Aldous Leonard Huxley Soul Poems
- 1. The Defeat Of Youth
I. UNDER THE TREES.
There had been phantoms, pale-remembered shapes
Of this and this occasion, sisterly
... - 2. Valedictory
I had remarked--how sharply one observes
When life is disappearing round the curves
Of yet another corner, out of sight!--
I had remarked when it was "good luck" and "good night"
... - 3. Crapulous Impression
(To J.S.)
Still life, still life ... the high-lights shine
... - 4. Complaint Of A Poet Manquë©
We judge by appearance merely:
If I can't think strangely, I can at least look queerly.
So I grew the hair so long on my head
That my mother wouldn't know me,
... - 5. L'aprë"s-midi D'un Faune
(From the French of Stë©phane Mallarmë©.)
I would immortalize these nymphs: so bright
... - 6. Italy
There is a country in my mind,
Lovelier than a poet blind
Could dream of, who had never known
This world of drought and dust and stone
... - 7. Love Song
Dear absurd child - too dear to my cost I've found -
God made your soul for pleasure, not for use:
It cleaves no way, but angled broad obtuse,
Impinges with a slabby-bellied sound
... - 8. The Reef
My green aquarium of phantom fish,
Goggling in on me through the misty panes;
My rotting leaves and fields spongy with rains;
My few clear quiet autumn days--I wish
... - 9. Poem
Books and a coloured skein of thoughts were mine;
And magic words lay ripening in my soul
Till their much-whispered music turned a wine
Whose subtlest power was all in my control.
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