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anthology of massachusetts poets-第6部分

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VELVETS

(BY A BED OF PANSIES)



THIS pansy has a thinking face

Like the yellow moon。

This one has a face with white blots;

I call him the clown。

Here goes one down the grass

With a pretty look of plumpness;

She is a little girl going to school

With her hands in the pockets of her pinafore。

Her name is Sue。

I like this one; in a bonnet;

Waiting;

Her eyes are so deep!

But these on the other side;

These that wear purple and blue;

They are the Velvets;

The king with his cloak;

The queen with her gown;

The prince with his feather。

These are dark and quiet

And stay alone。

I know you; Velvets;

Color of Dark;

Like the pine…tree on the hill

When stars shine!



HILDA CONKLING





THE MOODS



THE Moods have laid their hands across my hair:

The Moods have drawn their fingers through my heart;

My hair shall never more lie smooth and bright;

But stir like tide…worn sea…weed; and my heart

Shall never more be glad of small sweet things;…

A wild rose; or a crescent moon;…a book

Of little verses; or a dancing child。

My heart turns crying from the rose and book;

My heart turns crying from the thin bright moon;

And weeps with useless sorrow for the child。

The Moods have loosed a wind to vex my hair;

And made my heart too wise; that was a child。



Now I shall blow like smitten candle…flame:

I shall desire all things that may not be:

The years; the stars; the souls of ancient men;

All tears that must; and smiles that may not be;

Yes; glimmering lights across a windy ford;

And vagrant voices on a darkened plain;

And holy things; and outcast things; and things;

Far too remote; frail…bodied to be plain。



My pity and my joy are grown alike。

I cannot sweep the strangeness from my heart。

The Moods have laid swift hands across my hair:

The Moods have drawn swift fingers through my heart。

FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS







HILL…FANTASY



SITTETH by the red cairn a brown One; a

hoofed One;

High upon the mountain; where the grasses fail。

Where the ash…trees flourish far their blazing

Bunches to the sun;

A brown One; a hoofed One; pipes against the gale。

Up scrambled I then; furry fingers helping me。



I was on the mountain; wandering; wandering;

No one but the pine trees and the white birch knew。

Over rocks I scrambled; looked up and saw that

Strange Thing;

Peaked ears and sharp horns; pricked against the

blue。



Oh; and; how he piped there! piped upon the high

reeds

Till the blue air crackled like a frost…film on a pool!

Oh; and how he spread himself; like a child whom

no one heeds;

Tumbled chuckling in the brook; all sleek and kind

and cool!



He had berries 'twixt his horns; crimson…red as

cochineal。;

Bobbing; wagging wantonly they tickled him; and oh;

How his deft lips puckered round the reed;

seemed to chase and steal

Sky…music; earth…music; tree…music low!

I said 〃Good…day; Thou!〃 He said; 〃Good…day;

Thou!〃

Wiped his reed against the spotted doe…skin on his back;

He said; 〃Come up here; and I will teach thee piping

now。

While the earth is singing so; for tunes we shall not

Lack。〃



Up scrambled I then; furry fingers helping me。

Up scrambled I。 So we sat beside the cairn。

Broad into my face laughed that horned Thing so

Naughtily。

Oh; it was a rascal of a woodland Satyr's bairn!



'So blow; and so; Thou! Move thy fingers faster; look!

Move them like the little leaves and whirling midges。

So!

Soon ‘twill twist like tendrils and out…twinkle like

the lost brook。

Move thy fingers merrily; and blow! Blow! Blow!〃



Brown One! Hoofed One! Beat time to keep me

Straight。

Kick it on the red stone; whistle in my ear。

Brush thy crimson berries in my face; then hold

Thy breath; for…wait!

Joy comes bubbling to me lips。 I pipe; oh; hear!



Blue sky; art glad of us? Green wood; art glad of

us?

Old hard…heart mountain; dost thou hear me; how

I blow?

Far away the sea…isles swim in sun…haze luminous。

Each one has a color like the seven…splendor bow。





Wind; wind; wind; dost thou mind me how I pipe;

Now?

Chipmunk chatt'ring in the beech; rabbit in the

brake?

Furry arm around my neck: 〃Oh; Thou art a brave

one; Thou!〃

Satyr; little satyr…friend; my heart with joy doth

ache !



Sky…music; earth…music; tree…music tremulous;

Water over steaming rocks; water in the shade;

Storm…tune and sun…tune; how they flock up unto us;

Sitting by the red cairn; gay and unafraid!



Brown One; Hoofed One; give me nimble hoofs;

Thou!

Give me furry fingers and a secret furry tail!

Pleasant are thy smooth horns: if their like were

on my brow

Might I not abide here; till the strong sun fail?



Oh; the sorry brown eyes!  Oh; the soft kind hand…

touch;

Sudden brush of velvet ears across my wind…cool

cheek!

〃Play…mate; Pipe…mate; thou askest one good boon

too much。

I could never find thee horns; though day…long

I seek。



〃Yet; keep the pipe; Thou: I will cut another one。

Keep the pipe and play on it for all the world to hear。

Ah; but it was good once to sit together in the sun!

Though I have but half a soul; it finds thee very

dear!



〃Wise Thing; Mortal Thing; yet my half…soul fears thee!

Take the pipe and go thy ways;quick now; for

the sun

Reels across the hot west and stumbles dazzled to

the sea。

Take the pipe; and oh…one kiss! then run; run; run! run!〃



Silence on the mountain。  Lonely stands the high cairn;

All the leaves a…shivering; all the stones dead…gray。

O thou cold small pipe; which way is fled that

Satyr's bairn?

I am lost and all alone; and down drops the day。





I was on the mountain; wandering; wandering

There I got this Pipe o' dreams。  Strange; when

I blow;

Something deep as human love starts a…crying;

troubling。

Is it only sky…music; earth…music low?



FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS





THE MIRAGE



ACROSS the Bay are low…lying cliffs;

Where stand fishermen's cottages:

I can barely distinguish them with the naked eye。

But to…day the cliffs are lifted; escarpt;

Perpendicular; mysterious; inaccessible;

And those sordid dwellings have become

The magnificent fortified castles of Sea…kings。



NATHAN HASKELL DOLE





THE ROAD BEYOND THE TOWN



A ROAD goes up a pleasant hill;

And a little house looks down:

Ah! but I see the roadway still

And the day I left the town。



The day I left my father's home;

It's many a year ago;

And a heart and hope were brave to roam

the long; long road I know。



The long; long road by hill and plain;

It's tired the heart might be:



But hope stayed bright in sun or rain;

And a Voice that called to me。



A Voice that called me over the hill

And out of the little town:

Ah! but I see the roadway still。

And the good house looking down。



The house that spake me never a No!

As I started brave away;

But said with a blessing; Go!

And followed m
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