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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Ballads and Lyrics of Old France, by Andrew
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Title: Ballads and Lyrics of Old France
with Other Poems
Author: Andrew Lang
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[This file was first posted on January 31, 1997]
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<p>Transcribed from the 1872 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition by
David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org</p>
<h1>BALLADS AND LYRICS<br />
OF OLD FRANCE:</h1>
<p style="text-align: center"><i>WITH OTHER POEMS</i>.</p>
<div class="gapspace"> </div>
<p style="text-align: center"><span
class="GutSmall">BY</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center">A. LANG.</p>
<div class="gapspace"> </div>
<p style="text-align: center">LONDON:<br />
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.<br />
1872.</p>
<div class="gapspace"> </div>
<p style="text-align: center"><a name="pagevi"></a><span
class="pagenum">p. vi</span><span class="GutSmall">TO</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center">E. M. S.</p>
<div class="gapspace"> </div>
<h2><a name="pagevii"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
vii</span>CONTENTS.</h2>
<table>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align:
center"><i>TRANSLATIONS</i>.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span
class="GutSmall">PAGE</span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>List of Poets translated</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page2">2</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p><span class="smcap">Charles
D’Orleans</span>:</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>Spring</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page5">5</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>Rondel</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page6">6</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p><span class="smcap">François
Villon</span>:</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>Rondel</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page7">7</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>Arbor Amoris</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page8">8</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>Ballad of the Gibbet</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page11">11</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p><span class="smcap">Du Bellay</span>:</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>Hymn to the Winds</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page14">14</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>A Vow to Heavenly Venus</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page16">16</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>To his Friend in Elysium</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page17">17</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>A Sonnet to Heavenly Beauty</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page18">18</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p><span class="smcap">Remy Belleau</span>:</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>April</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page19">19</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p><span class="smcap">Ronsard</span>:</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>Roses</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page24">24</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>The Rose</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page25">25</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p><a name="pageviii"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
viii</span>To the Moon</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page27">27</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>To his Young Mistress</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page29">29</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>Deadly Kisses</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page30">30</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>Of his Lady’s Old Age</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page31">31</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>On his Lady’s Waking</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page32">32</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>His Lady’s Death</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page33">33</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>His Lady’s Tomb</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page34">34</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p><span class="smcap">Jacques
Tahureau</span>:</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>Shadows of his Lady</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page35">35</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>Moonlight</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page36">36</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p><span class="smcap">Passerat</span>:</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>Love in May</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page37">37</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p><span class="smcap">Victor Hugo</span>:</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>The Grave and the Rose</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page40">40</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>The Genesis of Butterflies</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page42">42</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>More Strong than Time</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page44">44</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p><span class="smcap">Gérard de
Nerval</span>:</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>An Old Tune</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page46">46</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p><span class="smcap">Alfred de
Musset</span>:</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>Juana</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page48">48</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p><span class="smcap">Henri Murger</span>:</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>Spring in the Student’s Quarter</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page51">51</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>Old Loves</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page53">53</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>Musette</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page55">55</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p><span class="smcap">Ballads</span>:</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>The Three Captains</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page58">58</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>The Bridge of Death</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page63">63</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p><a name="pageix"></a><span class="pagenum">p. ix</span>Le
Père Sévère</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page65">65</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>The Milk White Doe</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page68">68</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>A Lady of High Degree</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page72">72</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>Lost for a Rose’s Sake</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page75">75</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p><span class="smcap">Ballads of Modern
Greece</span>:</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>The Brigand’s Grave</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page77">77</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>The Sudden Bridal</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page79">79</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p><span class="smcap">Greek Folk
Songs</span>:</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>Iannoula</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page85">85</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p> </p>
</td>
<td><p>The Tell-Tales</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page87">87</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><i>AVE</i>.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>Twilight on Tweed</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page91">91</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>One Flower</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page93">93</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>Metempsychosis</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page94">94</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>Lost in Hades</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page95">95</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>A Star in the Night</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page96">96</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>A Sunset on Yarrow</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page97">97</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align:
center"><i>HESPEROTHEN</i>.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>The Seekers for Phæacia</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page101">101</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>A Song of Phæacia</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page104">104</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>The Departure from Phæacia</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page107">107</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>A Ballad of Departure</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page110">110</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>They hear the Sirens for the Second Time</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page111">111</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>Circe’s Isle revisited</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page114">114</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>The Limit of Lands</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page116">116</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><a
name="pagex"></a><span class="pagenum">p. x</span><i>VERSES ON
PICTURES</i>.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>Colinette</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page121">121</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>A Sunset of Watteau</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page124">124</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>A Nativity of Sandro Botticelli</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page127">127</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><i>SONGS AND
SONNETS</i>.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>Two Homes</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page131">131</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>Summer’s Ending</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page133">133</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>Nightingale Weather</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page134">134</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>Love and Wisdom</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page136">136</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>Good-bye</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page138">138</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>An Old Prayer</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page140">140</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>Love’s Miracle</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page141">141</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>Dreams</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page142">142</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>Fairy Land</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page143">143</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>Two Sonnets of the Sirens</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page146">146</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>À la Belle Hélène</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page148">148</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>Sylvie et Aurélie</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page150">150</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>A Lost Path</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page152">152</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>The Shade of Helen</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page154">154</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><i>SONNETS TO
POETS</i>.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>Jacques Tahureau</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page159">159</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>François Villon</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page160">160</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>Pierre Ronsard</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page161">161</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>Gérard de Nerval</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page162">162</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><p>The Death of Mirandola</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right"><span class="indexpageno"><a
href="#page163">163</a></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h2><a name="page1"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
1</span>TRANSLATIONS.</h2>
<h3><a name="page2"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 2</span>LIST OF
POETS TRANSLATED.</h3>
<p>I. <span class="smcap">Charles D’Orleans</span>,
who has sometimes, for no very obvious reason, been styled the
father of French lyric poetry, was born in May, 1391. He
was the son of Louis D’Orleans, the grandson of Charles V.,
and the father of Louis XII. Captured at Agincourt, he was
kept in England as a prisoner from 1415 to 1440, when he returned
to France, where he died in 1465. His verses, for the most
part roundels on two rhymes, are songs of love and spring, and
retain the allegorical forms of the Roman de la Rose.</p>
<p>II. <span class="smcap">François Villon</span>,
1431–14-? Nothing is known of Villon’s birth or
death, and only too much of his life. In his poems the
ancient forms of French verse are animated with the keenest sense
of personal emotion, of love, of melancholy, of mocking despair,
and of repentance for a life passed in taverns and prisons.</p>
<p>III. <span class="smcap">Joachim Du Bellay</span>,
1525–1560. The exact date of Du Bellay’s birth
is unknown. He was certainly a little younger than Ronsard,
who was born in September, 1524, although an attempt has been
made to prove that his birth took place in 1525, as a
compensation from Nature to France for the battle of Pavia.
As a poet Du Bellay had the start, by a few mouths, of Ronsard;
his <i>Recueil</i> was published in 1549. The question of
priority in the new style of poetry caused a quarrel, which did
not long separate the two singers. Du Bellay is perhaps the
most interesting of the Pleiad, that company of Seven, who
attempted to reform French verse, by inspiring it with the
enthusiasm of the Renaissance. His book <a
name="page3"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
3</span><i>L’Illustration de la langue Française</i>
is a plea for the study of ancient models and for the improvement
of the vernacular. In this effort Du Bellay and Ronsard are
the predecessors of Malherbe, and of André Chénier,
more successful through their frank eagerness than the former,
less fortunate in the possession of critical learning and
appreciative taste than the latter. There is something in
Du Bellay’s life, in the artistic nature checked by
occupation in affairs—he was the secretary of Cardinal Du
Bellay—in the regret and affection with which Rome
depressed and allured him, which reminds the English reader of
the thwarted career of Clough.</p>
<p>IV. <span class="smcap">Remy Belleau</span>,
1528–1577. Du Belleau’s life was spent in the
household of Charles de Lorraine, Marquis d’Elboeuf, and
was marked by nothing more eventful than the usual pilgrimage to
Italy, the sacred land and sepulchre of art.</p>
<p>V. <span class="smcap">Pierre Ronsard</span>,
1524–1585. Ronsard’s early years gave little
sign of his vocation. He was for some time a page of the
court, was in the service of James V. of Scotland, and had his
share of shipwrecks, battles, and amorous adventures. An
illness which produced total deafness made him a scholar and
poet, as in another age and country it might have made him a
saint and an ascetic. With all his industry, and almost
religious zeal for art, he is one of the poets who make
themselves, rather than are born singers. His epic, the
Franciade, is as tedious as other artificial epics, and his odes
are almost unreadable. We are never allowed to forget that
he is the poet who read the Iliad through in three days. He
is, as has been said of Le Brun, more mythological than
Pindar. His constant allusion to his grey hair, an
affectation which may be noticed in Shelley, is borrowed from
Anacreon. Many of the sonnets in which he
‘petrarquizes,’ retain the faded odour of the roses
he loved; and his songs have fire and melancholy and a sense as
of perfume from ‘a closet long to quiet vowed, with mothed
and dropping arras hung.’ Ronsard’s great fame
declined when is <a name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
4</span>Malherbe came to ‘bind the sweet influences of the
Pleiad,’ but he has been duly honoured by the newest school
of French poetry.</p>
<p>VI. <span class="smcap">Jacques Tahureau</span>,
1527–1555. The amorous poetry of Jacques Tahureau has
the merit, rare in his, or in any age, of being the real
expression of passion. His brief life burned itself away
before he had exhausted the lyric effusion of his youth.
