +THE DIVINE PRIVILEGE + + + Lord, where are Thy prerogatives? + Why, men have more than Thou hast kept; + The king rewards, remits, forgives, + The poet to a throne has stept. + + And Thou, despoiled, hast given away + Worship to men, success to strife, + Thy glory to the heavenly day, + And made Thy sun the lord of life. + + Is one too precious to impart, + One property reserved to Christ? + One, cherished, grappled to that heart? + --To be alone the Sacrificed? + + O Thou who lovest to redeem, + One whom I know lies sore oppressed. + Thou wilt not suffer me to dream + That I can bargain for her rest. + + Seven hours I swiftly sleep, while she + Measures the leagues of dark, awake. + O that my dewy eyes might be + Parched by a vigil for her sake! + + But O rejected! O in vain! + I cannot give who would not keep. + I cannot buy, I cannot gain, + I cannot give her half my sleep. + + + + +FREE WILL + + + Dear are some hidden things + My soul has sealed in silence; past delights, + Hope unconfessed; desires with hampered wings, + Remembered in the nights. + + But my best treasures are + Ignoble, undelightful, abject, cold; + Yet O! profounder hoards oracular + No reliquaries hold. + + There lie my trespasses, + Abjured but not disowned. I'll not accuse + Determinism, nor, as the Master {26} says, + Charge even "the poor Deuce." + + Under my hand they lie, + My very own, my proved iniquities, + And though the glory of my life go by + I hold and garner these. + + How else, how otherwhere. + How otherwise, shall I discern and grope + For lowliness? How hate, how love, how dare, + How weep, how hope? + + + + +THE TWO QUESTIONS + + + "A riddling world!" one cried. + "If pangs must be, would God that they were sent + To the impure, the cruel, and passed aside + The holy innocent!" + + But I, "Ah no, no, no! + Not the clean heart transpierced; not tears that fall + For a child's agony; not a martyr's woe; + Not these, not these appal. + + "Not docile motherhood, + Dutiful, frequent, closed in all distress; + Not shedding of the unoffending blood; + Not little joy grown less; + + "Not all-benign old age + With dotage mocked; not gallantry that faints + And still pursues; not the vile heritage + Of sin's disease in saints; + + "Not these defeat the mind. + For great is that abjection, and august + That irony. Submissive we shall find + A splendour in that dust. + + "Not these puzzle the will; + Not these the yet unanswered question urge. + But the unjust stricken; but the hands that kill + Lopped; but the merited scourge; + + "The sensualist at fast; + The merciless felled; the liar in his snares. + The cowardice of my judgment sees, aghast, + The flail, the chaff, the tares." + + + + +THE LORD'S PRAYER + + + "_Audemus dicere_ '_Pater Noster_.'"--CANON OF THE MASS. + + There is a bolder way, + There is a wilder enterprise than this + All-human iteration day by day. + Courage, mankind! Restore Him what is His. + + Out of His mouth were given + These phrases. O replace them whence they came. + He, only, knows our inconceivable "Heaven," + Our hidden "Father," and the unspoken "Name"; + + Our "trespasses," our "bread," + The "will" inexorable yet implored; + The miracle-words that are and are not said, + Charged with the unknown purpose of their Lord. + + "Forgive," "give," "lead us not"-- + Speak them by Him, O man the unaware, + Speak by that dear tongue, though thou know not what, + Shuddering through the paradox of prayer. + + + + +EASTER NIGHT + + + All night had shout of men and cry + Of woeful women filled His way; + Until that noon of sombre sky + On Friday, clamour and display + Smote Him; no solitude had He, + No silence, since Gethsemane. + + Public was Death; but Power, but Might, + But Life again, but Victory, + Were hushed within the dead of night, + The shutter'd dark, the secrecy. + And all alone, alone, alone + He rose again behind the stone. + + PRINTED IN ENGLAND + BY W. H. 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