Charles Hamilton Musgrove Cold Poems

• 1. The Newly Dead
  I.
  
  With the light just quenched in their eyes
  They lie in their graves 'neath the skies,
  ...
• 2. The Gold Fields
  Here is a tale the North Wind sang to me:
  Hell hath set Mammon o'er a frozen land,
  Crowned him with gold, put gold into his hand,
  And men forsake their God to bow the knee
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• 3. Love And Art
  I.
  
  Eagle-heart, child-heart, bonnie lad o' dreams,
  Far away thy soul hears passion-throated Art
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• 4. At The Play
  The poet painted a woman's soul,
  Human, trusting and kind,
  And then he drew the soul of a man,
  Brutal and base and blind;
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• 5. Quatrains
  The Sky Line.
  
  Like black fangs in a cruel ogre's jaw
  The grim piles lift against the sunset sky;
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• 6. The Earthworm And The Star
  An Earthworm once loved a Star. In the hush of the summer night,
  He lay quite close to the ground and gazed on its golden light;
  He looked from his house of clay, and dreamed of wonderful things,
  Till, lo! (as he thought) his longing brought forth miraculous wings.
  ...
• 7. A Mother To The Sea
  You are blue, you are blue like the sky,
  Cruel and cold and blue,
  And I turn from you, voiceless sea,
  To a sky that is voiceless, too.
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• 8. Hymn Of The Tomb Builders
  They were three old men with hoary hair
  And beards of wintry gray,
  And they digged a grave in the yellow soil,
  And they crooned this song as they plied their toil,
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• 9. Our Sister Of The Streets.
  She comes not with the conscious grace
  Of gentle, winsome womanhood,
  Nor yet, withal, the flaunting face
  Of men and women understood,
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