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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: The Tempers + +Author: William Carlos Williams + +Release Date: April 4, 2010 [EBook #31878] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TEMPERS *** + + + + +Produced by Meredith Bach, Diane Monico, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + + + +THE TEMPERS + + + + +THE TEMPERS + + +BY +WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS + + +LONDON +ELKIN MATHEWS, CORK STREET +M CM XIII + + + + +TO + +CARLOS HOHEB + + + + +CONTENTS + + + PAGE + +Peace on Earth 7 + +Postlude 8 + +First Praise 9 + +Homage 10 + +The Fool's Song 11 + +From "The Birth of Venus," Song 12 + +Immortal 13 + +Mezzo Forte 14 + +An After Song 15 + +Crude Lament 16 + +The Ordeal 17 + +The Death of Franco of Cologne: His Prophecy of Beethoven 18 + +Portent 21 + +Con Brio 22 + +Ad Infinitum 23 + +Translations from the Spanish, "El Romancero" 24 + +Hic Jacet 30 + +Contemporania 31 + +To wish Myself Courage 32 + + + + +Peace on Earth + + +The Archer is wake! +The Swan is flying! +Gold against blue +An Arrow is lying. +There is hunting in heaven-- +Sleep safe till to-morrow. + +The Bears are abroad! +The Eagle is screaming! +Gold against blue +Their eyes are gleaming! +Sleep! +Sleep safe till to-morrow. + +The Sisters lie +With their arms intertwining; +Gold against blue +Their hair is shining! +The Serpent writhes! +Orion is listening! +Gold against blue +His sword is glistening! +Sleep! +There is hunting in heaven-- +Sleep safe till to-morrow. + + + + +Postlude + + +Now that I have cooled to you +Let there be gold of tarnished masonry, +Temples soothed by the sun to ruin +That sleep utterly. +Give me hand for the dances, +Ripples at Philae, in and out, +And lips, my Lesbian, +Wall flowers that once were flame. + +Your hair is my Carthage +And my arms the bow, +And our words arrows +To shoot the stars +Who from that misty sea +Swarm to destroy us. + +But you there beside me-- +Oh how shall I defy you, +Who wound me in the night +With breasts shining +Like Venus and like Mars? +The night that is shouting Jason +When the loud eaves rattle +As with waves above me +Blue at the prow of my desire. + + + + +First Praise + + +Lady of dusk wood fastnesses, + Thou art my Lady. +I have known the crisp splintering leaf-tread with thee on before, +White, slender through green saplings; +I have lain by thee on the grey forest floor + Beside thee, my Lady. + +Lady of rivers strewn with stones, + Only thou art my Lady. +Where thousand the freshets are crowded like peasants to a fair; +Clear skinned, wild from seclusion, +They jostle white armed down the tent-bordered thoroughfare + Praising my Lady. + + + + +Homage + + +Elvira, by love's grace +There goeth before you +A clear radiance +Which maketh all vain souls +Candles when noon is. + +The loud clangour of pretenders +Melteth before you +Like the roll of carts passing, +But you come silently +And homage is given. + +Now the little by-path +Which leadeth to love +Is again joyful with its many; +And the great highway +From love +Is without passers. + + + + +The Fool's Song + + +I tried to put a bird in a cage. + O fool that I am! + For the bird was Truth. +Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put + Truth in a cage! + +And when I had the bird in the cage, + O fool that I am! + Why, it broke my pretty cage. +Sing merrily, Truth; I tried to put + Truth in a cage! + +And when the bird was flown from the cage, + O fool that I am! + Why, I had nor bird nor cage. +Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put + Truth in a cage! + Heigh-ho! Truth in a cage. + + + + +From "The Birth of Venus," Song + + + Come with us and play! +See, we have breasts as women! + From your tents by the sea +Come play with us: it is forbidden! + + Come with us and play! +Lo, bare, straight legs in the water! + By our boats we stay, + Then swimming away +Come to us: it is forbidden! + + Come with us and play! +See, we are tall as women! + Our eyes are keen: + Our hair is bright: +Our voices speak outright: +We revel in the sea's green! + Come play: + It is forbidden! + + + + +Immortal + + +Yes, there is one thing braver than all flowers; + Richer than clear gems; wider than the sky; +Immortal and unchangeable; whose powers + Transcend reason, love and sanity! + +And thou, beloved, art that godly thing! + Marvellous and terrible; in glance +An injured Juno roused against Heaven's King! + And thy name, lovely One, is Ignorance. + + + + +Mezzo Forte + + +Take that, damn you; and that! + And here's a rose + To make it right again! + God knows + I'm sorry, Grace; but then, +It's not my fault if you will be a cat. + + + + +An After Song + + + So art thou broken in upon me, Apollo, + Through a splendour of purple garments-- + Held by the yellow-haired Clymene + To clothe the white of thy shoulders-- + Bare from the day's leaping of horses. +This is strange to me, here in the modern twilight. + + + + +Crude Lament + + +Mother of flames, + The men that went ahunting +Are asleep in the snow drifts. + You have kept the fire burning! +Crooked fingers that pull +Fuel from among the wet leaves, + Mother of flames + You have kept the fire burning! +The young wives have fallen asleep +With wet hair, weeping, + Mother of flames! +The young men raised the heavy spears +And are gone prowling in the darkness. + O mother of flames, + You