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Hang as if clinging to a cloud that still

Comes rising with them from the void beyond;

Like to a heavenly net; drawn from the deep

And carried upward by ethereal hands。









William Forster。







  ‘The Love in her Eyes lay Sleeping'





   The love in her eyes lay sleeping;

   As stars that unconscious shine;

   Till; under the pink lids peeping;

   I wakened it up with mine;

And we pledged our troth to a brimming oath

   In a bumper of blood…red wine。

   Alas! too well I know

   That it happened long ago;

   Those memories yet remain;

   And sting; like throbs of pain;

   And I'm alone below;

But still the red wine warms; and the rosy goblets glow;

   If love be the heart's enslaver;

   'Tis wine that subdues the head。

   But which has the fairest flavour;

   And whose is the soonest shed?

   Wine waxes in power in that desolate hour

   When the glory of love is dead。

   Love lives on beauty's ray;

   But night comes after day;

   And when the exhausted sun

   His high career has run;

   The stars behind him stay;

And then the light that lasts consoles our darkening way。

   When beauty and love are over;

   And passion has spent its rage;

   And the spectres of memory hover;

   And glare on life's lonely stage;

   'Tis wine that remains to kindle the veins

   And strengthen the steps of age。

   Love takes the taint of years;

   And beauty disappears;

   But wine in worth matures

   The longer it endures;

   And more divinely cheers;

And ripens with the suns and mellows with the spheres。









James Lionel Michael。







  ‘Through Pleasant Paths'





Through pleasant paths; through dainty ways;

   Love leads my feet;

Where beauty shines with living rays;

   Soft; gentle; sweet;

The placid heart at random strays;

And sings; and smiles; and laughs and plays;

And gathers from the summer days

   Their light and heat;

That in its chambers burn and blaze

   And beam and beat。



I throw myself among the ferns

   Under the shade;

And watch the summer sun that burns

   On dell and glade;

To thee; my dear; my fancy turns;

In thee its Paradise discerns;

For thee it sighs; for thee it yearns;

   My chosen maid;

And that still depth of passion learns

   Which cannot fade。



The wind that whispers in the night;

   Subtle and free;

The gorgeous noonday's blinding light;

   On hill and tree;

All lovely things that meet my sight;

All shifting lovelinesses bright;

Speak to my heart with calm delight;

   Seeming to be

Cloth'd with enchantment; robed in white;

   To sing of thee。



The ways of life are hard and cold

   To one alone;

Bitter the strife for place and gold 

   We weep and groan:

But when love warms the heart grows bold;

And when our arms the prize enfold;

Dearest! the heart can hardly hold

   The bliss unknown;

Unspoken; never to be told 

   My own; my own!







  Personality



      〃Death is to us change; not consummation。〃

                               Heart of Midlothian。





A change! no; surely; not a change;

 The change must be before we die;

Death may confer a wider range;

 From pole to pole; from sea to sky;

It cannot make me new or strange

 To mine own Personality!



For what am I?  this mortal flesh;

 These shrinking nerves; this feeble frame;

For ever racked with ailments fresh

 And scarce from day to day the same 

A fly within the spider's mesh;

 A moth that plays around the flame!



THIS is not I  within such coil

 The immortal spirit rests awhile:

When this shall lie beneath the soil;

 Which its mere mortal parts defile;

THAT shall for ever live and foil

 Mortality; and pain; and guile。



Whatever Time may make of me

 Eternity must see me still

Clear from the dross of earth; and free

 From every stain of every ill;

Yet still; where…e'er  what…e'er I be;

 Time's work Eternity must fill。



When all the worlds have ceased to roll;

 When the long light has ceased to quiver

When we have reached our final goal

 And stand beside the Living River;

This vital spark  this loving soul;

 Must last for ever and for ever。



To choose what I must be is mine;

 Mine in these few and fleeting days;

I may be if I will; divine;

 Standing before God's throne in praise; 

Through all Eternity to shine

 In yonder Heaven's sapphire blaze。



Father; the soul that counts it gain

 To love Thee and Thy law on earth;

Unchanged but free from mortal stain;

 Increased in knowledge and in worth;

And purified from this world's pain;

 Shall find through Thee a second birth。



A change! no surely not a change!

 The change must be before we die;

Death may confer a wider range

 From world to world; from sky to sky;

It cannot make me new or strange

 To mine own Personality!









