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O; what hadst thou to do with cruel Death;

  Who wast so full of life; or Death with thee;

  That thou shouldst die before thou hadst grown old!





III



I stand again on the familiar shore;

  And hear the waves of the distracted sea

  Piteously calling and lamenting thee;

  And waiting restless at thy cottage door。

The rocks; the sea…weed on the ocean floor;

  The willows in the meadow; and the free

  Wild winds of the Atlantic welcome me;

  Then why shouldst thou be dead; and come no more?

Ah; why shouldst thou be dead; when common men

  Are busy with their trivial affairs;

  Having and holding?  Why; when thou hadst read

Nature's mysterious manuscript; and then

  Wast ready to reveal the truth it bears;

  Why art thou silent!  Why shouldst thou be dead?





IV



River; that stealest with such silent pace

  Around the City of the Dead; where lies

  A friend who bore thy name; and whom these eyes

  Shall see no more in his accustomed place;

Linger and fold him in thy soft embrace

  And say good night; for now the western skies

  Are red with sunset; and gray mists arise

  Like damps that gather on a dead man's face。

Good night! good night! as we so oft have said

  Beneath this roof at midnight in the days

  That are no more; and shall no more return。

Thou hast but taken thy lamp and gone to bed;

  I stay a little longer; as one stays

  To cover up the embers that still burn。





V



The doors are all wide open; at the gate

  The blossomed lilacs counterfeit a blaze;

  And seem to warm the air; a dreamy haze

  Hangs o'er the Brighton meadows like a fate;

And on their margin; with sea…tides elate;

  The flooded Charles; as in the happier days;

  Writes the last letter of his name; and stays

  His restless steps; as if compelled to wait。

I also wait; but they will come no more;

  Those friends of mine; whose presence satisfied

  The thirst and hunger of my heart。  Ah me!

They have forgotten the pathway to my door!

  Something is gone from nature since they died;

  And summer is not summer; nor can be。







CHAUCER



An old man in a lodge within a park;

  The chamber walls depicted all around

  With portraitures of huntsman; hawk; and hound。

  And the hurt deer。  He listeneth to the lark;

Whose song comes with the sunshine through the dark

  Of painted glass in leaden lattice bound;

  He listeneth and he laugheth at the sound;

  Then writeth in a book like any clerk。

He is the poet of the dawn; who wrote

  The Canterbury Tales; and his old age

  Made beautiful with song; and as I read

I hear the crowing cock; I hear the note

  Of lark and linnet; and from every page

  Rise odors of ploughed field or flowery mead。







SHAKESPEARE



A vision as of crowded city streets;

  With human life in endless overflow;

  Thunder of thoroughfares; trumpets that blow

  To battle; clamor; in obscure retreats;

Of sailors landed from their anchored fleets;

  Tolling of bells in turrets; and below

  Voices of children; and bright flowers that throw

  O'er garden…walls their intermingled sweets!

This vision comes to me when I unfold

  The volume of the Poet paramount;

  Whom all the Muses loved; not one alone;

Into his hands they put the lyre of gold;

  And; crowned with sacred laurel at their fount;

  Placed him as Musagetes on their throne。







MILTON



I pace the sounding sea…beach and behold

  How the voluminous billows roll and run;

  Upheaving and subsiding; while the sun

  Shines through their sheeted emerald far unrolled;

And the ninth wave; slow gathering fold by fold

  All its loose…flowing garments into one;

  Plunges upon the shore; and floods the dun

  Pale reach of sands; and changes them to gold。

So in majestic cadence rise and fall

  The mighty undulations of thy song;

  O sightless bard; England's Maeonides!

And ever and anon; high over all

  Uplifted; a ninth wave superb and strong;

  Floods all the soul with its melodious seas。







KEATS



The young Endymion sleeps Endymion's sleep;

  The shepherd…boy whose tale was left half told!

