Aldous Leonard Huxley Thought 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. The Elms
Fine as the dust of plumy fountains blowing
Across the lanterns of a revelling night,
The tiny leaves of April's earliest growing
Powder the trees--so vaporously light,
... - 4. By The Fire
We who are lovers sit by the fire,
Cradled warm 'twixt thought and will,
Sit and drowse like sleeping dogs
In the equipoise of all desire,
... - 5. Anniversaries
Once more the windless days are here,
Quiet of autumn, when the year
Halts and looks backward and draws breath
Before it plunges into death.
... - 6. Waking
Darkness had stretched its colour,
Deep blue across the pane:
No cloud to make night duller,
No moon with its tarnish stain;
... - 7. Stanzas
Thought is an unseen net wherein our mind
Is taken and vainly struggles to be free:
Words, that should loose our spirit, do but bind
New fetters on our hoped-for liberty:
... - 8. Scenes Of The Mind
I have run where festival was loud
With drum and brass among the crowd
Of panic revellers, whose cries
Affront the quiet of the skies;
... - 9. Return From Business
Evenings in trains,
When the little black twittering ghosts
Along the brims of cuttings,
Against the luminous sky,
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