an anthology of australian verse-第11部分
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Fair are thy leaves when summer glowing
Lies in the lap of swooning spring;
But where art thou when autumn; blowing;
Bids youth and tenderness take wing?
Sweet messenger! thou waftest beauty
Wherever human lives are sown;
Around the peasant's humble duty
Or weary grandeurs of a throne。
Transfused through hearts in future ages;
Thy glowing power anew may shine
Effulgent in the poets' pages
Or music's harmony divine。
But not to thee from future glory
Can shine one added charm or day;
Sweet is thy life's unwritten story
Of radiant bloom and swift decay。
Give; then; to vagrant winds thy sweetness;
Shine; tearful; in the summer shower;
And; heedless of thy season's fleetness;
Enrich with joy the passing hour。
Mrs。 James Glenny Wilson。
Fairyland
Do you remember that careless band;
Riding o'er meadow and wet sea…sand;
One autumn day; in a mist of sunshine;
Joyously seeking for fairyland?
The wind in the tree…tops was scarcely heard;
The streamlet repeated its one silver word;
And far away; o'er the depths of wood…land;
Floated the bell of the parson…bird。
Pale hoar…frost glittered in shady slips;
Where ferns were dipping their finger…tips;
From mossy branches a faint perfume
Breathed o'er honeyed Clematis lips。
At last we climbed to the ridge on high
Ah; crystal vision! Dreamland nigh!
Far; far below us; the wide Pacific
Slumbered in azure from sky to sky。
And cloud and shadow; across the deep
Wavered; or paused in enchanted sleep;
And eastward; the purple…misted islets
Fretted the wave with terrace and steep。
We looked on the tranquil; glassy bay;
On headlands sheeted in dazzling spray;
And the whitening ribs of a wreck forlorn
That for twenty years had wasted away。
All was so calm; and pure and fair;
It seemed the hour of worship there;
Silent; as where the great North…Minster
Rises for ever; a visible prayer。
Then we turned from the murmurous forest…land;
And rode over shingle and silver sand;
For so fair was the earth in the golden autumn;
That we sought no farther for Fairyland。
A Winter Daybreak
From the dark gorge; where burns the morning star;
I hear the glacier river rattling on
And sweeping o'er his ice…ploughed shingle…bar;
While wood owls shout in sombre unison;
And fluttering southern dancers glide and go;
And black swan's airy trumpets wildly; sweetly blow。
The cock crows in the windy winter morn;
Then must I rise and fling the curtain by。
All dark! But for a strip of fiery sky
Behind the ragged mountains; peaked and torn。
One planet glitters in the icy cold;
Poised like a hawk above the frozen peaks;
And now again the wild nor'…wester speaks;
And bends the cypress; shuddering; to his fold;
While every timber; every casement creaks。
But still the skylarks sing aloud and bold;
The wooded hills arise; the white cascade
Shakes with wild laughter all the silent shadowy glade。
Now from the shuttered east a silvery bar
Shines through the mist; and shows the mild daystar。
The storm…wrapped peaks start out and fade again;
And rosy vapours skirt the pastoral plain;
The garden paths with hoary rime are wet;
And sweetly breathes the winter violet;
The jonquil half unfolds her ivory cup;
With clouds of gold…eyed daisies waking up。
Pleasant it is to turn and see the fire
Dance on the hearth; as he would never tire;
The home…baked loaf; the Indian bean's perfume;
Fill with their homely cheer the panelled room。
Come; crazy storm! And thou; wild glittering hail;
Rave o'er the roof and wave your icy veil;
Shout in our ears and take your madcap way!
I laugh at storms! for Roderick comes to…day。
The Lark's Song
The morning is wild and dark;
The night mist runs on the vale;
Bright Lucifer dies to a spark;
And the wind whistles up for a gale。
And stormy the day may be
That breaks through its prison bars;
But it brings no regret to me;
For I sing at the door of the stars!
Along the dim ocean…verge
I see the ships labouring on;
They rise on the lifting surge
One moment; and they are gone。
I see on the twilight plain
The flash of the flying cars;
Men travail in joy or pain
But I sing at the door of the stars!
I see the green; sleeping world;
The pastures all glazed with rime;
The smoke from the chimney curled;
I hear the faint church bells chime。
I see the grey mountain crest;
The slopes; and the forest spars;
With the dying moon on their breast
While I sing at the door of the stars!