‘Le plus beau gentilhomme de son siècle, et le plus
dextre à toutes sortes de gentillesses,’ died at the
age of twenty-eight, fulfilling the presentiment which tinges,
but scarcely saddens his poetry.</p>
<p>VII. <span class="smcap">Jean Passerat</span>,
1534–1602. Better known as a political satirist than
as a poet.</p>
<h3>POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.</h3>
<p><span class="smcap">Victor Hugo</span>.</p>
<p><span class="smcap">Alfred de Musset</span>,
1810–1857.</p>
<p><span class="smcap">Gérard de Nerval</span>,
1801–1855.</p>
<p><span class="smcap">Henri Murger</span>, 1822–1861.</p>
<h3>BALLADS.</h3>
<p>The originals of the French folk-songs here translated are to
be found in the collections of MM. De Puymaigre and Gerard de
Nerval, and in the report of M. Ampère.</p>
<p>The verses called a ‘Lady of High Degree’ are
imitated from a very early <i>chanson</i> in Bartsch’s
collection.</p>
<p>The Greek ballads have been translated with the aid of the
French versions by M. Fauriel.</p>
<h3><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
5</span>SPRING.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Charles
D’Orleans</span>, 1391–1465.</p>
<p>The new-liveried year.—<i>Sir Henry Wotton</i>.</p>
<div class="gapshortline"> </div>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> year has changed
his mantle cold<br />
Of wind, of rain, of bitter air;<br />
And he goes clad in cloth of gold,<br />
Of laughing suns and season fair;<br />
No bird or beast of wood or wold<br />
But doth with cry or song declare<br />
The year lays down his mantle cold.<br />
All founts, all rivers, seaward rolled,<br />
The pleasant summer livery wear,<br />
With silver studs on broidered vair;<br />
The world puts off its raiment old,<br />
The year lays down his mantle cold.</p>
<h3><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
6</span>RONDEL.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Charles
D’Orleans</span>, 1391–1465.</p>
<p>To his Mistress, to succour his heart that is beleaguered by
jealousy.</p>
<div class="gapshortline"> </div>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Strengthen</span>, my Love,
this castle of my heart,<br />
And with some store of pleasure give me aid,<br />
For Jealousy, with all them of his part,<br />
Strong siege about the weary tower has laid.<br />
Nay, if to break his bands thou art afraid,<br />
Too weak to make his cruel force depart,<br />
Strengthen at least this castle of my heart,<br />
And with some store of pleasure give me aid.<br />
Nay, let not Jealousy, for all his art<br />
Be master, and the tower in ruin laid,<br />
That still, ah Love! thy gracious rule obeyed.<br />
Advance, and give me succour of thy part;<br />
Strengthen, my Love, this castle of my heart.</p>
<h3><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
7</span>RONDEL.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Francois
Villon</span>, 1460</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Goodbye</span>! the tears
are in my eyes;<br />
Farewell, farewell, my prettiest;<br />
Farewell, of women born the best;<br />
Good-bye! the saddest of good-byes.<br />
Farewell! with many vows and sighs<br />
My sad heart leaves you to your rest;<br />
Farewell! the tears are in my eyes;<br />
Farewell! from you my miseries<br />
Are more than now may be confessed,<br />
And most by thee have I been blessed,<br />
Yea, and for thee have wasted sighs;<br />
Goodbye! the last of my goodbyes.</p>
<h3><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 8</span>ARBOR
AMORIS.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Francois
Villon</span>, 1460</p>
<p class="poetry">I <span class="smcap">have</span> a tree, a
graft of Love,<br />
That in my heart has taken root;<br />
Sad are the buds and blooms thereof,<br />
And bitter sorrow is its fruit;<br />
Yet, since it was a tender shoot,<br />
So greatly hath its shadow spread,<br />
That underneath all joy is dead,<br />
And all my pleasant days are flown,<br />
Nor can I slay it, nor instead<br />
Plant any tree, save this alone.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
9</span>Ah, yet, for long and long enough<br />
My tears were rain about its root,<br />
And though the fruit be harsh thereof,<br />
I scarcely looked for better fruit<br />
Than this, that carefully I put<br />
In garner, for the bitter bread<br />
Whereon my weary life is fed:<br />
Ah, better were the soil unsown<br />
That bears such growths; but Love instead<br />
Will plant no tree, but this alone.</p>
<p class="poetry">Ah, would that this new spring, whereof<br />
The leaves and flowers flush into shoot,<br />
I might have succour and aid of Love,<br />
To prune these branches at the root,<br />
That long have borne such bitter fruit,<br />
And graft a new bough, comforted<br />
With happy blossoms white and red;<br />
So pleasure should for pain atone,<br />
Nor Love slay this tree, nor instead<br />
Plant any tree, but this alone.</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry"><a
name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
10</span>L’ENVOY.</p>
<p class="poetry">Princess, by whom my hope is fed,<br />
My heart thee prays in lowlihead<br />
To prune the ill boughs overgrown,<br />
Nor slay Love’s tree, nor plant instead<br />
Another tree, save this alone.</p>
<h3><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 11</span>BALLAD
OF THE GIBBET.</h3>
<p>An epitaph in the form of a ballad that François Villon
wrote of himself and his company, they expecting shortly to be
hanged.</p>
<div class="gapshortline"> </div>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Brothers</span> and men
that shall after us be,<br />
Let not your hearts be hard to us:<br />
For pitying this our misery<br />
Ye shall find God the more piteous.<br />
Look on us six that are hanging thus,<br />
And for the flesh that so much we cherished<br />
How it is eaten of birds and perished,<br />
And ashes and dust fill our bones’ place,<br
/>
Mock not at us that so feeble be,<br />
But pray God pardon us out of His grace.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
12</span>Listen, we pray you, and look not in scorn,<br />
Though justly, in sooth, we are cast to die;<br />
Ye wot no man so wise is born<br />
That keeps his wisdom constantly.<br />
Be ye then merciful, and cry<br />
To Mary’s Son that is piteous,<br />
That His mercy take no stain from us,<br />
Saving us out of the fiery place.<br />
We are but dead, let no soul deny<br />
To pray God succour us of His grace.</p>
<p class="poetry">The rain out of heaven has washed us clean,<br
/>
The sun has scorched us black and bare,<br />
Ravens and rooks have pecked at our eyne,<br />
And feathered their nests with our beards and
hair.<br />
Round are we tossed, and here and there,<br />
This way and that, at the wild wind’s will,<br />
Never a moment my body is still;<br />
Birds they are busy about my face.<br />
Live not as we, nor fare as we fare;<br />
Pray God pardon us out of His grace.</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry"><a
name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
13</span>L’ENVOY.</p>
<p class="poetry">Prince Jesus, Master of all, to thee<br />
We pray Hell gain no mastery,<br />
That we come never anear that place;<br />
And ye men, make no mockery,<br />
Pray God pardon us out of His grace.</p>
<h3><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 14</span>HYMN
TO THE WINDS.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Du
Bellay</span>, 1550.</p>
<p>The winds are invoked by the winnowers of corn.</p>
<div class="gapshortline"> </div>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">To</span> you, troop so
fleet,<br />
That with winged wandering feet,<br />
Through the wide world pass,<br />
And with soft murmuring<br />
Toss the green shades of spring<br />
In woods and grass,<br />
Lily and violet<br />
I give, and blossoms wet,<br />
Roses and dew;<br />
This branch of blushing roses,<br />
Whose fresh bud uncloses,<br />
Wind-flowers too.<br />
<a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 15</span>Ah, winnow
with sweet breath,<br />
Winnow the holt and heath,<br />
Round this retreat;<br />
Where all the golden morn<br />
We fan the gold o’ the corn,<br />
In the sun’s heat.</p>
<h3><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 16</span>A VOW
TO HEAVENLY VENUS.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Du
Bellay</span>, 1500</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">We</span> that with like
hearts love, we lovers twain,<br />
New wedded in the village by thy fane,<br />
Lady of all chaste love, to thee it is<br />
We bring these amaranths, these white lilies,<br />
A sign, and sacrifice; may Love, we pray,<br />
Like amaranthine flowers, feel no decay;<br />
Like these cool lilies may our loves remain,<br />
Perfect and pure, and know not any stain;<br />
And be our hearts, from this thy holy hour,<br />
Bound each to each, like flower to wedded flower.</p>
<h3><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 17</span>TO HIS
FRIEND IN ELYSIUM.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Du
Bellay</span>, 1550.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">So</span> long you wandered
on the dusky plain,<br />
Where flit the shadows with their endless cry,<br />
You reach the shore where all the world goes by,<br
/>
You leave the strife, the slavery, the pain;<br />
But we, but we, the mortals that remain<br />
In vain stretch hands; for Charon sullenly<br />
Drives us afar, we may not come anigh<br />
Till that last mystic obolus we gain.</p>
<p class="poetry">But you are happy in the quiet place,<br />
And with the learned lovers of old days,<br />
And with your love, you wander ever-more<br />
In the dim woods, and drink forgetfulness<br />
Of us your friends, a weary crowd that press<br />
About the gate, or labour at the oar.</p>
<h3><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 18</span>A
SONNET TO HEAVENLY BEAUTY.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Du
Bellay</span>, 1550.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">If</span> this our little
life is but a day<br />
In the Eternal,—if the years in vain<br />
Toil after hours that never come again,—<br />
If everything that hath been must decay,<br />
Why dreamest thou of joys that pass away,<br />
My soul, that my sad body doth restrain?<br />
Why of the moment’s pleasure art thou fain?<br
/>
Nay, thou hast wings,—nay, seek another stay.</p>
<p class="poetry">There is the joy whereto each soul aspires,<br
/>
And there the rest that all the world desires,<br />
And there is love, and peace, and gracious mirth;<br
/>
And there in the most highest heavens shalt thou<br />
Behold the Very Beauty, whereof now<br />
Thou worshippest the shadow upon earth.</p>
<h3><a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
19</span>APRIL.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Remy
Belleau</span>, 1560.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">April</span>, pride of
woodland ways,<br />
Of glad days,<br />
April, bringing hope of prime,<br />
To the young flowers that beneath<br />
Their bud sheath<br />
Are guarded in their tender time;</p>
<p class="poetry">April, pride of fields that be<br />
Green and free,<br />
That in fashion glad and gay,<br />
Stud with flowers red and blue,<br />
Every hue,<br />
Their jewelled spring array;</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
20</span>April, pride of murmuring<br />
Winds of spring,<br />
That beneath the winnowed air,<br />
Trap with subtle nets and sweet<br />
Flora’s feet,<br />
Flora’s feet, the fleet and fair;</p>
<p class="poetry">April, by thy hand caressed,<br />
From her breast<br />
Nature scatters everywhere<br />
Handfuls of all sweet perfumes,<br />
Buds and blooms,<br />
Making faint the earth and air.</p>
<p class="poetry">April, joy of the green hours,<br />
Clothes with flowers<br />
Over all her locks of gold<br />
My sweet Lady; and her breast<br />
With the blest<br />
Birds of summer manifold.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
21</span>April, with thy gracious wiles,<br />
Like the smiles,<br />
Smiles of Venus; and thy breath<br />
Like her breath, the Gods’ delight,<br />
(From their height<br />
They take the happy air beneath;)</p>
<p class="poetry">It is thou that, of thy grace,<br />
From their place<br />
In the far-oft isles dost bring<br />
Swallows over earth and sea,<br />
Glad to be<br />
Messengers of thee, and Spring.</p>
<p class="poetry">Daffodil and eglantine,<br />
And woodbine,<br />
Lily, violet, and rose<br />
Plentiful in April fair,<br />
To the air,<br />
Their pretty petals do unclose.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
22</span>Nightingales ye now may hear,<br />
Piercing clear,<br />
Singing in the deepest shade;<br />
Many and many a babbled note<br />
Chime and float,<br />
Woodland music through the glade.</p>
<p class="poetry">April, all to welcome thee,<br />
Spring sets free<br />
Ancient flames, and with low breath<br />
Wakes the ashes grey and old<br />
That the cold<br />
Chilled within our hearts to death.</p>
<p class="poetry">Thou beholdest in the warm<br />
Hours, the swarm<br />
Of the thievish bees, that flies<br />
Evermore from bloom to bloom<br />
For perfume,<br />
Hid away in tiny thighs.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
23</span>Her cool shadows May can boast,<br />
Fruits almost<br />
Ripe, and gifts of fertile dew,<br />
Manna-sweet and honey-sweet,<br />
That complete<br />
Her flower garland fresh and new.</p>
<p class="poetry">Nay, but I will give my praise,<br />
To these days,<br />
Named with the glad name of Her <a name="citation23"></a><a
href="#footnote23" class="citation">[23]</a><br />
That from out the foam o’ the sea<br />
Came to be<br />
Sudden light on earth and air.</p>
<h3><a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
24</span>ROSES.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Ronsard</span>,
1550.</p>
<p class="poetry">I <span class="smcap">send</span> you here a
wreath of blossoms blown,<br />
And woven flowers at sunset gathered,<br />
Another dawn had seen them ruined, and shed<br />
Loose leaves upon the grass at random strown.<br />
By this, their sure example, be it known,<br />
That all your beauties, now in perfect flower,<br />
Shall fade as these, and wither in an hour,<br />
Flowerlike, and brief of days, as the flower sown.</p>
<p class="poetry">Ah, time is flying, lady—time is
flying;<br />
Nay, ’tis not time that flies but we that
go,<br />
Who in short space shall be in churchyard lying,<br />
And of our loving parley none shall know,<br />
Nor any man consider what we were;<br />
Be therefore kind, my love, whiles thou art fair.</p>
<h3><a name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 25</span>THE
ROSE.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Ronsard</span>,
1550.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">See</span>, Mignonne, hath
not the Rose,<br />
That this morning did unclose<br />
Her purple mantle to the light,<br />
Lost, before the day be dead,<br />
The glory of her raiment red,<br />
Her colour, bright as yours is bright?</p>
<p class="poetry">Ah, Mignonne, in how few hours,<br />
The petals of her purple flowers<br />
All have faded, fallen, died;<br />
Sad Nature, mother ruinous,<br />
That seest thy fair child perish thus<br />
