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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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