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Enamels and Cameos and other Poems By: Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) |
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BY THÉOPHILE GAUTIER TRANSLATED BY AGNES LEE CONTENTS
The God and the Opal
Preface
Affinity A Pantheistic Madrigal
The Poem of Woman Marble of Paros
A Study of Hands
I Imperia
II Lacenaire
Variations on the Carnival of Venice:
I On the Street
II On the Lagoons
III Carnival
IV Moonlight
Symphony in White Major
Coquetry in Death
Heart's Diamond
Spring's First Smile
Contralto
Eyes of Blue
The Toreador's Serenade
Nostalgia of the Obelisks:
I The Obelisk in Paris
II The Obelisk in Luxor
Veterans of the Old Guard, December 15
Sea Gloom
To a Rose Coloured Gown
The World's Malicious
Ines de las Sierras To Petra Camara
Odelet, After Anacreon
Smoke
Apollonia
The Blind Man
Song
Winter Fantasies
The Brook
Tombs and Funeral Pyres
Bjorn's Banquet
The Watch
The Mermaids
Two Love Locks
The Tea Rose
Carmen
What the Swallows Say An Autumn Song
Christmas
The Dead Child's Playthings
After Writing My Dramatic Review
The Castle of Rembrance
Camellia and Meadow Daisy
The Fellah A Water Colour by Princess Mathilde
The Garret
The Cloud
The Blackbird
The Flower that Makes the Springtime
A Last Wish
The Dove
A Pleasant Evening
Art
THE GOD AND THE OPAL
TO THÉOPHILE GAUTIER Gray caught he from the cloud, and green from earth,
And from a human breast the fire he drew,
And life and death were blended in one dew.
A sunbeam golden with the morning's mirth,
A wan, salt phantom from the sea, a girth
Of silver from the moon, shot colour through
The soul invisible, until it grew
To fulness, and the Opal Song had birth. And then the god became the artisan.
With rarest skill he made his gem to glow,
Carving and shaping it to beauty such
That down the cycles it shall gleam to man,
And evermore man's wonderment shall know
The perfect finish, the immortal touch. Agnes Lee. PREFACE When empires lay riven apart,
Fared Goethe at battle time's thunder
To fragrant oases of art,
To weave his Divan into wonder. Leaving Shakespeare, he pondered the note
Of Nisami, and heard in his leisure
The hoopoe's weird monody float,
And set it to soft Orient measure. As Goethe at Weimar delayed
And dreamed in the fair garden closes,
And, questing in sun or in shade,
With Hafiz plucked redolent roses, I, closed from the tempest that shook
My window with fury impassioned,
Sat dreaming, and, safe in my nook,
Enamels and Cameos fashioned. AFFINITY
A PANTHEISTIC MADRIGAL On an ancient temple gleaming,
Two great blocks of marble high
Thrice a thousand years lay dreaming
Dreams against an Attic sky. Set within one silver whiteness,
Two wave tears for Venus shed,
Two fair pearls of orient brightness,
Through the waste of water sped. In the Generalife's fresh closes,
By a Moorish light illumed,
Two delicious, tender roses
By a fountain met and bloomed. In the balm of May's bright weather,
Where the domes of Venice rise,
Lighted on Love's nest together
Two pale doves from azure skies. All things vanish into wonder,
Marble, pearl, dove, rose on tree,
Pearl shall melt and marble sunder,
Flower shall fade and bird shall flee! Not a smallest part but lowly
Through the crucible must pass,
Where all shapes are molten slowly
In the universal mass. Then as gradual Time discloses
Marbles melt to whitest skin,
Roses red to lips of roses,
And anew the lives begin. And again the doves are plighted
In the hearts of lovers, while
Ocean pearls are reunited,
Set within a coral smile. Thus affinity comes welling;
By its beauty everywhere
Soul a sister soul foretelling,
All awakened and aware. Quickened by a zephyr sunny,
Or a perfume, subtlewise,
As the bee unto the honey,
Atom unto atom flies. And remembered are the hours
In the temple, down the blue,
And the talks amid the flowers,
Near the fount of crystal dew, Kisses warm, and on the royal
Golden domes the wings that beat;
For the atoms all are loyal,
And again must love and greet. Love forgotten wakes imperious,
For the past is never dead,
And the rose with joy delirious
Breathes again from lips of red... Continue reading book >>
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