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diff --git a/33774-8.txt b/33774-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..40fd7b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/33774-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1048 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mice & Other Poems, by Gerald Bullett + +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: Mice & Other Poems + +Author: Gerald Bullett + +Release Date: September 20, 2010 [EBook #33774] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MICE & OTHER POEMS *** + + + + +Produced by Mark C. Orton and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive) + + + + + + + + + + MICE & OTHER POEMS + + by Gerald Bullett + + _With a General Note by + Sir Arthur Quiller Couch_ + + ONE FLORIN 1921 + + + + +MICE AND OTHER POEMS + + + PRINTED IN CAMBRIDGE + AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS + AND SOLD IN LONDON BY + SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, + HAMILTON, KENT & Co + + FIRST IMPRESSION JANUARY 1921 + + + + + MICE + & OTHER POEMS + by Gerald Bullett + + Perkin Warbeck + 9 Market Hill + Cambridge + + + + + _Uniform with this volume_ + + HOME-MADE VERSES + BY D. B. HASELER AND + R. H. D'ELBOUX + + LAUGHING GAS AND + OTHER POEMS + BY MARGUERITE FEW + + + GERALD BULLETT + IS THE AUTHOR OF + THE PROGRESS OF KAY + + PUBLISHED BY + CONSTABLE & CO. LONDON + + + + +NOTE + + +If the mental attitude of any critic has ever, in his approach to a +first book of verse, been conciliated by an appreciative notice from +some older pen, I should say (speaking out of no little experience) that +either the author was dead and the fact advertised in the preface, or, +alternatively, that the critic was possessed by a gentler spirit than +mine. I am sure at any rate that artistic work, great or small, should +be sternly judged on what it is rather than on what it promises. The +late J. Comyns Carr, in the days when he wrote dramatic criticism, let +loose this restive truth in a couple of short sentences--'We are told +that So-and-so is a promising young actor. Personally I don't care how +much he promises so long as he never again performs.' + +Let me, then, pass over Mr Gerald Bullett's verses with the simple +remark that I believe in them (he himself calls them 'MICE'--no +overweening title, however boldly printed. Yet mice were dear to Apollo +Smintheus, and his proper emblem): and let me come to the general +purpose of this Note. + +It is meant to preface a series of small volumes of verse by young +writers, mostly Cambridge men. That, since the War, young men in +extraordinary numbers have taken to expressing themselves in verse is a +plain fact, not to be denied: that they choose, as often as not, to +express themselves in 'numbers' extraordinary to us can as hardly be +contested. But the point is, they have a crowding impulse to say +something; and to say it with the emotional seriousness proper to +Poetry. For my part, I love the discipline of verse: but I love the +impulse better. Time will soften--I hope not too soon, lest it sugar +down and sentimentalise--a certain bitterness of resentment observable +in this booklet and its next followers: but, as nothing in verse is +nobler than true tradition, anything is more hopeful than convention. + +So these booklets have been planned to give youth its chance to make +spoons or spoil horns. If anyone object that the print and page +over-dignify the content of any one volume in the proposed series, why, +that must be a particular criticism, which cannot honestly (I think) be +enlarged to blame the publisher's wish, and the care he has taken, that +what pretends, however modestly, to be a work of the Muse, should step +forth to the public in honourable dress. + + ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH + + + + +CONTENTS + + + Mice 9 + + Rest 10 + + 'The Strength, the Mellow Music, + and the Laughter' 11 + + Ashes 12 + + 'Du bist wie eine Blume' 13 + + Home 14 + + 'Maître de Ballet' 15 + + The Grudge 16 + + Wedding Day 17 + + Crucifixion 18 + + Spring in Winter 19 + + The Exile 20 + + Sonnet for Helen 21 + + Song 22 + + Musings 23 + + The Poet 24 + + 'If all the trees were magic trees' 26 + + 'Alone with these my poems...' 