the works of edgar allan poe-5-第38部分
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then perceive it gradually open its petals … expand them … fade and die。 …
_St。 Pierre_。
*And Valisnerian lotus thither flown
From struggling with the waters of the Rhone :
咥nd thy most lovely purple perfume; Zante !
Isola d'oro ! … Fior di Levante !
嘇nd the Nelumbo bud that floats for ever
With Indian Cupid down the holy river …
Fair flowers; and fairy ! to whose care is given
?To bear the Goddess' song; in odors; up to Heaven :
〃Spirit ! that dwellest where;
In the deep sky;
The terrible and fair;
In beauty vie !
Beyond the line of blue …
The boundary of the star
Which turneth at the view
Of thy barrier and thy bar …
Of the barrier overgone
By the comets who were cast
From their pride; and from their throne
To be drudges till the last …
To be carriers of fire
(The red fire of their heart)
With speed that may not tire
And with pain that shall not part …
* There is found; in the Rhone; a beautiful lily of the Valisnerian
kind。 Its stem will stretch to the length of three or four feet … thus
preserving its head above water in the swellings of the river。
?The Hyacinth。
?It is a fiction of the Indians; that Cupid was first seen floating
in one of these down the river Ganges … and that he still loves the cradle
of his childhood。
?And golden vials full of odors which are the prayers of the saints。
… _Rev。 St。 John_。
Who livest … _that_ we know …
In Eternity … we feel …
But the shadow of whose brow
What spirit shall reveal ?
Tho' the beings whom thy Nesace;
Thy messenger hath known
Have dream'd for thy Infinity
*A model of their own …
Thy will is done; Oh; God !
The star hath ridden high
Thro' many a tempest; but she rode
Beneath thy burning eye ;
And here; in thought; to thee …
In thought that can alone
Ascend thy empire and so be
A partner of thy throne …
* The Humanitarians held that God was to be understood as having a
really human form。 … _Vide Clarke's Sermons_; vol。 1; page 26; fol。 edit。
The drift of Milton's argument; leads him to employ language which
would appear; at first sight; to verge upon their doctrine ; but it will
be seen immediately; that he guards himself against the charge of having
adopted one of the most ignorant errors of the dark ages of the church。 …
_Dr。 Sumner's Notes on Milton's Christian Doctrine_。
This opinion; in spite of many testimonies to the contrary; could
never have been very general。 Andeus; a Syrian of Mesopotamia; was
condemned for the opinion; as heretical。 He lived in the beginning of the
fourth century。 His disciples were called Anthropmorphites。 … _Vide Du
Pin_。
Among Milton's poems are these lines: …
Dicite sacrorum pr鎠ides nemorum De? &c。
Quis ille primus cujus ex imagine
Natura solers finxit humanum genus ?
Eternus; incorruptus; 鎞u鎣us polo;
Unusque et universus exemplar Dei。 … And afterwards;
Non cui profundum C鎐itas lumen dedit
Dirc鎢s augur vidit hunc alto sinu; &c。
*By winged Fantasy;
My embassy is given;
Till secrecy shall knowledge be
In the environs of Heaven。〃
She ceas'd … and buried then her burning cheek
Abash'd; amid the lilies there; to seek
A shelter from the fervour of His eye ;
For the stars trembled at the Deity。
She stirr'd not … breath'd not … for a voice was there
How solemnly pervading the calm air !
A sound of silence on the startled ear
Which dreamy poets name 〃the music of the sphere。〃
Ours is a world of words : Quiet we call
〃Silence〃 … which is the merest word of all。
All Nature speaks; and ev'n ideal things
Flap shadowy sounds from visionary wings …
But ah ! not so when; thus; in realms on high
The eternal voice of God is passing by;
And the red winds are withering in the sky !
?What tho' in worlds which sightless cycles run;
Link'd to a little system; and one sun …
Where all my love is folly and the crowd
Still think my terrors but the thunder cloud;
The storm; the earthquake; and the ocean…wrath …
(Ah ! will they cross me in my angrier path ?)
What tho' in worlds which own a single sun
The sands of Time grow dimmer as they run;
* Seltsamen Tochter Jovis
Seinem Schosskinde
Der Phantasie。 … _G鰁the_。
?Sightless … too small to be seen … _Legge_。
Yet thine is my resplendency; so given
To bear my secrets thro' the upper Heaven。
Leave tenantless thy crystal home; and fly;
With all thy train; athwart the moony sky …
*Apart … like fire…flies in Sicilian night;
And wing to other worlds another light !
