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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Dark of the Moon - -Author: Sara Teasdale - -Release Date: January 24, 2023 [eBook #69866] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Tim Lindell, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was - produced from images generously made available by The - Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DARK OF THE MOON *** - - - - - - DARK - OF - THE - MOON - - - - -_BOOKS BY SARA TEASDALE_ - - - SONNETS TO DUSE (out of print) - HELEN OF TROY AND OTHER POEMS - RIVERS TO THE SEA - LOVE SONGS - FLAME AND SHADOW - - -_ANTHOLOGIES_: - - THE ANSWERING VOICE: ONE HUNDRED LOVE LYRICS BY WOMEN - RAINBOW GOLD: POEMS OLD AND NEW, SELECTED FOR BOYS AND GIRLS - - - - - DARK OF THE MOON - - BY - SARA TEASDALE - - - NEW YORK - THE MACMILLAN COMPANY - 1926 - - - - - _Copyright, 1921, by Harper Brothers, Charles - Scribner’s Sons, The Century Company, Harcourt - Brace and Company, George H. Doran Company, The - New Republic, Inc., and The Yale Publishing - Association._ - - _Copyright, 1922, by The Century Company, Harcourt - Brace and Company, Vanity Fair Publishing - Company, Inc., and George H. Doran Company._ - - _Copyright, 1923, by Charles Scribner’s Sons, The - Century Company, The New Republic, Inc., Gene - Derwood and The Atlantic Monthly Company._ - - _Copyright, 1924, by The Dial Publishing Company, - Inc., The Century Company, George H. Doran Co., - and Harriet Monroe._ - - _Copyright, 1925, by Harcourt Brace and Company, and - The Yale Publishing Association._ - - _Copyright, 1926, by The Atlantic Monthly Company, - The Yale Publishing Association, The New - Republic, Inc., The Saturday Review Co., Inc., - Charles Scribner’s Sons, and The New York - Herald-Tribune, Inc._ - - - COPYRIGHT, 1926, - BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. - - - - - _to_ E. - - - - - _Thanks are due to the editors of Scribner’s - Magazine, The New Republic, The Yale Review, - Poetry, The Dial, The Atlantic Monthly, The - London Mercury and other publications for their - permission to reprint certain of the following - poems._ - - _For permission to set any of the poems to - music, application should be made to the - author._ - - - - -_Contents_ - - - I - - _THERE WILL BE STARS_ PAGE - ON THE SUSSEX DOWNS 15 - - AUGUST NIGHT 16 - - TWO MINDS 17 - - WORDS FOR AN OLD AIR 18 - - MOUNTAIN WATER 19 - - AT TINTAGIL 20 - - “THERE WILL BE STARS” 21 - - - II - - _PICTURES OF AUTUMN_ - AUTUMN 25 - - SEPTEMBER DAY 26 - - FONTAINEBLEAU 27 - - LATE OCTOBER 28 - - - III - - _SAND DRIFT_ - “BEAUTIFUL, PROUD SEA” 31 - - LAND’S END 32 - - SAND DRIFT 33 - - BLUE STARGRASS 34 - - SEPTEMBER NIGHT 35 - - LOW TIDE 36 - - - IV - - _PORTRAITS_ - EFFIGY OF A NUN 39 - - THOSE WHO LOVE 41 - - EPITAPH 42 - - APPRAISAL 43 - - THE WISE WOMAN 44 - - “SHE WHO COULD BIND YOU” 45 - - “SO THIS WAS ALL” 46 - - - V - - _MIDSUMMER NIGHTS_ - TWILIGHT 49 - - FULL MOON 50 - - THE FOUNTAIN 51 - - CLEAR EVENING 52 - - NOT BY THE SEA 53 - - MIDSUMMER NIGHT 54 - - - VI - - _THE CRYSTAL GAZER_ - THE CRYSTAL GAZER 57 - - THE SOLITARY 58 - - DAY’S ENDING 59 - - A REPLY 60 - - LEISURE 61 - - “I SHALL LIVE TO BE OLD” 62 - - WISDOM 63 - - THE OLD ENEMY 64 - - - VII - - _BERKSHIRE NOTES_ - WINTER SUN 67 - - A DECEMBER DAY 68 - - FEBRUARY TWILIGHT 69 - - “I HAVE SEEN THE SPRING” 70 - - WIND ELEGY 71 - - IN THE WOOD 72 - - AUTUMN DUSK 73 - - - VIII - - _ARCTURUS IN AUTUMN_ - ARCTURUS IN AUTUMN 77 - - “I COULD SNATCH A DAY” 78 - - AN END 79 - - FOREKNOWN 80 - - WINTER 81 - - WINTER NIGHT SONG 82 - - NEVER AGAIN 83 - - THE TUNE 84 - - - IX - - _THE FLIGHT_ - THE BELOVED 87 - - “WHEN I AM NOT WITH YOU” 88 - - DEDICATION 89 - - ON A MARCH DAY 90 - - LET IT BE YOU 91 - - THE FLIGHT 92 - - - - - I - - THERE - WILL - BE - STARS - - - - -_On the Sussex Downs_ - - - Over the downs there were birds flying, - Far off glittered the sea, - And toward the north the weald of Sussex - Lay like a kingdom under me. - - I was happier than the larks - That nest on the downs and sing to the sky, - Over the downs the birds flying - Were not so happy as I. - - It was not you, though you were near, - Though you were good to hear and see, - It was not earth, it was not heaven - It was myself that sang in me. - - - - -_August Night_ - - - On a midsummer night, on a night that was eerie with stars, - In a wood too deep for a single star to look through, - You led down a path whose turnings you knew in the darkness, - But the scent of the dew-dripping cedars was all that