’Twixt matin song and even tide.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
26</span>Hear me, my darling, speaking sooth,<br />
Gather the fleet flower of your youth,<br />
Take ye your pleasure at the best;<br />
Be merry ere your beauty flit,<br />
For length of days will tarnish it<br />
Like roses that were loveliest.</p>
<h3><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 27</span>TO THE
MOON.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Ronsard</span>,
1550.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Hide</span> this one night
thy crescent, kindly Moon;<br />
So shall Endymion faithful prove, and rest<br />
Loving and unawakened on thy breast;<br />
So shall no foul enchanter importune<br />
Thy quiet course; for now the night is boon,<br />
And through the friendly night unseen I fare,<br />
Who dread the face of foemen unaware,<br />
And watch of hostile spies in the bright noon.<br />
Thou knowest, Moon, the bitter power of Love;<br />
’Tis told how shepherd Pan found ways to
move,<br />
For little price, thy heart; and of your grace,<br />
Sweet stars, be kind to this not alien fire,<br />
Because on earth ye did not scorn desire,<br />
Bethink ye, now ye hold your heavenly place.</p>
<h3><a name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 28</span>TO HIS
YOUNG MISTRESS.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Ronsard</span>,
1550.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Fair</span> flower of
fifteen springs, that still<br />
Art scarcely blossomed from the bud,<br />
Yet hast such store of evil will,<br />
A heart so full of hardihood,<br />
Seeking to hide in friendly
wise<br />
The mischief of your mocking
eyes.</p>
<p class="poetry">If you have pity, child, give o’er;<br />
Give back the heart you stole from me,<br />
Pirate, setting so little store<br />
On this your captive from Love’s sea,<br />
Holding his misery for gain,<br />
And making pleasure of his
pain.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
29</span>Another, not so fair of face,<br />
But far more pitiful than you,<br />
Would take my heart, if of his grace,<br />
My heart would give her of Love’s due;<br />
And she shall have it, since I
find<br />
That you are cruel and unkind.</p>
<p class="poetry">Nay, I would rather that it died,<br />
Within your white hands prisoning,<br />
Would rather that it still abide<br />
In your ungentle comforting.<br />
Than change its faith, and seek to
her<br />
That is more kind, but not so
fair.</p>
<h3><a name="page30"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 30</span>DEADLY
KISSES.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Ronsard</span>,
1550.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">All</span> take these lips
away; no more,<br />
No more such kisses give to me.<br />
My spirit faints for joy; I see<br />
Through mists of death the dreamy shore,<br />
And meadows by the water-side,<br />
Where all about the Hollow Land<br />
Fare the sweet singers that have died,<br />
With their lost ladies, hand in hand;<br />
Ah, Love, how fireless are their eyes,<br />
How pale their lips that kiss and smile!<br />
So mine must be in little while<br />
If thou wilt kiss me in such wise.</p>
<h3><a name="page31"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 31</span>OF HIS
LADY’S OLD AGE.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Ronsard</span>,
1550</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">When</span> you are very
old, at evening<br />
You’ll sit and spin beside the fire, and
say,<br />
Humming my songs, ‘Ah well, ah well-a-day!<br
/>
When I was young, of me did Ronsard sing.’<br />
None of your maidens that doth hear the thing,<br />
Albeit with her weary task foredone,<br />
But wakens at my name, and calls you one<br />
Blest, to be held in long remembering.</p>
<p class="poetry">I shall be low beneath the earth, and laid<br
/>
On sleep, a phantom in the myrtle shade,<br />
While you beside the fire, a grandame grey,<br />
My love, your pride, remember and regret;<br />
Ah, love me, love! we may be happy yet,<br />
And gather roses, while ’tis called
to-day.</p>
<h3><a name="page32"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 32</span>ON HIS
LADY’S WAKING.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Ronsard</span>,
1550</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">My</span> lady woke upon a
morning fair,<br />
What time Apollo’s chariot takes the skies,<br
/>
And, fain to fill with arrows from her eyes<br />
His empty quiver, Love was standing there:<br />
I saw two apples that her breast doth bear<br />
None such the close of the Hesperides<br />
Yields; nor hath Venus any such as these,<br />
Nor she that had of nursling Mars the care.</p>
<p class="poetry">Even such a bosom, and so fair it was,<br />
Pure as the perfect work of Phidias,<br />
That sad Andromeda’s discomfiture<br />
Left bare, when Perseus passed her on a day,<br />
And pale as Death for fear of Death she lay,<br />
With breast as marble cold, as marble pure.</p>
<h3><a name="page33"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 33</span>HIS
LADY’S DEATH.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Ronsard</span>,
1550.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Twain</span> that were
foes, while Mary lived, are fled;<br />
One laurel-crowned abides in heaven, and one<br />
Beneath the earth has fared, a fallen sun,<br />
A light of love among the loveless dead.<br />
The first is Chastity, that vanquished<br />
The archer Love, that held joint empery<br />
With the sweet beauty that made war on me,<br />
When laughter of lips with laughing eyes was wed.</p>
<p class="poetry">Their strife the Fates have closed, with stern
control,<br />
The earth holds her fair body, and her soul<br />
An angel with glad angels triumpheth;<br />
Love has no more that he can do; desire<br />
Is buried, and my heart a faded fire,<br />
And for Death’s sake, I am in love with
Death.</p>
<h3><a name="page34"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 34</span>HIS
LADY’S TOMB.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Ronsard</span>,
1550.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">As</span> in the gardens,
all through May, the rose,<br />
Lovely, and young, and fair apparelled,<br />
Makes sunrise jealous of her rosy red,<br />
When dawn upon the dew of dawning glows;<br />
Graces and Loves within her breast repose,<br />
The woods are faint with the sweet odour shed,<br />
Till rains and heavy suns have smitten dead<br />
The languid flower, and the loose leaves unclose,—</p>
<p class="poetry">So this, the perfect beauty of our days,<br />
When earth and heaven were vocal of her praise,<br />
The fates have slain, and her sweet soul reposes;<br
/>
And tears I bring, and sighs, and on her tomb<br />
Pour milk, and scatter buds of many a bloom,<br />
That dead, as living, she may be with roses.</p>
<h3><a name="page35"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
35</span>SHADOWS OF HIS LADY.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Jacques
Tahureau</span>, 1527–1555.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Within</span> the sand of
what far river lies<br />
The gold that gleams in tresses of my Love?<br />
What highest circle of the Heavens above<br />
Is jewelled with such stars as are her eyes?<br />
And where is the rich sea whose coral vies<br />
With her red lips, that cannot kiss enough?<br />
What dawn-lit garden knew the rose, whereof<br />
The fled soul lives in her cheeks’ rosy guise?</p>
<p class="poetry">What Parian marble that is loveliest,<br />
Can match the whiteness of her brow and breast?<br />
When drew she breath from the Sabæan glade?<br
/>
Oh happy rock and river, sky and sea,<br />
Gardens, and glades Sabæan, all that be<br />
The far-off splendid semblance of my maid!</p>
<h3><a name="page36"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
36</span>MOONLIGHT.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Jacques
Tahureau</span>, 1527–1555.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> high Midnight
was garlanding her head<br />
With many a shining star in shining skies,<br />
And, of her grace, a slumber on mine eyes,<br />
And, after sorrow, quietness was shed.<br />
Far in dim fields cicalas jargonéd<br />
A thin shrill clamour of complaints and cries;<br />
And all the woods were pallid, in strange wise,<br
/>
With pallor of the sad moon overspread.</p>
<p class="poetry">Then came my lady to that lonely place,<br />
And, from her palfrey stooping, did embrace<br />
And hang upon my neck, and kissed me over;<br />
Wherefore the day is far less dear than night,<br />
And sweeter is the shadow than the light,<br />
Since night has made me such a happy lover.</p>
<h3><a name="page37"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 37</span>LOVE
IN MAY.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span
class="smcap">Passerat</span>, 1580.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Off</span> with sleep,
love, up from bed,<br />
This fair morn;<br />
See, for our eyes the rosy red<br />
New dawn is born;<br />
Now that skies are glad and gay<br />
In this gracious month of May,<br />
Love me, sweet,<br />
Fill my joy in brimming measure,<br />
In this world he hath no pleasure,<br />
That will none of it.</p>
<p class="poetry">Come, love, through the woods of spring,<br />
Come walk with me;<br />
Listen, the sweet birds jargoning<br />
From tree to tree.<br />
<a name="page38"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 38</span>List and
listen, over all<br />
Nightingale most musical<br />
That ceases never;<br />
Grief begone, and let us be<br />
For a space as glad as he;<br />
Time’s flitting ever.</p>
<p class="poetry">Old Time, that loves not lovers, wears<br />
Wings swift in flight;<br />
All our happy life he bears<br />
Far in the night.<br />
Old and wrinkled on a day,<br />
Sad and weary shall you say,<br />
‘Ah, fool was I,<br />
That took no pleasure in the grace<br />
Of the flower that from my face<br />
Time has seen die.’</p>
<p class="poetry">Leave then sorrow, teen, and tears<br />
Till we be old;<br />
<a name="page39"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 39</span>Young we
are, and of our years<br />
Till youth be cold<br />
Pluck the flower; while spring is gay<br />
In this happy month of May,<br />
Love me, love;<br />
Fill our joy in brimming measure;<br />
In this world he hath no pleasure<br />
That will none thereof.</p>
<h3><a name="page40"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 40</span>THE
GRAVE AND THE ROSE.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Victor
Hugo</span>.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> Grave said to
the Rose,<br />
‘What of the dews of dawn,<br />
Love’s flower, what end is theirs?’<br />
‘And what of spirits flown,<br />
The souls whereon doth close<br />
The tomb’s mouth unawares?’<br />
The Rose said to the Grave.</p>
<p class="poetry">The Rose said, ‘In the shade<br />
From the dawn’s tears is made<br />
<a name="page41"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 41</span>A perfume
faint and strange,<br />
Amber and honey sweet.’<br />
‘And all the spirits fleet<br />
Do suffer a sky-change,<br />
More strangely than the dew,<br />
To God’s own angels new,’<br />
The Grave said to the Rose.</p>
<h3><a name="page42"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 42</span>THE
GENESIS OF BUTTERFLIES.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Victor
Hugo</span>.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> dawn is smiling
on the dew that covers<br />
The tearful roses; lo, the little lovers<br />
That kiss the buds, and all the flutterings<br />
In jasmine bloom, and privet, of white wings,<br />
That go and come, and fly, and peep and hide,<br />
With muffled music, murmured far and wide!<br />
Ah, Spring time, when we think of all the lays<br />
That dreamy lovers send to dreamy mays,<br />
Of the fond hearts within a billet bound,<br />
Of all the soft silk paper that pens wound,<br />
The messages of love that mortals write<br />
Filled with intoxication of delight,<br />
Written in April, and before the May time<br />
Shredded and flown, play things for the wind’s
play-time,<br />
<a name="page43"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 43</span>We dream
that all white butterflies above,<br />
Who seek through clouds or waters souls to love,<br />
And leave their lady mistress in despair,<br />
To flit to flowers, as kinder and more fair,<br />
Are but torn love-letters, that through the skies<br />
Flutter, and float, and change to Butterflies.</p>
<h3><a name="page44"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 44</span>MORE
STRONG THAN TIME.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Victor
Hugo</span>.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Since</span> I have set my
lips to your full cup, my sweet,<br />
Since I my pallid face between your hands have
laid,<br />
Since I have known your soul, and all the bloom of it,<br />
And all the perfume rare, now buried in the
shade;</p>
<p class="poetry">Since it was given to me to hear one happy
while,<br />
The words wherein your heart spoke all its
mysteries,<br />
Since I have seen you weep, and since I have seen you smile,<br
/>
Your lips upon my lips, and your eyes upon my
eyes;</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page45"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
45</span>Since I have known above my forehead glance and
gleam,<br />
A ray, a single ray, of your star, veiled always,<br
/>
Since I have felt the fall, upon my lifetime’s stream,<br
/>
Of one rose petal plucked from the roses of your
days;</p>
<p class="poetry">I now am bold to say to the swift changing
hours,<br />
Pass, pass upon your way, for I grow never old,<br
/>
Fleet to the dark abysm with all your fading flowers,<br />
One rose that none may pluck, within my heart I
hold.</p>
<p class="poetry">Your flying wings may smite, but they can never
spill<br />
The cup fulfilled of love, from which my lips are
wet;<br />
My heart has far more fire than you have frost to chill,<br />
My soul more love than you can make my soul
forget.</p>
<h3><a name="page46"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 46</span>AN OLD
TUNE.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Gerard de
Nerval</span>.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">There</span> is an air for
which I would disown<br />
Mozart’s, Rossini’s, Weber’s
melodies,—<br />
A sweet sad air that languishes and sighs,<br />
And keeps its secret charm for me alone.</p>
<p class="poetry">Whene’er I hear that music vague and
old,<br />
Two hundred years are mist that rolls away;<br />
The thirteenth Louis reigns, and I behold<br />
A green land golden in the dying day.</p>
<p class="poetry">An old red castle, strong with stony towers,<br
/>
The windows gay with many coloured glass;<br />
Wide plains, and rivers flowing among flowers,<br />
That bathe the castle basement as they pass.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page47"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
47</span>In antique weed, with dark eyes and gold hair,<br />
A lady looks forth from her window high;<br />
It may be that I knew and found her fair,<br />
In some forgotten life, long time gone by.</p>
