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but what
his doom yet eating of that tree
had been immortal life of shame and sin | img2poems |
where yet th' immortalizing tree doth grow
he shall there meet us and once more reveal
the fruit of life where crime is not nor woe | img2poems |
men say we differ'd they speak amiss
this man and i were neighbors ever
i would have ventured my life for his | img2poems |
sheltered and safe under roses blown
'_storm cannot touch me hail nor shower
where all alone i sit all alone | img2poems |
misty as dreams the moonbeam lyeth
the lady singeth the lady sigheth
'is there no more no more no more | img2poems |
mercy is startled and fain would fly
but e'en as she turns her steps o'ertaking
he pleads with her mercy it is but i | img2poems |
thine like thus differs form and presence laid
it is the unseen shade which risen hath pressed
above all heights where feet olympian strayed | img2poems |
a cottager leaned whispering by her hives
telling the bees some news as they lit down
and entered one by one their waxen town | img2poems |
and they are days when drops a veil
a mist upon the distance past
and while we say to peace all hail | img2poems |
dark fell the skies when once belated
sad and sorrow-fated i missed the sun
but wake heart and sing for not in vain i waited | img2poems |
leave the garden walls where blow
apple-blossoms pink and low
ordered beds of tulips fine | img2poems |
who hath most he yearneth most
sure as seldom heretofore
somewhere of the gracious more | img2poems |
for fuel at the ebb yon fair expanse
is strewed with driftwood by the breaking wave
and in the sea is fish for sustenance | img2poems |
i will build up the entrance of the cave
and leave therein a window and a door
and here will dwell and leave it nevermore | img2poems |
and soothed him long until the storm was spent
and the last thunder peal had died away
and stars were out in all the firmament | img2poems |
then did he cease to moan and slumbering lay
while in the welcome silence pure and deep
the care-worn parents sweetly fell asleep | img2poems |
once to that cottage door
in happy days of yore
my little love made footprints in the snow | img2poems |
she was so glad of spring
she helped the birds to sing
i know she dwells there yet the rest i do not know | img2poems |
i think but cannot tell
i think she loved me well
and some dear fancy with my future twined | img2poems |
but i shall never know
hope faints and lets it go
that passionate want forbid to speak its mind | img2poems |
and that's the best of it all
and when she blushes my heart so yearns
that tears are ready to fall | img2poems |
in their cups on yonder lea
cowslips fold the brown bee's diet
so the moss enfoldeth thee | img2poems |
youth was a pleasant morning but ah
to think 'tis fled
sae lang lang syne quo' her mother i too was young | img2poems |
i'd bear the long hours through
thou should'st forget and my sad breast
the sorrows twain should rue | img2poems |
the ring was a world too fine
and would it had sunk in a forty-fathom sea
ere the morn that made it mine | img2poems |
reach me life's wine and gold
what is man's best all told
if thou thyself withhold sweet from thy throne | img2poems |
o my liege lady
and o my loved lady
and o my heart's lady come reign there alone | img2poems |
'tis all gold and snow
save where scarlet waves are hurled
down yon gulf below | img2poems |
drop drop from the leaves of lign aloes
o honey-dew
drop from the tree | img2poems |
there is busy talk around me all about mine ears it hummeth
but the wooden wharves i look on and a dancing heaving buoy
for 'tis tidetime in the river and she cometh oh she cometh | img2poems |
bring her to to ship her lading brig or schooner sloop or lighter
with a pull'e haul'e pull'e haul'e yoy
heave hoy | img2poems |
what's the good though i be fair
for thou'lt never see me mair
man johnnie | img2poems |
fain would i thy small limbs fold
while the weary hours are told
little babe in cradle cold | img2poems |
long watchings leave behind them little trace
and yet how sweetly must the mornings pass
that bring that dreamy calmness to thy face | img2poems |
thy cheek is resting on thy hand thine eyes
are like twin violets but half unclosed
and quiet as the deeps in yonder skies | img2poems |
never more peacefully in love reposed
a mother's gaze upon her offspring dear
than thine upon the long far-stretching mere | img2poems |
it faded and she never saw it more
nor any human eye oh grief
oh woe | img2poems |
how could he be so late
and then hope fled
and disappointment darkened into dread | img2poems |
he journeyed on and as he neared the gate
he met with one to whom he named the maid
inquiring of her welfare and her state | img2poems |
thou also thou
must nobly do thy part
that honor leads thee on which holds back me | img2poems |
be not thy gratitude deceived
i know
thou think'st it is thy duty i will go | img2poems |
faultless and fair all in the moony light
as one ashamed she looked upon the ground
and her white raiment glistened in his sight | img2poems |
one year there was fulfilled of happiness
but o
it went so fast too fast away | img2poems |
the flowers sent forth their nightly odors faint
when in the darkness waiting he saw one
to whom he said how fareth my sweet saint | img2poems |
who answered she hath borne to you a son
then turning left him and the father said
god rain down blessings on his welcome head | img2poems |
woe and alas
the times of sorrow come
and make us doubt if we were ever glad | img2poems |
for sir though men be evil yet the deep
they dread and at the last will surely turn
to him and he long-suffering will forgive | img2poems |
he saith again: i pray thee woman peace
for thou wilt enter when that day appears
the fateful ship | img2poems |
then at the last i cried
