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ELAINE



OH; come again to Astolat!

  I will not ask you to be kind。

And you may go when you will go;

  And I will stay behind。



I will not say how dear you are;

  Or ask you if you hold me dear;

Or trouble you with things for you

  The way I did last year。



So still the orchard; Lancelot;

  So very still the lake shall be;

You could not guessthough you should guess

  What is become of me。



So wide shall be the garden…walk;

  The garden…seat so very wide;

You needs must thinkif you should think

  The lily maid had died。



Save that; a little way away;

  I'd watch you for a little while;

To see you speak; the way you speak;

  And smile;if you should smile。







BURIAL



Mine is a body that should die at sea!

  And have for a grave; instead of a grave

Six feet deep and the length of me;

  All the water that is under the wave!



And terrible fishes to seize my flesh;

  Such as a living man might fear;

And eat me while I am firm and fresh;

  Not wait till I've been dead for a year!







MARIPOSA



Butterflies are white and blue

In this field we wander through。

Suffer me to take your hand。

Death comes in a day or two。



All the things we ever knew

Will be ashes in that hour;

Mark the transient butterfly;

How he hangs upon the flower。



Suffer me to take your hand。

Suffer me to cherish you

Till the dawn is in the sky。

Whether I be false or true;

Death comes in a day or two。







THE LITTLE HILL



OH; here the air is sweet and still;

  And soft's the grass to lie on;

And far away's the little hill

  They took for Christ to die on。



And there's a hill across the brook;

  And down the brook's another;

But; oh; the little hill they took;

  I think I am its mother!



The moon that saw Gethsemane;

  I watch it rise and set:

It has so many things to see;

  They help it to forget。



But little hills that sit at home

  So many hundred years;

Remember Greece; remember Rome;

  Remember Mary's tears。



And far away in Palestine;

  Sadder than any other;

Grieves still the hill that I call mine;

  I think I am its mother!







DOUBT NO MORE THAT OBERON



Doubt no more that Oberon

Never doubt that Pan

Lived; and played a reed; and ran

After nymphs in a dark forest;

In the merry; credulous days;

Lived; and led a fairy band

Over the indulgent land!

Ah; for in this dourest; sorest

Age man's eye has looked upon;

Death to fauns and death to fays;

Still the dog…wood dares to raise

Healthy tree; with trunk and root

Ivory bowls that bear no fruit;

And the starlings and the jays

Birds that cannot even sing

Dare to come again in spring!







LAMENT



Listen; children:

Your father is dead。

From his old coats

I'll make you little jackets;

I'll make you little trousers

From his old pants。

There'll be in his pockets

Things he used to put there;

Keys and pennies

Covered with tobacco;

Dan shall have the pennies

To save in his bank;

Anne shall have the keys

To make a pretty noise with。

Life must go on;

And the dead be forgotten;

Life must go on;

Though good men die;

Anne; eat your breakfast;

Dan; take your medicine;

Life must go on;

I forget just why。







EXILED



Searching my heart for its true sorrow;

  This is the thing I find to be:

That I am weary of words and people;

  Sick of the city; wanting the sea;



Wanting the sticky; salty sweetness

  Of the strong wind and shattered spray;

Wanting the loud sound and the soft sound

  Of the big surf that breaks all day。



Always before about my dooryard;

  Marking the reach of the winter sea;

Rooted in sand and dragging drift…wood;

  Straggled the purple wild sweet…pea;



Always I climbed the wave at morning;

  Shook the sand from my shoes at night;

That now am caught beneath great buildings;

  Stricken with noise; confused with light。



If I could hear the green piles groaning

  Under the windy wooden piers;

See once again the bobbing barrels;

  And the black sticks that fence the weirs;



If I could see the weedy mussels

  Crusting the wrecked and rotting hulls;

Hear once again the hungry crying

  Overhead; of the wheeling gulls;



Feel once again the shanty straining

  Under the turning of the tide;

Fear once again the rising freshet;

  Dread the bell in the fog outside;



I should be happy;that was happy

  All day long on the coast of Maine!

I have a need to hold and handle

  Shells and anchors and ships again!



I should be happy; that am happy

  Never at all since I came here。

I am too long away from water。

  I have a need of water near。







THE DEATH OF AUTUMN



When reeds are dead and a straw to thatch the marshes;

And feathered pampas…grass rides into the wind

Like aged warriors westward; tragic; thinned

Of half their tribe; and over the flattened rushes;

Stripped of its secret; open; stark and bleak;

Blackens afar the half…forgotten creek;

Then leans on me the weight of the year; and crushes

My heart。  I know that Beauty must ail and die;

And will be born again;but ah; to see

Beauty stiffened; staring up at the sky!

Oh; Autumn!  Autumn!What is the Spring to me?







ODE TO SILENCE



  Aye; but she?

  Your other sister and my other soul

  Grave Silence; lovelier

  Than the three loveliest maidens; what of her?

  Clio; not you;

  Not you; Calliope;

  Nor all your wanton line;

  Not Beauty's perfect self shall comfort me

  For Silence once departed;

  For her the cool…tongued; her the tranquil…hearted;

  Whom evermore I follow wistfully;

Wandering Heaven and Earth and Hell and the four seasons through;

Thalia; not you;

Not you; Melpomene;

Not your incomparable feet; O thin Terpsichore;

I seek in this great hall;

But one more pale; more pensive; most beloved of you all。

I seek her from afar;

I come from temples where her altars are;

From groves that bear her name;

Noisy with stricken victims now and sacrificial flame;

And cymbals struck on high and strident faces

Obstreperous in her praise

They neither love nor know;

A goddess of gone days;

Departed long ago;

Abandoning the invaded shrines and fanes

Of her old sanctuary;

A deity obscure and legendary;

Of whom there now remains;

For sages to decipher and priests to garble;

Only and for a little while her letters wedged in marble;

Which even now; behold; the friendly mumbling rain erases;

And the inarticulate snow;

Leaving at last of her least signs and traces

None whatsoever; nor whither she is vanished from these places。

〃She will love well;〃 I said;

〃If love be of that heart inhabiter;

The flowers of the dead;

The red anemone that with no sound

Moves in the wind; and from another wound

That sprang; the heavily…sweet blue hyacinth;

That blossoms underground;

And sallow poppies; will be dear to her。

And will not Silence know

In the black shade of what obsidian steep

Stiffens the white narcissus numb with sleep?

(Seed which Demeter's daughter bore from home;

Uptorn by desperate fingers long ago;

Reluctant even as she;

Undone Persephone;

And even as she set out again to grow

In twilight; in perdition's lean and inauspicious loam)。

She will love well;〃 I said;

〃The flowers of the dead;

Where dark Persephone the winter round;

Uncomforted for home; uncomforted;

Lacking a sunny southern slope in northern Sicily;

With sullen pupils focussed on a dream;

Stares on the stagnant stream

That moats the unequivocable battlements of Hell;

There; there will she be found;

She that is Beauty veiled from men and Music in a swound。〃



〃I long for Silence as they long for breath

Whose helpless nostrils drink the bitter sea;

What thing can be

So stout; what so redoubtable; in Death

What fury; what considera

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