<h3><a name="page48"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
48</span>JUANA.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Alfred de
Musset</span>.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Again</span> I see you, ah
my queen,<br />
Of all my old loves that have been,<br />
The first love, and the tenderest;<br />
Do you remember or forget—<br />
Ah me, for I remember yet—<br />
How the last summer days were blest?</p>
<p class="poetry">Ah lady, when we think of this,<br />
The foolish hours of youth and bliss,<br />
How fleet, how sweet, how hard to hold!<br />
How old we are, ere spring be green!<br />
You touch the limit of eighteen<br />
And I am twenty winters old.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page49"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
49</span>My rose, that mid the red roses,<br />
Was brightest, ah, how pale she is!<br />
Yet keeps the beauty of her prime;<br />
Child, never Spanish lady’s face<br />
Was lovely with so wild a grace;<br />
Remember the dead summer time.</p>
<p class="poetry">Think of our loves, our feuds of old,<br />
And how you gave your chain of gold<br />
To me for a peace offering;<br />
And how all night I lay awake<br />
To touch and kiss it for your sake,—<br />
To touch and kiss the lifeless thing.</p>
<p class="poetry">Lady, beware, for all we say,<br />
This Love shall live another day,<br />
Awakened from his deathly sleep;<br />
The heart that once has been your shrine<br />
For other loves is too divine;<br />
A home, my dear, too wide and deep.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page50"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
50</span>What did I say—why do I dream?<br />
Why should I struggle with the stream<br />
Whose waves return not any day?<br />
Close heart, and eyes, and arms from me;<br />
Farewell, farewell! so must it be,<br />
So runs, so runs, the world away,</p>
<p class="poetry">The season bears upon its wing<br />
The swallows and the songs of spring,<br />
And days that were, and days that flit;<br />
The loved lost hours are far away;<br />
And hope and fame are scattered spray<br />
For me, that gave you love a day<br />
For you that not remember it.</p>
<h3><a name="page51"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 51</span>SPRING
IN THE STUDENT’S QUARTER.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Henri
Murger</span>.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Winter</span> is passing,
and the bells<br />
For ever with their silver lay<br />
Murmur a melody that tells<br />
Of April and of Easter day.<br />
High in sweet air the light vane sets,<br />
The weathercocks all southward twirl;<br />
A sou will buy her violets<br />
And make Nini a happy girl.</p>
<p class="poetry">The winter to the poor was sore,<br />
Counting the weary winter days,<br />
Watching his little fire-wood store,<br />
The bitter snow-flakes fell always;<br />
<a name="page52"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 52</span>And now
his last log dimly gleamed,<br />
Lighting the room with feeble glare,<br />
Half cinder and half smoke it seemed<br />
That the wind wafted into air.</p>
<p class="poetry">Pilgrims from ocean and far isles<br />
See where the east is reddening,<br />
The flocks that fly a thousand miles<br />
From sunsetting to sunsetting;<br />
Look up, look out, behold the swallows,<br />
The throats that twitter, the wings that beat;<br />
And on their song the summer follows,<br />
And in the summer life is sweet.</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">* * * * * *</p>
<p class="poetry">With the green tender buds that know<br />
The shoot and sap of lusty spring<br />
My neighbour of a year ago<br />
Her casement, see, is opening;<br />
Through all the bitter months that were,<br />
Forth from her nest she dared not flee,<br />
She was a study for Boucher,<br />
She now might sit to Gavarni.</p>
<h3><a name="page53"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 53</span>OLD
LOVES.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Henri
Murger</span>.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Louise</span>, have you
forgotten yet<br />
The corner of the flowery land,<br />
The ancient garden where we met,<br />
My hand that trembled in your hand?<br />
Our lips found words scarce sweet enough,<br />
As low beneath the willow-trees<br />
We sat; have you forgotten, love?<br />
Do you remember, love Louise?</p>
<p class="poetry">Marie, have you forgotten yet<br />
The loving barter that we made?<br />
The rings we changed, the suns that set,<br />
The woods fulfilled with sun and shade?<br />
<a name="page54"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 54</span>The
fountains that were musical<br />
By many an ancient trysting tree—<br />
Marie, have you forgotten all?<br />
Do you remember, love Marie?</p>
<p class="poetry">Christine, do you remember yet<br />
Your room with scents and roses gay?<br />
My garret—near the sky ’twas set—<br />
The April hours, the nights of May?<br />
The clear calm nights—the stars above<br />
That whispered they were fairest seen<br />
Through no cloud-veil? Remember, love!<br />
Do you remember, love Christine?</p>
<p class="poetry">Louise is dead, and, well-a-day!<br />
Marie a sadder path has ta’en;<br />
And pale Christine has passed away<br />
In southern suns to bloom again.<br />
Alas! for one and all of us—<br />
Marie, Louise, Christine forget;<br />
Our bower of love is ruinous,<br />
And I alone remember yet.</p>
<h3><a name="page55"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
55</span>MUSETTE.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Henri
Murger</span>. 1850</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Yesterday</span>, watching
the swallows’ flight<br />
That bring the spring and the season fair,<br />
A moment I thought of the beauty bright<br />
Who loved me, when she had time to spare;<br />
And dreamily, dreamily all the day,<br />
I mused on the calendar of the year,<br />
The year so near and so far away,<br />
When you were lief, and when I was dear.</p>
<p class="poetry">Your memory has not had time to pass;<br />
My youth has days of its lifetime yet;<br />
If you only knocked at the door, alas,<br />
My heart would open the door, Musette!<br />
<a name="page56"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 56</span>Still at
your name must my sad heart beat;<br />
Ah Muse, ah maiden of faithlessness!<br />
Return for a moment, and deign to eat<br />
The bread that pleasure was wont to bless.</p>
<p class="poetry">The tables and curtains, the chairs and all,<br
/>
Friends of our pleasure that looked on our pain,<br
/>
Are glad with the gladness of festival,<br />
Hoping to see you at home again;<br />
Come, let the days of their mourning pass,<br />
The silent friends that are sad for you yet;<br />
The little sofa, the great wine glass—<br />
For know you had often my share, Musette.</p>
<p class="poetry">Come, you shall wear the raiment white<br />
You wore of old, when the world was gay,<br />
We will wander in woods of the heart’s delight<br />
The whole of the Sunday holiday.<br />
Come, we will sit by the wayside inn,<br />
Come, and your song will gain force to fly,<br />
Dipping its wing in the clear and thin<br />
Wine, as of old, ere it scale the sky.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page57"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
57</span>Musette, who had scarcely forgotten withal<br />
One beautiful dawn of the new year’s best,<br
/>
Returned at the end of the carnival,<br />
A flown bird, to a forsaken nest.<br />
Ah faithless and fair! I embrace her yet,<br />
With no heart-beat, and with never a sigh;<br />
And Musette, no longer the old Musette,<br />
Declares that I am no longer I.</p>
<p class="poetry">Farewell, my dear that was once so dear,<br />
Dead with the death of our latest love;<br />
Our youth is laid in its sepulchre,<br />
The calendar stands for a stone above.<br />
’Tis only in searching the dust of the days,<br />
The ashes of all old memories,<br />
That we find the key of the woodland ways<br />
That lead to the place of our paradise.</p>
<h3><a name="page58"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 58</span>THE
THREE CAPTAINS.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">All</span> beneath the
white-rose tree<br />
Walks a lady fair to see,<br />
She is as white as the snows,<br />
She is as fair as the day:<br />
From her father’s garden close<br />
Three knights have ta’en her away.</p>
<p class="poetry">He has ta’en her by the hand,<br />
The youngest of the three—<br />
‘Mount and ride, my bonnie bride,<br />
On my white horse with me.’</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page59"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
59</span>And ever they rode, and better rode,<br />
Till they came to Senlis town,<br />
The hostess she looked hard at them<br />
As they were lighting down.</p>
<p class="poetry">‘And are ye here by force,’ she
said,<br />
‘Or are ye here for play?<br />
From out my father’s garden close<br />
Three knights me stole away.</p>
<p class="poetry">‘And fain would I win back,’ she
said,<br />
‘The weary way I come;<br />
And fain would see my father dear,<br />
And fain go maiden home.’</p>
<p class="poetry">‘Oh, weep not, lady fair,’ said
she,<br />
‘You shall win back,’ she said,<br />
‘For you shall take this draught from me<br />
Will make you lie for dead.’</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page60"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
60</span>‘Come in and sup, fair lady,’ they said,<br
/>
‘Come busk ye and be bright;<br />
It is with three bold captains<br />
That ye must be this night.’</p>
<p class="poetry">When they had eaten well and drunk,<br />
She fell down like one slain:<br />
‘Now, out and alas! for my bonny may<br />
Shall live no more again.’</p>
<p class="poetry">‘Within her father’s garden
stead<br />
There are three white lilies;<br />
With her body to the lily bed,<br />
With her soul to Paradise.’</p>
<p class="poetry">They bore her to her father’s house,<br
/>
They bore her all the three,<br />
They laid her in her father’s close,<br />
Beneath the white-rose tree.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page61"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
61</span>She had not lain a day, a day,<br />
A day but barely three,<br />
When the may awakes, ‘Oh, open, father,<br />
Oh, open the door for me.</p>
<p class="poetry">‘’Tis I have lain for dead,
father,<br />
Have lain the long days three,<br />
That I might maiden come again<br />
To my mother and to thee.’</p>
<h3><a name="page62"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 62</span>THE
BRIDGE OF DEATH.</h3>
<p class="poetry">‘<span class="smcap">The</span> dance is
on the Bridge of Death<br />
And who will dance with me?’<br />
‘There’s never a man of living men<br />
Will dare to dance with thee.’</p>
<p class="poetry">Now Margaret’s gone within her bower<br
/>
Put ashes in her hair,<br />
And sackcloth on her bonny breast,<br />
And on her shoulders bare.</p>
<p class="poetry">There came a knock to her bower door,<br />
And blithe she let him in;<br />
It was her brother from the wars,<br />
The dearest of her kin.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page63"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
63</span>‘Set gold within your hair, Margaret,<br />
Set gold within your hair,<br />
And gold upon your girdle band,<br />
And on your breast so fair.</p>
<p class="poetry">‘For we are bidden to dance to-night,<br
/>
We may not bide away;<br />
This one good night, this one fair night,<br />
Before the red new day.’</p>
<p class="poetry">‘Nay, no gold for my head brother,<br />
Nay, no gold for my hair;<br />
It is the ashes and dust of earth<br />
That you and I must wear.</p>
<p class="poetry">‘No gold work for my girdle band,<br />
No gold work on my feet;<br />
But ashes of the fire, my love,<br />
But dust that the serpents eat.’</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">* * * * * *</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page64"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
64</span>They danced across the bridge of Death,<br />
Above the black water,<br />
And the marriage-bell was tolled in hell<br />
For the souls of him and her.</p>
<h3><a name="page65"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 65</span>LE
PÈRE SÉVÈRE.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">KING
LOUIS’ DAUGHTER.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center">BALLAD OF THE ISLE OF FRANCE.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">King Louis</span> on his
bridge is he,<br />
He holds his daughter on his knee.</p>
<p class="poetry">She asks a husband at his hand<br />
That is not worth a rood of land.</p>
<p class="poetry">‘Give up your lover speedily,<br />
Or you within the tower must lie.’</p>
<p class="poetry">‘Although I must the prison dree,<br />
I will not change my love for thee.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page66"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
66</span>‘I will not change my lover fair<br />
Not for the mother that me bare.</p>
<p class="poetry">‘I will not change my true lover<br />
For friends, or for my father dear.’</p>
<p class="poetry">‘Now where are all my pages keen,<br />
And where are all my serving men?</p>
<p class="poetry">‘My daughter must lie in the tower
alway,<br />
Where she shall never see the day.’</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">* * * * * *</p>
<p class="poetry">Seven long years are past and gone<br />
And there has seen her never one.</p>
<p class="poetry">At ending of the seventh year<br />
Her father goes to visit her.</p>
<p class="poetry">‘My child, my child, how may you
be?’<br />
‘O father, it fares ill with me.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page67"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
67</span>‘My feet are wasted in the mould,<br />
The worms they gnaw my side so cold.’</p>
<p class="poetry">‘My child, change your love speedily<br
/>
Or you must still in prison lie.’</p>
<p class="poetry">‘’Tis better far the cold to
dree<br />
Than give my true love up for thee.’</p>
<h3><a name="page68"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 68</span>THE
MILK WHITE DOE.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">It</span> was a mother and
a maid<br />
That walked the woods among,<br />
And still the maid went slow and sad,<br />
And still the mother sung.</p>
<p class="poetry">‘What ails you, daughter Margaret?<br />
Why go you pale and wan?<br />
Is it for a cast of bitter love,<br />
Or for a false leman?’</p>
<p class="poetry">‘It is not for a false lover<br />
That I go sad to see;<br />
But it is for a weary life<br />
Beneath the greenwood tree.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page69"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
69</span>‘For ever in the good daylight<br />
A maiden may I go,<br />
But always on the ninth midnight<br />
I change to a milk white doe.</p>
<p class="poetry">‘They hunt me through the green forest<br
/>
With hounds and hunting men;<br />
And ever it is my fair brother<br />
That is so fierce and keen.’</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">* * * * *</p>
<p class="poetry">‘Good-morrow, mother.’
