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Bliss Carman
Richard Hovey
Designs by
Tom B. Meteyard
Boston: Copeland and Day
London: Elkin Mathews MDCCCXCVI
To M. G. M., so good to lighten cares,
The boys inscribe this second book of theirs.
CONTENTS.
JONGLEURS 1
EARTH'S LYRIC 5
THE WOOD GOD 6
A FAUN'S SONG 7
QUINCE TO LILAC 7
AN EASTER MARKET 11
DAISIES 13
THE MOCKING BIRD 13
KARLENE 14
KARLENE 16
CONCERNING KAVIN 21
KAVIN AGAIN 21
ACROSS THE TABLE 21
BARNEY MCGEE 22
THE SEA GYPSY 25
SPEECH AND SILENCE 26
SECRETS 26
THE FIRST JULEP 26
A STEIN SONG 27
THE UNSAINTING OF KAVIN 28
IN THE WAYLAND WILLOWS 29
WHEN I WAS TWENTY 31
IN A SILENCE 32
THE BATHER 33
NOCTURNE: IN ANJOU 33
NOCTURNE: IN PROVENCE 34
JUNE NIGHT IN WASHINGTON 35
A SONG FOR MARNA 38
SEPTEMBER WOODLANDS 38
NANCIBEL 39
A VAGABOND SONG 39
THREE OF A KIND 40
WOOD FOLK LORE 42
AT MICHAELMAS 44
THE MOTHER OF POETS 48
A GOOD BY 49
IN A COPY OF BROWNING 49
SHAKESPEARE HIMSELF 53
AT THE ROAD HOUSE 56
VERLAINE 58
DISTILLATION 59
A FRIEND'S WISH 59
LAL OF KILRUDDEN 60
HUNTING SONG 61
BUIE ANNAJOHN 62
MARY OF MARKA 63
PREMONITION 63
THE HEARSE HORSE 64
THE NIGHT WASHERS 64
MR. MOON 66
HEM AND HAW 70
ACCIDENT IN ART 71
IN A GARDEN 71
AT THE END OF THE DAY 72
And ever with the vanguard
The vagrant singers come
The gamins of the city
Who dance before the drum
JONGLEURS.
What is the stir in the street?
Hurry of feet!
And after,
A sound as of pipes and of tabers! Men of the conflicts and labors,
Struggling and shifting and shoving,
Pushing and pounding your neighbors,
Fighting for leeway for laughter,
Toiling for leisure for loving!
Hark, through the window and up to the rafter,
Madder and merrier,
Deeper and verier,
Sweeter, contrarier,
Dafter and dafter,
A song arises,
A thrill, an intrusion,
A reel, an illusion,
A rapture, a crisis
Of bells in the air! Ay, up from your work and look out of the window!
"Who are the newcomers, Arab or Hindoo?
Persians, or Japs, or the children of Isis?"
Guesses, surmises
Forth with you, fare
Down in the street to draw nearer and stare!
Come from your palaces, come from your hovels!
Lay down your ledgers, your picks and your shovels,
Your trowels and bricks,
Hammers and nails,
Scythes and flails,
Bargains and sales,
And the trader's tricks,
Deals, overreachings,
Worries and griefs,
Teachings and preachings,
Boluses, briefs,
Writs and attachments,
Quarterings, hatchments,
Clans and cognomens,
Comments and scholia,
(World's melancholia)
Cast them aside, and good riddance to rubbish!
Here at the street corner, hearken, a strain,
Rough and off hand and a bit rub a dub ish,
Gives us a taste of the life we'd attain. Who are they, what are they, whence have they come to us?
Where will they go when their singing is done?
What is the garb they wear, tattered and sumptuous,
Faded with days and superb in the sun?
What are they singing of?
Hush!
... There's a ringing of
Delicate chimes;
And the blush
Of a veiled bride morning
Beats in the rhymes.
Listen!
Out of the merriment,
Clear as the glisten
Of dew on the brier,
A silver warning!
Sudden, a dare
Lyric experiment
Up like a lark in the air,
Higher and higher and higher,
The song shoots out of our blunder
Of thought to the blue sky of wonder,
And broken strains only fall down
Like pearls on the roofs of the town... Continue reading book >>
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