Divulge the secrets of thy embassy
To the proud orbs that twinkle … and so be
To ev'ry heart a barrier and a ban
Lest the stars totter in the guilt of man !〃
Up rose the maiden in the yellow night;
The single…mooned eve ! … on Earth we plight
Our faith to one love … and one moon adore …
The birth…place of young Beauty had no more。
As sprang that yellow star from downy hours
Up rose the maiden from her shrine of flowers;
And bent o'er sheeny mountain and dim plain
咹er way … but left not yet her Theras鎍n reign。
* I have often noticed a peculiar movement of the fire…flies ; … they
will collect in a body and fly off; from a common centre; into innumerable
radii。
?Theras鎍; or Therasea; the island mentioned by Seneca; which; in a
moment; arose from the sea to the eyes of astonished mariners。
Part II。
HIGH on a mountain of enamell'd head …
Such as the drowsy shepherd on his bed
Of giant pasturage lying at his ease;
Raising his heavy eyelid; starts and sees
With many a mutter'd 〃hope to be forgiven〃
What time the moon is quadrated in Heaven …
Of rosy head; that towering far away
Into the sunlit ether; caught the ray
Of sunken suns at eve … at noon of night;
While the moon danc'd with the fair stranger light …
Uprear'd upon such height arose a pile
Of gorgeous columns on th' unburthen'd air;
Flashing from Parian marble that twin smile
Far down upon the wave that sparkled there;
And nursled the young mountain in its lair。
*Of molten stars their pavement; such as fall
Thro' the ebon air; besilvering the pall
Of their own dissolution; while they die …
Adorning then the dwellings of the sky。
A dome; by linked light from Heaven let down;
Sat gently on these columns as a crown …
A window of one circular diamond; there;
Look'd out above into the purple air;
* Some star which; from the ruin'd roof
Of shak'd Olympus; by mischance; did fall。 … _Milton。_
And rays from God shot down that meteor chain
And hallow'd all the beauty twice again;
Save when; between th' Empyrean and that ring;
Some eager spirit flapp'd his dusky wing。
But on the pillars Seraph eyes have seen
The dimness of this world : that greyish green
That Nature loves the best for Beauty's grave
Lurk'd in each cornice; round each architrave …
And every sculptur'd cherub thereabout
That from his marble dwelling peer閐 out
Seem'd earthly in the shadow of his niche …
Achaian statues in a world so rich ?
*Friezes from Tadmor and Persepolis …
From Balbec; and the stilly; clear abyss
哋f beautiful Gomorrah ! O; the wave
Is now upon thee … but too late to save !
Sound loves to revel in a summer night :
Witness the murmur of the grey twilight
* Voltaire; in speaking of Persepolis; says; 〃Je connois bien
l'admiration qu'inspirent ces ruines … mais un palais erig?au pied d'une
chaine des rochers sterils … peut il 阾re un chef d'渧ure des arts !〃
'_Voila les arguments de M。 Voltaire_。'
?〃Oh ! the wave〃 … Ula Degusi is the Turkish appellation; but; on its
own shores; it is called Bahar Loth; or Almotanah。 There were undoubtedly
more than two cities engluphed in the 〃dead sea。〃 In the valley of Siddim
were five … Adrah; Zeboin; Zoar; Sodom and Gomorrah。 Stephen of Byzantium
mentions eight; and Strabo thirteeen; (engulphed) … but the last is out of
all reason。
It is said; (Tacitus; Strabo; Josephus; Daniel of St。 Saba; Nau;
Maundrell; Troilo; D'Arvieux) that after an excessive drought; the
vestiges of columns; walls; &c。 are seen above the surface。 At _any_
season; such remains may be discovered by looking down into the
transparent lake; and at such distances as would argue the existence of
many settlements in the space now usurped by the 'Asphaltites。'
*That stole upon the ear; in Eyraco;
Of many a wild star…gazer long ago …
That stealeth ever on the ear of him
Who; musing; gazeth on the distance dim。
And sees the darkness coming as a cloud …
嘔s not its form … its voice … most palpable and loud ?
But what is this ? … it cometh … and it brings
A music with it … 'tis the rush of wings …
A pause … and then a sweeping; falling strain
And Nesace is in her halls again。
From the wild energy of wanton haste
Her cheeks were flushing; and her lips apart ;
And zone that clung around her gentle waist
Had burst beneath the heaving of her heart。
Within the centre of that hall to breathe
She paus'd and panted; Zanthe ! all beneath;
The fairy light that kiss'd her golden hair
And long'd to rest; yet could but sparkle there !
?Young flowers were whispering in melody
To happy flowers that night … and tree to tree ;
Fountains were gushing music as they fell
In many a star…lit grove; or moon…lit dell ;
Yet silence came upon material things …
Fair flowers; bright waterfalls and angel wings …
And sound alone that from the spirit sprang
Bore burthen to the charm the maiden sang :
* Eyraco … Chaldea。
?I have often thought I could distinctly hear the sound of the
darkness as it stole over the horizon。
?Fairies use flowers for their charactery。 … _Merry Wives of
Windsor_。 'William Shakespeare'
〃 'Neath blue…bell or streamer …
Or tufted wild spray
That keeps; from the dreamer;
*The moonbeam away …
Bright beings ! that ponder;