I knew. - - I drank of the darkness, I was fed with the honey of fragrance, - I was glad of my life, the drawing of breath was sweet; - I heard your voice, you said, “Look down, see the glow-worm!” - It was there before me, a small star white at my feet. - - We watched while it brightened as though it were breathed on and - burning, - This tiny creature moving over earth’s floor-- - “‘_L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle_,’” - You said, and no more. - - - - -_Two Minds_ - - - Your mind and mine are such great lovers they - Have freed themselves from cautious human clay, - And on wild clouds of thought, naked together - They ride above us in extreme delight; - We see them, we look up with a lone envy - And watch them in their zone of crystal weather - That changes not for winter or the night. - - - - -_Words for An Old Air_ - - - Your heart is bound tightly, let - Beauty beware, - It is not hers to set - Free from the snare. - - Tell her a bleeding hand - Bound it and tied it, - Tell her the knot will stand - Though she deride it; - - One who withheld so long - All that you yearned to take, - Has made a snare too strong - For Beauty’s self to break. - - - - -_Mountain Water_ - - - You have taken a drink from a wild fountain - Early in the year; - There is nowhere to go from the top of a mountain - But down, my dear; - And the springs that flow on the floor of the valley - Will never seem fresh or clear - For thinking of the glitter of the mountain water - In the feathery green of the year. - - - - -_At Tintagil_ - - - Iseult, Iseult, by the long waterways - Watching the wintry moon, white as a flower, - I have remembered how once in Tintagil - You heard the tread of Time hour after hour. - - By casements hung with night, while all your women slept - You turned toward Brittany, awake, alone, - In the high chamber hushed, save where the candle dripped - With the slow patient sound of blood on stone. - - The ache of empty arms was an old tale to you, - And all the tragic tunes that love can play, - Yet with no woman born would you have changed your lot, - Though there were greater queens who had been gay. - - - - -“_There Will Be Stars_” - - - There will be stars over the place forever; - Though the house we loved and the street we loved are lost, - Every time the earth circles her orbit - On the night the autumn equinox is crossed, - Two stars we knew, poised on the peak of midnight - Will reach their zenith; stillness will be deep; - There will be stars over the place forever, - There will be stars forever, while we sleep. - - - - - II - - PICTURES - OF - AUTUMN - - - - -_Autumn_ - -(Parc Monceau) - - - I shall remember only these leaves falling - Small and incessant in the still air, - Yellow leaves on the dark green water resting - And the marble Venus there-- - Is she pointing to her breasts or trying to hide them? - There is no god to care. - - The colonnade curves close to the leaf-strewn water - And its reflection seems - Lost in the mass of leaves and unavailing - As a dream lost among dreams; - The colonnade curves close to the leaf-strewn water - A dream lost among dreams. - - - - -_September Day_ - -(Pont de Neuilly) - - - The Seine flows out of the mist - And into the mist again; - The trees lean over the water, - The small leaves fall like rain. - - The leaves fall patiently, - Nothing remembers or grieves; - The river takes to the sea - The yellow drift of the leaves. - - Milky and cold is the air, - The leaves float with the stream, - The river comes out of a sleep - And goes away in a dream. - - - - -_Fontainebleau_ - - - Interminable palaces front on the green parterres, - And ghosts of ladies lovely and immoral - Glide down the gilded stairs, - The high cold corridors are clicking with the heel taps - That long ago were theirs. - - But in the sunshine, in the vague autumn sunshine, - The geometric gardens are desolately gay; - The crimson and scarlet and rose-red dahlias - Are painted like the ladies who used to pass this way - With a ringletted monarch, a Henry or a Louis - On a lost October day. - - The aisles of the garden lead into the forest, - The aisles lead into autumn, a damp wind grieves, - Ghostly kings are hunting, the boar breaks cover, - But the sounds of horse and horn are hushed in falling leaves, - Four centuries of autumns, four centuries of leaves. - - - - -_Late October_ - -(Bois de Boulogne) - - - Listen, the damp leaves on the walks are blowing - With a ghost of sound; - Is it a fog or is it a rain dripping - From the low trees to the ground? - - If