‘Good-morrow, son;<br />
Where are your hounds so good?’<br />
Oh, they are hunting a white doe<br />
Within the glad greenwood.</p>
<p class="poetry">‘And three times have they hunted her,<br
/>
And thrice she’s won away;<br />
The fourth time that they follow her<br />
That white doe they shall slay.’</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">* * * * * *</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page70"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
70</span>Then out and spoke the forester,<br />
As he came from the wood,<br />
‘Now never saw I maid’s gold hair<br />
Among the wild deer’s blood.</p>
<p class="poetry">‘And I have hunted the wild deer<br />
In east lands and in west;<br />
And never saw I white doe yet<br />
That had a maiden’s breast.’</p>
<p class="poetry">Then up and spake her fair brother,<br />
Between the wine and bread,<br />
‘Behold, I had but one sister,<br />
And I have been her dead.’</p>
<p class="poetry">‘But ye must bury my sweet sister<br />
With a stone at her foot and her head,<br />
And ye must cover her fair body<br />
With the white roses and red.’</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page71"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
71</span>And I must out to the greenwood,<br />
The roof shall never shelter me;<br />
And I shall lie for seven long years<br />
On the grass below the hawthorn tree.</p>
<h3><a name="page72"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 72</span>A LADY
OF HIGH DEGREE.</h3>
<blockquote><p>I be pareld most of prise,<br />
I ride after the wild fee.</p>
</blockquote>
<div class="gapshortline"> </div>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Will</span> ye that I
should sing<br />
Of the love of a goodly thing,<br />
Was no vilein’s may?<br />
’Tis sung of a knight so free,<br />
Under the olive tree,<br />
Singing this lay.</p>
<p class="poetry">Her weed was of samite fine,<br />
Her mantle of white ermine,<br />
Green silk her hose;<br />
Her shoon with silver gay,<br />
Her sandals flowers of May,<br />
Laced small and close.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page73"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
73</span>Her belt was of fresh spring buds,<br />
Set with gold clasps and studs,<br />
Fine linen her shift;<br />
Her purse it was of love,<br />
Her chain was the flower thereof,<br />
And Love’s gift.</p>
<p class="poetry">Upon a mule she rode,<br />
The selle was of brent gold,<br />
The bits of silver made;<br />
Three red rose trees there were<br />
That overshadowed her,<br />
For a sun shade.</p>
<p class="poetry">She riding on a day,<br />
Knights met her by the way,<br />
They did her grace;<br />
‘Fair lady, whence be ye?’<br />
‘France it is my countrie,<br />
I come of a high race.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page74"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
74</span>‘My sire is the nightingale,<br />
That sings, making his wail,<br />
In the wild wood, clear;<br />
The mermaid is mother to me,<br />
That sings in the salt sea,<br />
In the ocean mere.’</p>
<p class="poetry">‘Ye come of a right good race,<br />
And are born of a high place,<br />
And of high degree;<br />
Would to God that ye were<br />
Given unto me, being fair,<br />
My lady and love to be.’</p>
<h3><a name="page75"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 75</span>LOST
FOR A ROSE’S SAKE.</h3>
<p class="poetry">I <span class="smcap">laved</span> my hands,<br
/>
By the water side;<br />
With the willow leaves<br />
My hands I dried.</p>
<p class="poetry">The nightingale sung<br />
On the bough of the tree;<br />
Sing, sweet nightingale,<br />
It is well with thee.</p>
<p class="poetry">Thou hast heart’s delight,<br />
I have sad heart’s sorrow<br />
For a false false maid<br />
That will wed to-morrow.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page76"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
76</span>’Tis all for a rose,<br />
That I gave her not,<br />
And I would that it grew<br />
In the garden plot.</p>
<p class="poetry">And I would the rose-tree<br />
Were still to set,<br />
That my love Marie<br />
Might love me yet.</p>
<h2><a name="page77"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
77</span>BALLADS OF MODERN GREECE.</h2>
<h3>THE BRIGAND’S GRAVE.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> moon came up
above the hill,<br />
The sun went down the sea;<br />
Go, maids, and fetch the well-water,<br />
But, lad, come here to me.</p>
<p class="poetry">Gird on my jack and my old sword,<br />
For I have never a son;<br />
And you must be the chief of all<br />
When I am dead and gone.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page78"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
78</span>But you must take my old broad sword,<br />
And cut the green bough of the tree,<br />
And strew the green boughs on the ground<br />
To make a soft death bed for me.</p>
<p class="poetry">And you must bring the holy priest<br />
That I may sained be;<br />
For I have lived a roving life<br />
Fifty years under the greenwood tree.</p>
<p class="poetry">And you shall make a grave for me,<br />
And make it deep and wide;<br />
That I may turn about and dream<br />
With my old gun by my side.</p>
<p class="poetry">And leave a window to the east,<br />
And the swallows will bring the spring;<br />
And all the merry month of May<br />
The nightingales will sing.</p>
<h3><a name="page79"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 79</span>THE
SUDDEN BRIDAL.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">It</span> was a maid lay
sick of love,<br />
All for a leman fair;<br />
And it was three of her bower-maidens<br />
That came to comfort her.</p>
<p class="poetry">The first she bore a blossomed branch,<br />
The second an apple brown,<br />
The third she had a silk kerchief,<br />
And still her tears ran down.</p>
<p class="poetry">The first she mocked, the second she
laughed—<br />
‘We have loved lemans fair,<br />
We made our hearts like the iron stone<br />
Had little teen or care.’</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page80"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
80</span>‘If ye have loved ’twas a false false
love,<br />
And an ill leman was he;<br />
But her true love had angel’s eyes,<br />
And as fair was his sweet body.</p>
<p class="poetry">And I will gird my green kirtle,<br />
And braid my yellow hair,<br />
And I will over the high hills<br />
And bring her love to her.’</p>
<p class="poetry">‘Nay, if you braid your yellow hair,<br
/>
You’ll twine my love from me.’<br />
‘Now nay, now nay, my lady good,<br />
That ever this should be!’</p>
<p class="poetry">‘When you have crossed the western
hills<br />
My true love you shall meet,<br />
With a green flag blowing over him,<br />
And green grass at his feet.’</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page81"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
81</span>She has crossed over the high hills,<br />
And the low hills between,<br />
And she has found the may’s leman<br />
Beneath a flag of green.</p>
<p class="poetry">’Twas four and twenty ladies fair<br />
Were sitting on the grass;<br />
But he has turned and looked on her,<br />
And will not let her pass.</p>
<p class="poetry">‘You’ve maidens here, and maidens
there,<br />
And loves through all the land;<br />
But what have you made of the lady fair<br />
You gave the rose-garland?’</p>
<p class="poetry">She was so harsh and cold of love,<br />
To me gave little grace;<br />
She wept if I but touched her hand,<br />
Or kissed her bonny face.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page82"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
82</span>‘Yea, crows shall build in the eagle’s
nest,<br />
The hawk the dove shall wed,<br />
Before my old true love and I<br />
Meet in one wedding bed.’</p>
<p class="poetry">When she had heard his bitter rede<br />
That was his old true love,<br />
She sat and wept within her bower,<br />
And moaned even as a dove.</p>
<p class="poetry">She rose up from her window seat,<br />
And she looked out to see;<br />
Her love came riding up the street<br />
With a goodly company.</p>
<p class="poetry">He was clad on with Venice gold,<br />
Wrought upon cramoisie,<br />
His yellow hair shone like the sun<br />
About his fair body.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page83"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
83</span>‘Now shall I call him blossomed branch<br />
That has ill knots therein?<br />
Or shall I call him basil plant,<br />
That comes of an evil kin?</p>
<p class="poetry">‘Oh, I shall give him goodly names,<br />
My sword of damask fine;<br />
My silver flower, my bright-winged bird,<br />
Where go you, lover mine?’</p>
<p class="poetry">‘I go to marry my new bride,<br />
That I bring o’er the down;<br />
And you shall be her bridal maid,<br />
And hold her bridal crown.’</p>
<p class="poetry">‘When you come to the bride chamber<br />
Where your fair maiden is,<br />
You’ll tell her I was fair of face,<br />
But never tell her this,</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page84"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
84</span>‘That still my lips were lips of love,<br />
My kiss love’s spring-water,<br />
That my love was a running spring,<br />
My breast a garden fair.</p>
<p class="poetry">‘And you have kissed the lips of love<br
/>
And drained the well-water,<br />
And you have spoiled the running spring,<br />
And robbed the fruits so fair.’</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">* * * * * *</p>
<p class="poetry">‘Now he that will may scatter nuts,<br />
And he may wed that will;<br />
But she that was my old true love<br />
Shall be my true love still.’</p>
<h2><a name="page85"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 85</span>GREEK
FOLK SONGS.</h2>
<h3>IANNOULA.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">All</span> the maidens were
merry and wed<br />
All to lovers so fair to see;<br />
The lover I took to my bridal bed<br />
He is not long for love and me.</p>
<p class="poetry">I spoke to him and he noting said,<br />
I gave him bread of the wheat so fine,<br />
He did not eat of the bridal bread,<br />
He did not drink of the bridal wine.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page86"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
86</span>I made him a bed was soft and deep,<br />
I made him a bed to sleep with me;<br />
‘Look on me once before you sleep,<br />
And look on the flower of my fair body.</p>
<p class="poetry">‘Flowers of April, and fresh May-dew,<br
/>
Dew of April and buds of May;<br />
Two white blossoms that bud for you,<br />
Buds that blossom before the day.’</p>
<h3><a name="page87"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 87</span>THE
TELL-TALES.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">All</span> in the mirk
midnight when I was beside you,<br />
Who has seen, who has heard, what was said, what was
done?<br />
’Twas the night and the light of the stars that espied
you,<br />
The fall of the moon, and the dawning begun.</p>
<p class="poetry">’Tis a swift star has fallen, a star that
discovers<br />
To the sea what the green sea has told to the
oars,<br />
And the oars to the sailors, and they of us lovers<br />
Go singing this song at their mistress’s
doors.</p>
<h2><a name="page89"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
89</span>AVE.</h2>
<h3><a name="page91"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
91</span>TWILIGHT ON TWEED.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Three</span> crests against
the saffron sky,<br />
Beyond the purple plain,<br />
The dear remembered melody<br />
Of Tweed once more again.</p>
<p class="poetry">Wan water from the border hills,<br />
Dear voice from the old years,<br />
Thy distant music lulls and stills,<br />
And moves to quiet tears.</p>
<p class="poetry">Like a loved ghost thy fabled flood<br />
Fleets through the dusky land;<br />
Where Scott, come home to die, has stood,<br />
My feet returning stand.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page92"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
92</span>A mist of memory broods and floats,<br />
The border waters flow;<br />
The air is full of ballad notes,<br />
Borne out of long ago.</p>
<p class="poetry">Old songs that sung themselves to me,<br />
Sweet through a boy’s day dream,<br />
While trout below the blossom’d tree<br />
Plashed in the golden stream.</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">* * * * * *</p>
<p class="poetry">Twilight, and Tweed, and Eildon Hill,<br />
Fair and thrice fair you be;<br />
You tell me that the voice is still<br />
That should have welcomed me.</p>
<h3><a name="page93"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 93</span>ONE
FLOWER.</h3>
<blockquote><p>“Up there shot a lily red,<br />
With a patch of earth from the land of the dead,<br />
For she was strong in the land of the dead.”</p>
</blockquote>
<div class="gapshortline"> </div>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">When</span> autumn suns are
soft, and sea winds moan,<br />
And golden fruits make sweet the golden air,<br />
In gardens where the apple blossoms were,<br />
In these old springs before I walked alone;<br />
I pass among the pathways overgrown,<br />
Of all the former flowers that kissed your feet<br
/>
Remains a poppy, pallid from the heat,<br />
A wild poppy that the wild winds have sown.<br />
Alas! the rose forgets your hands of rose;<br />
The lilies slumber in the lily bed;<br />
’Tis only poppies in the dreamy close,<br />
The changeless, windless garden of the dead,<br />
You tend, with buds soft as your kiss that lies<br />
In over happy dreams, upon mine eyes.</p>
<h3><a name="page94"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
94</span>METEMPSYCHOSIS.</h3>
<p class="poetry">I <span class="smcap">shall</span> not see
thee, nay, but I shall know<br />
Perchance, thy grey eyes in another’s eyes,<br
/>
Shall guess thy curls in gracious locks that flow<br />
On purest brows, yea, and the swift surmise<br />
Shall follow, and track, and find thee in
disguise<br />
Of all sad things, and fair, where sunsets glow,<br />
When through the scent of heather, faint and low,<br />
The weak wind whispers to the day that dies.</p>
<p class="poetry">From all sweet art, and out of all ‘old
rhyme,’<br />
Thine eyes and lips are light and song to me;<br />
The shadows of the beauty of all time,<br />
Carven and sung, are only shapes of thee;<br />
Alas, the shadowy shapes! ah, sweet my dear<br />
Shall life or death bring all thy being near?</p>
<h3><a name="page95"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 95</span>LOST
IN HADES.</h3>
<p class="poetry">I <span class="smcap">dreamed</span> that
somewhere in the shadowy place,<br />
Grief of farewell unspoken was forgot<br />
In welcome, and regret remembered not;<br />
And hopeless prayer accomplished turned to praise<br />
On lips that had been songless many days;<br />
Hope had no more to hope for, and desire<br />
And dread were overpast, in white attire<br />
New born we walked among the new world’s ways.</p>