who have kept the fire burning! + Lo, I am helpless! +Would God they had taken me with them! + + + + +The Ordeal + + +O Crimson salamander, + Because of love's whim + sacred! +Swim + the winding flame + Predestined to disman him +And bring our fellow home to us again. + + Swim in with watery fang, + Gnaw out and drown +The fire roots that circle him +Until the Hell-flower dies down + And he comes home again. + + Aye, bring him home, + O crimson salamander, +That I may see he is unchanged with burning-- +Then have your will with him, + O crimson salamander. + + + + +The Death of Franco of Cologne: +His Prophecy of Beethoven + + +It is useless, good woman, useless: the spark fails me. +God! yet when the might of it all assails me +It seems impossible that I cannot do it. +Yet I cannot. They were right, and they all knew it +Years ago, but I--never! I have persisted +Blindly (they say) and now I am old. I have resisted +Everything, but now, now the strife's ended. +The fire's out; the old cloak has been mended +For the last time, the soul peers through its tatters. +Put a light by and leave me; nothing more matters +Now; I am done; I am at last well broken! +Yet, by God, I'll still leave them a token +That they'll swear it was no dead man writ it; +A morsel that they'll mark well the day they bit it, +That there'll be sand between their gross teeth to crunch yet +When goodman Gabriel blows his concluding trumpet. +Leave me! + And now, little black eyes, come you out here! +Ah, you've given me a lively, lasting bout, year +After year to win you round me darlings! +Precious children, little gambollers! "farlings" +They might have called you once, "nearlings" +I call you now, I, first of all the yearlings, +Upon this plain, for I it was that tore you +Out of chaos! It was I bore you! +Ah, you little children that go playing +Over the five-barred gate, and will still be straying +Spite of all that I have ever told you +Of counterpoint and cadence which does not hold you-- +No more than chains will for this or that strange reason, +But you're always at some new loving treason +To be away from me, laughing, mocking, +Witlessly, perhaps, but for all that forever knocking +At this stanchion door of your poor father's heart till--oh, well +At least you've shown that you can grow well +However much you evade me faster, faster. +But, black eyes, some day you'll get a master, +For he will come! He shall, he must come! +And when he finishes and the burning dust from +His wheels settles--what shall men see then? +You, you, you, my own lovely children! +Aye, all of you, thus with hands together +Playing on the hill or there in a tether, +Or running free, but all mine! Aye, my very namesakes +Shall be his proper fame's stakes. +And he shall lead you! +And he shall meed you! +And he shall build you gold palaces! +And he shall wine you from clear chalices! +For I have seen it! I have seen it +Written where the world-clouds screen it +From other eyes +Over the bronze gates of paradise! + + + + +Portent + + +Red cradle of the night, + In you + The dusky child +Sleeps fast till his might + Shall be piled +Sinew on sinew. + +Red cradle of the night, + The dusky child +Sleeping sits upright. + Lo how + The winds blow now! + He pillows back; +The winds are again mild. + +When he stretches his arms out, +Red cradle of the night, + The alarms shout +From bare tree to tree, + Wild + In afright! +Mighty shall he be, +Red cradle of the night, + The dusky child!! + + + + +Con Brio + + +Miserly, is the best description of that poor fool +Who holds Lancelot to have been a morose fellow, +Dolefully brooding over the events which had naturally to follow +The high time of his deed with Guinevere. +He has a sick historical sight, if I judge rightly, +To believe any such thing as that ever occurred. +But, by the god of blood, what else is it that has deterred +Us all from an out and out defiance of fear +But this same perdamnable miserliness, +Which cries about our necks how we shall have less and less +Than we have now if we spend too wantonly? + +Bah, this sort of slither is below contempt! + +In the same vein we should have apple trees exempt +From bearing anything but pink blossoms all the year, +Fixed permanent lest their bellies wax unseemly, and the dear +Innocent days of them be wasted quite. + +How can we have less? Have we not the deed? + +Lancelot thought little, spent his gold and rode to fight +Mounted, if God was willing, on a good steed. + + + + +Ad Infinitum + + + Still I bring flowers +Although you fling them at my feet + Until none stays +That is not struck across with wounds: + Flowers and flowers +That you may break them utterly + As you have always done. + + Sure happily +I still bring flowers, flowers, + Knowing how all +Are crumpled in your praise + And may not live +To speak a lesser thing. + + + + +Translations from the Spanish, +"El Romancero" + + + I + + Although you do your best to regard me + With an air seeming offended, + Never can you deny, when all's ended, + Calm eyes, that you _did_ regard me. + +However much you're at pains to +Offend me, by which I may suffer, +What offence is there can make up for +The great good he finds who attains you? +For though with mortal fear you reward me, +Until my sorry sense is plenished, +Never can you deny, when all's ended, +Calm eyes, that you did regard me. + +Thinking thus to dismay me +You beheld me with disdain, +But