I had gone before, I could have remembered - Lilacs and green after-noons of May; - I chose to wait, I chose to hear from autumn - Whatever she has to say. - - - - - III - - SAND - DRIFT - - - - -“_Beautiful, Proud Sea_” - - - Careless forever, beautiful proud sea, - You laugh in happy thunder all alone, - You fold upon yourself, you dance your dance - Impartially on drift-weed, sand or stone. - - You make us believe that we can outlive death, - You make us for an instant, for your sake, - Burn, like stretched silver of a wave, - Not breaking, but about to break. - - - - -_Land’s End_ - - - The shores of the world are ours, the solitary - Beaches that bear no fruit, nor any flowers, - Only the harsh sea-grass that the wind harries - Hours on unbroken hours. - - No one will envy us these empty reaches - At the world’s end, and none will care that we - Leave our lost footprints where the sand forever - Takes the unchanging passion of the sea. - - - - -_Sand Drift_ - - - I thought I should not walk these dunes again, - Nor feel the sting of this wind-bitten sand, - Where the coarse grasses always blow one way, - Bent, as my thoughts are, by an unseen hand. - - I have returned; where the last wave rushed up - The wet sand is a mirror for the sky - A bright blue instant, and along its sheen - The nimble sandpipers run twinkling by. - - Nothing has changed; with the same hollow thunder - The waves die in their everlasting snow-- - Only the place we sat is drifted over, - Lost in the blowing sand, long, long ago. - - - - -_Blue Stargrass_ - - - If we took the old path - In the old field - The same gate would stand there - That will never yield. - - Where the sun warmed us - With a cloak made of gold, - The rain would be falling - And the wind would be cold; - - And we would stop to search - In the wind and the rain, - But we would not find the stargrass - By the path again. - - - - -_September Night_ - - - We walked in the dew, in the drowsy starlight - To the sleepless, sleepy sound - Of insects singing in the low sea-meadows - For miles and miles around; - With a wheel and a whirr the resistless rhythm - Trembled incessantly; - Antares was red in the sky before us, - And behind us, the blackness of the sea. - - - - -_Low Tide_ - - - The birds are gathering over the dunes, - Swerving and wheeling in shifting flight, - A thousand wings sweep darkly by - Over the dunes and out of sight. - - Why did you bring me down to the sea - With the gathering birds and the fish-hawk flying, - The tide is low and the wind is hard, - Nothing is left but the old year dying. - - I wish I were one of the gathering birds, - Two sharp black wings would be good for me-- - When nothing is left but the old year dying, - Why did you bring me down to the sea? - - - - -IV - -PORTRAITS - - - - -_Effigy of a Nun_ - -(Sixteenth Century) - - - Infinite gentleness, infinite irony - Are in this face with fast-sealed eyes, - And round this mouth that learned in loneliness - How useless their wisdom is to the wise. - - In her nun’s habit carved, patiently, lovingly, - By one who knew the ways of womankind, - This woman’s face still keeps, in its cold wistful calm, - All of the subtle pride of her mind. - - These long patrician hands, clasping the crucifix, - Show she had weighed the world, her will was set; - These pale curved lips of hers, holding their hidden smile, - Once having made their choice, knew no regret. - - She was of those who hoard their own thoughts carefully, - Feeling them far too dear to give away, - Content to look at life with the high, insolent - Air of an audience watching a play. - - If she was curious, if she was passionate - She must have told herself that love was great, - But that the lacking it might be as great a thing - If she held fast to it, challenging fate. - - She who so loved herself and her own warring thoughts, - Watching their humorous, tragic rebound, - In her thick habit’s fold, sleeping, sleeping, - Is she amused at dreams she has found? - - Infinite tenderness, infinite irony - Are hidden forever in her closed eyes, - Who must have learned too well in her long loneliness - How empty wisdom is, even to the wise. - - - - -_Those Who Love_ - - - Those who love the most, - Do not talk of their love, - Francesca, Guinevere, - Deirdre, Iseult, Heloise, - In the fragrant gardens of heaven - Are silent, or speak if at all - Of fragile, inconsequent things. - - And a woman I used to know - Who loved one man from her youth, - Against the strength of the fates - Fighting in somber pride, - Never spoke of this