Daniel Henry Deniehy。







  Love in a Cottage





A cottage small be mine; with porch

 Enwreathed with ivy green;

And brightsome flowers with dew…filled bells;

 'Mid brown old wattles seen。



And one to wait at shut of eve;

 With eyes as fountain clear;

And braided hair; and simple dress;

 My homeward step to hear。



On summer eves to sing old songs;

 And talk o'er early vows;

While stars look down like angels' eyes

 Amid the leafy boughs。



When Spring flowers peep from flossy cells;

 And bright…winged parrots call;

In forest paths be ours to rove

 Till purple evenings fall。



The curtains closed; by taper clear

 To read some page divine;

On winter nights; the hearth beside;

 Her soft; warm hand in mine。



And so to glide through busy life;

 Like some small brook alone;

That winds its way 'mid grassy knolls;

 Its music all its own。







  A Song for the Night





O the Night; the Night; the solemn Night;

 When Earth is bound with her silent zone;

And the spangled sky seems a temple wide;

 Where the star…tribes kneel at the Godhead's throne;

O the Night; the Night; the wizard Night;

 When the garish reign of day is o'er;

And the myriad barques of the dream…elves come

 In a brightsome fleet from Slumber's shore!

      O the Night for me;

      When blithe and free;

Go the zephyr…hounds on their airy chase;

      When the moon is high

      In the dewy sky;

And the air is sweet as a bride's embrace!



O the Night; the Night; the charming Night!

 From the fountain side in the myrtle shade;

All softly creep on the slumbrous air

 The waking notes of the serenade;

While bright eyes shine 'mid the lattice…vines;

 And white arms droop o'er the sculptured sills;

And accents fall to the knights below;

 Like the babblings soft of mountain rills。

      Love in their eyes;

      Love in their sighs;

Love in the heave of each lily…bright bosom;

      In words so clear;

      Lest the listening ear

And the waiting heart may lose them。



O the silent Night; when the student dreams

 Of kneeling crowds round a sage's tomb;

And the mother's eyes o'er the cradle rain

 Tears for her baby's fading bloom;

O the peaceful Night; when stilled and o'er

 Is the charger's tramp on the battle plain;

And the bugle's sound and the sabre's flash;

 While the moon looks sad over heaps of slain;

      And tears bespeak

      On the iron cheek

Of the sentinel lonely pacing;

      Thoughts which roll

      Through his fearless soul;

Day's sterner mood replacing。



O the sacred Night; when memory comes

 With an aspect mild and sweet to me;

But her tones are sad as a ballad air

 In childhood heard on a nurse's knee;

And round her throng fair forms long fled;

 With brows of snow and hair of gold;

And eyes with the light of summer skies;

 And lips that speak of the days of old。

      Wide is your flight;

      O spirits of Night;

By strath; and stream; and grove;

      But most in the gloom

      Of the Poet's room

Ye choose; fair ones; to rove。









Richard Rowe。







  Superstites Rosae





The grass is green upon her grave;

 The west wind whispers low;

〃The corn is changed; come forth; come forth;

 Ere all the blossoms go!〃



In vain。  Her laughing eyes are sealed;

 And cold her sunny brow;

Last year she smiled upon the flowers 

 They smile above her now!







  Soul Ferry





High and dry upon the shingle lies the fisher's boat to…night;

From his roof…beam dankly drooping; raying phosphorescent light;

Spectral in its pale…blue splendour; hangs his heap of scaly nets;

And the fisher; lapt in slumber; surge and seine alike forgets。



Hark! there comes a sudden knocking; and the fisher starts from sleep;

As a hollow voice and ghostly bids him once more seek the deep;

Wearily across his shoulder flingeth he the ashen oar;

And upon the beach descending finds a skiff beside the shore。



'Tis not his; but he must enter  rocking on the waters dim;

Awful in their hidden presence; who are they that wait for him?

Who are they that sit so silent; as he pulleth from the land 

Nothing heard save rumbling rowlock; wave soft…breaking on the sand?



Chill adown the tossing channel blows the wailing; wand'ring breeze;

Lonely in the murky midnight; mutt'ring mournful memories; 

Summer lands where once it brooded; wrecks that widows' hearts have wrung 

Swift the dreary boat flies onwards; spray; like rain; around it flung。



On a pebbled strand it grateth; ghastly cliffs around it loom;

Thin and melancholy voices faintly murmur through the gloom;

Voices only; lipless voices; and the fisherman turns pale;

As the mother greets her children; sisters landing brothers hail。



Lightened of its unseen burden; cork…like rides the rocking bark;

Fast the fisherman flies homewards o'er the billows deep and dark;

THAT boat needs no mortal's mooring  sad at h

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