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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: Poems - -Author: John William Draper - -Release Date: February 6, 2013 [EBook #42034] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS *** - - - - -Produced by David E. Brown, Bryan Ness and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42034 ***</div> <div class="figcenter"><img src="images/cover.jpg" alt=""/></div> <hr class="chap" /> @@ -449,7 +411,7 @@ Weariness, weariness, unending weariness, cease—<br /> Bitterness, bitterness, undying bitterness, peace—<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">On shore bring to rest my barge's keel,</span><br /> On that shadowy shore, we seek at life's release;<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For thy soul, belovèd, bears Death's seal.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For thy soul, belovèd, bears Death's seal.</span><br /> Restlessness, restlessness, wandering restlessness haunts me;<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Lacking thy smile, all life's brooklets congeal</span><br /> Into one image emotional, fearful which daunts me—<br /> @@ -623,7 +585,7 @@ At the passing clouds, his only winding-sheet.<br /> And then the Great Intelligence—if such<br /> There be—will see his moment's pastime o'er,<br /> And turn his arts to other constellations,<br /> -Until in rolling æons e'en his mind<br /> +Until in rolling æons e'en his mind<br /> May lose the memory of Man which <i>was</i>—<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Rush on, rush on, humanity, and fill</span><br /> Your hours with toil-wrought pain, rush on, rush on!<br /> @@ -682,7 +644,7 @@ Thy figure fallen like a flower when hoar<br /> Frosts blight. Thy soul wont like the lark to soar<br /> The light-flushed dawn, now takes a loftier aim.<br /> Thy funeral chant, the slow-entoning wind;<br /> -Thy churchèd tomb, the pillared vault of morn;<br /> +Thy churchèd tomb, the pillared vault of morn;<br /> Thy requiem, the birds: Thus art thou dead,<br /> Pale, spectred want, thy tribute from thy kind;<br /> But God, himself, thy dirges shall adorn<br /> @@ -841,7 +803,7 @@ And Saul was smiling to the moon's curved bar.<br /> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">"My Lord, my Lord, these tidings brook no pause!"</span><br /> As if unwillingly, the King turned slow.<br /> "Philistines plunder thy rich-garnered grain,<br /> -And flood thy fencèd towns with waves of fire!<br /> +And flood thy fencèd towns with waves of fire!<br /> The land is overswept with bloody rain;<br /> Thy towered throne is tottering to the mire!"<br /> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Saul's fingers clenched until the blood was near;</span><br /> @@ -944,7 +906,7 @@ Charm as I bid; and gratitude shall last<br /> All time from me to thee—fulfill this quest—"<br /> He paused his speech and glanced to either side—<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span><br /> "Summon me Samuel. Let his spirit rise<br /> -Upon the night in wreathèd, hazy guise."<br /> +Upon the night in wreathèd, hazy guise."<br /> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The fire-embers faded red, and died;</span><br /> King Saul sat staring into sable space;<br /> The witch was mumbling by the fire-side<br /> @@ -996,7 +958,7 @@ Thine all has been in vain, in vain, in vain—"<br /> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="table"> <tr><td> -<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Pale night upon its swift, aërial loom</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Pale night upon its swift, aërial loom</span><br /> Wove the soft, vaporous substance of the gloom.<br /> The story-sculptured Gothic porch lay dim<br /> And silent in drab haze with which the spring<br /> @@ -1179,7 +1141,7 @@ She moves; she starts; she cries, as one to whom<br /> Has come the horrid messenger of doom:<br /> "Is that <i>my</i> figure floating in the gloom?<br /> Shall my life fail; is this its funeral knell?"<br /> -Pale night upon his swift, aërial loom,<br /> +Pale night upon his swift, aërial loom,<br /> Wove the soft, vaporous substance of her doom.<br /> <br/> @@ -1418,7 +1380,7 @@ That Love through Death transmutes itself to pain.</td></tr></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="table"> <tr><td> I sank my soul upon a sea of dreams;<br /> -I floated through aërial heights divine<br /> +I floated through aërial heights divine<br /> Where saffron clouds a-glint with amber beams<br /> Shimmering strangely, stretched in shining line.<br /> I winged my way to Heaven's very dome,<br /> @@ -1546,7 +1508,7 @@ And pain of life transmutes all death to pain.</td></tr></table> Oh, but to float away upon the night,<br /> To lose my soul upon her silent dark,<br /> To feel myself a Nothing, a frail, light,<br /> -Aërial Emptiness, a fleeing spark<br /> +Aërial Emptiness, a fleeing spark<br /> Of sunshine seeking on the endless void,<br /> Some rest, some painless silence as its mark.<br /> Like an oblivion-destined asteroid,<br /> @@ -1555,7 +1517,7 @@ From all the ordinary, earthly, cloyed,<br /> From all the tawdriness of living day;<br /> But still I know I cannot cease to be,<br /> Though I condemn my body back to clay—<br /> -O thrice accursèd immortality<br /> +O thrice accursèd immortality<br /> That dooms me life through all Eternity!</td></tr></table> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span></p> @@ -1777,7 +1739,7 @@ Wherewith are bound those lingering harmonies.</td></tr></table> And when the soul has torn the fleshly veil,<br /> And moves majestic to that monotone,<br /> When echo-like upon the air I sail<br /> -Whither the wingèd skylark, Faith, has flown,<br /> +Whither the wingèd skylark, Faith, has flown,<br /> And borne me fainting upward; then my soul<br /> May seek the God of art which silent, lone,<br /> Broods on a crystal-argent sea, the goal<br /> @@ -1792,382 +1754,6 @@ Most beautiful—a mother's lullaby.<br/> <i>December, 1912.</i><br /> <i>January, 1913.</i></td></tr></table> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems, by John William Draper - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS *** - -***** This file should be named 42034-h.htm or 42034-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/2/0/3/42034/ - -Produced by David E. 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