The Little Book of Modern Verse: A Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets
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The Little Book of Modern Verse: A Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets
American poetry
Tryste No|"el. [Louise Imogen Guiney]
His foot was wing|\ed as the mounting sun.
Bruis|\ed past healing by some bitter chance,
Who leads despis|\ed men, with just-unshackled feet,
Now limb doth mingle with dissolv|\ed limb
The cup of trembling shall be drain|\ed quite,
While all the thousand-fring|\ed trees
"Bless|\ed! but not as happier children blessed" --
And the far rose of P|aestum once did climb.
But most, his music whose belov|\ed name
For sun-filled ones, one bless|\ed thing unknown.
The curl|\ed lashes of Semiramis.
And like the peal of an accurs|\ed bell
The chaplain clasped his mail|\ed knee.
With steadfast lips and veil|\ed eyne;
I hold my peace, my Cle|"is, on my heart;
Beyond the lure of light Alc|aeus' lyre,
I saw two wing|\ed shadows side by side,
Around thine earth sun-wing|\ed winds do blow
About their fragile hairs' a|"erial gold.
From a barr|\ed door."
Peopled with fa|"ery glimmerings,
A fa|"ery world of memory,
Upon my lowly, thatch|\ed roof,
Laid gently on my seal|\ed sight,
Who combed their long hair at Thermopyl|ae's pass?
That Dvo|=rak took whole from the dancers.
C|aesar dreamed him a world ruled well;
Mad boy, for Glauc|"oe.
Wine-sweet are Glauc|"oe's kisses,
He seems to hearken, Glauc|"oe,
The wing|\ed breath of you.
With C|aesar's cohorts sang of thee,
An unseen, skillful, medi|aeval wall.
|Aeschylus wanders back.
As in the crevices of C|aesar's tomb
The mind conceived you, though the quench|\ed mind
Across his stretch|\ed vision as in dream --
Expunge the horrible C|aesars of this slum!"
In frill|\ed crimson flaunt the hollyhocks,
And yet that veil|\ed face, I know
Bless|\ed the angel, gazing on all good,
Yet wondrous faith in God's dew-drench|\ed morns --
He missed the medi|aeval grace
But sore am I with Vaine Trav|\el!
My heart shall p|aean sing,
myth or mysticism. His first volume was "Low Tide on Grand Pr|/e",
Mr. Le Gallienne has made an admirable paraphrase of the "Rub|/aiy|/at"
of Omar Khayy|/am and of a group of odes from the "Divan" of Hafiz.
studied at San Jos|/e Normal School and the University of California.
Born at Br|"un, Austria, though of American parentage, on April 8, 1879.
to study for the degree Doctorat |\es Lettres. This was conferred upon him
"Les Sentences dans la Po|/esie Grecque d'Hom|\ere |\a Euripide"
"El Dorado: A Tragedy", 1903; "Ab|/elard and H|/elo|"ise: A Drama", 1907.
studying during 1909 at G|"ottingen and during 1910
at the Sorbonne and the Biblioth|\eque Nationale of Paris.
Three different printings were used for comparison, all three of which
were apparently from the same plates. The punctuation in particular
was poorly printed, so even with three versions to choose from,
in a few cases the punctuation had to be guessed at.
The Acknowledgements section has been mostly omitted.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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