  The solemn grove uplifts its shield of gold

  To the red rising moon; and loud and deep

The nightingale is singing from the steep;

  It is midsummer; but the air is cold;

  Can it be death?  Alas; beside the fold

  A shepherd's pipe lies shattered near his sheep。

Lo! in the moonlight gleams a marble white;

  On which I read: 〃Here lieth one whose name

  Was writ in water。〃  And was this the meed

Of his sweet singing?  Rather let me write:

  〃The smoking flax before it burst to flame

  Was quenched by death; and broken the bruised reed。〃







THE GALAXY



Torrent of light and river of the air;

  Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen

  Like gold and silver sands in some ravine

  Where mountain streams have left their channels bare!

The Spaniard sees in thee the pathway; where

  His patron saint descended in the sheen

  Of his celestial armor; on serene

  And quiet nights; when all the heavens were fair。

Not this I see; nor yet the ancient fable

  Of Phaeton's wild course; that scorched the skies

  Where'er the hoofs of his hot coursers trod;

But the white drift of worlds o'er chasms of sable;

  The star…dust that is whirled aloft and flies

  From the invisible chariot…wheels of God。







THE SOUND OF THE SEA



The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep;

  And round the pebbly beaches far and wide

  I heard the first wave of the rising tide

  Rush onward with uninterrupted sweep;

A voice out of the silence of the deep;

  A sound mysteriously multiplied

  As of a cataract from the mountain's side;

  Or roar of winds upon a wooded steep。

So comes to us at times; from the unknown

  And inaccessible solitudes of being;

  The rushing of the sea…tides of the soul;

And inspirations; that we deem our own;

  Are some divine foreshadowing and foreseeing

  Of things beyond our reason or control。







A SUMMER DAY BY THE SEA



The sun is set; and in his latest beams

  Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold;

  Slowly upon the amber air unrolled;

  The falling mantle of the Prophet seems。

From the dim headlands many a lighthouse gleams;

  The street…lamps of the ocean; and behold;

  O'erhead the banners of the night unfold;

  The day hath passed into the land of dreams。

O summer day beside the joyous sea!

  O summer day so wonderful and white;

  So full of gladness and so full of pain!

Forever and forever shalt thou be

  To some the gravestone of a dead delight;

  To some the landmark of a new domain。







THE TIDES



I saw the long line of the vacant shore;

  The sea…weed and the shells upon the sand;

  And the brown rocks left bare on every hand;

  As if the ebbing tide would flow no more。

Then heard I; more distinctly than before;

  The ocean breathe and its great breast expand;

  And hurrying came on the defenceless land

  The insurgent waters with tumultuous roar。

All thought and feeling and desire; I said;

  Love; laughter; and the exultant joy of song

  Have ebbed from me forever!  Suddenly o'er me

They swept again from their deep ocean bed;

  And in a tumult of delight; and strong

  As youth; and beautiful as youth; upbore me。







A SHADOW



I said unto myself; if I were dead;

  What would befall these children?  What would be

  Their fate; who now are looking up to me

  For help and furtherance?  Their lives; I said;

Would be a volume wherein I have read

  But the first chapters; and no longer see

  To read the rest of their dear history;

  So full of beauty and so full of dread。

Be comforted; the world is very old;

  And generations pass; as they have passed;

  A troop of shadows moving with the sun;

Thousands of times has the old tale been told;

  The world belongs to those who come the last;

  They will find hope and strength as we have done。







A NAMELESS GRAVE



〃A soldier of the Union mustered out;〃

  Is the inscription on an unknown grave

  At Newport News; beside the salt…sea wave;

  Nameless and dateless; sentinel or scout

Shot down in skirmish; or disastrous rout

  Of battle; when the loud artillery drave

  Its iron wedges through the ranks of brave

  And doomed battalions; storming the redoubt。

Thou unknown hero sleeping by the sea

  In thy forgotten grave! with secret shame

  I feel my pulses beat; my forehead burn;

When I remember thou hast given for me

  All that thou hadst; thy life; thy very name;

  And I can give thee nothing in return。







SLEEP



Lull me to sleep; ye winds; whose fitful sound

  Seems from some faint Aeolian harp…string caught;

  Seal up the hundred wakeful eyes of thought

  As Hermes with his lyre in sleep profound

The hundred wakeful eyes of Argus bound;


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