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anthology of massachusetts poets-第2部分
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Beneath some foreign arch of sky;
How many a time the rover
You or I;
For life oft sundered look from look;
And voice from voice; the transient dearth
Schooling my soul to brook
This distance that no messages may span;
Would chance
Upon our wilding by a lonely well;
Or drowsy watermill;
Or swaying to the chime of convent bell;
Or where the nightingales of old romance
With tragical contraltos fill
Dim solitudes of infinite desire;
And once I joyed to meet
Our peasant gadabout
A trespasser on trim; seigniorial seat;
Twinkling a saucy eye
As potentates paced by。
Our golden cord! our soft; pursuing flame
From friendship's altar fire!
How proudly we would pluck and tame
The dimpling clusters; mutinously gay!
How swiftly they were sent
Far; far away
On journeys wide;
By sea and continent;
Green miles and blue leagues over;
》From each of us to each;
That so our hearts might reach;
And touch within the yellow clover;
Love's letter to be glad about
Like sunshine when it came!
My sorrow asks no healing; it is love;
Let love then make me brave
To bear the keen hurts of
This careless summertide;
Ay; of our own poor flower;
Changed with our fatal hour;
For all its sunshine vanished when you died;
Only white clover blossoms on your grave。
KATHERINE LEE BATES
THE RETURNING
We long for her; we yearn for her
Yes; ardently we yearn
For her return。
Recalling those beloved days
(Days intimate with ways
Of friends so near to us
And life so dear to us);
We yearn unspeakably for her return。
And come she must。 。 。Yet while we trust
We soon may see the passing of this agony
Which makes intrusive years still seem
A fearsome dream;
We know that when she comes
She really comes not back again。
She'll come in other guise
And under fairer skies
And yet to bitter pain!
That day she went away
Our homes with laughing youth were filled。
Where then was happiness
Is now distress;
The laughter stilled;
For when she left
Youth followed her…
We stay bereft。
So all our golden joy
For what she brings
Must carry gray alloy:
The sorrow that she can not lay;
The mysery that she can not stay…
While all the gladsome songs she sings
Must bear for undertones
Old sighs and echoed moans。
As they who go away
In flush of youth
May come quite worn and gray
And bringing naught but ruth…
So; when the strife shall cease;
And when she comes at last;
When all the armies vast
Shall at her feet
Kneel down to greet
Thrice welcome Peace;
This world will be so changed
(So many dear ones dead;
So many friends estranged;
So many blessings fled;
So many wonted ways forever barred;
So many coming days forever marred)
That then
She truly comes not back again
She; the Peace we knew。
Yet how we long for her!
How ardently we yearn
For her return!
SYLVESTER BAXTER
TWO MOODS FROM THE HILL
I。
YOUTH
I LOVE to watch the world from here; for all
The numberless living portraits that are drawn
Upon the mind。 Far over is the sea;
Fronting the sand; a few great yellow dunes;
A salt marsh stumbling after; rank and green;
With brackish gullies wandering in between;
All this from the hill。
And more: a clump of dwarfed and twisted cedars;
Sentinels over the marsh; and bright with the sun
A field of daises wandering in the wind
As though a hidden serpent glided through;
A broken wall; a new…plowed field; and then
The dusty road and the abodes of men
Surrounding the hill。
How small the enclosure is wherein there lives
Each phase and passion of life; the distant sail
Dips in the limpid bosom of the sea;
》From that far place to where in state the turf
Raises a throne for me upon the hill;
Each little love and lust of a living thing
Can thus be compassed in a rainbow ring
And seen from the hill。
II。
AGE
Why did I build my cottage on a hill
Facing the sea?
Why did I plan each terraced lawn to slope
Down to the deep blue billowy breast of hope;
Surging and sweeping;
laughing and leaping;
Tumbling its garments of foam upon the shore;
Rustling the sands that know my step no more;
I should have found a valley; deep and still;
To shelter me。
There flows the river; and it seems asleep
So far away;
Yet I remember whip of wave and roar
Of wind that rose and smote against the oar;
Smote and retreated;
Proud but defeated;
While I rejoiced and rowed into the brine;
Drawing on wet and heavy …straining line
The great cod quivering from the deep
As counterplay。
What is the solace of these hills and vales
That rise and fall?
What is there glorious in the greenwood glen;
Or twittering thrush or wing of darting wren?
Give me the gusty;
Raucous and rusty
Call of the sea gull in the echoing sky;
The wild shriek of the winds that cannot die;
Give me the life that follows the bending sails;
Or none at all!
ERNEST BENSHIMOL
A BANQUET
ONE MEMORY FROM SOCRATES
AFTER the song the love; and after the love the play;
Flute girl and pretty boy blowing
Bubbles of sparkling
Wine into darkling
Beards of a former austerity; stern even now; but
Fast growing
Foolish; with less of a stately
Reserve that held them sedately。
Oh Zeus; what a sight! With the wine dripping off it;
The grin of an ass on a bald…pated prophet。
After the feast the night; and after the night the day;
Fool and philosopher stirring
With the day dawning;
Stretching and yawning;
While in each wine…throbbing; desolated brain is the
Wheeling and whirring
Of thousands of bats; that the slaking
Of throats will not hinder from aching;
No wine for the brow that is beating to bursting;
But water at morning is quench for the thirsting!
ERNEST BENSHIMOL
SONG
OUT of one heart the birds and I together;
Earth hushed in twilight;
Low through the live…oaks hung heavy with silver;
Gemmed with the sky…light;
Under the great wet star
Shaking with light; we jar
Lute…voiced the silence with intervaled music。
While under the margined world the slow sun
lingers;
Flaming earth's portal;
Over the lilac dusk spreads his great fingers…
Earth is immortal!
While the frail beauty dies。
Dream in the dreamer's eyes;
All the good gladness turns praise for the singers。
Hark; 'tis the breath of life! Hush! and I need it;
Northern; gigantic;…
Questing the silences; herding the sudden foam
Down the Atlantic;
Leaves from the autumn's store
Shrill at my desert door;
They and I out of one heart that is grieving。
GEORGE CABOT LODGE
THE WORLDS
I SAW an idler on a summer day
Piping with Iris by a dancing brook;
And all his world was rife with Pleasures gay;
And languid Follies smiled from every nook。
I saw an artist in a world of dreams;
His ra
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