thing, - But hearing his name by chance, - A light would pass over her face. - - - - -_Epitaph_ - - - Serene descent, as a red leaf’s descending - When there is neither wind nor noise of rain, - But only autumn air and the unending - Drawing of all things to the earth again: - - So be it; let the snow sift deep and cover - All that was drunken once with light and air; - The earth will not regret her tireless lover, - Nor he awake to know she does not care. - - - - -_Appraisal_ - - - Never think she loves him wholly, - Never believe her love is blind, - All his faults are locked securely - In a closet of her mind; - All his indecisions folded - Like old flags that time has faded, - Limp and streaked with rain, - And his cautiousness like garments - Frayed and thin, with many a stain-- - Let them be, oh let them be, - There is treasure to outweigh them, - His proud will that sharply stirred, - Climbs as surely as the tide, - Senses strained too taut to sleep, - Gentleness to beast and bird, - Humor flickering hushed and wide - As the moon on moving water, - And a tenderness too deep - To be gathered in a word. - - - - -_The Wise Woman_ - - - She must be rich who can forego - An hour so jewelled with delight, - She must have treasuries of joy - That she can draw on day and night, - She must be very sure of heaven-- - Or is it only that she feels - How much more safe it is to lack - A thing that time so often steals. - - - - -“_She Who Could Bind You_” - - - She who could bind you - Could bind fire to a wall; - She who could hold you - Could hold a waterfall; - She who could keep you - Could keep the wind from blowing - On a warm spring night - With a low moon glowing. - - - - -“_So This Was All_” - - - So this was all there was to the great play - She came so far to act in, this was all-- - Except the short last scene and the slow fall - Of the final curtain, that might catch half-way, - As final curtains do, and leave the grey - Lorn end of things too long exposed. The hall - Clapped faintly, and she took her curtain call, - Knowing how little she had left to say. - And in the pause before the last act started, - Slowly unpinning the roses she had worn, - She reconsidered lines that had been said, - And found them hardly worthy the high-hearted - Ardor that she had brought, nor the bright, torn, - Roses that shattered round her, dripping red. - - - - - V - - MIDSUMMER - NIGHTS - - - - -_Twilight_ - -(Nahant) - - - There was an evening when the sky was clear, - Ineffably translucent in its blue; - The tide was falling and the sea withdrew - In hushed and happy music from the sheer - Shadowy granite of the cliffs; and fear - Of what life may be, and what death can do, - Fell from us like steel armor, and we knew - The wisdom of the Law that holds us here. - It was as though we saw the Secret Will, - It was as though we floated and were free; - In the south-west a planet shone serenely, - And the high moon, most reticent and queenly, - Seeing the earth had darkened and grown still, - Misted with light the meadows of the sea. - - - - -_Full Moon_ - -(Santa Barbara) - - - I listened, there was not a sound to hear - In the great rain of moonlight pouring down, - The eucalyptus trees were carved in silver, - And a light mist of silver lulled the town. - - I saw far off the grey Pacific bearing - A broad white disk of flame, - And on the garden-walk a snail beside me - Tracing in crystal the slow way he came. - - - - -_The Fountain_ - - - Fountain, fountain, what do you say - Singing at night alone? - “It is enough to rise and fall - Here in my basin of stone.” - - But are you content as you seem to be - So near the freedom and rush of the sea? - “I have listened all night to its laboring sound, - It heaves and sags, as the moon runs round; - Ocean and fountain, shadow and tree, - Nothing escapes, nothing is free.” - - - - -_Clear Evening_ - - - The crescent moon is large enough to linger - A little while after the twilight goes, - This moist midsummer night the garden perfumes - Are earth and apple, dewy pine and rose. - - Over my head four new-cut stars are glinting - And the inevitable night draws on; - I am alone, the old terror takes me, - Evenings will come like this when I am gone; - - Evenings on evenings, years on years forever-- - Be taut, my spirit, close upon and keep - The scent, the brooding chill, the gliding fire-fly, - A poem learned before I fall asleep. - - - - -_Not by the Sea_ - - - Not by the sea, but somewhere in the hills, - Not by the sea, but in the uplands surely - There must be rest