Febuary 1914
- magazine : New numbers
- numero : 11 - 1914
- date : 01 février 1914
- catégorie : Culture & arts
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Bloodybush Edge
Bloodybush Edge is a remote spot on the border-line between England
and Scotland, marked by a dumpy obelisk, on which is inscribed an
old scale of tolls. A rough sandy road runs down across the dark
moors, into England on the one hand, and into Scotland on the
other. It is a fine, starry night in early September. Daft Dick, a
fantastic figure, in appearance half-gamekeeper, halftramp {dressed
as he is in cast-off clothes of country-gentlemen) swings up the road
from the Scottish side, singing. -
Sonnet
Not with vain tears, when we're beyond the sun,
Well beat on the substantial doors, nor tread
Those dusty high-roads of the aimless dead
Plaintive for Earth; but rather turn and run -
A memory
Somewhile before the dawn I rose, and stept
Softly along the dim way to your room,
And found you sleeping in the quiet gloom,
And holiness about you as you slept. -
One Day
To-day I have been happy. All the day
I held the memory of you, and wove
Its laughter with the dancing light o' the spray,
And sowed the sky with tiny clouds of love,
And sent you following the white waves of sea,
And crowned your head with fancies, nothing worth,
Stray buds from that old dust of misery,
Being glad with a new foolish quiet mirth. -
Mutuability
They say there's a high windless world and strange,
Out of the wash of days and temporal tide,
Where Faith and Good, Wisdom and Truth abide,
Aeterna corpora, subject to no change. -
The olympians
It is in Crete, a many years ago :
Under a peak that strained in icy stone
To thrust an endless gesture at the stars. -
The poet to his mistress
If I should take
Less thought of gentleness
For your dear sake
Than for the poignant labours that possess
My blood, then surely by so much were signed
My shame and loss in the world's recording mind. -
Memory
One told me in the stress of days
Of ease that memory should bring,
And so I feared my trodden ways
For snares against my labouring.