Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell Soul Poems
- 1. Soeur Monique
A RONDEAU BY COUPERIN
Quiet form of silent nun,
What has given you to my inward eyes?
... - 2. To The Beloved Dead--a Lament
Beloved, thou art like a tune that idle fingers
Play on a window-pane.
The time is there, the form of music lingers;
But O thou sweetest strain,
... - 3. To The Beloved
Oh, not more subtly silence strays
Amongst the winds, between the voices,
Mingling alike with pensive lays,
And with the music that rejoices,
... - 4. To A Lost Melody
Thou art not dead, O sweet lost melody,
Sung beyond memory,
When golden to the winds this world of ours
Waved wild with boundless flowers;
... - 5. The Poet To His Childhood
In my thought I see you stand with a path on either hand,
--Hills that look into the sun, and there a river'd meadow-land.
And your lost voice with the things that it decreed across me thrills,
When you thought, and chose the hills.
... - 6. Future Poetry
No new delights to our desire
The singers of the past can yield.
I lift mine eyes to hill and field,
And see in them your yet dumb lyre,
... - 7. I Am The Way
Thou art the Way.
Hadst Thou been nothing but the goal,
I cannot say
If Thou hadst ever met my soul.
... - 8. The Shepherdess
She walks--the lady of my delight--
A shepherdess of sheep.
Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;
She guards them from the steep.
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