instead of destroying the gain, +In fact with doubled good you paid me. +For though you show them how hardly +They keep off from leniency bended, +Never can you deny, when all's ended, +Calm eyes, that you did regard me. + + + II + +Ah, little green eyes, +Ah, little eyes of mine, +Ah, Heaven be willing +That you think of me somewise. + +The day of departure +You came full of grieving +And to see I was leaving +The tears 'gan to start sure +With the heavy torture +Of sorrows unbrightened +When you lie down at night and +When there to you dreams rise, +Ah, Heaven be willing +That you think of me somewise. + +Deep is my assurance +Of you, little green eyes, +That in truth you realise +Something of my durance +Eyes of hope's fair assurance +And good premonition +By virtue of whose condition +All green colours I prize. +Ah, Heaven be willing +That you think of me somewise. + +Would God I might know you +To which quarter bended +And why comprehended +When sighings overflow you, +And if you must go through +Some certain despair, +For that you lose his care +Who was faithful always. +Ah, Heaven be willing +That you think of me these days. + +Through never a moment +I've known how to live lest +All my thoughts but as one pressed +You-ward for their concernment. +May God send chastisement +If in this I belie me +And if it truth be +My own little green eyes. +Ah, Heaven be willing +That you think of me somewise. + + + III + +Poplars of the meadow, +Fountains of Madrid, +Now I am absent from you +All are slandering me. + +Each of you is telling +How evil my chance is +The wind among the branches, +The fountains in their welling +To every one telling +You were happy to see. +Now I am absent from you +All are slandering me. + +With good right I may wonder +For that at my last leaving +The plants with sighs heaving +And the waters in tears were. +That you played double, never +Thought I this could be, +Now I am absent from you +All are slandering me. + +There full in your presence +Music you sought to waken, +Later I'm forsaken +Since you are ware of my absence. +God, wilt Thou give me patience +Here while suffer I ye, +Now I am absent from you +All are slandering me. + + + IV + +The day draweth nearer, +And morrow ends our meeting, +Ere they take thee sleeping +Be up--away, my treasure! + +Soft, leave her breasts all unheeded, +Far hence though the master still remaineth! +For soon uptil our earth regaineth +The sun all embraces dividing. +N'er grew pleasure all unimpeded, +N'er was delight lest passion won, +And to the wise man the fit occasion +Has not yet refused a full measure: +Be up--away, my treasure! + +If that my love thy bosom inflameth +With honest purpose and just intention, +To free me from my soul's contention +Give over joys the day shameth; +Who thee lameth he also me lameth, +And my good grace builds all in thy good grace; +Be up--away! Fear leaveth place, +That thou art here, no more unto pleasure, +Be up--away, my treasure! + +Although thou with a sleep art wresting, +'Tis rightful thou bringst it close, +That of the favour one meeting shows +An hundred may hence be attesting. +'Tis fitting too thou shouldst be mindful +That the ease which we lose now, in kind, full +Many a promise holds for our leisure; +Ere they take thee sleeping; +Be up--away, my treasure! + + + + +Hic Jacet + + +The coroner's merry little children + Have such twinkling brown eyes. +Their father is not of gay men + And their mother jocular in no wise, +Yet the coroner's merry little children + Laugh so easily. + +They laugh because they prosper. + Fruit for them is upon all branches. +Lo! how they jibe at loss, for + Kind heaven fills their little paunches! +It's the coroner's merry, merry children + Who laugh so easily. + + + + +Contemporania + + +The corner of a great rain +Steamy with the country +Has fallen upon my garden. + +I go back and forth now +And the little leaves follow me +Talking of the great rain, +Of branches broken, +And the farmer's curses! + +But I go back and forth +In this corner of a garden +And the green shoots follow me +Praising the great rain. + +We are not curst together, +The leaves and I, +Framing devices, flower devices +And other ways of peopling +The barren country. + +Truly it was a very great rain +That makes the little leaves follow me. + + + + +To wish Myself Courage + + +On the day when youth is no more upon me +I will write of the leaves and the moon in a tree top! +I will sing then the song, long in the making-- +When the stress of youth is put away from me. + +How can I ever be written out as men say? +Surely it is merely an interference with the long song-- +This that I am now doing. + +But when the spring of it is worn like the old moon +And the eaten leaves are lace upon the cold earth-- +Then I will rise up in my great desire-- +Long at the birth--and sing me the youth-song! + + + * * * * * + +LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED. + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Tempers, by William Carlos Williams + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TEMPERS *** + +***** This file should be named 31878.txt or 31878.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/1/8/7/31878/ + +Produced by Meredith Bach, Diane Monico, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + +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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