Lascelles Abercrombie Earth Poems
- 1. Marriage Song
I
Come up, dear chosen morning, come,
Blessing the air with light,
... - 2. Emblems Of Love, Part Ii Imperfection
MARY
[A LEGEND OF THE FORTY-FIVE]
... - 3. Epilogue To Emblems Of Love
What shall we do for Love these days?
How shall we make an altar-blaze
To smite the horny eyes of men
With the renown of our Heaven,
... - 4. The End Of The World, Act I
PERSONS
HUFF, the Farmer
SOLLERS, the Wainwright.
... - 5. The End Of The World, Act Ii
ACT II
As before, a little while after. The room is empty when the curtain goes up. SOLLERS runs in and paces about, but stops short when he catches sight of a pot dog on the mantlepiece.
... - 6. From "vashti"
WHAT thing shall be held up to woman's beauty?
Where are the bounds of it? Yea, what is all
The world, but an awning scaffolded amid
The waste perilous Eternity, to lodge
... - 7. Witchcraft: New Style
The sun drew off at last his piercing fires.
Over the stale warm air, dull as a pond
And moveless in the grey quieted street,
Blue magic of a summer evening glowed.
... - 8. Hymn To Love
We are thine, O Love, being in thee and made of thee,
As théou, Léove, were the déep thought
And we the speech of the thought; yea, spoken are we,
Thy fires of thought out-spoken:
... - 9. Ryton Firs
The Dream
All round the knoll, on days of quietest air,
Secrets are being told; and if the trees
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