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AND OTHER POEMS
BY
MAURICE HEWLETT
{Dôron Erôs Aidê} MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1913
Transcriber's Note Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Archaic
spellings have been retained. Greek words have been transliterated and
are shown between {braces}. The oe ligature has been transcribed as
[oe].
DEDICATION
Love owes tribute unto Death,
Being but a flower of breath,
Ev'n as thy fair body is
Moment's figure of the bliss
Dwelling in the mind of God
When He called thee from the sod,
Like a crocus up to start,
Gray eyed with a golden heart,
Out of earth, and point our sight
To thy eternal home of light. Here on earth is all we know:
To let our love as steadfast blow,
Open hearted to the sun,
Folded down when our day's done,
As thy flower that bids it be
Flower of thy charity.
'Tis not ours to boast or pray
Breath from us shall outlive clay;
'Tis not thine, thou Pitiful,
Set me task beyond my rule. Yet as young men carve on trees
Lovely names, and find in these
Solace in the after time,
So to have hid thee in my rhyme
Shall be comfort when I take
The lonely road. Then, for my sake,
Keep thou this my graven sigh,
And, that I may not all die,
Open it, and hear it tell,
Here was one who loved thee well. October 6, 1912.
CONTENTS PAGE HELEN REDEEMED 1
HYPSIPYLE 123
OREITHYIA 149
CLYTIÉ 155
LAI OF GOBERTZ 159
THE SAINTS' MAYING 169
THE ARGIVE WOMEN 173
GNATHO 187
TO THE GODS OF THE COUNTRY 193
FOURTEEN SONNETS
ALMA SDEGNOSA 197
THE WINDS' POSSESSION 198
ASPETTO REALE 199
KIN CONFESSED 200
QUEL GIORNO PIÙ 201
ABSENCE 202
PRESENCE 203
DREAM ANGUISH 204
HYMNIA BEATRIX 206
LUX E TENEBRIS 207
DUTY 208
WAGES 209
EYE SERVICE 210
CLOISTER THOUGHTS 211
THE CHAMBER IDYLL 213
EPIGRAMMATA
THE OLD HOUSE 217
BLUE IRIS 217
THE ROSEBUD 218
SPRING ON THE DOWN 218
SNOWY NIGHT 219
EVENING MOOD 219
THE PARTING 220
DEDICATION OF A BOOK 221
NOTE
Three of the Poems here published have appeared in book form already, in
the Volume called Songs and Meditations , long out of print.
HELEN REDEEMED
PROEM Sing of the end of Troy, and of that flood
Of passion by the blood
Of heroes consecrate, by poet's craft
Hallowed, if that thin waft
Of godhead blown upon thee stretch thy song
To span such store of strong
And splendid vision of immortal themes
Late harvested in dreams,
Albeit long years laid up in tilth. Most meet
Thou sing that slim and sweet
Fair woman for whose bosom and delight
Paris, as well he might,
Wrought all the woe, and held her to his cost
And Troy's, and won and lost
Perforce; for who could look on her or feel
Her near and not dare steal
One hour of her, or hope to hold in bars
Such wonder of the stars
Undimmed? As soon expect to cage the rose
Of dawn which comes and goes
Fitful, or leash the shadows of the hills,
Or music of upland rills
As Helen's beauty and not tarnish it
With thy poor market wit,
Adept to hue the wanton in the wild,
Defile the undefiled!
Yet by the oath thou swearedst, standing high
Where piled rocks testify
The holy dust, and from Therapnai's hold
Over the rippling wold
Didst look upon Amyklai's, where sunrise
First dawned in Helen's eyes,
Take up thy tale, good poet, strain thine art
To sing her rendered heart,
Given last to him who loved her first, nor swerved
From loving, but was nerved
To see through years of robbery and shame
Her spirit, a clear flame,
Eloquent of her birthright... Continue reading book >>
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