where a dim pool demurely - Watches all night the stern slow-moving skies; - - Not by the sea, that never was appeased, - Not by the sea, whose immemorial longing - Shames the tired earth where even longing dies, - Not by the sea that bore Iseult and Helen, - But in a dark green hollow of the hills - There must be sleep, even for sleepless eyes. - - - - -_Midsummer Night_ - - - Midsummer night without a moon, but the stars - In a serene bright multitude were there, - Even the shyest ones, even the faint motes shining - Low in the north, under the Little Bear. - - When I have said, “This tragic farce I play in - Has neither dignity, delight nor end,” - The holy night draws all its stars around me, - I am ashamed, I have betrayed my Friend. - - - - - VI - - THE - CRYSTAL - GAZER - - - - -_The Crystal Gazer_ - - - I shall gather myself into myself again, - I shall take my scattered selves and make them one, - Fusing them into a polished crystal ball - Where I can see the moon and the flashing sun. - - I shall sit like a sibyl, hour after hour intent, - Watching the future come and the present go, - And the little shifting pictures of people rushing - In restless self-importance to and fro. - - - - -_The Solitary_ - - - My heart has grown rich with the passing of years, - I have less need now than when I was young - To share myself with every comer - Or shape my thoughts into words with my tongue. - - It is one to me that they come or go - If I have myself and the drive of my will, - And strength to climb on a summer night - And watch the stars swarm over the hill. - - Let them think I love them more than I do, - Let them think I care, though I go alone; - If it lifts their pride, what is it to me - Who am self-complete as a flower or a stone. - - - - -_Day’s Ending_ - -(Tucson) - - - Aloof as aged kings, - Wearing like them the purple, - The mountains ring the mesa - Crowned with a dusky light; - Many a time I watched - That coming-on of darkness - Till stars burned through the heavens - Intolerably bright. - - It was not long I lived there - But I became a woman - Under those vehement stars. - For it was there I heard - For the first time my spirit - Forging an iron rule for me, - As though with slow cold hammers - Beating out word by word: - - “Only yourself can heal you, - Only yourself can lead you, - The road is heavy going - And ends where no man knows; - Take love when love is given, - But never think to find it - A sure escape from sorrow - Or a complete repose.” - - - - -_A Reply_ - - - Four people knew the very me, - Four is enough, so let it be; - For the rest I make no chart, - There are no highroads to my heart; - The gates are locked, they will not stir - For any ardent traveller. - I have not been misunderstood, - And on the whole, I think life good-- - So waste no sympathy on me - Or any well-meant gallantry; - I have enough to do to muse - On memories I would not lose. - - - - -_Leisure_ - - - If I should make no poems any more - There would be rest at least, so let it be; - Time to read books in other tongues and listen - To the long mellow thunder of the sea. - - The year will turn for me, I shall delight in - All animals, and some of my own kind, - Sharing with no one but myself the frosty - And half ironic musings of my mind. - - - - -“_I Shall Live to be Old_” - - - I shall live to be old, who feared I should die young, - I shall live to be old, - I shall cling to life as the leaves to the creaking oak - In the rustle of falling snow and the cold. - - The other trees let loose their leaves on the air - In their russet and red, - I have lived long enough to wonder which is the best, - And to envy sometimes the way of the early dead. - - - - -_Wisdom_ - - - It was a night of early spring, - The winter-sleep was scarcely broken; - Around us shadows and the wind - Listened for what was never spoken. - - Though half a score of years are gone, - Spring comes as sharply now as then-- - But if we had it all to do - It would be done the same again. - - It was a spring that never came, - But we have lived enough to know - What we have never had, remains; - It is the things we have that go. - - - - -_The Old Enemy_ - - - Rebellion against death, the old rebellion - Is over; I have nothing left to fight; - Battles have always had their meed of music - But peace is quiet as a windless night. - - Therefore I make no songs--I have grown certain - Save when he comes too late, death is a friend, - A shepherd leading home his flock serenely - Under the planet at the evening’s end. - - - - - VII - - BERKSHIRE - NOTES - - - - -_Winter Sun_ - -(Lenox) - - - There was a bush with scarlet berries - And there were hemlocks heaped with snow; - With a sound like surf on long sea-beaches - They took the wind and let it go. - - The hills were shining in their samite, - Fold after fold they flowed away-- - “Let come what may,” your eyes were saying, - “At least we two have had to-day.” - - - - -_A December Day_ - - - Dawn turned on her purple pillow - And late, late came the winter day, - Snow was curved to the boughs of the willow, - The sunless world was white and grey. - - At noon we heard a blue-jay scolding, - At five the last thin light was lost - From snow-banked windows faintly holding - The feathery filigree of frost. - - - - -_February Twilight_ - - - I stood beside a hill - Smooth with new-laid snow, - A single star looked out - From the cold evening glow. - - There was no other creature - That saw what I could see-- - I stood and watched the evening star - As long as it watched me. - - - - -“_I Have Seen the Spring_” - - - Nothing is new, I have seen the spring too often; - There have been other plum-trees white as this one - Like a silvery cloud tethered beside the road, - I have been waked from sleep too many times - By birds at dawn boasting their love is beautiful. - The grass-blades gleam in the wind, nothing is changed. - Nothing is lost, it is all as it used to be, - Unopened lilacs are still as deep a purple, - The boughs of the elm are dancing still in a veil of tiny leaves, - Nothing is lost but a few years from my life. - - - - -_Wind Elegy_ - -(W. E. W.) - - - Only the wind knows he is gone, - Only the wind grieves, - The sun shines, the fields are sown, - Sparrows mate in the eaves; - - But I heard the wind in the pines he planted - And the hemlocks overhead, - “His acres wake, for the year turns, - But he is asleep,” it said. - - - - -_In the Wood_ - - - I heard the water-fall rejoice - Singing like a choir, - I saw the sun flash out of it - Azure and amber fire. - - The earth was like an open flower - Enamelled and arrayed, - The path I took to find its heart - Fluttered with sun and shade. - - And while earth lured me, gently, gently, - Happy and all alone, - Suddenly a heavy snake - Reared black upon a stone. - - - - -_Autumn Dusk_ - - - I saw above a sea of hills - A solitary planet shine, - And there was no one near or far - To keep the world from being mine. - - - - - VIII - - ARCTURUS - IN - AUTUMN - - - - -_Arcturus in Autumn_ - - - When, in the gold October dusk, I saw you near to setting, - Arcturus, bringer of spring, - Lord of the summer nights, leaving us now in autumn, - Having no pity on our withering; - - Oh then I knew at last that my own autumn was upon me, - I felt it in my blood, - Restless as dwindling streams that still remember - The music of their flood. - - There in the thickening dark a wind-bent tree above me - Loosed its last leaves in flight-- - I saw you sink and vanish, pitiless Arcturus, - You will not stay to share our lengthening night. - - - - -“_I Could Snatch a Day_” - - - I could snatch a day out of the late autumn - And set it trembling like forgotten springs, - There would be sharp blue skies with new leaves shining - And flying shadows cast by flying wings. - - I could take the heavy wheel of the world and break it, - But we sit brooding while the ashes fall, - Cowering over an old fire that dwindles, - Waiting for nothing at all. - - - - -_An End_ - - - I have no heart for any other joy, - The drenched September day turns to depart, - And I have said good-bye to what I love; - With my own will I vanquished my own heart. - - On the long wind I hear the winter coming, - The window panes are cold and blind with rain; - With my own will I turned the summer from me - And summer will not come to me again. - - - - -_Foreknown_ - - - They brought me with a secret glee - The news I knew before they spoke, - And though they hoped to see me riven, - They found me light as dry leaves driven - Before the storm that splits an oak. - - For I had learned from many an autumn - The way a leaf can drift and go, - Lightly, lightly, almost gay - Taking the unreturning way - To mix with winter and the snow. - - - - -_Winter_ - - - I shall have winter now and lessening days, - Lit by a smoky sun with slanting rays, - And after falling leaves, the first determined frost. - The colors of the world will all be lost. - So be it; the faint buzzing of the snow - Will fill the empty boughs, - And after sleet storms I shall wake to see - A glittering glassy plume of every