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diff --git a/9825.txt b/9825.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..952621e --- /dev/null +++ b/9825.txt @@ -0,0 +1,678 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Calendar of Sonnets, by Helen Hunt Jackson + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Calendar of Sonnets + +Author: Helen Hunt Jackson + +Posting Date: October 24, 2011 [EBook #9825] +Release Date: February, 2006 +First Posted: October 21, 2003 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A CALENDAR OF SONNETS *** + + + + +Produced by Distributed Proofreaders + + + + + + + + + + A Calendar of Sonnets + + By + + Helen Jackson + + + 1886, + + + + + January + + + + O winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire, + What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn + Dismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urn + Of death! Far sooner in midsummer tire + The streams than under ice. June could not hire + Her roses to forego the strength they learn + In sleeping on thy breast. No fires can burn + The bridges thou dost lay where men desire + In vain to build. + O Heart, when Love's sun goes + To northward, and the sounds of singing cease, + Keep warm by inner fires, and rest in peace. + Sleep on content, as sleeps the patient rose. + Walk boldly on the white untrodden snows, + The winter is the winter's own release. + + + + + February. + + + + Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white; + And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still; + No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill, + And willow stems grow daily red and bright. + These are the days when ancients held a rite + Of expiation for the old year's ill, + And prayer to purify the new year's will: + Fit days, ere yet the spring rains blur the sight, + Ere yet the bounding blood grows hot with haste, + And dreaming thoughts grow heavy with a greed + The ardent summer's joy to have and taste; + Fit days, to give to last year's losses heed, + To reckon clear the new life's sterner need; + Fit days, for Feast of Expiation placed! + + + + + March + + + + Month which the warring ancients strangely styled + The month of war,--as if in their fierce ways + Were any month of peace!--in thy rough days + I find no war in Nature, though the wild + Winds clash and clang, and broken boughs are piled + At feet of writhing trees. The violets raise + Their heads without affright, without amaze, + And sleep through all the din, as sleeps a child. + And he who watches well may well discern + Sweet expectation in each living thing. + Like pregnant mother the sweet earth doth yearn; + In secret joy makes ready for the spring; + And hidden, sacred, in her breast doth bear + Annunciation lilies for the year. + + + + + April + + + + No days such honored days as these! When yet + Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide + For some fair thing which should forever bide + On earth, her beauteous memory to set + In fitting frame that no age could forget, + Her name in lovely April's name did hide, + And leave it there, eternally allied + To all the fairest flowers Spring did beget. + And when fair Aphrodite passed from earth, + Her shrines forgotten and her feasts of mirth, + A holier symbol still in seal and sign, + Sweet April took, of kingdom most divine, + When Christ ascended, in the time of birth + Of spring anemones, in Palestine. + + + + + May + + + + O month when they who love must love and wed! + Were one to go to worlds where May is naught, + And seek to tell the memories he had brought + From earth of thee, what were most fitly said? + I know not if the rosy showers shed + From apple-boughs, or if the soft green wrought + In fields, or if the robin's call be fraught + The most with thy delight. Perhaps they read + Thee best who in the ancient time did say + Thou wert the sacred month unto the old: + No blossom blooms upon thy brightest day + So subtly sweet as memories which unfold + In aged hearts which in thy sunshine lie, + To sun themselves once more before they die. + + + + + June + + + + O month whose promise and fulfilment blend, + And burst in one! it seems the earth can store + In all her roomy house no treasure more; + Of all her wealth no farthing have to spend + On fruit, when once this stintless flowering end. + And yet no tiniest flower shall fall before + It hath made ready at its hidden core + Its tithe of seed, which we may count and tend + Till harvest. Joy of blossomed love, for thee + Seems it no fairer thing can yet have birth? + No room is left for deeper ecstasy? + Watch well if seeds grow strong, to scatter free + Germs for thy future summers on the earth. + A joy which is but joy soon comes to dearth. + + + + + July + + + + Some flowers are withered and some joys have died; + The garden reeks with an East Indian scent + From beds where gillyflowers stand weak and spent; + The white heat pales the skies from side to side; + But in still lakes and rivers, cool, content, + Like starry blooms on a new firmament, + White lilies float and regally abide. + In vain the cruel skies their hot rays shed; + The lily does not feel their brazen glare. + In vain the pallid clouds refuse to share + Their dews; the lily feels no thirst, no dread. + Unharmed she lifts her queenly face and head; + She drinks of living waters and keeps fair. + + + + + August + + + + Silence again. The glorious symphony + Hath need of pause and interval of peace. + Some subtle signal bids all sweet sounds cease, + Save hum of insects' aimless industry. + Pathetic summer seeks by blazonry + Of color to conceal her swift decrease. + Weak subterfuge! Each mocking day doth fleece + A blossom, and lay bare her poverty. + Poor middle-aged summer! Vain this show! + Whole fields of golden-rod cannot offset + One meadow with a single violet; + And well the singing thrush and lily know, + Spite of all artifice which her regret + Can deck in splendid guise, their time to go! + + + + + September + + + + O golden month! How high thy gold is heaped! + The yellow birch-leaves shine like bright coins strung + On wands; the chestnut's yellow pennons tongue + To every wind its harvest challenge. Steeped + In yellow, still lie fields where wheat was reaped; + And yellow still the corn sheaves, stacked among + The yellow gourds, which from the earth have wrung + Her utmost gold. To highest boughs have leaped + The purple grape,--last thing to ripen, late + By very reason of its precious cost. + O Heart, remember, vintages are lost + If grapes do not for freezing night-dews wait. + Think, while thou sunnest thyself in Joy's estate, + Mayhap thou canst not ripen without frost! + + + + + October + + + + The month of carnival of all the year, + When Nature lets the wild earth go its way + And spend whole seasons on a single day. + The spring-time holds her white and purple dear; + October, lavish, flaunts them far and near; + The summer charily her reds doth lay + Like jewels on her costliest array; + October, scornful, burns them on a bier. + The winter hoards his pearls of frost in sign + Of kingdom: whiter pearls than winter knew, + Or Empress wore, in Egypt's ancient line, + October, feasting 'neath her dome of blue, + Drinks at a single draught, slow filtered through + Sunshiny air, as in a tingling wine! + + + + + November + + + + This is the treacherous month when autumn days + With summer's voice come bearing summer's gifts. + Beguiled, the pale down-trodden aster lifts + Her head and blooms again. The soft, warm haze + Makes moist once more the sere and dusty ways, + And, creeping through where dead leaves lie in drifts, + The violet returns. Snow noiseless sifts + Ere night, an icy shroud, which morning's rays + Will idly shine upon and slowly melt, + Too late to bid the violet live again. + The treachery, at last, too late, is plain; + Bare are the places where the sweet flowers dwelt. + What joy sufficient hath November felt? + What profit from the violet's day of pain? + + + + + December + + + + The lakes of ice gleam bluer than the lakes + Of water 'neath the summer sunshine gleamed: + Far fairer than when placidly it streamed, + The brook its frozen architecture makes, + And under bridges white its swift way takes. + Snow comes and goes as messenger who dreamed + Might linger on the road; or one who deemed + His message hostile gently for their sakes + Who listened might reveal it by degrees. + We gird against the cold of winter wind + Our loins now with mighty bands of sleep, + In longest, darkest nights take rest and ease, + And every shortening day, as shadows creep + O'er the brief noontide, fresh surprises find. + + + + + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's A Calendar of Sonnets, by Helen Hunt Jackson + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A CALENDAR OF SONNETS *** + +***** This file should be named 9825.txt or 9825.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/9/8/2/9825/ + +Produced by Distributed Proofreaders + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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