28 + + + + +_'The Exile' is reprinted by courtesy of the Proprietors of Punch_ + + + + +Mice + + + I see the broken bodies of women and men, + Temples of God ruined; I see the claws + Of sinister Fate, from the reach of whose feline paws + Never are safe the bodies of women and men. + + Almighty Cat, it sits on the Throne of the World, + With paw outstretched, grinning at us, the mice, + Who play our trivial games of virtue and vice, + And pray--to That which sits on the Throne of the World! + + From our beginning till all is over and done, + Unwitting who watches, pursuing our personal ends, + Hither and thither we scamper....The paw descends; + The paw descends and all is over and done. + + + + +Rest + + + Here is tranquillity and silvan shade; + For now, emerging from that waste of sand + Which was my life, I reach a fruitful glade, + A pool of water in a thirsty land. + + Your gentle soul a well of beauty is, + And crystal clear the sunlit deeps thereof; + And from that fountain of unmeasured bliss + I draw the living water of your love. + + Here is the goal of all my wandering, + Here is oblivion of my bitterness, + And here the temple where my heart shall sing + Your eyes that light me and your lips that bless. + + + + +_The strength, the mellow music, and the laughter_ + + + The steadfast beauty of her eyes is balm, + And in her touch there's healing for my hurt; + She is unshaken as a vessel girt + Mid waters of unutterable calm. + + The years grow fragrant with her fragrance: they, + Sipping her sweetness, leave her yet more sweet. + Laden with divers colours, at her feet + They shed their motley silks and go their way + + Like withered dreams. So youth must follow after, + Youth that is brief and beauty that is grass; + But from her gentle soul shall never pass + The strength, the mellow music, and the laughter. + + + + +Ashes + + + Bury the ashes. The life, the gleam + Of love is gone: we have killed with kisses + The fragile soul of rapture: this is + Only the hollow husk of a dream, + The bitter waking, the end thereof. + Come, bury the ashes of love. + + The music falters; the flame is spent; + The vision is gone, the splendour faded, + Leaving only a pitiful jaded + Half-desire, and a discontent. + The end of love is a weary kiss-- + Surely hate were better than this! + + + + +_Du bist wie eine Blume_ + + + So like a flower, so gentle, + So fair, so pure thou art, + That musing on thy beauty + Brings sadness to my heart. + + I lay my hands, in spirit, + Upon thy gleaming hair, + Praying that God may keep thee + So sweet, so pure, so fair. + + _From the German of Heine_ + + + + +Home + + + Five weary days...and I shall creep + Into the shadow of her hair + And of her loveliness drink deep + + And lose my desolation there, + Feeling her cool lips quench my own. + Lying so still, we shall not dare + + To let one murmur like a stone + Into the pool of silence fall. + All senses will be fused in one: + + Peace will surround us with a wall + Of visible music, moments go + Melodiously by, and all + + The stillness brim with beauty; so + Our hearts will whisper, throbbing fast: + 'Must time undeviating flow + And bear this fragile moment past?' + + + + +_Maître de Ballet_ + + + On a gossamer thread + Of light that stretches + From dark to dark + Over the void + We giddily jig + To the mad music + The Master makes. + + From the Green Room + He calls us forth, + Sensitive puppets, + Live automata, + And with a gesture + Sets us jerkily + Dancing the tightrope. + + From a seat in the stalls + Of the cosmic theatre + Silently + He watches our antics. + + When we call to him + 'Master, Master! + Help, we are falling!' + Out of the darkness + Comes no word + ....Only a chuckle. + + + + +The Grudge + + + _We grudged not those that were dearer than all we possessed, + Lovers, brothers, sons. + Our hearts were full, and out of a full heart + We gave our beloved ones._ (Laurence Binyon) + + + We are of baser quality: we have been + Tried by fire and judged a spurious gold. + We are little of soul; and yet in our pigmy way + We have suffered and loved with a love that cannot be told. + + Being less than you, we did not eagerly quaff + The cup of gall: we prayed that it might pass. + We are not gods: we are pitiful human stuff; + And the blood of our passion has stained Gethsemane's grass. + + We were not blind to the vision. We heard the call + And followed, or watched our belovèd steadfastly go. + But our grief is naked, and shivers, and will not be soothed + By splendid phrases, or clothed in a moral glow. + + We cannot say for our comfort: 'Losing them, + We gain a glimpse of noble terrible heights, + A