<p class="poetry">Then from the press of shades a spirit threw<br
/>
Towards me such apples as these gardens bear;<br />
And turning, I was ‘ware of her, and knew<br />
And followed her fleet voice and flying
hair,—<br />
Followed, and found her not, and seeking you<br />
I found you never, dearest, anywhere.</p>
<h3><a name="page96"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 96</span>A STAR
IN THE NIGHT.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> perfect piteous
beauty of thy face,<br />
Is like a star the dawning drives away;<br />
Mine eyes may never see in the bright day<br />
Thy pallid halo, thy supernal grace:<br />
But in the night from forth the silent place<br />
Thou comest, dim in dreams, as doth a stray<br />
Star of the starry flock that in the grey<br />
Is seen, and lost, and seen a moment’s space.</p>
<p class="poetry">And as the earth at night turns to a star,<br
/>
Loved long ago, and dearer than the sun,<br />
So in the spiritual place afar,<br />
At night our souls are mingled and made one,<br />
And wait till one night fall, and one dawn rise,<br />
That brings no noon too splendid for your eyes.</p>
<h3><a name="page97"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 97</span>A
SUNSET ON YARROW.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> wind and the day
had lived together,<br />
They died together, and far away<br />
Spoke farewell in the sultry weather,<br />
Out of the sunset, over the heather,<br />
The dying wind and the dying day.</p>
<p class="poetry">Far in the south, the summer levin<br />
Flushed, a flame in the grey soft air:<br />
We seemed to look on the hills of heaven;<br />
You saw within, but to me ’twas given<br />
To see your face, as an angel’s, there.</p>
<p class="poetry">Never again, ah surely never<br />
Shall we wait and watch, where of old we stood,<br
/>
The low good-night of the hill and the river,<br />
The faint light fade, and the wan stars quiver,<br />
Twain grown one in the solitude.</p>
<h2><a name="page99"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
99</span>HESPEROTHEN.</h2>
<p><span class="smcap">By</span> the example of certain Grecian
mariners, who, being safely returned from the war about Troy,
leave yet again their old lands and gods, seeking they know not
what, and choosing neither to abide in the fair Phæacian
island, nor to dwell and die with the Sirens, at length end
miserably in a desert country by the sea, is set forth the
<i>Vanity of Melancholy</i>. And by the land of
Phæacia is to be understood the place of Art and of fair
Pleasures; and by Circe’s Isle, the places of bodily
delights, whereof men, falling aweary, attain to Eld, and to the
darkness of that age. Which thing Master Françoys
Rabelais feigned, under the similitude of the Isle of the
Macræones.</p>
<h3><a name="page101"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 101</span>THE
SEEKERS FOR PHÆACIA.</h3>
<p class="poetry"> <span
class="smcap">There</span> is a land in the remotest day,<br />
Where the soft night is born, and
sunset dies;<br />
The eastern shores see faint tides fade away,<br />
That wash the lands where
laughter, tears, and sighs,<br />
Make life,—the lands beneath the blue of common skies.</p>
<p class="poetry"> But in the west is a
mysterious sea,<br />
(What sails have seen it, or what
shipmen known?)<br />
With coasts enchanted where the Sirens be,<br />
With islands where a Goddess walks
alone,<br />
And in the cedar trees the magic winds make moan</p>
<p class="poetry"> <a name="page102"></a><span
class="pagenum">p. 102</span>Eastward the human cares of house
and home,<br />
Cities, and ships, and unknown
Gods, and loves;<br />
Westward, strange maidens fairer than the foam,<br
/>
And lawless lives of men, and
haunted groves,<br />
Wherein a God may dwell, and where the Dryad roves.</p>
<p class="poetry"> The Gods are careless of the
days and death<br />
Of toilsome men, beyond the
western seas;<br />
The Gods are heedless of their painful breath,<br />
And love them not, for they are
not as these;<br />
But in the golden west they live and lie at ease.</p>
<p class="poetry"> Yet the Phæacians well
they love, who live<br />
At the light’s limit,
passing careless hours,<br />
Most like the Gods; and they have gifts to give,<br
/>
Even wine, and fountains musical,
and flowers,<br />
And song, and if they will, swift ships, and magic powers.</p>
<p class="poetry"> <a name="page103"></a><span
class="pagenum">p. 103</span>It is a quiet midland; in the
cool<br />
Of twilight comes the God, though
no man prayed,<br />
To watch the maids and young men beautiful<br />
Dance, and they see him, and are
not afraid,<br />
For they are near of kin to Gods, and undismayed.</p>
<p class="poetry"> Ah, would the bright red
prows might bring us nigh<br />
The dreamy isles that the
Immortals keep!<br />
But with a mist they hide them wondrously,<br />
And far the path and dim to where
they sleep,—<br />
The loved, the shadowy lands along the shadowy deep.</p>
<h3><a name="page104"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 104</span>A
SONG OF PHÆACIA.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> languid sunset,
mother of roses,<br />
Lingers, a light on the magic seas,<br />
The wide fire flames, as a flower uncloses,<br />
Heavy with odour, and loose to the breeze.</p>
<p class="poetry">The red rose clouds, without law or leader,<br
/>
Gather and float in the airy plain;<br />
The nightingale sings to the dewy cedar,<br />
The cedar scatters his scent to the main.</p>
<p class="poetry">The strange flowers’ perfume turns to
singing,<br />
Heard afar over moonlit seas;<br />
The Siren’s song, grown faint in winging,<br />
Falls in scent on the cedar trees.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page105"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
105</span>As waifs blown out of the sunset, flying,<br />
Purple, and rosy, and grey, the birds<br />
Brighten the air with their wings; their crying<br />
Wakens a moment the weary herds.</p>
<p class="poetry">Butterflies flit from the fairy garden,<br />
Living blossoms of flying flowers;<br />
Never the nights with winter harden,<br />
Nor moons wax keen in this land of ours.</p>
<p class="poetry">Great fruits, fragrant, green and golden,<br />
Gleam in the green, and droop and fall;<br />
Blossom, and bud, and flower unfolden,<br />
Swing, and cling to the garden wall.</p>
<p class="poetry">Deep in the woods as twilight darkens,<br />
Glades are red with the scented fire;<br />
Far in the dells the white maid hearkens,<br />
Song and sigh of the heart’s desire.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page106"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
106</span>Ah, and as moonlight fades in morning,<br />
Maiden’s song in the matin grey,<br />
Faints as the first bird’s note, a warning,<br />
Wakes and wails to the new-born day.</p>
<p class="poetry">The waking song and the dying measure<br />
Meet, and the waxing and waning light<br />
Meet, and faint with the hours of pleasure,<br />
The rose of the sea and the sky is white.</p>
<h3><a name="page107"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 107</span>THE
DEPARTURE FROM PHÆACIA.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">THE
PHÆACIANS.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Why</span> from the dreamy
meadows,<br />
More fair than any dream,<br />
Why will you seek the shadows<br />
Beyond the ocean stream?</p>
<p class="poetry">Through straits of storm and peril,<br />
Through firths unsailed before,<br />
Why make you for the sterile,<br />
The dark Kimmerian shore?</p>
<p class="poetry">There no bright streams are flowing,<br />
There day and night are one,<br />
No harvest time, no sowing,<br />
No sight of any sun;</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page108"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
108</span>No sound of song or tabor,<br />
No dance shall greet you there;<br />
No noise of mortal labour,<br />
Breaks on the blind chill air.</p>
<p class="poetry">Are ours not happy places,<br />
Where Gods with mortals trod?<br />
Saw not our sires the faces<br />
Of many a present God?</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">THE SEEKERS.</p>
<p class="poetry">Nay, now no God comes hither,<br />
In shape that men may see;<br />
They fare we know not whither,<br />
We know not what they be.</p>
<p class="poetry">Yea, though the sunset lingers<br />
Far in your fairy glades,<br />
Though yours the sweetest singers,<br />
Though yours the kindest maids,</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page109"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
109</span>Yet here be the true shadows,<br />
Here in the doubtful light;<br />
Amid the dreamy meadows<br />
No shadow haunts the night.</p>
<p class="poetry">We seek a city splendid,<br />
With light beyond the sun;<br />
Or lands where dreams are ended,<br />
And works and days are done.</p>
<h3><a name="page110"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 110</span>A
BALLAD OF DEPARTURE. <a name="citation110"></a><a
href="#footnote110" class="citation">[110]</a></h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Fair</span> white bird,
what song art thou singing<br />
In wintry weather of lands o’er sea?<br />
Dear white bird, what way art thou winging,<br />
Where no grass grows, and no green tree?</p>
<p class="poetry">I looked at the far off fields and grey,<br />
There grew no tree but the cypress tree,<br />
That bears sad fruits with the flowers of May,<br />
And whoso looks on it, woe is he.</p>
<p class="poetry">And whoso eats of the fruit thereof<br />
Has no more sorrow, and no more love;<br />
And who sets the same in his garden stead,<br />
In a little space he is waste and dead.</p>
<h3><a name="page111"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 111</span>THEY
HEAR THE SIRENS FOR THE SECOND TIME.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> weary sails a
moment slept,<br />
The oars were silent for a space,<br />
As past Hesperian shores we swept,<br />
That were as a remembered face<br />
Seen after lapse of hopeless years,<br />
In Hades, when the shadows meet,<br />
Dim through the mist of many tears,<br />
And strange, and though a shadow, sweet.</p>
<p class="poetry">So seemed the half-remembered shore,<br />
That slumbered, mirrored in the blue,<br />
With havens where we touched of yore,<br />
And ports that over well we knew.<br />
<a name="page112"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 112</span>Then
broke the calm before a breeze<br />
That sought the secret of the west;<br />
And listless all we swept the seas<br />
Towards the Islands of the Blest.</p>
<p class="poetry">Beside a golden sanded bay<br />
We saw the Sirens, very fair<br />
The flowery hill whereon they lay,<br />
The flowers set upon their hair.<br />
Their old sweet song came down the wind,<br />
Remembered music waxing strong,<br />
Ah now no need of cords to bind,<br />
No need had we of Orphic song.</p>
<p class="poetry">It once had seemed a little thing,<br />
To lay our lives down at their feet,<br />
That dying we might hear them sing,<br />
And dying see their faces sweet;<br />
<a name="page113"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 113</span>But now,
we glanced, and passing by,<br />
No care had we to tarry long;<br />
Faint hope, and rest, and memory<br />
Were more than any Siren’s song.</p>
<h3><a name="page114"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
114</span>CIRCE’S ISLE REVISITED.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Ah</span>, Circe, Circe! in
the wood we cried;<br />
Ah, Circe, Circe! but no voice replied;<br />
No voice from bowers o’ergrown and ruinous<br
/>
As fallen rocks upon the mountain side.</p>
<p class="poetry">There was no sound of singing in the air;<br />
Failed or fled the maidens that were fair,<br />
No more for sorrow or joy were seen of us,<br />
No light of laughing eyes, or floating hair.</p>
<p class="poetry">The perfume, and the music, and the flame<br />
Had passed away; the memory of shame<br />
Alone abode, and stings of faint desire,<br />
And pulses of vague quiet went and came.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page115"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
115</span>Ah, Circe! in thy sad changed fairy place,<br />
Our dead Youth came and looked on us a space,<br />
With drooping wings, and eyes of faded fire,<br />
And wasted hair about a weary face.</p>
<p class="poetry">Why had we ever sought the magic isle<br />
That seemed so happy in the days erewhile?<br />
Why did we ever leave it, where we met<br />
A world of happy wonders in one smile?</p>
<p class="poetry">Back to the westward and the waning light<br />
We turned, we fled; the solitude of night<br />
Was better than the infinite regret,<br />
In fallen places of our dead delight.</p>
<h3><a name="page116"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 116</span>THE
LIMIT OF LANDS.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Between</span> the circling
ocean sea<br />
And the poplars of Persephone<br />
There lies a strip of barren sand,<br />
Flecked with the sea’s last spray, and strown<br />
With waste leaves of the poplars, blown<br />
From gardens of the shadow land.</p>
<p class="poetry">With altars of old sacrifice<br />
The shore is set, in mournful wise<br />
The mists upon the ocean brood;<br />
Between the water and the air<br />
The clouds are born that float and fare<br />
Between the water and the wood.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page117"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
117</span>Upon the grey sea never sail<br />
Of mortals passed within our hail,<br />
Where the last weak waves faint and flow;<br />
We heard within the poplar pale<br />
The murmur of a doubtful wail<br />
Of voices loved so long ago.</p>
<p class="poetry">We scarce had care to die or live,<br />
We had no honey cake to give,<br />
No wine of sacrifice to shed;<br />
There lies no new path over sea,<br />
And now we know how faint they be,<br />
The feasts and voices of the Dead.</p>
<p class="poetry">Ah, flowers and dance! ah, sun and snow!<br />
Glad life, sad life we did forego<br />
To dream of quietness and rest;<br />
Ah, would the fleet sweet roses here<br />
Poured light and perfume through the drear<br />
Pale year, and wan land of the west.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page118"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
118</span>Sad youth, that let the spring go by<br />
Because the spring is swift to fly,<br />
Sad youth, that feared to mourn or love,<br />
Behold how sadder far is this,<br />
To know that rest is nowise bliss,<br />
And darkness is the end thereof.</p>
<h2><a name="page119"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
119</span>VERSES ON PICTURES.</h2>
<h3><a name="page121"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
121</span>COLINETTE.</h3>
<p>For a sketch by Mr. G. Leslie, A.R.A.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">France</span> your country,
as we know;<br />
Room enough for guessing yet,<br />
What lips now or long ago,<br />
Kissed and named you—Colinette.<br />
