The White Sail, and Other PoemsGuiney, Louise Imogen
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The White Sail, and Other Poems
Guiney, Louise Imogen
American poetry -- 19th century
FOR A CHILD 115
AGLAUS 116
AN AUDITOR 118
THE WATER-TEXT 119
CYCLAMEN 120
A PASSING SONG 124
IN TIME 125
THE WILD RIDE 126
THE LIGHT OF THE HOUSE 128
A LAST WORD ON SHELLEY 129
IMMUNITY 130
PAULA’S EPITAPH 131
JOHN BROWN: A PARADOX 132
Sonnets.
APRIL DESIRE 137
TWOFOLD SERVICE 138
IN THE GYMNASIUM 139
A SALUTATION 140
AT A SYMPHONY 141
SLEEP 142
THE ATONING YESTERDAY 143
‘RUSSIA UNDER THE CZARS’ 144
FOUR SONNETS FROM ‘LA VITA NUOVA’ 145
THE WHITE SAIL.
HIGH on the lone and wave-scarred porphyry,
The promontoried porch of Attica,
Past evenfall, sat he whose reverend hair
Down-glittered with the breaker’s volleying foam
Visioned before him in the level dark:
Ægeus, of wronged Pandion heir, and king.
And round about his knees, and at his feet,
In saffrons and sad greens alone bedight,
Sat, clustered in dim wayward sidelong groups
Sheer to the ocean’s edge, those liegemen fond
Who with him wished and wept. As thro’ the hours
Of ebbing autumn, on a northward hill,
Lies summer’s russet ruined panoply,
Knotted and heaped by the fantastic winds
Hap-hazard, while the first adventuring snow
Globes itself on the summit; so they clung
Secure among the rangèd crevices,
Month after month, and wakeful night on night
Vigilant; ever neighbored and o’ertopped
With that white presence, and the boding sky.
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