Edward Booth Loughran。
Dead Leaves
When these dead leaves were green; love;
November's skies were blue;
And summer came with lips aflame;
The gentle spring to woo;
And to us; wandering hand in hand;
Life was a fairy scene;
That golden morning in the woods
When these dead leaves were green!
How dream…like now that dewy morn;
Sweet with the wattle's flowers;
When love; love; love was all our theme;
And youth and hope were ours!
Two happier hearts in all the land
There were not then; I ween;
Than those young lovers' yours and mine
When these dead leaves were green。
How gaily did you pluck these leaves
From the acacia's bough;
To mark the lyric we had read
I can repeat it now!
While came the words; like music sweet;
Your smiling lips between
〃So fold my love within your heart;〃
When these dead leaves were green!
How many springs have passed since then?
Ah; wherefore should we count;
The years that sped; like waters fled
From Time's unstaying fount?
We've had our share of happiness;
Our share of care have seen;
But love alone has never flown
Since these dead leaves were green。
Your heart is kind and loving still;
Your face to me as fair;
As when; that morn; the sunshine played
Amid your golden hair。
So; dearest; sweethearts still we'll be;
As we have ever been;
And keep our love as fresh and true
As when these leaves were green。
Isolation
Man lives alone; star…like; each soul
In its own orbit circles ever;
Myriads may by or round it roll
The ways may meet; but mingle never。
Self…pois'd; each soul its course pursues
In light or dark; companionless:
Drop into drop may blend the dews
The spirit's law is loneliness。
If seemingly two souls unite;
'Tis but as joins yon silent mere
The stream that through it; flashing bright;
Carries its waters swift and clear。
The fringes of the rushing tide
May on the lake's calm bosom sleep
Its hidden spirit doth abide
Apart; still bearing toward the deep。
O Love; to me more dear than life!
O Friend; more faithful than a brother!
How many a bitter inward strife
Our souls have never told each other!
We journey side by side for years;
We dream our lives; our hopes are one
And with some chance…said word appears
The spanless gulf; so long unknown!
For candour's want yet neither blame;
Even to ourselves but half…confessed;
Glows in each heart some silent flame;
Blooms some hope…violet of the breast。
And temptings dark; and struggles deep
There are; each soul alone must bear;
Through midnight hours unblest with sleep;
Through burning noontides of despair。
And kindly is the ordinance sent
By which each spirit dwells apart
Could Love or Friendship live; if rent
The 〃Bluebeard chambers of the heart〃?
Ishmonie
The traveller tells how; in that ancient clime
Whose mystic monuments and ruins hoar
Still struggle with the antiquary's lore;
To guard the secrets of a by…gone time;
He saw; uprising from the desert bare;
Like a white ghost; a city of the dead;
With palaces and temples wondrous fair;
Where moon…horn'd Isis once was worshipped。
But silence; like a pall; did all enfold;
And the inhabitants were turn'd to stone
Yea; stone the very heart of every one!
Once to a rich man I this tale re…told。
〃Stone hearts! A traveller's myth!〃 he turn'd aside;
As Hunger begg'd; pale…featured and wild…eyed。
John Liddell Kelly。
Immortality
At twenty…five I cast my horoscope;
And saw a future with all good things rife
A firm assurance of eternal life
In worlds beyond; and in this world the hope
Of deathless fame。 But now my sun doth slope
To setting; and the toil of sordid strife;
The care of food and raiment; child and wife;
Have dimmed and narrowed all my spirit's scope。
Eternal life a river gulphed in sands!
Undying fame a rainbow lost in clouds!
What hope of immortality remains
But this: 〃Some soul that loves and understands
Shall save thee from the darkness that enshrouds〃;
And this: 〃Thy blood shall course in others' veins〃?
Heredity
More than a fleshly immortality
Is mine。 Though I myself return again
To dust; my qualities of heart and brain;
Of soul and spirit; shall not cease to be。
I view them growing; day by day; in thee;
My first…begotten son; I trace them plain
In you; my daughters; and I count it gain
Myself renewed and multiplied to see。
But sadness mingles with my selfish joy;
At thought of what you may be called to bear。
Oh; passionate maid! Oh; glad; impulsive boy!
Your father's sad experience you must share
Self…torture; the unfeeling world's annoy;
Gross pleasure; fierce exultance; grim despair!
Robert Richardson。
A Ballade of Wattle Blossom
There's a land that is happy and fair;
Set gem…like in halcyon seas;
The white winters visit not there;
To sadden its blossoming leas;
More bland than the Hesperides;
Or any warm isle of the West;