In what fields from sea to sea,<br />
By what stream your home was set,<br />
Loire or Seine was glad of thee,<br />
Marne or Rhone, O Colinette?</p>
<p class="poetry">Did you stand with ‘maidens ten,<br />
Fairer maids were never seen,’<br />
When the young king and his men<br />
Passed among the orchards green?<br />
<a name="page122"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 122</span>Nay, old
ballads have a note<br />
Mournful, we would fain forget;<br />
No such sad old air should float<br />
Round your young brows, Colinette.</p>
<p class="poetry">Say, did Ronsard sing to you,<br />
Shepherdess, to lull his pain,<br />
When the court went wandering through<br />
Rose pleasances of Touraine?<br />
Ronsard and his famous Rose<br />
Long are dust the breezes fret;<br />
You, within the garden close,<br />
You are blooming, Colinette.</p>
<p class="poetry">Have I seen you proud and gay,<br />
With a patched and perfumed beau,<br />
Dancing through the summer day,<br />
Misty summer of Watteau?<br />
<a name="page123"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 123</span>Nay, so
sweet a maid as you<br />
Never walked a minuet<br />
With the splendid courtly crew;<br />
Nay, forgive me, Colinette.</p>
<p class="poetry">Not from Greuze’s canvasses<br />
Do you cast a glance, a smile;<br />
You are not as one of these,<br />
Yours is beauty without guile.<br />
Round your maiden brows and hair<br />
Maidenhood and Childhood met<br />
Crown and kiss you, sweet and fair,<br />
New art’s blossom, Colinette.</p>
<h3><a name="page124"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 124</span>A
SUNSET OF WATTEAU.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">LUI.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> silk sail fills,
the soft winds wake,<br />
Arise and tempt the seas;<br />
Our ocean is the Palace lake,<br />
Our waves the ripples that we make<br />
Among the mirrored trees.</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">ELLE.</p>
<p class="poetry">Nay, sweet the shore, and sweet the song,<br />
And dear the languid dream;<br />
The music mingled all day long<br />
With paces of the dancing throng,<br />
And murmur of the stream.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page125"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
125</span>An hour ago, an hour ago,<br />
We rested in the shade;<br />
And now, why should we seek to know<br />
What way the wilful waters flow?<br />
There is no fairer glade.</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">LUI.</p>
<p class="poetry">Nay, pleasure flits, and we must sail,<br />
And seek him everywhere;<br />
Perchance in sunset’s golden pale<br />
He listens to the nightingale,<br />
Amid the perfumed air.</p>
<p class="poetry">Come, he has fled; you are not you,<br />
And I no more am I;<br />
Delight is changeful as the hue<br />
Of heaven, that is no longer blue<br />
In yonder sunset sky.</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry"><a
name="page126"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 126</span>ELLE.</p>
<p class="poetry">Nay, if we seek we shall not find,<br />
If we knock none openeth;<br />
Nay, see, the sunset fades behind<br />
The mountains, and the cold night wind<br />
Blows from the house of Death.</p>
<h3><a name="page127"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 127</span>A
NATIVITY OF SANDRO BOTTICELLI.</h3>
<p class="poetry">‘<span class="smcap">Wrought</span> in
the troublous times of Italy<br />
By Sandro Botticelli,’ when for fear<br />
Of that last judgment, and last day drawn near<br />
To end all labour and all revelry,<br />
He worked and prayed in silence; this is she<br />
That by the holy cradle sees the bier,<br />
And in spice gifts the hyssop on the spear,<br />
And out of Bethlehem, Gethsemane.</p>
<p class="poetry">Between the gold sky and the green o’er
head,<br />
The twelve great shining angels, garlanded,<br />
Marvel upon this face, wherein combine<br />
The mother’s love that shone on all of us,<br />
And maiden rapture that makes luminous<br />
The brows of Margaret and Catherine.</p>
<h2><a name="page129"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
129</span>SONGS AND SONNETS</h2>
<h3><a name="page131"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 131</span>TWO
HOMES.</h3>
<p>To a young English lady in the Hospital of the Wounded at
Carlsruhe. Sept. 1870.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">What</span> does the dim
gaze of the dying find<br />
To waken dream or memory, seeing you?<br />
In your sweet eyes what other eyes are blue,<br />
And in your hair what gold hair on the wind<br />
Floats of the days gone almost out of mind?<br />
In deep green valleys of the Fatherland<br />
He may remember girls with locks like thine;<br />
May dream how, where the waiting angels stand,<br />
Some lost love’s eyes are dim before they
shine<br />
With welcome:—so past homes, or homes to
be,<br />
He sees a moment, ere, a moment blind,<br />
He crosses Death’s inhospitable sea,<br />
And with brief passage of those barren lands<br />
Comes to the home that is not made with hands.</p>
<h3><a name="page132"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
132</span>SUMMER’S ENDING.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> flags below the
shadowy fern<br />
Shine like spears between sun and sea,<br />
The tide and the summer begin to turn,<br />
And ah, for hearts, for hearts that yearn,<br />
For fires of autumn that catch and burn,<br />
For love gone out between thee and me.</p>
<p class="poetry">The wind is up, and the weather broken,<br />
Blue seas, blue eyes, are grieved and grey,<br />
Listen, the word that the wind has spoken,<br />
Listen, the sound of the sea,—a token<br />
That summer’s over, and troths are broken,—<br />
That loves depart as the hours decay.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page133"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
133</span>A love has passed to the loves passed over,<br />
A month has fled to the months gone by;<br />
And none may follow, and none recover<br />
July and June, and never a lover<br />
May stay the wings of the Loves that hover,<br />
As fleet as the light in a sunset sky.</p>
<h3><a name="page134"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
134</span>NIGHTINGALE WEATHER.</h3>
<blockquote><p>‘Serai-je nonnette, oui ou non?<br />
Serai-je nonnette? je crois que non.<br />
Derrière chez mon père<br />
Il est un bois taillis,<br />
Le rossignol y chante<br />
Et le jour et le nuit.<br />
Il chaste pour les filles<br />
Qui n’ont pas d’ami;<br />
Il ne chante pas pour moi,<br />
J’en ai un, Dieu merci.’—<span
class="smcap">Old French</span>.</p>
</blockquote>
<div class="gapshortline"> </div>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">I’ll</span> never be
a nun, I trow,<br />
While apple bloom is white as snow,<br />
But far more fair to see;<br />
I’ll never wear nun’s black and white<br />
While nightingales make sweet the night<br />
Within the apple tree.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page135"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
135</span>Ah, listen! ’tis the nightingale,<br />
And in the wood he makes his wail,<br />
Within the apple tree;<br />
He singeth of the sore distress<br />
Of many ladies loverless;<br />
Thank God, no song for me.</p>
<p class="poetry">For when the broad May moon is low,<br />
A gold fruit seen where blossoms blow<br />
In the boughs of the apple tree,<br />
A step I know is at the gate;<br />
Ah love, but it is long to wait<br />
Until night’s noon bring thee!</p>
<p class="poetry">Between lark’s song and
nightingale’s<br />
A silent space, while dawning pales,<br />
The birds leave still and free<br />
For words and kisses musical,<br />
For silence and for sighs that fall<br />
In the dawn, ’twixt him and me.</p>
<h3><a name="page136"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 136</span>LOVE
AND WISDOM.</h3>
<p class="poetry">‘When last we gathered roses in the
garden<br />
I found my wits, but truly you lost yours.’</p>
<p style="text-align: right" class="poetry"><span
class="smcap">The Broken Heart</span>.</p>
<div class="gapshortline"> </div>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">July</span>, and June
brought flowers and love<br />
To you, but I would none thereof,<br />
Whose heart kept all through summer time<br />
A flower of frost and winter rime.<br />
Yours was true wisdom—was it not?—<br />
Even love; but I had clean forgot,<br />
Till seasons of the falling leaf,<br />
All loves, but one that turned to grief.<br />
At length at touch of autumn tide,<br />
When roses fell, and summer died,<br />
All in a dawning deep with dew,<br />
Love flew to me, love fled from you.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page137"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
137</span>The roses drooped their weary heads,<br />
I spoke among the garden beds;<br />
You would not hear, you could not know,<br />
Summer and love seemed long ago,<br />
As far, as faint, as dim a dream,<br />
As to the dead this world may seem.<br />
Ah sweet, in winter’s miseries,<br />
Perchance you may remember this,<br />
How wisdom was not justified<br />
In summer time or autumn-tide,<br />
Though for this once below the sun,<br />
Wisdom and love were made at one;<br />
But love was bitter-bought enough,<br />
And wisdom light of wing as love.</p>
<h3><a name="page138"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
138</span>GOOD-BYE.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Kiss</span> me, and say
good-bye;<br />
Good-bye, there is no word to say but this,<br />
Nor any lips left for my lips to kiss,<br />
Nor any tears to shed, when these tears dry;<br />
Kiss me, and say, good-bye.</p>
<p class="poetry">Farewell, be glad, forget;<br />
There is no need to say ‘forget,’ I
know,<br />
For youth is youth, and time will have it so,<br />
And though your lips are pale, and your eyes wet,<br />
Farewell, you must forget.</p>
<p class="poetry">You shall bring home your sheaves,<br />
Many, and heavy, and with blossoms twined<br />
Of memories that go not out of mind;<br />
Let this one sheaf be twined with poppy leaves<br />
When you bring home your sheaves.</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page139"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
139</span>In garnered loves of thine,<br />
The ripe good fruit of many hearts and years,<br />
Somewhere let this lie, grey and salt with tears;<br
/>
It grew too near the sea wind, and the brine<br />
Of life, this love of mine.</p>
<p class="poetry">This sheaf was spoiled in spring,<br />
And over-long was green, and early sere,<br />
And never gathered gold in the late year<br />
From autumn suns, and moons of harvesting,<br />
But failed in frosts of spring.</p>
<p class="poetry">Yet was it thine my sweet,<br />
This love, though weak as young corn
witheréd,<br />
Whereof no man may gather and make bread;<br />
Thine, though it never knew the summer heat;<br />
Forget not quite, my sweet.</p>
<h3><a name="page140"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 140</span>AN
OLD PRAYER.</h3>
<blockquote><p>Χαιρέ μοι,
ῶ Βασίλεια,
διαμπερὲς
εἰς ὅ κε
γῆρας<br />
Ἔλθῃ καὶ
θάνατος,τὰ
τ’ ἐπ’
ἀνθρώποισι
πέλονται.</p>
<p style="text-align: right"><span class="smcap">Odyssey</span>,
xiii. 59.</p>
</blockquote>
<div class="gapshortline"> </div>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">My</span> prayer an old
prayer borroweth,<br />
Of ancient love and memory—<br />
‘Do thou farewell, till Eld and Death,<br />
That come to all men, come to thee.’<br />
Gently as winter’s early breath,<br />
Scarce felt, what time the swallows flee,<br />
To lands whereof <i>no man knoweth</i><br />
Of summer, over land and sea;<br />
So with thy soul may summer be,<br />
Even as the ancient singer saith,<br />
‘Do thou farewell, till Eld and Death,<br />
That come to all men, come to thee.’</p>
<h3><a name="page141"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
141</span>LOVE’S MIRACLE.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">With</span> other helpless
folk about the gate,<br />
The gate called Beautiful, with weary eyes<br />
That take no pleasure in the summer skies,<br />
Nor all things that are fairest, does she wait;<br />
So bleak a time, so sad a changeless fate<br />
Makes her with dull experience early wise,<br />
And in the dawning and the sunset, sighs<br />
That all hath been, and shall be, desolate.</p>
<p class="poetry">Ah, if Love come not soon, and bid her live,<br
/>
And know herself the fairest of fair things,<br />
Ah, if he have no healing gift to give,<br />
Warm from his breast, and holy from his wings,<br />
Or if at least Love’s shadow in passing by<br />
Touch not and heal her, surely she must die.</p>
<h3><a name="page142"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
142</span>DREAMS.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">He</span> spake not truth,
however wise, who said<br />
That happy, and that hapless men in sleep<br />
Have equal fortune, fallen from care as deep<br />
As countless, careless, races of the dead.<br />
Not so, for alien paths of dreams we tread,<br />
And one beholds the faces that he sighs<br />
In vain to bring before his daylit eyes,<br />
And waking, he remembers on his bed;</p>
<p class="poetry">And one with fainting heart and feeble hand<br
/>
Fights a dim battle in a doubtful land,<br />
Where strength and courage were of no avail;<br />
And one is borne on fairy breezes far<br />
To the bright harbours of a golden star<br />
Down fragrant fleeting waters rosy pale.</p>
<h3><a name="page143"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
143</span>FAIRY LAND.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">In</span> light of sunrise
and sunsetting,<br />
The long days lingered, in forgetting<br />
That ever passion, keen to hold<br />
What may not tarry, was of old,<br />
In lands beyond the weary wold;<br />
Beyond the bitter stream whose flood<br />
Runs red waist-high with slain men’s blood.<br />
Was beauty once a thing that died?<br />
Was pleasure never satisfied?<br />
Was rest still broken by the vain<br />
Desire of action, bringing pain,<br />
To die in languid rest again?<br />
All this was quite forgotten there,<br />
Where never winter chilled the year,<br />
<a name="page144"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 144</span>Nor
spring brought promise unfulfilled,<br />
Nor, with the eager summer killed,<br />
The languid days drooped autumnwards.<br />
So magical a season guards<br />
The constant prime of a cool June;<br />
So slumbrous is the river’s tune,<br />
That knows no thunder of heavy rains,<br />
Nor ever in the summer wanes,<br />
Like waters of the summer time<br />
In lands far from the Fairy clime.</p>
<p class="poetry">Yea, there the Fairy maids are kind,<br />
With nothing of the changeful mind<br />
Of maidens in the days that were;<br />
And if no laughter fills the air<br />
With sound of silver murmurings,<br />
And if no prayer of passion brings<br />
A love nigh dead to life again,<br />
Yet sighs more subtly sweet remain,<br />