cleansing exquisite pain, a sacred grief, + A dream to cherish'--we think of the vanished lights; + + We think of the fine nerves shattered, the warm blood chilled, + The laughter silenced, the zest and the beauty gone, + The desolation of wasted wonderful dreams + That will never be lived, of work that cannot be done. + + + + +Wedding Day + + + Was it for this we loved: to settle down + (Having once paid the necessary fee) + In some nice suburb not too far from town, + To eat and sleep and kiss complacently, + Loving by rote as decent people do: + Was it for this we hungered, I and you? + + A lover's vows are gossamer, they say; + But we have registered our mutual vow + For seven and sixpence, dearest. Yesterday + There was but love to bind our hearts, but now + We owe it to the Vicar to be good + And love each other as we said we would. + + That promise at the altar is a link + (Which only death can break) between us two; + For every time I kiss you I shall think: + 'How this would please the Vicar if he knew!' + And we shall put our youthful dreams to bed, + And so live on--long after we are dead. + + We are made one. One mind will serve us both. + ('Oh yes, we think Locke's novels rather sweet!') + In ever-living witness of our troth + You'll serve the vegetables, I the meat... + O happiness! It is our wedding day! + Embrace me, dear: the Prayer Book says you may. + + + + +Crucifixion + + + We wage eternal war on the losing side; + Ever defeated we by the sinister foe + That only pathetic piety seeks to hide + In a theological costume of long ago. + + The goal we seek to attain will never be ours: + All our hopes will end in ashes and dust; + All our dreams will be dead desolate flowers, + Plucked by the pitiless Hand we were taught to trust. + + Doomed to eternal defeat in the endless strife, + Scornful of Chance the Almighty, we worship with pride + The divine, frail, terrible Beauty of Life + On the Cross of Fate incessantly crucified. + + + + +Spring in Winter + + + My memories of you are singing birds + In the green forest of my mind, where I + May roam, recapturing your whispered words, + Or on a bank of glowing bluebells lie, + Listening for ever. Spring is come again + In all her glory; the erst withered trees + That creaked, like living skeletons in pain, + Defying the wind, have donned green garments: these + New shoots, these blossoms and these buds, the springing + Grass, and the sky where many colours blend, + My songsters by the magic of their singing + Have in a moment made. My thoughts of you + Are music which to all my spirit's rue + Is the ineffable answer and the end. + + + + +The Exile + + + Now I return to my own land and people, + Old familiar things so to recover, + Hedgerows and little lanes and meadows, + The friendliness of my own land and people. + + I have seen a world-frieze of glowing orange, + Palms painted black on the satin horizon, + Palm-trees in the dusk and the silence standing + Straight and still against a background of orange; + + A gorgeous magical pomp of light and colour, + A dream-world, a sparkling gem in the sunlight, + The minarets and domes of an Eastern city; + And in the midst of all the pomp of colour + + My heart cried out for my own land and people; + My heart cried out for the lush meadows of England, + The hedgerows and little lanes of England, + And for the faces of my own people. + + + + +Sonnet for Helen + + + When you're very old, when in the candlelight your hair + Silver shews--when by the fire you spinning sit and weaving, + You will croon my verses, but in wonder, scarce believing + 'Ronsard hymned my beauty in the days when I was fair.' + + Never servant could you have, tho' half-asleep she were, + But would rouse herself to listen to your lyric grieving, + Wake to hear my name and your glory, my achieving, + My immortal praise of your beauty past compare. + + I shall be beneath the earth, an unsubstantial shade; + Where the myrtles throw their shadow will my bones be laid. + You will be a squatting crony sighing by the fire, + + Sighing for the love you scorned, recalling it with sorrow. + Live, O live and love to-day; delay not till the morrow: + Gather now the roses of youth and desire. + + _From the French of Ronsard_ + + + + +Song + + + How did we dim that wistful dream, + That shy first love without caress, + That breathless wonder, that supreme + Vision of all love's loveliness? + + For surely had we parted then, + Kissed once with tears and said