'if the unseen be silent i will speak
and certify my meaning to myself | img2poems |
did they not spend much gear to gather out
such as i tell of and for matching them
one with another for a thousand years | img2poems |
what harm then if there came of it a race
inferior in their wits and in their size
and well content to serve | img2poems |
my mother was full old when i was born
and that was in her youth
what think you sir | img2poems |
and they are proud against the king of heaven
they hope in course of ages they shall come
to be as strong as he | img2poems |
laugh
o my heart
i would the voice were stilled | img2poems |
then light and cry to him 'great king the son
of old methuselah thy son hath sent
to fetch the growing maids his children home | img2poems |
but will the voice think you forbear to chide
nor that unseen who calleth buffet thee
and drive thee on | img2poems |
the giant elephants be cunning folk
they lie in ambush and will draw men on
to follow then will turn and tread them down | img2poems |
i must sit joyless in my place bereft
as trees that suddenly have dropped their leaves
and dark as nights that have no moon | img2poems |
i know it quoth he and she said again
the elder learning thou wouldst pass hath sent
to fetch thee then he rose and followed her | img2poems |
i looked it was a dream let no man say
it was aught else
there so the fit goes by | img2poems |
sir and my daughters is it eventide
sooner than that saith old methuselah
let the vulture lay his beak to my green limbs | img2poems |
would he could steal from thee one secret more
the secret of thy youth
o envious god | img2poems |
we die
the words of old methuselah
and his prophecy are ended | img2poems |
cowards
i heard them winnow their great wings
they went to tell him but they came no more | img2poems |
'behold behold
the earth that i made green cries out to me
red with the costly blood of beauteous man | img2poems |
thus marked he glowing on the branched moss
those red rare moons and let his serpent eyes
consider them full subtly what be these | img2poems |
then egg-like cracked the glowing balls and forth
started black angels trampling hard to free
their fettered feet from out the smoking shell | img2poems |
and when he looked
the dragon cried thou newly-fashioned thing
of name unknown thy scorn becomes thee not | img2poems |
but the dragon left a-tremble called to him
from the nether kingdom certain of his friends
three whom he trusted councillors accursed | img2poems |
or i most miserable hold my life
over the airless bottomless gulf and bide
the buffetings of yonder shoreless sea | img2poems |
a spirit rose and spake
whereas in heaven is power is much to fear
for this admired country we have marred | img2poems |
what if thy slaves by thy consent should take
and bear thee on their wings above the earth
and suddenly let fall how soon 't were o'er | img2poems |
and while the sullen camels moved he spake
to him that led the last there are but two
of these my sons but where doth japhet ride | img2poems |
that i have looked to for my solacing
in the bitterness to come
my children dear | img2poems |
and is this mine
said he my son
mine own | img2poems |
so japhet said
sir i am young but of my mother straight
i will go ask a wife that this may be | img2poems |
'tis not the manner of our kin to wed
so young
thou knowest it art thou not ashamed | img2poems |
for all did scorn her
nay they cried
o fool | img2poems |
o japhet well-beloved
and she rose up
and did restrain herself saying dost thou heed | img2poems |
japhet spoke
he said my father's slave and she replied
low drooping her fair head my master's son | img2poems |
nay but for mine
get hence
obey my words | img2poems |
japhet said o maid
sweet are thy words but what if i return
and all again be as it is to-day | img2poems |
though ye shall find it even as i had died
silent for any words i might have said
empty for any space i might have filled | img2poems |
then he rose
and put aside the curtains of the tent
to look upon his father's face and lo | img2poems |
then came a messenger while japhet sat
mournfully and he said the men of might
are willing let thy master youth appear | img2poems |
ye mighty ones
it hath been known to you these many days
how that for piety i am much famed | img2poems |
and satan answered nay you
be not wroth
yet true it is and yet not all the truth | img2poems |
thereat the great leader laughed for scorn
hold snake
if god be just there shall be reckoning days | img2poems |
turn now thy reason to the other side
and speak for that for as to justice snake
we would have none of it | img2poems |
should i forbear
that have been patient
i will not forbear | img2poems |
'but yet ' saith he
'repent and turn you
wherefore will ye die | img2poems |
turn then o turn while yet the enemy
untamed of man fatefully moans afar
for if ye will not turn the doom is near | img2poems |
then shall the crested wave make sport and beat
you mighty at your doors
will ye be wroth | img2poems |
repent and turn thee from thine evil ways
o son
and no more dare the wrath of love | img2poems |
they said a man or false or fanatic
may claim good audience if he fill our ears
with what is strange: and we would hear again | img2poems |
then one to japhet said
one called the cedar-tree dost thou too think
to reign upon our lands when we lie drowned | img2poems |
and he related to them all his ways
from the beginning: of the voice that called
moreover how the ship of doom was built | img2poems |
he then replied
what is thy thought
there is no miracle | img2poems |
but i have found another yea good sooth
the damsel will not tarry she will come
with all her slaves by sundown | img2poems |
and she said
comfort thy heart and eat: moreover know
how that thy great work even to-day is done | img2poems |
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