tree. - Nothing shall tempt me from my fire-lit house, - And I shall find at night a friendly ember - And make my life of what I can remember. - - - - -_Winter Night Song_ - - - Will you come as of old with singing, - And shall I hear as of old? - Shall I rush to open the window - In spite of the arrowy cold? - - Ah no, my dear, ah no, - I shall sit by the fire reading, - Though you sing half the night in the snow - I shall not be heeding. - - Though your voice remembers the forest, - The warm green light and the birds, - Though you gather the sea in your singing - And pour its sound into words, - - Even so, my dear, even so, - I shall not heed you at all; - Though your shoulders are white with snow, - Though you strain your voice to a call, - I shall drowse and the fire will drowse, - The draught will be cold on the floor, - The clock running down, - Snow banking the door. - - - - -_Never Again_ - - - Never again the music blown as brightly - Off of my heart as foam blown off a wave; - Never again the melody that lightly - Caressed my grief and healed the wounds it gave. - - Never again--I hear my dark thoughts clashing - Sullen and blind as waves that beat a wall-- - Age that is coming, summer that is going, - All I have lost or never found at all. - - - - -_The Tune_ - - - I know a certain tune that my life plays; - Over and over I have heard it start - With all the wavering loveliness of viols - And gain in swiftness like a runner’s heart. - - It climbs and climbs; I watch it sway in climbing - High over time, high even over doubt, - It has all heaven to itself--it pauses - And faltering blindly down the air, goes out. - - - - - IX - - THE - FLIGHT - - - - -_The Beloved_ - - - It is enough of honor for one lifetime - To have known you better than the rest have known, - The shadows and the colors of your voice, - Your will, immutable and still as stone. - - The shy heart, so lonely and so gay, - The sad laughter and the pride of pride, - The tenderness, the depth of tenderness - Rich as the earth, and wide as heaven is wide. - - - - -“_When I Am Not With You_” - - - When I am not with you - I am alone, - For there is no one else - And there is nothing - That comforts me but you. - When you are gone - Suddenly I am sick, - Blackness is round me, - There is nothing left. - I have tried many things, - Music and cities, - Stars in their constellations - And the sea, - But there is nothing - That comforts me but you; - And my poor pride bows down - Like grass in a rain-storm - Drenched with my longing. - The night is unbearable, - Oh let me go to you - For there is no one, - There is nothing - To comfort me but you. - - - - -_Dedication_ - - - At least I have loved you; - Though much went wrong, - This was good, - This was strong. - - Unshaken - In spite of the going of years, - Too sure to retract, - Too proud for tears. - - Let my love be the pillow - Under your head, - On your lips like a song, - To your hunger, bread. - - - - -_On a March Day_ - - - Here in the teeth of this triumphant wind - That shakes the naked shadows on the ground, - Making a key-board of the earth to strike - From clattering tree and hedge a separate sound, - - Bear witness for me that I loved my life, - All things that hurt me and all things that healed, - And that I swore to it this day in March, - Here at the edge of this new-broken field. - - You only knew me, tell them I was glad - For every hour since my hour of birth, - And that I ceased to fear, as once I feared, - The last complete reunion with the earth. - - - - -_Let It Be You_ - - - Let it be you who lean above me - On my last day, - Let it be you who shut my eyelids - Forever and aye. - - Say a “Good-night” as you have said it - All of these years, - With the old look, with the old whisper - And without tears. - - You will know then all that in silence - You always knew, - Though I have loved, I loved no other - As I love you. - - - - -_The Flight_ - - - We are two eagles - Flying together - Under the heavens, - Over the mountains, - Stretched on the wind. - Sunlight heartens us, - Blind snow baffles us, - Clouds wheel after us - Ravelled and thinned. - - We are like eagles, - But when Death harries us, - Human and humbled - When one of us goes, - Let the other follow, - Let the flight be ended, - Let the fire blacken, - Let the book close. - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DARK OF THE MOON *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law 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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