Hephaestus, Persephone at Enna and Sappho in Leucadia by Arthur Stringer

Author:Arthur Stringer [Stringer, Arthur]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-09-06T22:00:00+00:00

Phaon

Your voice, like dew, falls deep in my dry heart,

And like a bell your name swings through my dreams;

Now all my being throbs and cries for you;

Come back with me; but come, and I will speak

A thousand gentle words for each poor tear

That dimmed your eyes! Come back, and I will crown

Your days with love so enduring it shall light

The eternal stars to bed!

Sappho

Ask me no more,—

My Phaon, you must ask me nevermore:

Though Music pipe from Memory’s darkest pine

Her tenderest note, all time her wings are torn;

The assuaging founts of tears themselves have failed.

Life to the lees I drained, and I have grown

Too lightly wayward with its wine of love,

Too sadly troubled with its wind of change,

And some keen madness burns through all my blood.

The whimpering velvet whelps of Passion once

I warmed in my white breast, and now full-grown

And gaunt they stalk me naked through the world;

Too fondly now I bend unto the fierce

Necessity of bliss, yet in each glow

Of golden angour yearn forever toward

Some quiet gloom where plead the nightingales

Of lustral hope. I am a garden old

Where drift dead blossoms now and broken dreams

And only ghosts of old pale Sorrows walk.

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