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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。
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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
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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��
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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。
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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��
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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
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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��
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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��
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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。
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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��
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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��
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;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��
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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。;
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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��
。
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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��
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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