Good-bye, + We had been speaking truly when + We said our love could never die. + + Because we did a moment cling, + With trembling senses cling and kiss-- + Does it not seem a bitter thing + That bliss should die of too much bliss? + + Love is a fair and fragile flower + Which Youth must needs, poor foolish boy, + Pluck greedily....Within the hour + He weeps to see his withered joy. + + + + +Musings + + + Be calmer, O my Grief, be quieter: + The dusk you craved enfolds us; everywhere + The twilight veil of blue-grey gossamer + Falls, bringing peace to some, to others care. + + While thralls of Pleasure, that most merciless + Of tyrants, hasten to his board (although + His wine is gall, and his fruit, bitterness), + Come with me, O my Grief, and let us go + + Far from them. See the bygone years that throng + Heaven's balconies; see smiling Sorrow, strong + In fortitude, rise from the waters; see + + The dying sun, low sinking, disappear + Beyond the verge. The rustling mystery + Of night approaches--hear, beloved, hear. + + _From the French of Baudelaire_ + + + + +The Poet + + + Where the flowers are most tall, + Heedless of his mother's call, + Wooden sword in his hand + Tightly clasped, I see him stand. + + He is pondering with eyes + Full of four-year-old surmise + Two great hollyhocks that sway + This way, that way, + Till they almost touch his cheek. + Queer, solemn souls they seem, + Spell-bound, lost in dream, + Always just about to speak... + + Then he with thirsty eyes + Drinks the intoxicating skies. + Done with earth, he bestrides + The galloping white horses, rides + The blue valleys and the red hills + Of sunset, and his pocket fills + With golden apples. Days pass, + Long full days... + + The grass + Suddenly stirs, and he plunges + Into the perilous wood and lunges + Stoutly at the dragon's head + Till the fiery beast is dead... + + Now that dusk is fast falling + He'll obey his mother's calling. + Out of Fairyland with slow + Thoughtful steps he turns to go. + Yet there's just time to float + In the water-butt his boat + Made of cork and spent matches: + So, at the last he snatches + Great adventure from the dread + Unrelenting jaws of Bed. + Round the magic world rides he, + And lives a breathless Odyssey. + + + + +_If all the trees were magic trees_ + + + If all the trees were magic trees + And talked among themselves, + If kings could sleep in daffodils + And bishops danced on window-sills, + If all the valleys changed to hills + And all the tens to twelves, + The world would be nonsensical, + And we should all be elves. + + If every street in Camden Town + Were paved with precious stones, + If modest souls began to drape + Their table-legs in decent crape, + If every squirrel wore a cape + And had the name of Jones, + I'd weave a robe of beetles' eyes + And jellyfishes' bones. + + If kingcups blossomed in the sky + And fell like golden rain + In grey half-light shot through and through + With shafts of green and shafts of blue, + If pink and purple chickweed grew + On every window pane, + All truly tidy folk would deem + The universe insane. + + If we were sensible enough + To hear the bluebells ring, + Were sight so true and hearts so wise + That we could see with glowing eyes + Enchantment flaming from the skies + And joy in everything, + Then every girl a queen would be, + And every boy a king. + + + + +_Alone with these my poems..._ + + + Alone with these my poems, when night is still, + Earth seems but a speck of fluttering dust, + Moth-like, in a waste of eternity. + + Alone with these symbols of human thought, + All our measureless system of whirling worlds + Seems itself a symbol, a chance phrase + In a poem wrought by the hand of a brooding god, + Where we ourselves are less than commas and dots. + And had he smeared out with careless thumb + All life, from its first birth in the waters + To the ultimate dissolution of stars and suns, + He had made no more than an ill-timed caesura. + + Alone with these my poems, when night is still, + I am less than a speck of dust on the wing of a moth + Fluttering in a waste of eternity. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Mice & Other Poems, by Gerald Bullett + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MICE & OTHER POEMS *** + +***** This file should be named 33774-8.txt or 33774-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/3/7/7/33774/ + +Produced by Mark C. 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