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You stand forever�察�nearer God than I��

And in your hands with faith and utter joy

I would that I could lay my woman's soul。

   *  *  *  *  *  *

Oh�察�my love

To whom I cannot come with any gift

Of body or of soul�察�I pass and go。

But sometimes when you hear blown back to you

My wistful�察�far´off singing touched with tears��

Know that I sang for you alone to hear��

And that I wondered if the wind would bring

To him who tuned my heart its distant song。

So might a woman who in loneliness

Had borne a child�察�dreaming of days to come��

Wonder if it would please its father's eyes。

But long before I ever heard your name��

Always the undertone's unchanging note









RIVERS TO THE SEA



In all my singing had prefigured you��

Foretold you as a spark foretells a flame。

Yet I was free as an untethered cloud

In the great space between the sky and sea��

And might have blown before the wind of joy

Like a bright banner woven by the sun。

I did not know the longing in the night

You who have waked me cannot give me sleep。

All things in all the world can rest�察�but I��

Even the smooth brief respite of a wave

When it gives up its broken crown of foam��

Even that little rest I may not have。

And yet all quiet loves of friends�察�all joy

In all the piercing beauty of the world

I would give upgo blind forevermore��

Rather than have God blot from out my soul

Remembrance of your voice that said my name。

   *   *   *   *   *   *

For us no starlight stilled the April fields��

No birds awoke in darkling trees for us��









RIVERS TO THE SEA



Yet where we walked the city's street that night

Felt in our feet the singing fire of spring��

And in our path we left a trail of light

Soft as the phosphorescence of the sea

When night submerges in the vessel's wake

A heaven of unborn evanescent stars。









VIGNETTES OVERSEAS



I



Off Gibraltar



BEYOND the sleepy hills of Spain��

   The sun goes down in yellow mist��

The sky is fresh with dewy stars

   Above a sea of amethyst。



Yet in the city of my love

   High noon burns all the heavens bare

For him the happiness of light��

   For me a delicate despair。





II



Off Algiers



Oh give me neither love nor tears��

   Nor dreams that sear the night with fire��

Go lightly on your pilgrimage

   Unburdened by desire。









RIVERS TO THE SEA

Forget me for a month�察�a year��

   But�察�oh�察�beloved�察�think of me

When unexpected beauty burns

   Like sudden sunlight on the sea。





III



Naples



Nisida and Prosida are laughing in the light��

Capri is a dewy flower lifting into sight��

Posilipo kneels and looks in the burnished sea��

Naples crowds her million roofs close as close can be��

Round about the mountain's crest a flag of smoke is hung

Oh when God made Italy he was gay and young��





IV



Capri



When beauty grows too great to bear

   How shall I ease me of its ache��









RIVERS TO THE SEA



For beauty more than bitterness

   Makes the heart break。



Now while I watch the dreaming sea

   With isles like flowers against her breast��

Only one voice in all the world

   Could give me rest。





V



Night Song at Amalfi



I asked the heaven of stars

   What I should give my love

It answered me with silence��

   Silence above。



I asked the darkened sea

   Down where the fishers go

It answered me with silence��

   Silence below。



Oh�察�I could give him weeping��

   Or I could give him song









RIVERS TO THE SEA



But how can I give silence

My whole life long��





VI



Ruins of Paestum



On lowlands where the temples lie

   The marsh´grass mingles with the flowers��

Only the little songs of birds

   Link the unbroken hours。



So in the end�察�above my heart

   Once like the city wild and gay��

The slow white stars will pass by night��

   The swift brown birds by day。





VII



Rome



Oh for the rising moon

   Over the roofs of Rome��

And swallows in the dusk

   Circling a darkened dome��









RIVERS TO THE SEA



Oh for the measured dawns

   That pass with folded wings

How can I let them go

   With unremembered things��





VIII



Florence



The bells ring over the Anno��

   Midnight�察�the long�察�long chime��

Here in the quivering darkness

   I am afraid of time。



Oh�察�gray bells cease your tolling��

   Time takes too much from me��

And yet to rock and river

   He gives eternity。





IX



Villa Serbelloni�察�Bellaggio



The fountain shivers lightly in the rain��

   The laurels drip�察�the fading roses fall��









RIVERS TO THE SEA



The marble satyr plays a mournful strain

   That leaves the rainy fragrance musical。



Oh dripping laurel�察�Phoebus sacred tree��

   Would that swift Daphne's lot might come to me��

Then would I still my soul and for an hour

   Change to a laurel in the glancing shower。





X



Stresa



The moon grows out of the hills

   A yellow flower��

The lake is a dreamy bride

   Who waits her hour。



Beauty has filled my heart��

   It can hold no more��

It is full�察�as the lake is full��

   From shore to shore。











RIVERS TO THE SEA





XI



Hamburg



The day that I come home��

   What will you find to say��

Words as light as foam

   With laughter light as spray��



Yet say what words you will

   The day that I come home��

I shall hear the whole deep ocean

   Beating under the foam。











V



SAPPHO







SAPPHO



I



MIDNIGHT�察�and in the darkness not a sound��

So�察�with hushed breathing�察�sleeps the autumn night��

Only the white immortal stars shall know��

Here in the house with the low´lintelled door��

How�察�for the last time�察�I have lit the lamp。

I think you are not wholly careless now��

Walls that have sheltered me so many an hour��

Bed that has brought me ecstasy and sleep��

Floors that have borne me when a gale of joy

Lifted my soul and made me half a god。

Farewell�  �Across the threshold many feet

Shall pass�察�but never Sappho's feet again。

Girls shall come in whom love has made aware

Of all their swaying beautythey shall sing��









RIVERS TO THE SEA



But never Sappho's voice�察�like golden fire��

Shall seek for heaven thru your echoing rafters。

There shall be swallows bringing back the spring

Over the long blue meadows of the sea��

And south´wind playing on the reeds of rain��

But never Sappho's whisper in the night��

Never her love´cry when the lover comes。

Farewell�   �I close the door and make it fast。

   *   *   *   *   *   *

The little street lies meek beneath the moon��

Running�察�as rivers run�察�to meet the sea。

I too go seaward and shall not return。

Oh garlands on the doorposts that I pass��

Woven of asters and of autumn leaves��

I make a prayer for you�此�Cypris be kind��

That every lover may be given love。

I shall not hasten lest the paving stones

Should echo with my sandals and awake

Those who are warm beneath the cloak of sleep��

Lest they should rise and see me and should say��









RIVERS TO THE SEA



;Whither goes Sappho lonely in the night�拭�

Whither goes Sappho�拭 �Whither all men go��

But they go driven�察�straining back with fear��

And Sappho goes as lightly as a leaf

Blown from brown autumn forests to the sea。

   *   *   *   *   *   *

Here on the rock Zeus lifted from the waves��

I shall await the waking of the dawn��

Lying beneath the weight of dark as one

Lies breathless�察�till the lover shall awake。

And with the sun the sea shall cover me

I shall be less than the dissolving foam

Murmuring and melting on the ebbing tide��

I shall be less than spindrift�察�less than shells��

And yet I shall be greater than the gods��

For destiny no more can bow my soul

As rain bows down the watch´fires on the hills。

Yes�察�if my soul escape it shall aspire

To the white heaven as flame that has its will。

I go not bitterly�察�not dumb with pain��









RIVERS TO THE SEA



Not broken by the ache of loveI go

As one grown tired lies down and hopes to sleep。

Yet they shall say�此 �It was for Cercolas��

She died because she could not bear her love。;

They shall remember how we used to walk

Here on the cliff beneath the oleanders

In the long limpid twilight of the spring��

Looking toward Lemnos�察�where the amber sky

Was pierced with the faint arrow of a star。

How should they know the wind of a new beauty

Sweeping my soul had winnowed it with song��

I have been glad tho' love should come or go��

Happy as trees that find a wind to sway them��

Happy again when it has left them rest。

Others shall say�察 �Grave Dica wrought her death。

She would not lift her lips to take a kiss��

Or ever lift her eyes to take a smile。

She was a pool the winter paves with ice

That the wild hunter in the hills must leave

With thirst unslaked in the brief southward sun。;









RIVERS TO THE SEA



Ah Dica�察�it is not for thee I go��

And not for Phaon�察�tho' his ship lifts sail

Here in the windless harbor for the south。

Oh�察�darkling deities that guard the Nile��

Watch over one whose gods are far away。

Egypt�察�be kind to him�察�his eyes are deep

Yet they are wrong who say it was for him。

How should they know that Sappho lived and died

Faithful to love�察�not faithful to the lover��

Never transfused and lost in what she loved��

Never so wholly loving nor at peace。

I asked for something greater than I found��

And every time that love has made me weep��

I have rejoiced that love could be so strong��

For I have stood apart and watched my soul

Caught in the gust of passion�察�as a bird

With baffled wings against the dusty whirlwind

Struggles and frees itself to find the sky。

It is not for a single god I go��







。



RIVERS TO THE SEA



I have grown weary of the winds of heaven。

I will not be a reed to hold the sound

Of whatsoever breath the gods may blow��

Turning my torment into music for them。

They gave me life�察�the gift was bountiful��

I lived with the swift singing strength of fire��

Seeking for beauty as a flame for fuel

Beauty in all things and in every hour。

The gods have given lifeI gave them song��

The debt is paid and now I turn to go。

   *   *   *   *   *   *

The breath of dawn blows the stars out like lamps��

There is a rim of silver on the sea��

As one grown tired who hopes to sleep�察�I go。





II



Oh Litis�察�little slave�察�why will you sleep��

These long Egyptian noons bend down your head

Bowed like the yarrow with a yellow bee。

There�察�lift your eyes no man has ever kindled��









RIVERS TO THE SEA



Dark eyes that wait like faggots for the fire。

See how the temple's solid square of shade

Points north to Lesbos�察�and the splend

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