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  And the withering tongue

Chastened; do your weeping now。



Sing whatever songs are sung;

  Wind whatever wreath;

For a playmate perished young;



For a spirit spent in death。

Boys and girls that held her dear;

All you loved of her lies here。







SONNETS





I



We talk of taxes; and I call you friend;

Well; such you are;but well enough we know

How thick about us root; how rankly grow

Those subtle weeds no man has need to tend;

That flourish through neglect; and soon must send

Perfume too sweet upon us and overthrow

Our steady senses; how such matters go

We are aware; and how such matters end。

Yet shall be told no meagre passion here;

With lovers such as we forevermore

Isolde drinks the draught; and Guinevere

Receives the Table's ruin through her door;

Francesca; with the loud surf at her ear;

Lets fall the colored book upon the floor。





II



Into the golden vessel of great song

Let us pour all our passion; breast to breast

Let other lovers lie; in love and rest;

Not we;articulate; so; but with the tongue

Of all the world: the churning blood; the long

Shuddering quiet; the desperate hot palms pressed

Sharply together upon the escaping guest;

The common soul; unguarded; and grown strong。

Longing alone is singer to the lute;

Let still on nettles in the open sigh

The minstrel; that in slumber is as mute

As any man; and love be far and high;

That else forsakes the topmost branch; a fruit

Found on the ground by every passer…by。





III



Not with libations; but with shouts and laughter

We drenched the altars of Love's sacred grove;

Shaking to earth green fruits; impatient after

The launching of the colored moths of Love。

Love's proper myrtle and his mother's zone

We bound about our irreligious brows;

And fettered him with garlands of our own;

And spread a banquet in his frugal house。

Not yet the god has spoken; but I fear

Though we should break our bodies in his flame;

And pour our blood upon his altar; here

Henceforward is a grove without a name;

A pasture to the shaggy goats of Pan;

Whence flee forever a woman and a man。





IV



Only until this cigarette is ended;

A little moment at the end of all;

While on the floor the quiet ashes fall;

And in the firelight to a lance extended;

Bizarrely with the jazzing music blended;

The broken shadow dances on the wall;

I will permit my memory to recall

The vision of you; by all my dreams attended。

And then adieu;farewell!the dream is done。

Yours is a face of which I can forget

The color and the features; every one;

The words not ever; and the smiles not yet;

But in your day this moment is the sun

Upon a hill; after the sun has set。





V



Once more into my arid days like dew;

Like wind from an oasis; or the sound

Of cold sweet water bubbling underground;

A treacherous messenger; the thought of you

Comes to destroy me; once more I renew

Firm faith in your abundance; whom I found

Long since to be but just one other mound

Of sand; whereon no green thing ever grew。

And once again; and wiser in no wise;

I chase your colored phantom on the air;

And sob and curse and fall and weep and rise

And stumble pitifully on to where;

Miserable and lost; with stinging eyes;

Once more I clasp;and there is nothing there。





VI



No rose that in a garden ever grew;

In Homer's or in Omar's or in mine;

Though buried under centuries of fine

Dead dust of roses; shut from sun and dew

Forever; and forever lost from view;

But must again in fragrance rich as wine

The grey aisles of the air incarnadine

When the old summers surge into a new。

Thus when I swear; 〃I love with all my heart;〃

'Tis with the heart of Lilith that I swear;

'Tis with the love of Lesbia and Lucrece;

And thus as well my love must lose some part

Of what it is; had Helen been less fair;

Or perished young; or stayed at home in Greece。





VII



When I too long have looked upon your face;

Wherein for me a brightness unobscured

Save by the mists of brightness has its place;

And terrible beauty not to be endured;

I turn away reluctant from your light;

And stand irresolute; a mind undone;

A silly; dazzled thing deprived of sight

From having looked too long upon the sun。

Then is my daily life a narrow room

In which a little while; uncertainly;

Surrounded by impenetrable gloom;

Among familiar things grown strange to me

Making my way; I pause; and feel; and hark;

Till I become accustomed to the dark。





VIII



And you as well must die; beloved dust;

And all your beauty stand you in no stead;

This flawless; vital hand; this perfect head;

This body of flame and steel; before the gust

Of Death; or under his autumnal frost;

Shall be as any leaf; be no less dead

Than the first leaf that fell;this wonder fled。

Altered; estranged; disintegrated; lost。

Nor shall my love avail you in your hour。

In spite of all my love; you will arise

Upon that day and wander down the air

Obscurely as the unattended flower;

It mattering not how beautiful you were;

Or how beloved above all else that dies。





IX



Let you not say of me when I am old;

In pretty worship of my withered hands

Forgetting who I am; and how the sands

Of such a life as mine run red and gold

Even to the ultimate sifting dust; 〃Behold;

Here walketh passionless age!〃for there expands

A curious superstition in these lands;

And by its leave some weightless tales are told。



In me no lenten wicks watch out the night;

I am the booth where Folly holds her fair;

Impious no less in ruin than in strength;

When I lie crumbled to the earth at length;

Let you not say; 〃Upon this reverend site

The righteous groaned and beat their breasts in prayer。〃





X



Oh; my beloved; have you thought of this:

How in the years to come unscrupulous Time;

More cruel than Death; will tear you from my kiss;

And make you old; and leave me in my prime?

How you and I; who scale together yet

A little while the sweet; immortal height

No pilgrim may remember or forget;

As sure as the world turns; some granite night

Shall lie awake and know the gracious flame

Gone out forever on the mutual stone;

And call to mind that on the day you came

I was a child; and you a hero grown?

And the night pass; and the strange morning break

Upon our anguish for each other's sake!





XI



As to some lovely temple; tenantless

Long since; that once was sweet with shivering brass;

Knowing well its altars ruined and the grass

Grown up between the stones; yet from excess

Of grief hard driven; or great loneliness;

The worshiper returns; and those who pass

Marvel him crying on a name that was;

So is it now with me in my distress。

Your body was a temple to Delight;

Cold are its ashes whence the breath is fled;

Yet here one time your spirit was wont to move;

Here might I hope to find you day or night;

And here I come to look for you; my love;

Even now; foolishly; knowing you are dead。





XII



Cherish you then the hope I shall forget

At length; my lord; Pieria?put away

For your so passing sake; this mouth of clay

These mortal bones against my body set;

For all the puny fever and frail sweat

Of human love;renounce for these; I say;

The Singing Mountain's memory; and betray

The silent lyre that hangs upon me yet?

Ah; but indeed; some day shall you awake;

Rather; from dreams of me; that at your side

So many nights; a lover and a bride;

But stern in my soul's chastity; have lain;

To walk the world forever for my sake;

And in each chamber find me gone again!







WILD SWANS



I looked in my heart while the wild swans went over。

And what did I see I had not seen before?

Only a question less or a question more;

Nothing to match the flight of wild birds flying。

Tiresome heart; forever living and dying;

House witho

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