Edward Shanks Bright Poems
- 1. The Pursuit Of Daphne
Daphne is running, running through the grass,
The long stalks whip her ankles as she goes.
I saw the nymph, the god, I saw them pass
And how a mounting flush of tender rose
... - 2. Memory
In silence and in darkness memory wakes
Her million sheathë"d buds, and breaks
That day-long winter when the light and noise
And hard bleak breath of the outward-looking will
... - 3. Song: Half Hope
August is gone and now this is September,
Softer the sun in a cloudier sky;
Yellow the leaves grow and apples grow golden,
Blackberries ripen and hedges undress.
... - 4. Sonnets On Separation V
Through the closed curtains comes the early sun,
First a pale finger, preluding the hand.
Outside more certainly the day's begun,
Where bright and brighter still the chestnuts stand,
... - 5. Song: Fear In The Night
I am afraid to-night,
We are too glad, too gay,
Our life too sweet, too bright
To last another day.
... - 6. Ode On Beauty
Infinite peace is hanging in the air,
Infinite peace is resting on mine eyes,
That just an hour ago learnt how to bear
Seeing your body's flaming harmonies.
... - 7. Now Would I Be
Now would I be in that removë"d place
Where the dim sunlight hardly comes at all
And branches of the young trees interlace
And long swathes of the brambles twine and fall;
... - 8. Sonnets On Separation Vii
We're at the world's top now. The hills around
Stand proud in order with the valleys deep,
The hills with pastures drest, with tall trees crowned,
And the low valleys dipt in sunny sleep.
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