<a name="page145"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 145</span>And
smiles that never satiate,<br />
And loves that fear scarce any fate.<br />
Alas, no words can bring the bloom<br />
Of Fairy Land; the faint perfume,<br />
The sweet low light, the magic air,<br />
To eyes of who has not been there:<br />
Alas, no words, nor any spell<br />
Can lull the eyes that know too well,<br />
The lost fair world of Fairy Land.</p>
<p class="poetry">Ah, would that I had never been<br />
The lover of the Fairy Queen!<br />
Or would that through the sleepy town,<br />
The grey old place of Ercildoune,<br />
And all along the little street,<br />
The soft fall of the white deer’s feet<br />
Came, with the mystical command<br />
That I must back to Fairy Land!</p>
<h3><a name="page146"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 146</span>TWO
SONNETS OF THE SIRENS.</h3>
<p>‘Les Sirènes estoient tant intimes amies et
fidelles compagnes de Proserpine, qu’elles estoient
toujours ensemble. Esmues du juste deuil de la perte de
leur chère compagne, et enuyées jusques au
desespoir, elles s’arrestèrent à la mer
Sicilienne, où par leurs chants elles attiroient les
navigans, mais l’unique fin de la volupé de leur
musique est la Mort.’—<span class="smcap">Pontus de
Tyard</span>. 1570.</p>
<div class="gapshortline"> </div>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">I.</p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">The</span> Sirens once were
maidens innocent<br />
That through the water-meads with Proserpine<br />
Plucked no fire-hearted flowers, but were content<br />
Cool fritillaries and flag-flowers to twine,<br />
With lilies woven and with wet woodbine;<br />
Till once they sought the bright Ætnaean flowers,<br />
And their bright mistress fled from summer hours<br />
With Hades, down the irremeable decline.<br />
And they have sought her all the wide world through<br />
Till many years, and wisdom, and much wrong<br />
<a name="page147"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 147</span>Have
filled and changed their song, and o’er the blue<br />
Rings deadly sweet the magic of the song,<br />
And whoso hears must listen till he die<br />
Far on the flowery shores of Sicily.</p>
<p style="text-align: center" class="poetry">II.</p>
<p class="poetry">So is it with this singing art of ours,<br />
That once with maids went maidenlike, and played<br
/>
With woven dances in the poplar-shade,<br />
And all her song was but of lady’s bowers<br />
And the returning swallows, and spring-flowers,<br />
Till forth to seek a shadow-queen she strayed,<br />
A shadowy land; and now hath overweighed<br />
Her singing chaplet with the snow and showers.<br />
Yea, fair well-water for the bitter brine<br />
She left, and by the margin of life’s sea<br
/>
Sings, and her song is full of the
sea’s moan,<br />
And wild with dread, and love of Proserpine;<br />
And whoso once has listened to her, he<br />
His whole life long is slave to
her alone.</p>
<h3><a name="page148"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 148</span>A LA
BELLE HÉLÈNE.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">AFTER
RONSARD.</span></p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">More</span> closely than
the clinging vine<br />
About the wedded tree,<br />
Clasp thou thine arms, ah, mistress mine!<br />
About the heart of me.<br />
Or seem to sleep, and stoop your face<br />
Soft on my sleeping eyes,<br />
Breathe in your life, your heart, your grace,<br />
Through me, in kissing wise.<br />
Bow down, bow down your face, I pray,<br />
To me, that swoon to death,<br />
Breathe back the life you kissed away,<br />
Breathe back your kissing breath.<br />
<a name="page149"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 149</span>So by
your eyes I swear and say,<br />
My mighty oath and sure,<br />
From your kind arms no maiden may<br />
My loving heart allure.<br />
I’ll bear your yoke, that’s light enough,<br />
And to the Elysian plain,<br />
When we are dead of love, my love,<br />
One boat shall bear us twain.<br />
They’ll flock around you, fleet and fair,<br />
All true loves that have been,<br />
And you of all the shadows there,<br />
Shall be the shadow queen.<br />
<i>Ah shadow-loves</i>, <i>and shadow-lips</i>!<br />
<i>Ah</i>, <i>while ’tis called to-day</i>,<br
/>
<i>Love me</i>, <i>my love, for summer slips</i>,<br />
<i>And August ebbs away</i>.</p>
<h3><a name="page150"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
150</span>SYLVIE ET AURÉLIE.</h3>
<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">IN MEMORY OF
GÉRARD DE NERVAL.</span></p>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Two</span> loves there
were, and one was born<br />
Between the sunset and the rain;<br />
Her singing voice went through the corn,<br />
Her dance was woven ‘neath the thorn,<br />
On grass the fallen blossoms stain;<br />
And suns may set, and moons may wane,<br />
But this love comes no more again.</p>
<p class="poetry">There were two loves and one made white<br />
Thy singing lips, and golden hair;<br />
Born of the city’s mire and light,<br />
The shame and splendour of the night,<br />
<a name="page151"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
151</span>She trapped and fled thee unaware;<br />
Not through the lamplight and the rain<br />
Shalt thou behold this love again.</p>
<p class="poetry">Go forth and seek, by wood and hill,<br />
Thine ancient love of dawn and dew;<br />
There comes no voice from mere or rill,<br />
Her dance is over, fallen still<br />
The ballad burdens that she knew;<br />
And thou must wait for her in vain,<br />
Till years bring back thy youth again.</p>
<p class="poetry">That other love, afield, afar<br />
Fled the light love, with lighter feet.<br />
Nay, though thou seek where gravesteads are,<br />
And flit in dreams from star to star,<br />
That dead love shalt thou never meet,<br />
Till through bleak dawn and blowing rain<br />
Thy fled soul find her soul again.</p>
<h3><a name="page152"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 152</span>A
LOST PATH.</h3>
<p>Plotinus, the Greek philosopher, had a certain proper mode of
ecstasy, whereby, as Porphyry saith, his soul, becoming free from
his deathly flesh, was made one with the Spirit that is in the
World.</p>
<div class="gapshortline"> </div>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Alas</span>, the path is
lost, we cannot leave<br />
Our bright, our clouded life, and pass away<br />
As through strewn clouds, that stain the quiet eve,<br />
To heights remoter of the purer day.<br />
The soul may not, returning whence she came,<br />
Bathe herself deep in Being, and forget<br />
The joys that fever, and the cares that fret,<br />
Made once more one with the eternal flame<br />
That breathes in all things ever more the same.<br
/>
<a name="page153"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 153</span>She
would be young again, thus drinking deep<br />
Of her old life; and this has been, men say,<br />
But this we know not, who have only sleep<br />
To soothe us, sleep more terrible than day,<br />
Where dead delights, and fair lost faces stray,<br />
To make us weary at our wakening;<br />
And of that long-lost path to the Divine<br />
We dream, as some Greek shepherd erst might sing,<br />
Half credulous, of easy Proserpine<br />
And of the lands that lie ‘beneath the day’s
decline.’</p>
<h3><a name="page154"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 154</span>THE
SHADE OF HELEN.</h3>
<p>Some say that Helen went never to Troy, but abode in Egypt;
for the Gods, having made in her semblance a woman out of clouds
and shadows, sent the same to be wife to Paris. For this
shadow then the Greeks and Trojans slew each other.</p>
<div class="gapshortline"> </div>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Why</span> from the quiet
hollows of the hills,<br />
And extreme meeting place of light and shade,<br />
Wherein soft rains fell slowly, and became<br />
Clouds among sister clouds, where fair spent beams<br />
And dying glories of the sun would dwell,<br />
Why have they whom I know not, nor may know,<br />
Strange hands, unseen and ruthless, fashioned me,<br />
And borne me from the silent shadowy hills,<br />
Hither, to noise and glow of alien life,<br />
To harsh and clamorous swords, and sound of war?</p>
<p class="poetry"><a name="page155"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
155</span>One speaks unto me words that would be sweet,<br />
Made harsh, made keen with love that knows me not,<br />
And some strange force, within me or around,<br />
Makes answer, kiss for kiss, and sigh for sigh,<br />
And somewhere there is fever in the halls,<br />
That troubles me, for no such trouble came<br />
To vex the cool far hollows of the hills.</p>
<p class="poetry">The foolish folk crowd round me, and they
cry,<br />
That house, and wife, and lands, and all Troy town,<br />
Are little to lose, if they may keep me here,<br />
And see me flit, a pale and silent shade,<br />
Among the streets bereft, and helpless shrines.</p>
<p class="poetry">At other hours another life seems mine,<br />
Where one great river runs unswollen of rain,<br />
By pyramids of unremembered kings,<br />
And homes of men obedient to the Dead.<br />
There dark and quiet faces come and go<br />
Around me, then again the shriek of arms,<br />
<a name="page156"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 156</span>And all
the turmoil of the Ilian men.<br />
What are they? Even shadows such as I.<br />
What make they? Even this—the sport of Gods—<br
/>
The sport of Gods, however free they seem.<br />
Ah would the game were ended, and the light,<br />
The blinding light, and all too mighty suns,<br />
Withdrawn, and I once more with sister shades,<br />
Unloved, forgotten, mingled with the mist,<br />
Dwelt in the hollows of the shadowy hills.<br />
Ah, would ‘t were the cloud’s playtime, when the
sun<br />
Clothes us in raiment of a rosy flame,<br />
And through the sky we flit, and gather grey,<br />
Like men that leave their golden youth behind,<br />
And through their wind-driven ways they gather grey,<br />
And we like them grow wan, and the chill East<br />
Receives us, as the Earth accepts all men,—<br />
But <i>we</i> await the dawn of a new day.</p>
<h2><a name="page157"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
157</span>SONNETS TO POETS.</h2>
<h3><a name="page159"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
159</span>JACQUES TAHUREAU. 1530.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Ah</span> thou! that,
undeceived and unregretting,<br />
Saw’st Death so near thee on the flowery
way,<br />
And with no sigh that life was near the setting,<br />
Took’st the delight and dalliance of the day,<br />
Happy thou wert, to live and pass away<br />
Ere life or love had done thee any wrong;<br />
Ere thy wreath faded, or thy locks grew grey,<br />
Or summer came to lull thine April song,<br />
Sweet as all shapes of sweet things unfulfilled,<br />
Buds bloomless, and the broken violet,<br />
The first spring days, the sounds
and scents thereof;<br />
So clear thy fire of song, so early chilled,<br />
So brief, so bright thy life that gaily met<br />
Death, for thy Death came hand in
hand with Love.</p>
<h3><a name="page160"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
160</span>FRANÇOIS VILLON. 1450.</h3>
<p class="poetry">List, all that love light mirth, light tears,
and all<br />
That know the heart of shameful loves, or pure;<br
/>
That know delights depart, desires endure,<br />
A fevered tribe of ghosts funereal,<br />
Widowed of dead delights gone out of call;<br />
List, all that deem the glory of the rose<br />
Is brief as last year’s suns, or last
year’s snows<br />
The new suns melt from off the sundial.</p>
<p class="poetry">All this your master Villon knew and sung;<br
/>
Despised delights, and faint foredone desire;<br />
And shame, a deathless worm, a quenchless fire;<br
/>
And laughter from the heart’s last sorrow wrung,<br />
When half-repentance but makes evil whole,<br />
And prayer that cannot help wears out the soul.</p>
<h3><a name="page161"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
161</span>PIERRE RONSARD. 1560.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Master</span>, I see thee
with the locks of grey,<br />
Crowned by the Muses with the laurel-wreath;<br />
I see the roses hiding underneath,<br />
Cassandra’s gift; she was less dear than they.<br />
Thou, Master, first hast roused the lyric lay,<br />
The sleeping song that the dead years bequeath,<br
/>
Hast sung sweet answer to the songs that breathe<br
/>
Through ages, and through ages far away.</p>
<p class="poetry">Yea, and in thee the pulse of ancient
passion<br />
Leaped, and the nymphs amid the spring-water<br />
Made bare their lovely limbs in the old fashion,<br />
And birds’ song in the branches was astir.<br
/>
Ah, but thy songs are sad, thy roses wan,<br />
Thy bees have fed on yews Sardinian.</p>
<h3><a name="page162"></a><span class="pagenum">p.
162</span>GÉRARD DE NERVAL.</h3>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Of</span> all that were thy
prisons—ah, untamed,<br />
Ah, light and sacred soul!—none holds thee
now;<br />
No wall, no bar, no body of flesh, but thou<br />
Art free and happy in the lands unnamed,<br />
About whose gates, with weary wings and maimed,<br />
Thou most wert wont to linger, entering there<br />
A moment, and returning rapt, with fair<br />
Tidings that men or heeded not or blamed;<br />
And they would smile and wonder, seeing where<br />
Thou stood’st, to watch light leaves, or clouds, or
wind,<br />
Dreamily murmuring a ballad air,<br />
Caught from the Valois peasants; dost thou find<br />
Old prophecies fulfilled now, old tales true<br />
In the new world, where all things are made new?</p>
<h3><a name="page163"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 163</span>THE
DEATH OF MIRANDOLA. 1494.</h3>
<p>‘The Queen of Heaven appeared, comforting him and
promising that he should not utterly die.’—<span
class="smcap">Thomas More</span>, <i>Life of Piens, Earl of
Mirandola</i>.</p>
<div class="gapshortline"> </div>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Strange</span> lilies came
with autumn; new and old<br />
Were mingling, and the old world passed away,<br />
And the night gathered, and the shadows grey<br />
Dimmed the kind eyes and dimmed the locks of gold,<br />
And face beloved of Mirandola.<br />
The Virgin then, to comfort him and stay,<br />
Kissed the thin cheek, and kissed the lips acold,<br />
The lips unkissed of women many a day.<br />
Nor she alone, for queens of the old creed,<br />
Like rival queens that tended Arthur, there<br />
Were gathered, Venus in her mourning weed,<br />
Pallas and Dian; wise, and pure, and fair<br />
Was he they mourned, who living did not wrong<br />
One altar of its dues of wine and song.</p>
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<h2>FOOTNOTES</h2>
<p><a name="footnote23"></a><a href="#citation23"
class="footnote">[23]</a> Aphrodite—Avril.</p>
<p><a name="footnote110"></a><a href="#citation110"
class="footnote">[110]</a> From the Romaic.</p>
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